I’m getting really tired of opening my mailbox, and coming up with the massive load of cow feces, that is commonly referred to as leftist thought. I had three different messages, supposedly from different people, today ; interestingly enough my server advises me they all came from the same computer. All of them, preceded to advise me in as many four letter words as possible that because I am concerned about Islamic terrorism I have no courage. I am also advised, again, in as many four letter words as possible, that I am a cultural baguette, because I insist on assimilating people who come to live in our country.
Well, I’m going to pass along to you a quote.
The third thing I want to talk about very briefly is the genuine danger of terrorism, in particular terrorists using weapons of mass destruction and weapons of mass murder, nuclear and biological weapons. And I want to suggest to you that right now we should be impaneling people to look seriously at a level of supervision that we would never dream of if it weren’t for the scale of threat.
Let me give you two examples. When the British this summer arrested people who were planning to blow up ten airliners in one day, they arrested a couple who were going to use their six month old baby in order to hide the bomb as baby milk.
Now, if I come to you tonight and say that there are people on the planet who hate you, and they are 15-25 year old males who are willing to die as long as they get to kill you, I’ve simply described the warrior culture which has been true historically for 6 or 7 thousand years.
But, if I come to you and say that there is a couple that hates you so much that they will kill their six month old baby in order to kill you, I am describing a level of ferocity, and a level of savagery beyond anything we have tried to deal with.
And, what is truly frightening about the British experience is they are arresting British citizens, born in Britain, speaking English, who went to British schools, live in British housing, and have good jobs.
This is a serious long term war, and it will inevitably lead us to want to know what is said in every suspect place in the country, that will lead us to learn how to close down every website that is dangerous, and it will lead us to a very severe approach to people who advocate the killing of Americans and advocate the use of nuclear or biological weapons.
And, my prediction to you is that either before we lose a city, or if we are truly stupid, after we lose a city, we will adopt rules of engagement that use every technology we can find to break up their capacity to use the internet, to break up their capacity to use free speech, and to go after people who want to kill us to stop them from recruiting people before they get to reach out and convince young people to destroy their lives while destroying us.
This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment, but I think that the national security threat of losing an American city to a nuclear weapon, or losing several million Americans to a biological attack is so real that we need to proactively, now, develop the appropriate rules of engagement.And, I further think that we should propose a Geneva convention for fighting terrorism which makes very clear that those who would fight outside the rules of law, those who would use weapons of mass destruction, and those who would target civilians are in fact subject to a totally different set of rules that allow us to protect civilization by defeating barbarism before it gains so much strength that it is truly horrendous.
This is a sober topic, but I think it is a topic we need a national dialogue about, and we need to get ahead of the curve rather than wait until actually we literally lose a city which could literally happen within the next decade if we are unfortunate.
The speaker is Newt Gingrich, although, for the purposes of this discussion that he originally made the comments is pretty much nonessential information.
He is quite correct when he says this is a serious situation, and requires serious discussion. However, where he errs is when he starts talking about putting together a convention for fighting terrorism. That’s the relative equivalent of establishing rules of engagement for chaos. It can’t be done. What needs be done, is to eliminate the restrictions imposed on fighting against such individuals. We need to recognize, that this is in fact a life or death situation, for literally millions of people.
The central issue here, as I’ve said previously, is one of culture. Notice the bit of quote here again:
But, if I come to you and say that there is a couple that hates you so much that they will kill their six month old baby in order to kill you, I am describing a level of ferocity, and a level of savagery beyond anything we have tried to deal with.
And, what is truly frightening about the British experience is they are arresting British citizens, born in Britain, speaking English, who went to British schools, live in British housing, and have good jobs.
Notice, please, that at no time does he say that they have adopted British culture. Merely that they are born there went to the school’s lived in British housing and so on. This would seem to be an argument for making sure that immigrants are assimilated into the culture of the country they move to. We’ve discussed that here, before.
I submit to you that the kind of anger involved would not be likely, or even possible, were such cultural isolation not tolerated.
We hear constantly about how insisting on cultural assimilation for our immigrants, he’s not respecting their rights. We also keep hearing from the usual suspects about how the kind of enforcement required to keep this kind of thing in check is going to trample the rights of the individual.
My friends, I’ve said it here often enough; rights are a cultural construct. And as for courage, I submit courage is standing up for what is right. But right and wrong, are also cultural concepts. Morality itself, is a cultural construct. It takes courage to stand up and insist that immigrants to our country become a part of our culture. Courage which the American left does not have, and insists on this attributing that lack of courage to a love of “freedom” .
The people who would use such weapons against us are not a part of our culture, and wish to see our culture… on which our freedom is based, destroyed. What will happen to the rights, the freedoms recognized by our culture, when our culture is destroyed by these people ?
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