Another 9/11 change story
I’ve only read the short excerpts, but here’s someone who’s written an entire book on the subject of his post-9/11 change. Sounds interesting. You can find Part I of Andrew Anthony’s journey here.
The New Neo
A blog about political change, among other things
I was never really an “apostate”. Somewhere in the mid ’80’s I realized this was not my father’s Democratic Party. Stayed a registered one though until the mid ’90’s.
OT(technically)-Anyone watch the History Channel’s “9/11 Conspiracies-Fact or Fiction” last night?
Andrew’s change is good but nowhere near as good as Neo’s. If you read the article, Part 3 is part 2 and vice versa.
You start questioning long held beliefs, Neo, and bad things might happen ; )
Mark:
“Andrew’s change is good but nowhere near as good as Neo’s.”
I dont know. Anthony’s is pretty damned good:
Im sorry, here’s a better quote:
But to be murdered for defending a stranger, who wants to risk that?
Teenagers? They would be lucky enough to have half of them survive should they be engaged by someone skilled in the arts of death and mayhem. They would need some serious firepower to make up for their innate disadvantages.
Most smallish mobs in the 5-20 range have 2 leaders. The leader and the sub-lieutenant. The leader is the one that talks big and threatens, the sub-lieutenant is the one that strikes the first blow, often from the victim’s back as the victim talks to the leader. Killing those two in the hierarchy will disrupt the group’s sense of cohesion and amount of courage. As the group tries to restructure their chain of command, strike at them all. They will be too concerned with protecting their individual selves than to surround you and bring you down.
Most mini gang groups are composed of followers. People who won’t stare you in the eye and see only what the leader allows them to see. Those are of little importance. They are cannon fodder, sent in at the command of the Fuerer. Kill the leader with alacrity and those cannon fodder won’t know what to do.
However, the same that applies to the cannon fodder portion of a gang also applies to the great majority of peaceful citizens. They won’t do anything on their own because they are waiting for someone else to tell them what to do.
Who wants to risk being murdered… Why nobody, of course. That is why gangs will break and run when half of their numbers are no longer breathing. Or talking. Or screaming pumped up insults because they have no vocal cords anymore.
Most teenagers you see in Britain cracking the odd skull or two, aren’t beserkers. Nor are they tacticians. Their skill at arms are mediocre to non-existent. Their experience with battle and mayhem consists of beating people in the head with clubs, sticks, and feet as the victims are on the ground. They have grown confident that the law will protect them.
The police advice is simply never to intervene. In theory, this directive has the virtue of upholding the rule of law and preventing unnecessary civil dispute and injury.
That is why most people in Europe want us out of Iraq, you know. They believe that it is not our place to intervene. Let the locals handle it. Far cleaner, for them that is.
There wasn’t a liberal vocabulary with which to describe the situation.
Probably cause the Left doesn’t talk about purging and cleansing evil, by inflicting physical pain and destruction upon it. After all, such rhetoric would get the Left targeted eventually.
These kind of freak incidents happen from time to time and the chance of them happening to us is extremely small.
It doesn’t matter how many of these incidents happen, it only matters how much fear is inflicted upon the aggressors. No fear, no gain.
They diminish us as social and moral beings.
Cannon fodder is as cannon fodder does. A tool it remains for it only functions by the will of another.
And there is Peter Woodhams, the 22-year-old father who was shot dead outside his home in Canning Town, having spoken to a gang of youths who some months earlier had stabbed him.
Intimidation by making examples out of individuals have always work, and it will always work. This inheritance cannot be avoided by closing your eyes.
Bouhaddaous plunged a knife into Symons’ heart with such force that it broke one of the teacher’s ribs. He died shortly afterwards in his wife’s arms.
Gotta love those knives. Great for the silent kill, which is important when sneaking into or out of houses and what not. Good thing they banned those noisy handguns, what a nuisance they would have been. It is a great day that criminal and law maker can come together to create a better world.
After the third burglary, I bought a baseball bat for protection, and on a visit to a friend’s house I noticed that he had the same make of bat in his bedroom.
I recommend you Brits get some chainmail. Medieval is as medieval does.
Like any father, he was troubled by the thought that an armed stranger had been in his daughter’s bedroom.
The unwillingness and the incapacity to kill your enemies is a sign of weakness and even decadence. Not even the resurrection of the death penalty in Europe can cure people of being sheep.
And second, it overlooks the fact that it is the less fortunate who are more often burgled.
Oh those, they’re a dime a dozen. As the aristocracy says, the lower born needs to learn their place.
‘For years we have said this is an issue the black community has to deal with,’ said Jasper. ‘The PM is spectacularly ill-informed if he thinks otherwise.’
Just like Shariah Law. A local concern best left to the… locals.
It is Iraqis killing each other, you see. We have no business interfering, you see. It is none of our concern.