Citizen Vigilante

The film is sort of Death Wish meets contemporary European immigration.  With Armie Hammer stepping in for Charles Bronson.

I cannot say that Death Wish was ever my cup of tea.  Too much gratuitous violence, and in this case gratuitous sex, for my taste.  But if the powers that be in Europe, particularly the increasingly authoritarian German regime, feel the need to censor it, then I must do my small part to fight the censorship.

So is the movie any good?  Again, it's not really to my taste.  But if you like the John Wick series, you will like this.  And because the targets are immigrants rather than the mere thugs and criminals in Death Wish, there is definitely a political dimension to this film.  In the end, whether or not you appreciate this film probably depends on your own political convictions.

I will add that both Armie Hammer and Costas Mandylor are excellent in their roles.  Same for the supporting cast.  I suppose the film is classified as low budget, but it is well made and the reduced budget did not interfere with the story.

In summary I would say that the movie is worth watching for its message.  And here I mean, whether you agree with the message or not.  You need to hear it.  This problem is not going away.  And I do not believe that European leaders will sincerely address it.  European elites do not suffer the consequences of their policies and actions, so they do not care.  Ultimately that is the message of this film.

I hope it is the most widely seen film this year.

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Neil Oliver on Losing Trust

This line really got my attention:  I'm skeptical about any possibility of anybody voting themselves out of this trouble (14:18).

Here it is in context:

All over Europe, you see the rise of alternative political movements.  Said before and I'll say again, I'm skeptical about any possibility of anybody voting themselves out of this trouble.  But the instinct is there.  People want political alternative.  So you see it all over.  You know the Alternative for Germany for example, the AFD, where the response of the regime is to try and make the AFD illegal.  You know surveilling its would be candidates and arresting people just for posing, being a threat to the incumbents.

So the the trust in the in the political system, not just for me, but for millions, billions of people, is gone.  What do people do then if the mechanisms that they've been told to trust are demonstrably useless?  What do you get?  Well, apart from anything else, you get loss of trust.

I am not sure that Oliver, who I quite like and appreciate, really believes this.  He's skeptical.  Fair enough.  But I for one have absolutely come to believe it.  The problems of the United Kingdom and continental Europe will not be solved at the ballot box.

Absolutely not.

And sadly, I will take it a step further with this question:  In the United States, can we solve the political differences between left and right at the ballot box?

I am skeptical.

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Tucker Carlson Interviews Iuliia Mendel

At the end, she addresses Vladimir Putin directly.  Transcript below.



Iuliia Mendel (Speaking in Russian):

Vladimir Vladimirovich, with all your life experience I don't understand how you see this world.  But I'm not a NATO representative, not a Western representative, and I don't work for Zelensky — they're political opponents.  You're not a threat to me.  I'm a Ukrainian woman from provincial Kherson.

You say you're a man of God, but what's happening in Ukraine has nothing to do with God or humanity.  You say you want peace — the only right thing today.  It's the only way Ukraine and Russia can both win.  No victor.  Both lose.  Slavs kill Slavs.

Your army tells you only noble victories, but there's a drone safari on people.  My mom, a nurse, was talking on the phone going home — a Russian drone wounded her.  Another nurse, back from her grandson's birthday in my Kherson village, was killed by a Russian drone getting out of her car.  We see videos of old people evacuating, falling in blood and snow, shocked by explosions.

On frontlines, the oldest and poorest have no money to leave.  Your army posts videos hunting people with drones.  There must be limits of humanity.  One word, one order from you can stop this.

You want peace?  Stop.  No one may thank you, but people will know.  Peace is the only possible decision today.

[Grok translation]

Ordinarily I would not take such a speech seriously.  And I confess, at the beginning of this video, I did not really take her seriously.  Her English is imperfect and she is too pretty.  At first glance she comes across as a pretty Ukrainian woman who lacks depth and seriousness.  This is incorrect.

I'm telling you, set your stereotypes aside and listen to her.  If you watch the video, it becomes clear that she is a master of her subject, Volodymyr Zelensky, and she deserves our attention.  She describes Zelensky as a tyrannical child who simply does not want the war to end, because that would end his grift.  That sounds about right to me.

And this ending was completely unexpected, which I guess is what makes it notable.  Because I don't see Putin responding at all, even if he does see it.  I just wish she would have also addressed her fellow Ukrainians.  Message:  Arrest Zelensky before he plunders the entire country and gets us all killed.

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Islamic Immigration into Europe

Peter Boghossian and Raymond Ibrahim, and the Cameraman

Boghossian and Ibrahim talk about why Europe is dying, but about ninety minutes in, their cameraman injects himself into the conversation, with a real time demonstration of suicidal empathy.  The argument of the left on full display.  And they allow the cameraman to make his points.  Then after quizzing the cameraman on what exactly he believes, Boghossian makes the point the we are going to get the Europe that the cameraman is championing.  The cameraman seems to be okay with that because he does not believe that Islam offers any danger to Europe.  And besides, Muslims are too low of a percentage of the overall population to make much difference.

Listening to the cameraman, I could not help but reflect that this is what millions of Europeans believe.  They either don't think about this at all, or they believe what the cameraman believes.  And there is no reasoning with the cameraman because he has his doctrine and his dogma, and these convictions are immune to reason.  As with any religion.

I love the way Boghossian dealt with this guy.  He did not argue with him.  He let the cameraman make his points, and then he simply asked a few questions to clarify what the guy believed.  And here, if you do not understand the reality of Islam and European political leadership, you might think that the cameraman got the better of Boghossian and Ibrahim.  But I think Boghossian is well aware of who is watching, both in the live audience and online.  And to those people, the cameraman is simply yet another naive leftist.  So Boghossian just let him dig his hole.

Ordinarily I would say that this was painful to watch.  But it was not.  Watching this was like watching someone predict a train wreck without realizing that is what they are doing, but you know with certainty that they are correct.  By the time that the bien-pensants wake from their trance, it will be too late.

What this shows is that suicidal empathy is a choice.  A warmly embraced and welcome choice.  It is also a bit smug; you hear this in the cameraman's responses:  He looks down on Boghossian and Ibrahim for their obvious bigotry.

This is not entertaining; this is a snuff film.

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The Collapse of Europe

It will end in fire

Benedict Beckeld on Europe:  Either these countries become Islamic, or there will be large scale violence.  There is no third way forward.

I mean, you do not have to be a philosopher, like Boghossian and Beckeld, or an oracle to see that this is true.  The only aspect of this difficult to predict is the timeline.  But even with the current numbers, if European countries were to close their borders to Islamic immigration, or God-forbid, start mass deportations, the current resident Muslims would burn these countries to the ground.

But it will not come to that.  The docile Europeans?  No chance.  There will be no fight; there will be no violence.  The Europeans will willingly submit to the muscular and aggressive ideology sweeping the continent.  It is already happening, has been happening for a couple of decades now.  It is simply more obvious today.

If you doubt this, just look at the United Kingdom.  Muslim men have been raping native girls on an industrial scale for years now.  And the native, so-called men, they're just sitting around, watching it happen.  Can you just imagine what the Swedish geldings are doing?  Or rather not doing?  It's a joke really.  The Muslims are laughing at them.  Of course they are.  Of course.

And since there is no recognition of the problem by the elites in government and media, much less any will to solve it, the massive influx will continue, exacerbating and accelerating the problem.  I would say that we are long past the point of no return.

I agree with Boghossian, these countries and the native Europeans, have no one to blame except themselves.  If you live in one of these countries, it is time to leave.  If you believe that you still have time, and I do not know, maybe you do, at least develop an exit plan for yourself and your family.

Europe is lost.

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The Collapse of Competence

The Fantasy Politics of Europe

Yesterday David Betz discussed the coming civil war in Great Britain.  Today Philip Pilkington discusses the fantasy politics of the EU and how they have led to the terminal decline of Europe (his language).

It reminds me of George Leef's book on this topic from 2022.  The lesson is that the left is never serious about policy.  They only spout policy points to achieve and maintain power.  And what is the end result?  What happens when we take that power play to its logical conclusion?

Europe is about to find out.

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France in Twilight

Watching France descend into darkness

An interesting update on Islam in France and how French leaders are dealing with the situation.  Or rather, not dealing with it.  The writer, Bruce Bawer, is an American who has long lived in Norway.  His article includes this extraordinary passage which includes a rather basic question from a retired French general, Roland Dubois:

The minds and hearts of these people are consecrated to a set of beliefs and practices that represent an existential menace to Western Civilization.  To pretend that these believers can be reined in by any lame law or charter or pact is sheer folly.  As one General Roland Dubois asked rhetorically in a recent commentary:  When faced with a choice between a sacred text, dictated by Allah himself, and therefore untouchable to the end of time and some newly concocted document, more or less imposed by the unbelievers, which text can you expect to win out?  Muslims have felt a sense of indomitability in France for some time now; can anyone honestly expect them to turn meek?  The bottom line, then, is this:  If Islam were harmless in the first place, there would be no need for any laws or charters to control its adherents; but since Islam is not harmless, such documents are useless – except perhaps as part of an effort by Macron to make it look to voters, in the run-up to the next election, as if he’s actually doing something about the issue.  [Emphasis added]

In an Open Letter to the President of France and Members of Parliament, General Dubois and nineteen of his fellow retired generals write:

As Cardinal Mercier, Primate of Belgium, once said:  When prudence is everywhere, courage is nowhere.  Ladies and Gentlemen, stop equivocating — the hour is late, the work ahead is immense.  Do not lose time, and know that we are ready to support political leaders who would undertake the rescue of the Nation.

However, if nothing is done, heedlessness will continue to spread its poison throughout society, inexorably.  In the end, there will be an explosion, and our comrades in active military service will be forced to step in and undertake the perilous mission of protecting our civilizational values and the lives of our fellow citizens.

It is easy to see that the time for hesitation is over.  Otherwise, tomorrow, civil war will put an end to this growing chaos, and there will be thousands of deaths, of which you will bear responsibility.

Editor's note:  Translation from The American Mind.  Read the full translated letter here:  Twilight in Paris (love the title).

Needless to say, the letter has not been received well by the French bien-pensants.  Left-wing politicians labeled it a thinly veiled call for insurrection, and called for legal action and prosecutions.  Here is an accounting of the episode from the Daily Mail.  The Mail updates the story here.  Here is the story in The Telegraph, also updated.

The Left offers no substantive alternatives.  They certainly dare not address Dubois' question above.  In this new millennium, the Left has only one playbook:  Label anyone who disagrees with their narrative a bigot, have them canceled or fired, and completely ignore the mayhem all around.

As Samuel Huntington wrote in The Clash of Civilizations, Islam has bloody borders.  And the European border is no longer the Mediterranean Sea.  Today, the border stretches through every major European city.  And the blood spilling has just begun.
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The Most Courageous Person Alive

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the most courageous person living in the world today.

If you don't know her story, you should Google her.  In 2004, she wrote the text for the short film Submission.  The film's director, Theo van Gogh, was murdered several days after its release.  His assassin left a letter threatening Hirsi Ali pinned with a knife to the dead van Gogh.  You can't make this stuff up.

And yet, Hirsi Ali has continued to write about and speak out about Islam.  Here she sits down with Dave Rubin.

It is rather refreshing to go from writing about the low integrity experience of working at Amazon to sharing this video of the person who is setting the global standard for high integrity today.  If you like this video, here she is talking with Bari Weiss.  Here she is with Ben Shapiro.  All three of these conversations are worth your time.

Hirsi Ali has a new book out, Prey:  Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights.

Let me quote from the book's Amazon page:

Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe’s cities?  No one in a position of power wants to admit that the problem is linked to the arrival of several million migrants — most of them young men — from Muslim-majority countries.

I have read all of her other work.  Just ordered this one.  She is one of those people who make you ask:  My God, what am I doing with myself?  What have I contributed?

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The Freedom of Europe

First, we are born in a government-provided healthcare facility.  Then, we receive a government-provided education, followed by some sort of national service, for the greater good of course.

Afterwards, a government-provided job in healthcare or education or auto-manufacturing or banking.  And, for the brightest among us, public service itself.  Perhaps a nice regulatory or planning agency of some sort.  You see, regulation and planning are vital.

For those of us unfortunate enough to work in the remaining private sector, no worries.  Government and unions protect us.

Naturally, housing is provided or subsidized.  Commuting, and for that matter, all other travel, is conveniently government-provided.  Food subsidized, healthcare provided.

For news and information, the government subsidizes an absolutely free and objective press, staffed by the very best accredited journalists.  Art, literature, film, thankfully, all subsidized as well.  And, we have government agencies to ensure their quality.

We do not waste money on barbaric military spending, for there are more important social needs.  It is an article of faith here that diplomacy can solve any problem in the world.  Besides, our sovereignty is guaranteed from abroad…somewhere.

And finally, we retire relatively young, enjoy years on government-provided social security, and eventually, die in yet another government-provided healthcare facility.

Yes, we all contribute mightily to our benevolent government.  But in return, our jobs are guaranteed and our needs are met.  And, we are freed from all of our former petty, worldly concerns.

Finally, we are truly free!
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