Headlines like this continue to dominate Europe’s news as French riots inspire Italians, Spanish and Germans to throw wheelie bins at police, loot branches of Front Runner and firebomb heritage sites.
MSM has until now insisted that the ‘protests’ were ‘mostly peaceful’ and have just recently and reluctantly started to use the terms ‘riots’ and ‘violence’.
They will be even slower to associate the social catastrophe with masked and hooded agents provocteurs whose flags and banners show no allegiance to the le Tricolore nor to the symbols of any other European nations.
While it might be statistically accurate to claim that the destruction and mayhem is being caused by outliers most media outlets have until now used this as a reason to shrug off the inexcusable.
This claim of a peaceful majority recalls Brigitte Gabriel's famous response to the argument that extremists are "only a minority."
She said,
“… It is the radicals that kill, because it is the radicals that behead and massacre. When you look throughout history, when you look at all the lessons of history, most Germans were peaceful, yet the Nazis drove the agenda and as a result 60 million people died, 14 million in concentration camps, 6 million were Jews. The peaceful majority were irrelevant.
When you look at communist Russia, most Russians were peaceful as well, but Russia was able to kill 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant.
When you look at China’s cultural revolution, most of the Chinese were peaceful as well yet they were able to kill 70 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant.
When you look at Japan prior to WW2, most Japanese were peaceful as well, yet Japan was able to butcher its way across Southeast Asia killing 12 million people, mostly with bayonets and shovels. The peaceful majority were irrelevant.
On September 11 in the USA we had 2.3 million Arab Muslims living here. It took only 19 hijackers, 19 radicals to bring America to its knees, destroy the World Trade Centre, attack the Pentagon and kill almost 3,000 Americans that day. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. “
What surprises is that our country’s suicidally empathetic haven’t held rallies and started Givealittle pages to support the looters and pillagers of Europe.
Give it time.
Penn Raine is an educator and writer who lives in NZ and France.
1 comment:
The radical minority also incite some of the 'peaceful majority' to carry out acts of wanton violence and destruction. There are 3, not 2, kinds of people we are looking at here: the radical minority, the peaceful majority who remain peaceful, and that section of the population who are peaceful until incited. This third section probably outnumber the radicals but the radicals need to be targeted by law enforcement agencies so that they do not spark off that third section of the crowd.
The really smart radicals don't engage in violence themselves but concentrate on inciting the incitable who then do the damage. This is why laws that target incitement are so important in maintaining law and order.
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