My new rant.
A response to some of the replied in this post on Gates of Vienna.
Lets be clear, polls are easilly manipulated to say anything you want. Even these polls that seem favourable to us, the ones that show europe becoming more sane, are probably the result of some manipulation at some level. I don’t trust polls any more than I trust the tax man.
Further, I want to make it absolutely clear that European nations, by and large, are not free as most people would understand the term. Our media companies march in lock-step with the big subsidised media companies, policy is decided by those same media companies on and off, and the people are kept asleep by a continual drip-feed of sedatory trivia and intrigue. I have said this before, and I will say it again: the peoples of this continent are living under a deception. When they spout anti-americanism it’s because they don’t know any better, because all the year from the media is how evil america (and, to a lesser extent, the jews) really are. And despite all of this there is still a much larger minority supporting the US stance than the media folks would like.
I’ve heard it estimate that in the American war of independence about a third of the peple were opposed, a third supporting and a third uncaring. I have no absolute proof, but I suspect that you’ll find about the same split here concerning the war on terror.
Now I gladly accept that our governments are in various stages of dhimmitude - especially the EU itself - which is why we have this problem. The people themselves simply haven’t learned the truth yet. Despite what we bloggers like to think, the vast majority of people don’t read us and hear our views, or if they do they’re filtered through the lens of the media that fear us. It is not, therefore, a surprise when most people, who have known nothing but the drip-feed of the msm for their entire lives, mindlessly spout the same rubbish over and over again. The simply don’t know any better. They are literally children in this regard.
Now the thing about children is, they grow up. Eventually this infantile europe will grow up, and I would hate to think that you have abandoned them merely because they acted like children.
Going back to my comment about freedom, I suspect it must be strange for a lot of people to realise this. The nations of western europe appear to be free, affluent democracies but they are nothing of the sort. Life is regulated and legislated to a point where it is not possible to break the law simply doing things that people would do every day. Freedom of speech is no longer guaranteed, human rights legislation has put paid to any kind of equality before the law and the governments of europe, to a greater or lesser degree, passively monitor most forms of communication all the time. It came as quite a shock to me when I realised it, because I had assumed that we were free people. I had learned some history from books, about the great kings of old, the civil wars, magna carta and all that stuff and assumed it was still that way today. I was a child, up to about the age of 18, and I had picked up that vague anti-american sentiment.
Two things shocked me out of it. The first was learning that, while I was still a child in the early 80s, my parents had been terrified of social services coming to take me away. The had gone so far as to draw up an escape plan if they ever came calling. Thatcher was in at the time and was half way through making her reforms of the country, but the socialist rot that had lead to that fear had set in during the 50s and reached a peak in the late 70s. The DSS was, at that point, a thoroughly socialist organisation conducting a literal witch-hunt.
The second was finding the internet, which led me to find out the true nature of the EU, alternative media and just how little of what I had been told about the outside world was really true. The net saved me from my dellusions. Thanks to my parents I was not the most deluded out there to begin with, yet I had still succumbed to the lies of the BBC.
In western europe the word “freedom” has quietly been substituted as a synonym for “choice”. We have “choice” when it comes to picking which channels we watch, but we don’t have the freedom to watch tem without paying a tax to the government. We have “choice” when it comes to choosing schools, but we don’t have the freedom to send our children to any school we like thanks to certain legislation that forces you to send your children to schools in your ill-defined educational authority area or move house. We have choice in lots of things, but when it comes to the crunch we don’t have the freedom to pick an alternative that isn’t offered by those who claim to know what’s good for us. And where we do have that freedom, we’re quietly but persistently discouraged from making the choice by the verbal equivalent of a mild electric shock until, like rats in a maze, we follow the course those over us want to follow, not quite understanding why we can’t take this path instead of that one, yet fearful of doing so because we know what might just happen if we do. Not death. If it was death that was offered, people might be perversly less afraid to fight. What we face instead is the worse fate of thousand tiny humiliations at the hands of an uncaring beurocracy and the label of social outcast, racist, bigot or just plain old bastard.
And that is why we’re not truly free, and why the people of europe cannot, and should not, be held responsible for the actions of our “elite” governments. Those dhimmi countries you mention are simply the worst afflicted.
