It’s been a tough few weeks for Western Civilization, with
morality inverted and hypocrisy spreading like the plague. I will be seeing Jonah Goldberg give a talk
on his book, The Suicide of the West, but I could probably have written the
preface for him.
I will start with where I left off last week—with the
Jesuits. As I mentioned last week, the
Vatican delivered a stinging critique of capital markets, yet has completely
ignored the election of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, the vote to legalize
abortion in Ireland, and is hosting a “climate c. To top it off Jesuit priest Father Martin
tweeted out this in response to President Trump calling members of the vicious
gang MS-13 “animals.”
No one is an
animal. Every person has infinite human
dignity, including the worst criminals.
Calling people “animals” led to genocide in Nazi Germany, where Jews
were “vermin” and in Rwanda were Tutsi’s were “cockroaches” and is sinful.
Father Martin makes a number of slippery and dangerous error
in moral thinking when he compares Jews and Tutsis to MS-13. The first and most obvious one is that he
fails to distinguish between predator and prey. Jews and Tutsis were the innocent victims of
the Nazis and Hutus, respectively. MS-13
are the predators. Second, Jews and
Tutsis were slaughtered because they happened to be of a certain ethnic
class. Membership in MS-13 is voluntary
and is formed FOR THE SPECIFIC PURPOSE of causing lawlessness, murder and
mayhem within civilized society. To say
that MS-13 is anything other than a blight on humanity is to spit in the face
of humanity itself. These people torture
and kill, murder children, gut people like game, all with no remorse. Father Martin’s statement, along with Nancy
Pelosi’s comment that they have a “spark of divinity” is a perversion of the
moral order of the worst kind. MS-13
needs to be banished from our society completely and utterly and Trump’s
statement was an accurate one.
Next, we have the issue with Tommy Robinson in Great
Britain. Robinson was arrested last
week and jailed for reporting on the “grooming gangs” in Britain, packs of
Muslims that repeatedly torture and gang rape young women. Not only was Robinson arrested but the judge
put a gag order forbidding the press to talk about it (since lifted). Now, I don’t know a lot about Robinson,
other than that he has, like Pat Condell, been an activist against the
Islamization of Great Britain, speaking out against some of the aspects of
Muslim culture that has popped up across Europe—push for Sharia law, no-go
zones, persecution of women’s and gay rights, and the material increase in
rapes that have accompanied Muslim immigration.
He has been called a “thug,” and “knuckle-dragger,” and an “extremist”
by the Left. Across Europe, the
authorities have suppressed the facts and figures and have downplayed the havoc
resulting from mass immigration from Islamic countries. Europeans are beginning to push back. Denmark banned the burka and niqua. Denmark is considering a bill to ban the
“call to prayer.” Former Eastern block
countries have taken a stand against Merkel’s unlimited immigration
policy. The most pernicious part about
Britain’s jailing of Tommy Robinson, whatever you think of him, is the State’s
silencing of him. Citizens need to know
about the consequences of the policies of their government on their
society. Europe has kept its citizens
in the dark on immigration (the US government has too, although more facts are
coming to light), and the facts are not all good, and some are downright ugly
and scary.
The U.N., always the standard bearer for peace and justice
in the world, elevated Assad’s Syria to head the U.N. Disarmament
Commission. The only thing I could
think of that might be more perverse would be to pardon Bernie Madoff and
nominate him to head the S.E.C. Not only
that, but we learned yesterday that Kim Jung Un will meet with Assad. The only open question is whether they will
be discussing North Korean disarmament or whether Little Rocket Man is seeking
to rent temporary warehouse space for his nukes.
Trump hatred has hit a fever pitch, with Never Trumpers
cheering when Trump canceled the North Korean summit (which is now apparently
back on). They couldn’t hide their glee
that Trump’s initiative with the North Koreans was teetering on the brink of
failure, and even foreign policy expert Richard Haass couldn’t control himself
and sent out an “I told you so” tweet. The
hatred runs so deep that one gets the impression that they would view a
disarmed North Korea and a path to reunification as more catastrophic than war
on the Korean peninsula.
Here at home, both Starbucks and the N.F.L. blamed Trump for
their racial woes.
And, of course, Roseanne’s tweet took up a great deal of
media and social media time, with the Left making claims that Roseanne’s racist
tweet represented the views of all Trump supporters, while all the while folks
like Samantha Bee were used the kind of language to denigrate Ivanka Trump that
the Left found so repulsive when Donald Trump used it.
We learned that the U.S. government is hard at work keeping
us safe as the U.S. Geological Service issued a warning that it is not safe to
toast marshmallows in the fissures of the lava flow in Hawaii.
And, finally, the University of Cincinnati is dealing with a
first-of-its-kind case under Title IX.
As you know, college campuses have been wrestling with consent issues
and resulting litigation since the Obama administration issued its guidance
letter, essentially shifting the burden to men in sexual assault cases, giving
rise to a myriad of proof and due process issues. At the University of Cincinnati, both
parties claimed sexual assault after a drunken rendezvous. So, in a novel (or maybe more common than
you think) occurrence case, we may have mutual nonconsent.
Just when you thought things couldn’t get weirder.
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