Students of history will recall that title of today's post refers to the events occurring in Nazi Germany on the 9th of November of 1938. In response to the assassination of a German diplomat, Ernst von Rath by a disaffected Polish Jew, Hershel Grzynspyn, the Nazi's unleashed pogroms against the Jews living in Germany. (Ironically, von Rath was being investigated by the Gestapo for his anti-Nazi sympathies)
German society (indeed most of Europe) always possessed a large anti-semitic undercurrent which reverberated with the Nazi ideology. The Nazi's needed a pretext to "get rid of the jews" and the assassination of von Rath provided them with a pretext to get the ball rolling. It's important to remember that had von Rath not been assassinated, some other event would have been made to fit the bill.
For Kristallnacht to occur, there needed to be official sanction to public prejudice: Liberties and Rights were thrown out of the window.
The social climate of Kristallnacht has been on my mind lately, especially in regard to the terrible Murders in Norway.
Here in Australia, the murderer has been reported as a Right-wing extremist, Right-wing Christian extremist, Christian Fundamentalist and so on. The emphasis being on Right wing and Christian. Any normal person would be horrified and repulsed by the events in Norway ( btw, I think he deserves to hang) but what is beginning to worry me is that the media is only reporting on Christians and Rightists only in the context of negative events. The aim being to form a pavlovian assosciation in the minds of the public between Christians, Rightists and evil.
The public is being conditioned by the liberal media to equate Christian and Right=Evil as effectively as the Nazi's peddling of the "eternal Jew". The pogroms are next.
I've had a brief look at the ramblings and the biography of Anders Behring Breivik and it would appear that he is nominally Christian and ideologically similar to Geert Wilders, possessing a weird pro-gay (only in the modern world could pro-gay= Christian) and anti-Islamic form of conservatism. He is pro-Israel which doesn't make him a Nazi. I suppose the closest American equivalent would be an East Coast Republican. This guy seems pretty socially liberal in my reading of things and it seems very difficult to categorise him as anything else than weak right and nominally christian.
Still the media seem desperate to link his warped Christainity and his anti-Marxism to his actions which they otherwise find inexplicable. However his manifesto is available on the internet (I'm not linking to it) and the explanation for his actions are there:
I’ve spent a total of 9 years of my life working on this project. The first five years were spent studying and creating a financial base, and the last three years was spent working full time with research, compilation and writing. Creating this compendium has personally cost me a total of 317 000 Euros (130 000 Euros spent from my own pocket and 187 500 Euros for loss of income during three years). All that, however, is barely noticeable compared to the sacrifices made in relation to the distribution of this book, the actual marketing operation;)Yep. The bombing and the murders were part of a book launch. It's all a publicity event. I guess his aim was to do something so horrible that all the world's attention would be drawn to him: The media obliged.
This was a narcissistic individual who believed he had special message to tell the world. I imagine that he really didn't want to kill those kids but his important message needed to be heard. Others have said the same thing, still they did not see the need to bomb the city and kill children to get their message across. Apparently he is co-operating with police and telling all. He probably see's himself as a martyr to the cause. Note, everyone else is dead except him. His narcissism was his motivation for evil not his Christianity or his Right wing beliefs.
Still the the role of the liberal media is to slander Christians and Rightists, when it comes to pretext, any idiot will do.
This guy was real dickhead. ( I also note, played World of Warcraft and did not have a girlfriend.)
My condolences to the families of the victims.
Let's assume for a moment that Nazi-style anti-Right, anti-Christian pogroms really are next.
ReplyDelete[I don't subscribe to this notion, but for the sake of discussion, will take it as given.]
If pogroms really are coming, then the Christian Right needs to be preparing for civil war, for a fight to the death. Once things become a matter of survival, all means become permissible: murder, plunder, terror, targeting of enemy civilians, etc. Catholics and other Christians can smile and claim otherwise, but when confronted by a real threat, they are easily able to justify the most brutal actions. (See also: the Inquisition, Albigensian Crusade, Hiroshima, etc.)
In this context, the Norway attacks are simply a "retaliatory first-strike", and quite an effective one at that. The attacker managed to kill over 80 young and enthusiastic recruits of the socialist enemy. He apparently did this by himself, so as not to compromise or implicate others who share his views. Young would-be socialists may now be intimidated into not attending such indoctrination camps in the future.
In short, if the pogroms really are coming, this guy is a hero.
Now, I personally don't think the pogroms are coming, so that makes this guy an idiot and a murderer. However, for you to agree with me that this guy is an idiot and a murderer, you cannot accept the attacker's assessment of the threat and remain consistent.
So which is it? Are the SA coming for us? If so, we need to GET THEM FIRST, or at least stop complaining about others who try and do so. If the SA aren't coming for us -- which seems likely -- then we need to get this attacker in front of a firing squad as quickly as possible.
While the bomber is a fool and has committed a hideous atrocity these youth aren't completely innocent either.
ReplyDeleteUnlikely the USA and Australia in Europe youths are groomed to be future leaders of the liberal regime and are some of its most fanatical followers.
There are mini-groups akin to "Antifa" (fashioned itself this name because it wanted to be known as "anti-fascist") which is an European leftist youth group which are a bunch of thugs and vandals. They seek those whom commit "hate speech" and "crime think" and terrorize, disrupt or persecute conservatives.
Also the facebook account of the Norwegian bomber has been tampered with. In other words a hoax or a fake (who knows maybe even his manifesto is fake).
According to a few blogs the terms "Christian" and "conservative" were added days or hours before and after this massacre.
It doesn't add up and seems Orwellian.
o which is it? Are the SA coming for us? If so, we need to GET THEM FIRST, or at least stop complaining about others who try and do so. If the SA aren't coming for us -- which seems likely -- then we need to get this attacker in front of a firing squad as quickly as possible.
ReplyDeleteThe SA are coming to get us and this guy needs to be put in front of firing squad.
The degree of defence (as Christians) that we are allowed to use is proportionate to the level of direct threat posed to us. Right now, our civil liberties are still protected in most parts of the world. Our aim for the immeadiately foreseeable future is to wage a "hearts and minds war" and argue our case by politcial and lawful means.
There was already a drift to the right in the Scandinavian countries before this dickhead started aiming his gun. In Europe there is an growing revulsion towards the left which could be exploited by intelligent rightists. Instead we have a world of warcraft "crusader" murdering a bunch of innocent kids/teenagers/adults on an island in the name of right wing revolution. The swinging voter wants nothing to do with this type of person.
Btw, his terroristic revolution and "shock tactics" are classical left wing boilerplate. Trotsky would have been impressed. Furthermore, you cannot impose a military solution to a spiritual problem.
The west is dying because it has foresaken God. The arab influx is a symptom and not the cause of the disease. Geert Wilders, the European New Right, Neoconservatism, Nordicism, Racialism, Alt right etc are all psuedoconservative. Should any of these idiot branches of the right succeed Europe/America/Australia would most assuredly die as it is with the triumph of Cultural Marxism. The renewal of the West needs to be spiritual.
So many guns. So little brains.
these youth aren't completely innocent either.
ReplyDeleteYouth are youth. They were probably many reasons why they were at the camp. Some were socialist ideologues, some went there because their friends went, others went hoping to get laid, some went to get away from their parents and some went because their parents sent them there.
The kids who died there were innocent. They did nothing to warrant their deaths. Once you start killing people for holding different opinions to yourself where the fuck does it end? The gulag and the concentration camp.
The whole point about conservatism is that there is a God and there are lines in the sand which he does not let us cross. As far as I'm aware He's not given us permission to kill people who have different opinions to ourselves.
All those people that were killed on the island were guilty of, wa in having a different opinion to that of the killer's.
"As far as I'm aware He's not given us permission to kill people who have different opinions to ourselves."
ReplyDeleteGiordano Bruno would have found your assessment of Catholic doctrine very interesting. Mr. Bruno discovered that being a heretic is all about having new and interesting opinions, and then being set on fire by Papal directive. A "heartwarming" story, to be sure.
Killing people who have improper ideas is quite in line with Scripture, and indeed is mandated by God in several instances. The Church has a very long history of implementing such mandates. The limited implementation of such divine commands today is largely a function of the Pope not having very many divisions to use for enforcement.
On this point Stalin was quite reasonable:
"Ideas are more powerful than guns; we don't allow our enemies to have guns, why would we allow them to have ideas?"
The Church has a very long history of implementing such mandates. The limited implementation of such divine commands today is largely a function of the Pope not having very many divisions to use for enforcement.
ReplyDeleteDoctrine's moved forward a bit since then, at least for some of us. The Church was wrong to burn Bruno.
"...von Rath not been assassinated, some other event would have been made to fit the bill."
ReplyDeleteThe rule for waging popular war is to become the victim by mass perception management and instilling fear and sense of helplessness among the public. This tactic was also used by the Nazis when they burned the Reichstag building and blamed it on the Jews. The USA gov learned from this and forced Japan to attack Pearl Harbor by freezing assets, cutting off US oil supply and providing China and the UK with weapons.
Having created mass hysteria and positioning one as a victim, the state is free to do whatever it pleases. It's too bad that a well informed educated public would usually prevent degradation of rights, since they usually see through the cloak-and-dagger of mass media propaganda.
History does repeat itself, just the context and inputs change while the general tactics remain the same, which inevitability leads to similar outcomes.
I think the Christian west has been pro gay for hundreds of years in as much as we don't hang gays like Muslim countries do.
ReplyDelete"The whole point about conservatism is that there is a God and there are lines in the sand which he does not let us cross. As far as I'm aware He's not given us permission to kill people who have different opinions to ourselves.
ReplyDeleteAll those people that were killed on the island were guilty of, wa in having a different opinion to that of the killer's."
Actually god has condoned violent action on various occasions during the Crusades. It isn't a coincident that USA, which is founded on Christian principals by Christians were given the most power to police the world and use decisive action by its discretion.
Plenty of Muslim terrorists have been preemptively taken out by the CIA and black ops to protect this great Christian stronghold that is the USA. So in many ways it is implied consent that God does condone action against those that seek to destroy Christianity.
Plenty of Muslim terrorists have been preemptively taken out by the CIA and black ops to protect this great Christian stronghold that is the USA. So in many ways it is implied consent that God does condone action against those that seek to destroy Christianity.
ReplyDeleteThe kids on the island wern't the Taliban, nor were they armed, nor were they plotting to kill anyone.
I'd perhaps have a shred of respect for him if he had gone after some militant Taliban, instead he chose to slaughter his own defenceless kind.