Should have been a quarter of a million more backing the EDL...just as brain dead, but at least their hearts are in the right place. it IS time the silent majority got off their butts and spoke up.
Germany seems to be one of the leading nations in Europe... What has Angela Merkel said? http://www.dw.de/chancellor-merkel-says-german-multiculturalism-has-utterly-failed/a-6118859 New headline : http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/angela-merkel-is-david-camerons-new-best-friend-for-ever-8632322.html
Oh yes, 'their hearts are in the right place'... ... ah, hang on, my mistake - they're mentalists, who will follow a path to misery the same as any other extremist. Pastor Niemöller's little ditty has relevance, as ever. Think these chaps'd stop once they'd 'dealt with' their first target group? Or might they then start looking at anyone else who's haircut/shoes/skin colour they don't like... "Their hearts are in the right place". FFS. Back that? Bollocks. That Telegraph article is still the most intelligent written response I've read recently. An attempt to encourage examining the dangers/issues here without bigotry, knee-jerking, appeasement, oversimplifying, 'correctness', or to quote specifically; "changing the subject". EDL-ism is changing the subject, a weak & lazy distraction. They have their own agenda, and it ain't mine.
"I don't think these men have rejected Britain," she says. "I don't think they ever accepted it, even though they were born and raised here. Maybe converting to Islam was the only way they could find to be different, a bit like teenagers rebelling against their parents? They are bitter with Britain because of their life growing up. I think they are using Islam as an excuse. This third generation from immigrant families has had enough, it seems, and are now going back to their own roots, both in Britain and in France. We should do more to identify here the teenagers who are already showing signs of being unhappy about being in Britain. Says it all for me...and yes...she may not think so...but she did act..forget the words she used and the others that went to the fusileer...they acted..the rigour of today would have us hold back...for safety's sake...thank god someone follows their humanity and refuses to be cowed.
Blimey they have a peterborough division...Does that mean they have brigades and battalions...I would not have thought there were enough of them to fill a dozen buses...Just see same faces wherever they go. Bunch of retards.
Careful of blanket statements gentlemen...The EDL (whilst having nothing to do with them) are English...living in England...to deny that race and religion are factors is an act of willfull ignorance...i wont get into a discussion about "puratism", but it exists and is completely natural, right or wrong. Its only the wealthy countries who face this problem...and who are the wealthy? - "They are bitter with Britain because of their life growing up. I think they are using Islam as an excuse. This third generation from immigrant families has had enough, it seems, and are now going back to their own roots, both in Britain and in France. " I understand whats she is saying...but teenage rebelling doesnt include cold blooded murder...thats the realm of the mentaly unfit...either physically or psychologiclaly...This problem has its roots in RACE and RELIGION and DIFFERENCE (not better or worse, thats just a perspective - just Difference). In the case of the London murder, it may also include a deluded youth, sick of feeling powerful and treated as powerless...its deep and requires a solid understanding of history vs human nature to unravel...but its not that complex.
Cac, there may be some of your post I can agree with...I wont though agree with anyone with nazi tatoos or giving the nazi salute on our streets just as I wont have the fundamentalist muslims on our streets..they are both cast of the same mold. I for one am not about to run into the arms of folk who find the BNP not violent enough for their liking so move across to another orginisation and hijack it. I knew someone in the EDL..when it first started..From Luton...Lots of ethinc problems there in the past. He realised that the orginisation as set up was being hijacked. And left. He suddenly found himself surrounded by chanting folk in a meeting room screaming Sieg Heil..Being both black and ex forces...he realised just what he found himself suddenly supporting.
Being British to me and my forbearers many of whom we honour on this forum...Being British means not colluding with any Nazi b...d even if he does dishonour my flag.
The nazi stuff is affectation - an affiliation of ideals and a way of recruiting youth and getting attention...dont let your vision be clouded by these "clothes"...The jihadists and Nazi are not the same...one wants a pure country thats "theirs"...the other wants all non-beleivers around the world exterminated. You can assuage one and not the other. Hijacked organisations is a norm...plenty of arab faction have been hijacked over the years and their focus changed as a result, it happens. And as an ironoic twist "Being British means not colluding with any Nazi b...d" - They are your brothers Urqh...what lies in their genes are in yours...YOU are just as capable as they are of this behaviour, and like them, you will justify it in your own mind...something to think about (i know im being a littel sh*t) - Always happy to get Urqh shifting in his seat...
I don't see much difference between neo-nazis and Jihadis. The nice thing about the Jihadi types is that you could deport a large percentage of them, before they cut somebodies throat.
one wants a pure country thats "theirs". They are not my brothers..We fought a war to eradicate them. And the thinking behind that sentence.
The main similarity between neonazis and and fundamentalist islamists is that a free society can't live with either if they decide to put in practice their beliefs, they differ a lot in other respects but those differences are mostly relevant to preventing people falling prey to those mostruous beliefs than to countering the actions of the "believers", the islamists are more dangerous as their belief include self immolation making them a lot more difficult to deter. The big problem is that a free society thet "cracks down on the crackpots" before they harm anyone takes a big risk of no longer being a free society, one you give a government that sort of power it's nearly sure it will abuse it, and "parliament democracies" governments are more vulnerable than "presidential democracies" to gradual erosion of liberties as they have more inertia (not that the US is doing vell in this regard lately). There should be an effort to isolate and discredit the crackpots, realtively easy to do with nazis, a lot more tricky with islamists, before relegating them to the mental institutions for the dangerously mad where they belong ........ oops! but wasn't that what Stalin did with his opposition?
Another act... lets hope that Boston wasn't the opening sequence to a new wave of terrorist activity. Some months before Boston, Islamic terrorists were foiled in attempting to blow up a train in Toronto, now there is talk there was also going to be an attempted biological attack too. My condolences to the grieving family, and my condolences in advance to all of the British citizens and not-yet-British citizens who are going to be attacked by EDL thugs and their skinhead friends, just because they happen to be Muslim, or just because they are brown skinned or wearing a headscarf.
A humble and obviously meant apology and demonstration of maturity...has just been expressed by one of the murderers families.. A welcome addition to this horrific story.
Thanks for an interesting post CAC but urqh, don't worry. There are scientific proofs that the "Germanic" origin of Brits is a myth. Recent DNA analyses have indicated that the British roots are different. Professor Stephen Oppenheimer of Oxford University, says: “The majority of the gene pool of the British Isles is very ancient and dates to the era after the last great Ice Age. It has nothing to do with Celts or Anglo-Saxons or any more recent ethnic labels. “The Ice Age made Britain a polar desert and there was nobody living here around 13,000 BC until the first settlers came to the British Isles from the Basque country of northern Spain between 15,000 and 7,500 years ago. “Something like three-quarters of the ancestors of our modern gene pool arrived then. EDIT: If we go a bit further, it appears that the whole human race originates from Africa. Then, why racism exists at all: we are all Africans, after all! And if this trend of mixing continues, we will be a single, mixed race. Let's love each other, instead killing.
I'd like to teach the world to sing... In perfect harmoneeeee. Grow Apple trees and honey bees and snow white turtle doves Its the real thing.. the way it should beeee the real thing... Thats Coca cola.....
God awful. Condolences to Mr. Lee Rigby's family. Rest in Peace, Soldier. Best regards to the entire British Armed Forces. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ There are quite a few other thoughts I would like to share but I better ruminate for a few days first. Hmmmmm.....I just hate unfair crud and these two bullying murderers (had to have two against one and multiple weapons - pansies) should have taken it to the battlefield, not a Woolwich Street. Now these murdering swine have unleashed a creeping floodgate of emotions in the streets that leads to - who knows what (the next chapter of this endless, disgusting, insane, beyond stupid Jihad?), but we are starting to see it unfold. Most unfortunate.
I could argue all day on this one...I too have "scientific proof"...studies done to locate genetic lines...history also backs up the Norse/Germanic blood line...Just look at their/our queen! - Racism is a recent word and idea (about a hundred a fifty years old) - Even Africans had to be able to SEE genetic differences from a distance, to know whether that canoe coming towards you is friendly or an attack party....careful not to make too sweeping statements...this goes waaaayy back, to before we were sapiens...