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Saturday, December 12, 2015

Texas demonstration reactions.

"Texas Mosque Draws Protest, Counter-Protest Demonstrations."

About 20 people, half of them armed with rifles, rallied outside a suburban Dallas mosque against Islamist violence and Syrian refugee resettlement. The demonstration organized by the Bureau of American-Islamic Relations drew a counter-demonstration by about 50 people. An Associated Press photographer reported that while there were frequent discussions between both sides, they were peaceful and intervention by the dozen police officers wasn't needed. The protesting group included members of the "Three Percenters" who consider themselves patriots protecting the homeland from Muslims. They previously organized armed protests outside a mosque in Irving, another Dallas suburb.

LATER: The story was also picked up by Al-arabiya and no doubt is being used as propaganda in mosques around the Middle East right now: "Protesters with rifles rally outside Texas mosque."

5 comments:

jon said...: hmm. i'm not sure that was productive, and i'm not sure it wasn't.

i put all the blame on the AP reporter for the conflation angle, which of course is there in plain text. however, this photo does not show the presence of any nyberg flags, yet, there was at least one. they could have done that, but didn't.

https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t31.0-8/12370713_1531860467139443_7254560610946007434_o.jpg

now i'd say DW is a good texan, as are the rest of 'em there, "getting involved" as it were, but also that they are unintentionally fueling the mixed message the AP reporter is looking for.; December 13, 2015 at 8:05 AM
Anonymous said...: It's easy for an idiot to carry a rifle in public.
Too bad someone didn't test their shooting skills.
I'd love to see a video of these mice scattering for cover.; December 13, 2015 at 10:28 AM
Anonymous said...: What a worthless group of losers. No doubt their (ex) wives/mothers or the gov. check pay the bills. A different country, indeed.; December 13, 2015 at 12:49 PM
Anonymous said...: Real men don't carry prosthetics outside their pants.; December 13, 2015 at 12:51 PM
Chiu ChunLing said...: Well, it seems that an anonymous 'real man' is relying on a prosthetic inside his pants.

I have to say, I really cannot fathom what reasoned objection there could be to making it clear that Muslims can expect to suffer negative consequences from their continued support of terrorism. We all know that Islam feeds on the perception of weakness, not strength. Immoral displays of strength are possible, China and Russia both provide plenty of evidence. But moral displays of strength are also possible.

Why exactly isn't this one?

If you're going to say it's because the media didn't cooperate then I have to say that, by that standard, moral displays of strength aren't possible and we should just give up and surrender to tyranny. Not that I care enough about your ideas of morality to actually do that.; December 14, 2015 at 6:04 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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