Market Forces ("They died because of the recklessness of a western political class...")

Steyn Online ^ | Dec 19, 2016 | Mark Styn

[libertarian27]

On Saturday morning, I recalled a conversation over the summer with a German lady who had "found herself on the receiving end of some vibrant multicultural outreach from one of Mutti Merkel's boy charmers":

As a result, she no longer goes out after dark. She had also decided - with reluctance, because she enjoyed it - to cancel her participation in a local Christmas market, where she'd sung carols every year - in broad daylight.

"Why would you do that?" I asked.

"Because it's Christmas," she said, "and I'm worried Christmas will be a target."

And I concluded:

Christmas markets are a grand German tradition, but probably not for much longer.

Forty-eight hours later, twelve people are dead and 48 are injured (at the time of writing) because they attended a Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz in Berlin. This BBC headline effortlessly conveys the madness of our times:

[libertarian27]

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[Nicojones]

Excellent article. Steyn is one of the best. His point about enforcing a border and not ugly barriers around our shops and cultural events is spot on. Trump should use this in one of his speeches.

[Lurker]

Yes he should.

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[FreedomStar3028]

Just imagine how the scene in Aliens would go if Hicks were a bleeding heart liberal.

“Awesome man, Awesome. Multispeciesism man! All we have to do is let them in and sing kumbaya man! Awesome man, AWESOME!”

[Savage Beast]

Trump should ask Steyn to serve as one of his speech writers.

[Savage Beast]

I think one of the most iconic movie scenes was the one in--was it Fourth of July?--something like that--when the revelers gleefully approached the alien spacecraft which promptly zapped them.

[B212]

I try hard to understand the liberal mind......here is Germany a high tech country, disciplined to go to work in the early morning, party at certain times of the year, mainly religious to a certain extent....why would their leader invite worthless desert tramps to live among them....no technical skills, no work skills, getting up in the morning is a challenge.....Germany is finished....

[ScaniaBoy]

The last paragraph is awesome. Needs to be spread far and wide:

Since we seem to have wound up obsessing on percentages, I suppose twelve dead Germans is likewise an insignificant percentage, and far too trivial to sophisticates to warrant "Mark Steyn-esque hysteria". But it is December 20th, and for the victims' families in five days' time that will be 100 per cent of their children or parents or boyfriends or girlfriends missing at the Christmas table. Say a prayer for them: They died because of the recklessness of a western political class that has doubled down on a mad long-shot sociopolitical experiment that can only end catastrophically.

[baltimorepoet]

There is a book written by Jared Diamond (the guy who won a Pulitzer Prize for “Guns, Germs, and Steel”) called “Collapse: How Civilizations Choose to Succeed or Fail”.

Germany and most of Western Europe has simply chosen to fail. I think Toynbee said that civilizations are not murdered but commit suicide.

[Popman]

There is a book written by Jared Diamond (the guy who won a Pulitzer Prize for “Guns, Germs, and Steel”) called “Collapse: How Civilizations Choose to Succeed or Fail”.

I read that book years ago...pretty good book until I got to the end and of course.....wait for it.... global warming was the real reason civilizations will fail...

[wastoute]

The Rats seem to think moose limbs are a win win. They think they will vote Rat and kill mostly conservatives.

[lee martell]

I disagree. I hope Trump does not use Mark Steyn as a speech writer, unless only after some editing. Steyn is great at problem analysis, but usually tries to illustrate his points through sarcasm and droll humor.
Mark spends too much time weaving elaborate jokes then laughing at those jokes. He seems at times to be overly impressed with his ability to turn a phrase.
When he’s substituting for Rush, this tendency plus his Welsh accent can render Mark unlistenable for me.

[Leaning Right]

Steyn is one of the best.

That he is. He's smart, witty, and fast on his feet. He'd make a great Press Secretary.

[LS]

He is so right on and he began critical of Trump but quickly came around because mainly of the Moslem situation.

[RightGeek]

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

War of the Worlds with Gene Barry(1953) but then, Independence Day had a similar scene. So have lots of other Si-Fi movies.

[Albion Wilde]

"An English tourist visiting from Birmingham complained that in his native city ugly bollards line the sidewalks to obstruct any similarly homicidal lorries in the vicinity...If free countries have to have unsightly security controls, why don't they have them around the national borders rather than around every single thing inside those borders?"

[PLMerite]

“...global warming was the real reason civilizations will fail...”

An actual rise in temperature, or the hysterical Luddite attempt to “stop” it? If the latter, then I agree - Global Warming will be the death of western civilization.

[Albion Wilde]

Steyn is great at problem analysis, but usually tries to illustrate his points through sarcasm and droll humor. Mark spends too much time weaving elaborate jokes then laughing at those jokes. He seems at times to be overly impressed with his ability to turn a phrase.

It's why Coulter can't be taken seriously, and that's a great, great shame and waste of talent. Her books are better at controlling the sarcasm and snark, Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America being the best.