This book definitley serves as a reminder that silence is tantamount not only to consent, but to annhilation. The situation is that stark.
We need to buoy those in power that get it, and defang those who do not. I hopped onto the book for a little rollicking, and instead was handed a mandate. The time is now.
Thanks for taking the time to read the review. Please come back and let me know what you thought of the book.
Yes Anna, it 'tis stark, if not (rapidly) approaching "bleak".
Yet there's a paradox surrounding our predicament, also. A form of insanity, even. Permit me to explain.
Starting with the next paragraph will work nicely.
"But to those who can see, the time to act is now." AnnaZ
If this website's a measure, know what happens to "those who can see" these days, Anna?
I really (really) hate to say it Anna, but the Liberal-Socialists could do no worse to those of our side "who can see" than those of our side have done to each other.
They really couldn't. ;^)
"These are not "dervishes" and "brigands" in faraway places, this is "state-of-the-art-primitive" -- clitorectomies and ATM cards, beheadings and cell phones, camel rides and 747s (one way, please). They're as close as the nearest runway, as ubiquitous as the next interfaith meeting. (Good God, can you stand hearing about another interfaith meeting?!)" AnnaZ
That paragraph could get the abuse button pushed on you, Doll. I've seen damned good patriots get "the treatment" -- ala *zot* -- for a lot less.
Point is the language is lost, even here at FR.
Seems as the language slipped away slowly and surely the loss scrambled conviction(s), narrowed what defined [us], and for what?
A conservatively PC induced security that in-fact left all more helplessness than they ever were?
I dunno, you tell me.
Seems the only other thing to do in the absence of ideological agreement for attaining a personal sense of security is to practice something that only grants an illusion of control/security.
Cannibalism.
And, so it is.
"We need to buoy those in power that get it, and defang those who do not. I hopped onto the book for a little rollicking, and instead was handed a mandate. The time is now." AnnaZ
Cannibalism of our own is so rampant these days the repulsive behavior's actually taken for granted, become a fundamental part of an "offense", a reflex response & rarely even noticed anymore for the danger it is.
What does cannibalism really do: takes out our own fighters.
Yea.
If and/or when the fight ever does commence who'll be left to do any of the actual *fighting*?
Of course the answer to that is always learned after the fact, after it's too late, seen clearly in hindsight.
Always.
"Regardless, as Mr. Steyn points out...there are options, there is slim hope. So buckle up, boys and girls, the ride will be bumpy, but the journey is unavoidable. Not simply because our survival depends upon it, but because that which is in us that is noble demands it."
So very true.
Explains why of all the writers this place has served as a forum (~especially the gals) over the years?
You Anna easy rank #1 in my book, hands-down. Can almost see you standing on a staircase looking back over your shoulder as you speak your words.
Write that book, Anna.
If it has to come down to a fight, a bloody last-man-standing fight with the Islamofascists, and if it cannot begin today ,then let it begin tomorrow.
I for one will not live in fear, am sick to death of the threat(s) and if the threat of nuclear annihilation by Ruskie nukes didn't intimidate me, then a pile of backward savages sure the hell won't.
Whatta wonderful sight it is waking up to a ping by you, thanks. (Too) long time, no see.
FWIW I enjoy Steyn's work (from time to time) but I prefer yours, so give 'em hell Lady. ;^)
Just be careful insoding not to, ummmm lose your head? {g}
... -BTTT-