An endless future under the shadow of terrorism

An endless future under the shadow of terrorism

Regarding the repeated cancellations of British Airways flight 223 from London to Washington, combined with hours-long delays for the flights that did finally take off, British Transport Secretary Alistair Darling says that this is what we can expect for the future. According to the AP, Darling told a tv interviewer:

What I can say is that I fear that for many years to come we are going to be living in an age where there is going to be a heightened state of alert. Sometimes it will be quite severe, at other times perhaps less so. We are going to have to get used to increased security at airports. From time to time that will be noticeable and at other times maybe things will be going on behind the scenes.

Here we see revealed the real meaning of modern liberalism, this liberalism which lets millions of alien enemies into the West, and then passively accepts the consequences. We must change our whole way of life to adjust to the constant threat of terrorist attacks which could not exist but for their presence among us. It doesn’t occur to modern Westerners, even as a passing thought, that it would be better to stop the immigration of Moslems and deport the ones already here, than to accept an endless future of living under the cloud of terrorism.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at January 04, 2004 11:10 PM | Send

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There is a great sickness of spirit in the West. Much like the fiction of Tolkien in LOTR; which has a sense of doom and dread throughout it; our world in the West is fast falling away from us. How many times have we talked to friends and family about pressing issues only to see their eyes glaze over…..not from misunderstanding; but a fear of listening to truths uttered.

I have spent years working in the Republican Party, calling talk radio, writing letters to the editor explaining issues that we talk about on VFR daily, only to be met by silence, fear, or mute stupidity. What is at work in the West is a collapse of culture that is historic.

The very life of our children, and our future as a people seem to be dream-like to our elite. As if we, they, and all that has been built through toil and tears in the West is meaningless; a dream world to be slept away inside of.

The collapse of the elite class in the West, and the distance the elites have put between themselves and the citizens over issues like immigration, culture, wealth, sexuality, and worship has been historic.

We don’t fully understand the collapse of the West because we are stading in the middle of it as it falls down around our heads much like a building falling down around us in an earthquake. I dread to look around me when the quake is over !

Posted by: j.hagan on January 5, 2004 12:45 AM

Notwithstanding the atmosphere of brooding dread in LOTR, the characters are able to act, and there is the sense that some larger force is assisting them along the way. By contrast, we seem so powerless right now against the forces that are destroying our nation and culture.

One thing each of us must do is try to attract more spiritual support to our side. We may pray for people we know and for ourselves, but do we pray for our people and our civilization? I think there is help available for us in this fight, but we must ask for it.

Posted by: Lawrence Auster on January 5, 2004 12:53 AM

There is no doubt great mystery in the world, and the affairs of men. To pray may seem illogical to some, but as a Nation we have frequently resorted to it in times of need.

Posted by: j.hagan on January 5, 2004 1:05 AM

The problem is that the self-loathing that characterises so much of what passes for modern liberal Western intelligentsia (And Alistair Darling is a great example of this)ensures that they become transfixed in the glare of real and present danger,unable to think or act clearly.Hence the stupid comment bny Darling.

Posted by: David Vance on January 5, 2004 7:50 AM