Ghost of a flea: A white feather

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January 26, 2009

A white feather

Rally for Israel, suffer armed assault and turn to the police so they can... tell you to go home. This time it was Malmo, Sweden but it could just as easily have been Toronto or London.

A pro-Israel rally in Malmo, Sweden was torn apart Sunday by pro-Palestinian residents who arrived on the scene with eggs, bottles, and tear gas grenades which they threw at Israel's supporters. Police dispersed the entire crowd.

Much as those armchair revolutionaries of our academic and celebrity establishments wax apoplectic against the misogyny, racism and war crimes of the "Bush regime" but remain silent in the face of men who will actually cut off their heads so too do the police. Canada's police would rather tell peaceful demonstrators to go home than risk confrontation with a mob threatening a child with death in the full light of day on the streets of Toronto.

Because Canadians choose order before justice. Because we defend the weak only when we can give ourselves prizes.

Because we are cowards.

Again: It is not the job of the police to defend your freedom. It is the job of the police to keep public order. The police are not necessarily your friends.

Not enough Weimar for one morning: Don't be too hard on the Pope for reconsidering Richard Williamson; you do not have to be a former member of the Hitler Youth* to gloss over the Holocaust these days. Give it a couple years and this will be the standard line in Canadian universities, unions and anybody at the CBC too cretinous to have moved on to al Jazeera. A new Nazism is metastasising rapidly. This is going to get very ugly.

* Sorry, is it in bad taste to bring that up? For what it is worth, Benedict is still a long step up from Prince Charles. The political, religious and cultural establishments of the West have comprehensively failed our civilization. It is still dark out as I write this. There is no light on the horizon.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at January 26, 2009 06:23 AM

Comments

Regarding Williamson, considering that his original excommunication was for actions as part of a schismatic group and not his Holocaust denial, I don't see its nullification as any particular endorsement. Benedict XVI may well be making an offensive PR mistake, but pastorally it is justified. Denying one the sacraments is nothing to throw around lightly, and while a Pope Flea the First might enstate a far more draconian approach, the reasons for it are rightfully few.

Posted by: Varenius at January 26, 2009 04:47 PM

Not my communion so I am not out to enforce any rules. But I am saying if this was the Anglicans I would not be splitting hairs. Hence my reference to Prince Charles.

Posted by: Ghost of a flea at January 26, 2009 05:41 PM

I suggest buying bullets. If things come to it, I do not plan to be an actor in "Warsaw Ghetto Pt.2" or "Auschwitz the Re-awakening".

Posted by: dpatten at January 26, 2009 07:56 PM