The blood is not yet dry in the halls of Virginia Tech, yet those bold and brave Europeans have spoken. They have it all figured out, you see. It is America’s love affair with guns that is to blame. Oh, that and an old man with Parkinson’s Disease named Charlton Heston.
Some gems from the useless folk across the sea.
From the home of Mussolini.
The bloodbath on the university campus is the work of a suicide killer — an American suicide killer who, differently from Muslim killers, did not act out of religious motives but was driven instead by the unrest affecting broad layers of US society. America is a nation that has for some years been in danger of becoming more and more unloved in the world, especially in the poorest countries.
From the home of the bravest of the brave, for whom the word ‘surrender’ is not only a word but an entire way of life.
This new tragedy presents a new opportunity for American public opinion to interrogate itself about a society which, as one of the students who survived Columbine said at the time, is very much responsible for what has happened.
From—of all people—those same folks who stuffed 6 million Jews into ovens.
Now we will probably begin discussing the overly lax gun laws in the United States. There, buying a machine gun is often easier than getting a driver’s license.
Enough of that stench. You may read it at your leisure.
We need to remind ourselves from time to time just what sort of people inhabit Europe. Grab any history book to find out who they are behind their cheese and wine and bratwurst.
First—because they are such easy targets—here are some German facts and figures.
Numbers of Jews killed by Germany: 6 million.
Number of non-Jews killed in German camps: 6 million.
Number of deaths in World War I: 21 million.
Number of deaths in World War II: 60 million.
Perhaps those kindly Germans should cease and desist giving advice except on those subjects where their expertise has been amply demonstrated: the prison camp, the gas chamber, secret police protocols and how-to manuals on mass murder and genocide.
Let us not just mention our German brothers. Let us review the awesome contributions of Europe to civilization just in the past 100 years.
World War I.
World War II.
The Holocaust.
The Spanish Civil War.
The Cold War.
The Russian Revolution and Civil War.
The civil war in Kosovo.
And how about those nifty European ideas:
Communism.
Fascism.
National Socialism.
Imperialism.
Colonialism.
Anti-Semitism.
Socialism.
Genocide.
Here are some cool European exports to the Third World:
De-Colonization.
Chinese communism.
Vietnamese communism.
Indonesian communism.
The Cambodian Holocaust.
The Algerian Civil War.
The Suez Crisis.
The Vietnamese War.
The Hindu-Moslem slaughter of 1947-48.
Apartheid.
Recall their heroic contributions to Philosophy:
Sartre.
Nietzsche.
Heidegger.
Karl Marx.
Deconstructionism.
Post-Modernism.
Existentialism.
Some great European monuments to Literature:
Mein Kampf.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
The Communist Manifesto.
Some great moments in European Political History since 1900:
The Munich Conference.
The Wannsee Conference.
The Treaty of Versailles.
Vichy.
The ‘Pact of Steel’.
The ‘Secret Speech.’
The Iron Curtain.
Oil For Food Program.
European contributions to the improvement of labor:
Auschwitz.
Dachau.
The Gulag Archipelago.
Theriesenstadt.
Outstanding European military achievements:
Stalingrad.
The Somme.
The Maginot Line.
Blitzkrieg.
The Warsaw Uprising.
The Invasion of Poland.
Katyn.
How Europeans improved lives through chemistry:
Mustard Gas.
Chlorine Gas.
Zyklon-B.
And let us not forget these outstanding European leaders:
Hitler.
Vidkun Quisling.
Lenin.
Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Stalin.
Mussolini.
Pétain.
Slobadan Milosevic.
Who can compete with such excellence?
There is a reason why our ancestors left Europe 400 years ago. There is also a reason why the great masses of the world’s population wish to live in America. Even Europeans are leaving their continent and moving to the US of A. And who can blame them?
As a reminder to just what America really is and just what Europe really is, recall that in the past 100 years America has freed upwards of 40 nations—some of them twice. The blood of American soldiers in the defense of freedom in foreign lands litters the globe.
How many nations has France or Italy or Germany freed? None.
And Europe will never forgive America for saving her from herself—three times.
Such a debased people are unfit either to rule themselves or to give advice.
(Update: Part of this material I published some years ago, proving Dr. Johnson’s rule that “we need to be reminded more than instructed.” See Clayton Cramer for more commentary.)
24 Comments;
Scipio, I love how Europe tries to tell us bad American’s that everything is wrong with our life and society, but come the first boat, plane, or whatever, they are fast on it to the U.S. of A. in a hurry. I was reading Jules Crittenden, and came across an appropriate and funny remark by one of the commentors there. I quote:
“RebeccaH Says:
April 17th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
We spent three years in Munich, and yes, the Germans can be charming, funny people to know. But I don’t underestimate their capacity for murderous hate. A German coworker, a secretary who had personally seen Adolf Hitler in a parade when she was a child, was once commenting to me about the Richard Speck mass murder of Chicago nurses, and she looked me right in the eye and said: “You would never have seen something like that under Hitler.” To which I replied, “Well, no, because under Hitler, mass murder was a function of the state.” We didn’t have any more conversations after that.”
I though her comment about Hitler and murder was sanctioned by the state was right on.
Pothus
Scipio, I also notice that Ahmedneedabath gaves his condolences for the VT massacre yesterday, and oh yeah, Death To America too. Sheesh, what a maroon!
Pothus
I have been doing some reading at psychology blog sites that have some really interesting insights.What will be telling is what medications he was on,how well they were monitored,and if we will be told the whole story about this guys prescription medication history.
Whatever the method he was to get his twisted revenge on the University.
Just a few more European inventions/discoveries over the last 150 years or so:
the car, trains, penicillin, pasteurisation, the computer, the internet, television, cinema, radio, cameras, plastics, steel, the geiger counter (will come in useful when the US decides to use its WMD again like at the end of WW2), the CRT, the elevator, the electron microscope, oh and yes, even the light bulb.
What a useless 47 countries!
Nice to see you keeping it so unbiased 🙂
Well put, Scipio, however we must recognize that it is our espoused (and lived!) values and ideals that set us apart and not our intrinsic personhood. We are not *naturally* superior. There but for the grace of God…
Adi – clever retort. If morality were inherent in material inventions, you would have a point, however it is not and therefore you don’t. To wit: trains have opened up frontiers and delivered medicine and mail. They have also opened up the gates of hell, delivering the Jews to the ovens of Auschwitz. It all depends on the ideals of the people running them.
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I’m European, and I don’t feel with any of those comments. I express my deepest sorrow towards those who were killed. It is best not to make this political. Let me tell you, most Italians don’t believe that. My dad’s side is Italian… he, nor anyone I know feels like that. There is a lot of bad, but also a lot of good coming out of Europe. Science, art and various other things. We have invented plenty of things, but I do agree there are issues with Europe. Don’t worry, we are getting our politics back on track.
Even France is rethinking itself. Do you know who Nicholas Sarkozy is? He is a conservative hardliner, and he is very sympathetic with the United States. And that fool Romano Prodi is on his way out… Berlusconi once again is the most popular leader in Italy, by far. There is about 20% of the population that we are not proud of in Italy… they call themselves leftists.
Dear Pothus: No question that there is something evil in the German soul. It has been there for many years. I cannot believe that every German did not know about that vast industrial killing machine called the Holocaust. They knew and they cared not at all. A few years ago an American was seeing Schindler’s List in Germany. When that scene appeared showing some Nazi making an old Jewish man dance, the crowd roared with laughter. Nice folks, yes?
Dear Mike: We will be hearing much over the next weeks about that poor fellow who murdered those Virginia Tech students. People will say how he was not really to blame because of this medication or that upbringing. It happens every time with our media. They do not believe in evil and so must excuse it when it appears. Already Bush is being blamed.
Dear Adi: I make no claim to being unbiased. Such a state of ideological purity is impossible in any case. Those who claim such are either fools or liars. I state my position as clearly as I can. Those who read my writings are under no illusions of why I am what I am.
Your preposterous claims about Europe inventing this and that remind me of the old Soviet claims. And did not your pal Al Gore invent the internet?
Anyway, Kobayashi Maru has your number. Material things are irrelevant to the substance of my arguments.
The greatest mass murderers in the past 100 years were either Europeans or were inspired by them. Such a statement is irrefutable no matter what fantasies you might have about this or that invention. America, whatever your problems with her, has never produced a Hitler or Stalin. We Americans have never stuffed millions into ovens. We have never started world wars.
We finish them, though. And quite well, thank you very much. Our enemies are wiped off the face of the earth—all to the greater freedom of mankind.
You of course disagree, Adi, but what of it? Your arguments are really against History and logic and have little to do with me or the USA.
Dear Giancarlo: If all Europeans thought as you did there would be no problem. Europe and America would then be true allies against the world-wide spread of Islamic fascism. As it is though most Europeans—or at least the ruling classes there—despise Bush and America. They have made this as plain as they could in word and deed.
I can see how you write that Europe is coming around. I hope so, and indeed like you see some evidence that this is happening.
Dear KM: I have believed for decades that the reason—perhaps the strongest reason—that America is great because she protects the Jews. When she no longer does so she will no longer be great. You are right, what sets us apart from the common run of mankind is the Supernatural, not our economy, power or wealth.
Dear KM, touche! But I’m not trying to make any point about morality, just objecting to the word ‘useless’ being used to describe the 700,000,000 folks in the 47 diverse states that consitute Europe. But as you mention it, perhaps we could talk about the morality of those who hijacked the greatest step forward in our understanding of matter to develop weapons that delivered the 2 most devestating attacks on innocent civilians in the history of the world? Or those who promote the sale of automatic weapons to the public? Or those who act against the advice of the UN to invade countries in which the regime offends their financiers?
Scipio; exactly which of those claims is preposterous?
Aldi: Alas,your knowledge must be the product of deconstructed world history. Do you not know that the Japanese civilians were not innocent but ready and willing to die for their living god on earth? Do you not know that said emperor and his military announced that should Japan be invaded by the allied forces they would forthwith slaughter all P.O.W.’s they held – that’s 300,000+ folks, dear Aldi? In my book 450,000 (a number that has been said to be greatly exaggerated) Japanese deaths are a good trade off for the 300,000
I wonder who Aldi will whine to for help when some petty despot decides that he wants to own all of those 700,000,000 million souls in those 47 nations that no longer have the ability to even protect themselves? France? Sweden? Norway? Actually, their best bet would be Poland, a country that knows the reality of living under the allusion that there is a utopian political state as envisioned by Stalin and his successors.
I mean even the French are gaining a sense. Why else would they support the avidly pro-US Sarkozy in his bid for presidency? Lets hope he wins. Europe is changing, and the left wing is weakening rapidly. The Prodi government is on its last feet, and the Zapatero government in Spain has very little public support left.
Our economies do better with the European right wing leading… not the left. It is no mistake that when the left rules a country its economy suffers.
Dear Adi: Your claims concerning the internet, radio, plastics, the elevator, steel and computer are fallacious. And about those ’47 countries’: all the other inventions occurred in merely six of them. Please be more careful next time with wild claims. You must not expect me to do your homework for you. After all, grading homework for squealing adolescents is what I do for a living. I would rather not do it for adults.
And we need not quibble about such. Even if you were correct about the Europeans inventing everything under the sun my argument would still hold.
Dear Giancarlo: I hope the French elect Sarkozy, but pro-US Europeans tend toward timidity in supporting America after winning. Right-wing governments are absolutely better for Europe, as you noted. I am not going to give up on the Old World—yet.
Thanks Mike,
A few others to add to the list:
18 at the school in Erfurt in 2002…
Emsdetten last year…
Freising in 2002 …
Veghel in 1999 …
Montreal Massacre of 1989 and another last year …
16 kindergarten children in Dunblane, Scotland in 1996 …
Of course, 334 people at a school in Beslan, Russia in 2004 …
Political correctness is simply tyranny with manners. Charlton Heston
Dear Barry: The Montreal massacre was particularly horrible, as the killer ordered those Frenchified males out of the room before he methodically murdered women. Barry, do you believe that those men at Virginia Tech failed as men; that is, that they should have been more manly in the defense of themselves and the women there? It seems that most acted like sheep. Am I missing something?
I would like to believe that I am wrong. I need to believe that I am wrong.
Dear Mike:
I think only time will tell, as regards the behavior of the victims. In all honesty, I have tried to avoid recent accounts from the main stream media. Those accounts are often erroneous at best. I’m sure that in a few weeks we will get a better idea of what really happened.
I will say one thing. I am very uncomfortable with the police. While shots were being fired and students were dying, the heavy armed and armored police were hiding behind trees and cars. I find those images very disturbing!
Dear Barry: As did I. And it is always best to avoid whatever the media send our way. They hate and detest those such as we. I return the favor—with interest.
In LA, the police around here don’t mess around. I’m sure many of you remember the shootings a little while ago in LA involving a certain pair of bank robbers with AK-47s. The cops have the reputation of being trigger happy, but that is better than being killed by a criminal. Those heavily armed cops in Virginia should of just charged in, like how the LAPD SWAT has done so many times to armed criminals. I think the police in Virginia failed at their duty, but more the Virginia Tech Campus Police.
Dear Giancarlo: The reason why Virginia Tech students were disarmed was because the school administration ignored the Constitution. Will anything happen to those folks?