The trick in this business is not to be right too early. A week ago I released my new book — the usual doom’n’gloom stuff — and, just as the sensible prudent moderate chaps were about to dismiss it as hysterical and alarmist, Standard & Poor’s went and downgraded the United States from its AAA rating for the first time in history. Obligingly enough they downgraded it to AA+, which happens to be the initials of my book: After America. Okay, there’s not a lot of “+” in that, but you can’t have everything.
But the news cycle moves on, and a day or two later, the news shows were filled with scenes of London ablaze, as gangs of feral youths trashed and looted their own neighborhoods. Several readers wrote to taunt me for not having anything to say on the London riots. As it happens, Chapter Five of my book is called “The New Britannia: The Depraved City.” You have to get up pretty early in the morning to beat me to Western civilization’s descent into barbarism. Anyone who’s read it will fully understand what’s happening on the streets of London. The downgrade and the riots are part of the same story: Big Government debauches not only a nation’s finances but its human capital, too.
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As part of my promotional efforts, I chanced to find myself on a TV show the other day with an affable liberal who argued that what Obama needed to do was pass another trillion-dollar — or, better yet, multi-trillion — stimulus. I think not. The London rioters are the children of dependency, the progeny of Big Government: They have been marinated in “stimulus” their entire lives. There is literally nothing you can’t get Her Majesty’s Government to pay for. From page 205 of my book:
“A man of 21 with learning disabilities has been granted taxpayers’ money to fly to Amsterdam and have sex with a prostitute.”
Hey, why not? “He’s planning to do more than just have his end away,” explained his social worker. “Refusing to offer him this service would be a violation of his human rights.”
Why do they need a Dutch hooker? Just another hardworking foreigner doing the jobs Britons won’t do? Given the reputation of English womanhood, you’d have thought this would be the one gig that wouldn’t have to be outsourced overseas.
While the British Treasury is busy writing checks to Amsterdam prostitutes, one-fifth of children are raised in homes in which no adult works — in which the weekday ritual of rising, dressing, and leaving for gainful employment is entirely unknown. One tenth of the adult population has done not a day’s work since Tony Blair took office on May 1, 1997.
If you were born into such a household, you’ve been comprehensively “stimulated” into the dead-eyed zombies staggering about the streets this last week: pathetic inarticulate sub-humans unable even to grunt the minimal monosyllables to BBC interviewers desperate to appease their pathologies. C’mon, we’re not asking much: just a word or two about how it’s all the fault of government “cuts” like the leftie columnists argue. And yet even that is beyond these baying beasts. The great-grandparents of these brutes stood alone against a Fascist Europe in that dark year after the fall of France in 1940. Their grandparents were raised in one of the most peaceful and crime-free nations on the planet. Were those Englishmen of the mid-20th century to be magically transplanted to London today, they’d assume they were in some fantastical remote galaxy. If Charlton Heston was horrified to discover the Planet of the Apes was his own, Britons are beginning to realize that the remote desert island of Lord of the Flies is, in fact, located just off the coast of Europe in the north-east Atlantic. Within two generations of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, a significant proportion of the once-free British people entrusted themselves to social rewiring by liberal compassionate Big Government and thereby rendered themselves paralytic and unemployable save for non-speaking parts in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. And even that would likely be too much like hard work.
No. Few dare. Most of the small government thinkers conceive of things in far off abstractions for debating points for their next article or election.
Do we end up like Russia, China? Tough comparison, they never disabled their populations to the degree that the state had to procure sex for them or took so much of their speech away from them that they couldn't wonder out loud if a horse was gay. With that degree of state induced disablement, sharia seems possible.
To paraphrase one of the affable thugs who spoke through his muffler which covered his face like a woman in purdah, "I got a PS2, some laptops and cells. Should get at least two grand for them, I think. Not a bad day's work, isn't it?" or another 16-year-old "daddy." "I had to get some things for my son. You know, some nappies and the full Johnson get up. I can't get a job, so this is an opportunity." Yep, pretty sure you can drop the "great" from in front of Britain. And go revisit, The Bell Curve, to see what the attitude of the layabout apologists will mean for the United States.
As Ronald Reagan warned, America is the last stand on earth. There's nowhere else to flee to. And Mark's home, New Hampshire, the "Live Free or Die" state, went for Obama by 300,000 votes in '08. I truly fear for our country, and humanity.
New Hampshire was infected by all the refugees from Massachusetts taxes. Unfortunately, they were not intelligent enough to realize that voting for Democrats would produce the same result that they fled.
Texas is now in danger as it is inundated by refugees from California with similar lack of self awareness.
I think the comers (old and new)
from south of the border are doing quite well by themselves at driving Texas politically leftward. Whatever assist they are getting from transplanted Californians is just icing on the cake, as it is small in comparison.
Agreed. There is something about human nature that wants to go back-but not too far back. I believe it's the inverse of the crowded boat theory-the one where everyone wants to lift the gangplank after they get in-they want to move into a new place, or state, and set about changing it exactly the kind of place they remember their old state being when they arrived there. People in the Northeast for example are accustomed to paying higher taxes, so they don't mind paying a little more in a state that has no, or much lower taxes. This of course upsets the people who are already there.
They (Ma migrants) , do not understand what caused them to leave and go to NH. They will never understand that they cannot run away from themselves. They will convert NH to be the same as MA.
I left MA years ago, even free doxies would not get me back.
Amen,
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountain green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the countenance divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among those dark satanic mills?
Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!
I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.
How the mighty have fallen, all for want of a ... no, not a horse but a ... story.
White, British, Christians have been told for so long, under the multicultural dispensation, that their heritage is evil and that visible minority cultures are equal to theirs (even though, if you're in the least bit observant, you know that's a bald-faced lie), with the result being that they walk around enveloped in a cloud of white guilt.
Having been fed the lie that their cultural/faith story is evil and having no confidence to stand up and say, "that's a load of codswallop," they've sold their heritage down the river, aided and abetted by the British upper classes who'd rather be found on a polo field than practising any form of noblesse oblige.
And, then, there's the Archbishop of Canterbury and his bishops, who should be defending the faith -- that would be the Judeo-Christian faith which has held the British people in good stead up till now -- but aren't.
Alas, it's a poor Jerusalem being built in England's green and pleasant land which is now scorched earth.
Thanks for being on this story for so long, Mark. Much to your critic's alarm, you're being proven right which, sadly, is some kind of Pyrrhic victory.
Yes. What happened to that dream of Jerusalem? Remember 2009, Richard Dawkins and the 800 buses carrying this message around London: "There's probably no God, Now stop worrying and enjoy your life." Message received. That's the new England, too. Where there is no God, all is permissible.
maybe your grandfather did participate, but to the best of my knowledge it was Chinese imported labor that did the bulk of the heavy nailing and lifting that efficiently tied the western rails to the east
"... one-fifth of children are raised in homes in which no adult works — in which the weekday ritual of rising, dressing, and leaving for gainful employment is entirely unknown."
I wonder if we'll ever again be able to laugh at the Brit sitcom "Keeping up Appearances". That's all they're doing over there it seems - this time for real.
"The trick in this business is not to be right too early"
Oh c'mon Mark, the Pentaverate, Bilderberg, Illumanati, etc. all triggered the S&P downgrade, Arab spring and riots in London so that your book would shoot to the top of the New York Times Best-Seller list like a scalded dog.
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