* I’ve never been to Belgium, but I was shocked at the footage of the arrest a few days ago. I could not understand why the reporters and officials were so jubilant that they made an arrest. What I saw looked like failure. A major European city now appears to have a large section of it occupied by hostile foreigners. Watching the police effect the arrest was like watching US troops in Fallujah. Rather than feel good about the arrest of a terrorist I was left feeling Belgium has a lot of work left to clear out that hornet’s nest.
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* EU elites main concern now will be to tamp down any natavists reaction to this latest carnage. they will be on the lookout for any neanderthals walking about with a club. obviously, maintaining the same vigilance in vibrant quarters is not necessary.
* In the Aeneid, there was a Trojan named Laocoon who said that the Trojan Horse was probably a weapon designed to destroy Troy. For his truth telling, the goddess Athena, who favors the Trojans, sends snakes at Laocoon, which strangle and kill him and his two sons.
The Trojans thought that criticizing the idea of taking in the Trojan Horse would lead to personal ruin, so they went along with the idea, which led to the annihilation of their whole polity.
Needless to say, the parallel with our contemporary situation is apparent. There will be plenty of snakes who will be ready to strangle us for speaking out, in order to encourage others to keep quiet and do what is expected of them.
* I felt sickened by this, once again, murder of innocent people in public places. I was especially rattled by the 2 baby strollers (one showed what appeared to be a slumped-over toddler; and an adult body covering another smaller body (all seemed dead); and the other stroller seemed to be empty but it was so smoggy, that I couldn’t tell. The crying and wailing was awful. This was all the first footage I saw on CNN after 9 a.m. EST.
Now, maybe this one dead toddler’s photo should be shown to the world just like the drowned toddler last summer? Dead babies are dead babies, but this one was killed by murderers. So, one of you gifted computer mavens, find that footage of the baby stroller (had a canopy) with the slumped-over toddler and post to the world. How long will it be o.k. for foolish westerners that ordinary people are killed since elites have their own jets and don’t take subways/buses/trains, and live in Whitetopias and gated communities?
Close the fracking borders. Don’t let European male citizens return from MENA anymore. Develop a stealth surveillance system. Immigration is obviously not a plus…or there will be more dead babies.
* Is it worth making the obvious point that Islamic terrorism is close to overwhelming the capacity of the police and security services to contain it? Belgian is a warning to the rest of Europe.
I read a couple of years ago in a Belgian paper a breakdown of how much its costs to monitor even one youth with frisky ideas; it was clearly unsustainable given the rising numbers.
The Economist noted last year that active terror suspects in Belgian are likely greater in number than the total number of Belgian intelligence officers and that it takes up to 60 agents to track a suspect.
Clearly proactive new thinking is needed – sweeps of Molenbeek; exile for Syrian returnees; licensing of mosques; a ban on Qatar and Saudi financing etc. – but it is hard to imagine European governments doing this. France has failed even to cancel the passports of suspect dual citizens.
Either European leaders discover some testicular fortitude or leaders will arise who will do the job – and the Davos liberals will not like that.
* Buzzfeed: One Belgian counterterrorism official told BuzzFeed News last week… virtually every police detective and military intelligence officer in the country was focused on international jihadi investigations.
“We just don’t have the people to watch anything else and, frankly, we don’t have the infrastructure to properly investigate or monitor hundreds of individuals suspected of terror links, as well as pursue the hundreds of open files and investigations we have,” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said.
* When a city has to make videos like that, it’s already on the way out.
* Sanders just called for more intelligence, better intelligence, and more vigilance.
In other words, a socialist just called for more spying on U.S. citizens and more shredding of constitutional rights as opposed to merely exporting the problem.
* Rod Liddle: It was only a matter of time before Brussels got the suicide-bomb allahu akbar treatment, as the Belgians knew full well. Part of the city – especially Molenbeek – is a cesspit of Islamic extremism. The authorities have been content to let such areas fester and until recently the police were noticeable by their absence. Quite aside from the Isis-inspired suicide bombers, a whole crescent (suitably enough) along the north-west seaboard of Europe has proved fertile ground for the Arab European League, a violently anti-Semitic and anti-western Islamist movement which has attracted scant attention, despite its typically vile programme. From Lille in the south, via Brussels, Antwerp, The Hague all the way to Rotterdam, whole towns and suburbs have Muslim populations in excess of 40 per cent. Political parties which have opposed this colonisation (such as Vlaams Belang) are excluded from government and denied airtime.
One assumes it will be London next. Again. And the terrorists will be home-grown – from Tower Hamlets or Luton or Kirklees. Indulged at an early age in their adolescent and narcissistic sense of victimhood. We will be told, when the atrocity happens, that they were ‘radicalised’ by something or someone, as if their espousal of Islamism had been imposed upon them extraneously. Another nonsense, along with all the other nonsenses we are fed in order to placate that section of the Muslim community which doesn’t necessarily want us all dead yet.
* Until recently Belgium was a low crime society where the worst the police had to deal with was cheese theft or such, so they are just not competent or equipped to deal with international terrorism. Imagine if Andy of Mayberry and Deputy Barney had to deal with ISIS.
* Trump is capitalizing, big time, nailing it. First we had the NYT commentariat sounding like the iSteve commentariat. Now we have a presidential candidate. In a few months, there is every chance we will have a president. When we do, the world will change, and not before time.
* Ted Cruz bashing Trump for saying his NATO comments of yesterday AS IF NATO has done any damn thing to stem Muslim terrorism.
* Apparently Cruz has hired Elliott Abrams and some other neocons as his foreign policy advisers . His statement trying to invoke NATO into this event, and thus attack Trump, obviously reflects the neocon point of view.
* Trump should really start rallying police unions to support his build a wall/deport/cut immigration strategy. It would
-Give him union cred nationally
-increase his greatest strength (National Question)
-increase white male turnout for him
-change the dynamic on immigration restriction–suddenly deep blue democrat groups are supporting his policies
A few smart police unions could do this. I think the NYC police union would be a great one to kick it off—just start listing off the percent of crimes done by illegals coupled with the costs of anti-terrorism activities by the force.
* I think they are trying to get Trump elected so we can find out that he really is Hitler.
* I think their goal is the age old islamic goal of conquering all of Europe. That is the prize of prizes. They’ve had pretty good success. They held onto parts of Iberia for 700 years. They occupied Eastern Europe for over 400 years, and still occupy Constantinople and its surrounds. Recently they successfully tore away Kosovo from Serbia and created a new muslim state inside Europe.
These attacks on Europe are showing just how weak Europe has become and it must give great encouragement to the tens of millions of muslims who seek to dominate Europe. They will continue to migrate and continue to setup their separate communities. Why would they assimilate into a culture that is dying when their culture will eventually prevail?
At first I thought these attacks on Europe were foolish because the muslims still needed more years of massive immigration to get a stronger foothold in Europe. I figured these attacks might close down immigration and begin a period of repatriation.
But now I think these attacks are smart. They are showing just how weak Europe has become and serve as a reminder to muslims to not assimilate and continue working towards the day when they can take over. I cannot imagine the feeling that many muslims must be feeling now. To see their historic enemy, who still has superior military, financial and technological abilities, become so weak and feeble that he is unable to stop what is happening must be surreal. If one were religious I could see how they could feel that God is indeed on their side.
* I imagine being seen to carry out big spectacular attacks in Europe helps their recruiting operations. But it seems very unlikely to end well for Muslim immigrant communities in France and Belgium.
* One of life’s ironies is that yesterday in France, the government unveiled a multi-million euro ad campaign against …. islamophobic violence. The Front National alone pointed out the contrast between two extremely violent attacks (committed at least in the name of Islam) and the “need” for this campaign.