The mayor of Lille, in northeast France, has just announced the cancellation of La Braderie, the largest flea market in Europe, with 10,000 exhibitors and, last year, 2.5 million visitors. Martine Aubry, the mayor, and a Socialist stalwart, said that the safety of visitors could not be assured – “there are risks we cannot reduce.” By this she meant, of course, risks of an attack by Muslim terrorists. Only once before, during the goose-stepping German occupation, has La Braderie ever been called off. The cancellation of this gigantic event is a severe economic blow to those exhibitors from all over France who depend, for a significant portion of their year’s profit, on that Lille market, but also a blow to those ancillary businesses — cafés, restaurants, and hotels – that benefit from exhibitors and visitors alike. Thus do Muslim terrorists manage to inflict great damage on Western economies without firing a shot or swinging a scimitar.
Of course, the same Islamic threat exists for every large public event in France. And like the Mayor of Lille, other officials, with other fairs, will not want to be held responsible for deaths from terrorist attacks. Since it is clear that the security services cannot possibly protect people always and everywhere, especially when there are large gatherings (and in Lille, officials say, the delivery trucks that would have had to negotiate the fairground’s labyrinth of lanes was a particular worry), it is better, from the politician’s point of view, to err on the side of caution – that is to say, of cancellation. Grumbling over lost sales can be overcome, but fury over lost lives cannot.
The calling-off of La Braderie likely signals a new phase in the war against the Infidels. Will the open-air Christmas markets also become targets? There’s no need to ask, because they already have been — a plot against the Christmas market in Strasbourg was narrowly foiled back in 2000. And in 2014, an allahu-akbaring driver ran over people at the Christmas market in Nantes (the police still call the case “inconclusive”). And last year, the Christmas festivities in many places in France, including those that took place along the Champs-Elysees, were not cancelled outright, but considerably curtailed in time and space (and on the same boulevard, at New Year’s Eve, a video of fireworks, rather than fireworks themselves, was shown). Christmas markets are clearly a target for ISIS and its willing collaborators, for not only are they symbols of hated Christianity, but they conveniently attract large numbers of potential victims to one place.
And what about Germany, where Christmas markets play such a large role in the economy, and in the nation’s sense of itself? These Christmas markets actually run almost a month, opening in late November and closing only on Christmas Eve. So far, they have taken place without any change. Certainly none have been cancelled. But there is anxiety in the air. The fact that they are so much a part of German and Christian identity makes them, for that very reason, especially antipathetic to the Islamic State. The ones at Dortmund (3.5 million visitors) and Nuremberg (2.5 million visitors) in Germany, are the largest of the more than 2,500 seasonal markets in Germany that last year attracted a total of 50 million visitors. But a mood that should have been festive was grim, and the major Christmas markets reported declines of 20% in visitors in 2015. What will be the decline this year, after all the attacks in France, in Germany, in Belgium? And is there any reason to think that these markets will not become prime targets for ISIS, now that it is has announced, in its Dabiq declaration of war, that it will be increasing its European operations, and claims to have many agents already “operational in eighteen countries”? And as we saw in Nice, where large crowds assemble, a lone wolf can cause a lot of damage. How many of these markets will be curtailed, and at what cost, both in money and in the sapping of national morale? A headline last year about the Christmas markets captured the mood then: “Amid stollen and glühwein, terrorism fear haunts Germany’s Christmas markets.” Nothing that has happened since suggests that that fear is about to go away.
An Islamic attack in one country has repercussions elsewhere. The Paris attacks last November led the authorities in Brussels to impose a virtual lockdown: Municipal facilities across the city, such as sports and arts centres, libraries, and swimming pools, were all ordered to close. The Sunday morning market at the Gare du Midi, the Eurostar terminal – one of the biggest outdoor markets in Europe — was called off. The city’s metro system was closed down as shops shut, shopping malls were partly shuttered, professional soccer matches were cancelled, concerts were called off and music venues, museums, and galleries closed their doors for the weekend. This is not merely the future of Brussels, or of Belgium, but of much of Western Europe.
Now, after the attack in Nice, perhaps future Bastille Day celebrations in France will be abridged, or take place under conditions of such tight security as to leach any celebratory mood out of what is supposed to be a national celebration. After all, ISIS is given to choosing symbolic targets. Bastille Day celebrates the despised secular state of the Infidels, their meaningless Revolution, their pointless pride in something that has nothing to do with Islam. ISIS would want to flaunt its power and taunt the French by attacking the same celebration again and, if possible, in the same city, to emphasize its ability to strike anywhere. If you were mayor of Nice, and were threatened by ISIS, what would you do about Bastille Day in 2017? Cancellation makes political sense. But if a country cannot celebrate its most important national holiday in the way it wants to, the damage to that nation’s morale, to its sense of itself, is profound. This, too, is a victory for Islam. And already, in Marseille, France’s second-largest city, a number of events, including the mid-August flyover of the “Patrouille de France,” an air team that streams the French colors across the sky, have been cancelled “for security reasons.” One wonders if the cancellation means that Muslim terrorists now have the means to bring down planes with ground-to-air missiles. Asked about this cancellation of the flyover, Prefect Laurent Nunez told the AP that “this is absolutely not a surrender to terrorism.” Of course not.
La Braderie’s cancellation was quickly followed by another, also for security reasons, this one being the European road cycling championships, which were due to be held in Nice from September 14 to 18. Nice’s mayor said that “given that it was an event that would have required a large police presence, and that we have not received any guarantees about their deployment, the cycling championships that Nice was due to hold in France’s name are cancelled.” And even before that, several major soccer matches had been cancelled — including a Dutch-German friendly in Hannover and a French-German friendly at the Stade de Paris – because of fears of attack in the first case, and an actual attack, by three suicide bombers, in the second. All over Europe, those putting on sports events now have to worry about the possibility of such attacks, and while there is brave talk about everyone conducting “life as usual,” few in France believe that that will ever again be possible. The police are everywhere, and everywhere stretched thin, and it becomes more difficult to pretend that life can go on as before. The list of targets lengthens: Patriotic flyovers and Bastille Day celebrations, cycling championships and soccer matches, Christmas markets and open-air markets of every type, train stations and airports, churches and synagogues, cafes and nightclubs, have been or are deemed likely targets. First a little, thence to more: More insecurity, more attacks, more shutdowns of events in medias res, and more cancellations before they even begin. This is a siege, conducted by Muslims in the midst of what they regard as Dar al-Harb, successfully sowing fear, and transforming daily life. And yet, for reasons few can fathom, more Muslims are still being allowed into Europe, and to settle, by the millions, in what they regard as Dar al-Islam. Who is sanctioning this, and why?
The economic impact from the mere threat of Islamic terrorism is staggering. The cancellation of La Braderie affects 10,000 exhibitors, 2.5 million visitors, with attendant losses to ancillary local businesses that would have served visitors and exhibitors alike. Similarly, when a sports event, a music festival, an observation of a national holiday, is cancelled, or a whole city put on lockdown (as happened in Brussels after the 2015 Paris attacks), the circle of losses widens. When La Braderie was called off, tourists took note of the Lille Mayor’s admission that “there are risks we cannot reduce.” This led to plane and hotel reservations in France being cancelled, or in some cases, apparently not being made in the first place (judging by what could be predicted from last year’s figures). The French government has just announced that for all of France, the number of hotel stays has dropped 10% over the past year. The luxury Parisian hotels have been the hardest hit, so the reduction in hotel revenues is far more than 10%. And that figure was arrived at before the truck massacre in Nice on July 14 and the decapitation of the elderly priest in Rouvray. By this fall, we should know the full effect on French tourism of those latest Muslim atrocities; it won’t be good.
Some of the effects on tourism immediately after attacks have been quite dramatic. Airline bookings to France after the attacks at the Bataclan nightclub plunged by 50%, and though they have recovered somewhat, they are still down by about one-third. The union representing the Paris nightclub, theatre, restaurant and bar owners says “activity remains up to 40% lower [in the last two months of 2015] than in the last two months of 2014, with tourist revenues down 60-80%. Those declines are even more damaging because of affected businesses also being forced to boost security spending.”
Let’s not forget that even as tourist revenues decline, the cost of increased security continues to grow all over Europe, with no end in sight. Governments, private businesses, and even individuals have been affected. These include people who are outspoken on the subject of Islam – for example, Marine Le Pen, Eric Zemmour, Geert Wilders, Lars Vilks — who have all had to pay for their own protection. Similarly, the kind of businesses that have been targets of Muslim attacks in the past now have a felt need for more security, and have to pay for much of it. Le Figaro has to pay a much larger amount for guards because of what happened to Charlie Hebdo. The nightclubs and concert halls now have to post more guards inside their premises because of what happened at the Bataclan, Because of the attack on the kosher market, the Jewish delis on the rue des Rosiers feel compelled to pay for extra security beyond the police patrols on the street. And as a consequence, all these businesses are now less profitable. Finally, the national and local governments keep having to increase the numbers of police (and soldiers) needed to patrol the streets or to stand guard outside likely targets, as the list of those targets keeps lengthening. Last Christmas Eve in France, 120,000 police were deployed to guard churches and other public venues. Fifteen years ago, before Al-Qaeda’s attack in the U.S., about 20,000 of those police would have been deemed sufficient. Now the police and military are all over Paris and other major cities. Because of them, the look and atmosphere of daily life has changed: “Thousands of military and police reinforcements have been deployed across the city [of Paris] and country, with patrolling soldiers in purple berets, matching khaki uniforms and flak vests, automatic weapons gripped to their chests now a common sight.” Anyone who visits France now is struck by the presence of heavily-armed soldiers and police at major tourist sites, thus reinforcing in the minds of tourists the image of a country in peril. Those deployments cost the state lots of money, both in direct payments to the forces involved, and indirectly, through the decision of foreign tourists to go elsewhere. How many billions of dollars has the Muslim terrorist threat already cost France over the past decade? And what will it cost, do you think, over the next decade? And the next? And what will that terrorism, or its threat, cost all the countries of Europe as the Muslim population swells?
The full cost of Muslim terrorism is fiendishly difficult to calculate. The last year for which figures have been given by the Institute for Economics and Peace is 2014; it calculated that worldwide, just the property damage (as from a suicide bombing in a building), and medical care and lost income for the injured victims, and loss of estimated future earnings for the dead, amounted to more than $50 billion. That figure doesn’t include the cost of more security, higher insurance premiums, or — most devastating of all — lost business of all kinds, when, because of fear of terrorism, events are cancelled, shops are shuttered, streets are closed, whole cities may be in lockdown (Brussels, Hanover), and tourism is in free fall.
One of the things the Western world needs, as part of fully understanding the impact of Islamic terrorism, is economists who will be able to recognize, collect, organize, and make sense of the data that will allow them to estimate the full cost of Muslim terrorism. We need researchers who, instead of bewailing the inconvenience of the extra tens of millions of man-hours spent at airports, are able to assign a dollar value to the man-hours lost. And lost not just at airports, but wherever time-consuming security measures now must be imposed at hospitals, government offices, schools, corporate offices. Then they must calculate the additional cost to the government for the extra police and military, standing guard outside or patrolling the streets around the most likely targets of Islamic attack, and the cost to private parties of extra security guards for open-air markets, sports events, concert halls, clubs, restaurants, cafes. And finally, they must calculate the loss in business revenues due to a decrease in tourism, even in the most out-of-the-way places. Not just in Paris and Provence, and the Riviera, but everywhere in France. One startling example of this: at Mont-Saint-Michel, the beautifully bleak medieval abbey situated on its own intermittent island off Normandy, that has always been one of the most important French tourist attractions, business slumped by 70 percent after the Nov. 13, 2014 attacks in Paris, and it has never fully recovered.
Not everyone is stirred to action by such phrases as “a clash of civilisations.” For some, it may be too abstract a notion. But if you start talking about the real cost in dollars of Islamic terrorism for the peoples of Europe, and figures such as $500 billion or $1 trillion (over a decade) are justifiably invoked, you are likely to command attention. Whatever else it is, Muslim terrorism should also be blamed for much of the current economic distress in Europe. For that understanding can only help, at this point, the clear-sighted likes of Wilders and Le Pen to overcome the myopic acquiescence of the Merkels and the Mays.

Michael Laudahn says
I don’t see why it is so hard to reach the necessary insight: Exotic immigration was a grave error. We need to stop it, we need to undo it, and we need to hold the politicians in question accountable.
Bob says
“Hold the politicians in question accountable” – Oh, you will have your little joke, Michael!!
john spielman says
so when will the French, the Germans, Belgians swedes Brits, etc., i.e. the entire western world decide that islam is NOT WORTH The cost of having it here and declare that we are- and shall ever be; a SHARIA FREE zone and muslims ,who disagree, need not apply. and declare islam an illegal criminal /terrorist organization and close all mosques and islamic venues!
john spielman says
if muhammed pbuh* was alive today he would have been imprisoned or executed for murder rape stealing and pedophilia
pbuh* – PERPETUAL BANISHMENT UNTO HELL!
SpiritOf1683 says
It depends on who caught him. The Chinese would probably execute him. As for the US, UK, Sweden etc thye’d probably fete him.
billybob says
Geert Wilders: The Patriot Spring -New Speech 2016 – Very moving!
https://youtu.be/tXKSRl6HIv0
gravenimage says
Very stirring, Billybob–thank you!
Here’s my tribute to the brave Geert Wilders from my “Heroes Against Jihad” series:
http://s478.photobucket.com/user/gravenimageartist/media/JWHGW.jpg.html
Singh the Sikh says
“The list of targets lengthens.” The number of Muslim ‘refugees’ increases. Europe’s method of dealing with the problem.
Jerry says
Of course Fitzgerald is right, the cost of islam in western nations has been catastrophic in both money and lives. But I don’t think this should be surprising, we’re at war. The effect islam has had on the west has been very much like the last great war. Militarily, socially, economically, muslims have wrenched a new paradigm in thought and action for Americans and westerners in general. Whole towns and neighborhoods are consumed by their violent enclaves, our kids like in Rotherham are raped and abused, sharia creep threatens our freedoms and peace, and all the garbage islamic culture is famous for is now in our back yard.
We in the west are suffering mammoth changes for muslims depraved and violent ways. We are living on a daily basis a strategy of defense for our lives, freedoms, and peace. We have spent billions in defending against islam, lost thousands of lives, and live in constant fear. America and Europe have shown great forbearance in tolerating the damning effects muslims have had on our nations. But now is the time to act like people worthy of respect. We are the ones with the superior morality and human rights, we are the ones that value the rights of all people, not just those of a certain religion. If we don’t act now to save ourselves then we betray all humanity, because islamic tyranny will rule the Earth without opposition.
Michael Laudahn says
Most of all, we should not fear to apply some force here and there, where necessary, to defend our legitimate interests. If we continue not to do that, we will definitely end up on loser street. And watch out for the force that then will ensue, with *us* at the receiving end. It just can’t be right.
Concretely, use water cannons to repel ‘refugee’ boats. If that is not enough, use some live ammunition, maybe even targetted fire where necessary. We need to send a clear message: ‘No migrants wanted.’
Then, start the comprehensive repatriation, applying a likewise logic.
Jerry says
Most of all, we should not fear to apply some force here and there…
I’m thinking you’re right, sometimes you gotta fight fire with fire. I’m tired of seeing us be the victims of muslim violence and then get scolded like naughty children for our reasoned concerns and views. I’m not an islamophobe or bigot, I’m a normal human being with rights in a free nation. I shouldn’t have to stay quiet while civilians are murdered for a demonic cult. I feel obligated to speak against it even if I’d rather not. Sometimes ya just gotta do the right thing and standing against islamic ignorance and terror is one of them.
Dom107 says
The British and US Governments under Obama and Cameron and now May don’t seem to learn the lessons about futile interference in the hellholes of the Islamic World.Now we hear and see video of British Special forces there to advise and backup “the moderate faction” and the US are supplying them with tons of weaponry.There is no “moderate” faction as there wasn’t in Libya.They are all mad muslims who will turn on each other when western forces leave after many western lives and much money is spent.
I say let the strongest win on their own accord and whoever the dictator is (zero chance of a liberal democratic state) just let get on with it unless they directly attack us when a total war of extermination should take place.All further Islam immigration into Europe must stop and deportations of those suspected of terrorist plotting.
Europe was riven apart by religious wars for centuries between Catholic and Protestant.Now we have in 2016 the very real possibility of religious war and terrorism with Islamists for years because our stupid leaders cant see further than the end of their noses!
WTF says
Ban iSSlam from Europe and close down mosques. Put back contol at the borders and stop immigration. Send the army in the 1000 districts in France in the hands of arabo muslims dealing drugs and armed with lethal weapons and we will start making money again…Wishful thinking
gravenimage says
Hugh Fitzgerald: Calculating the Costs of Muslim Terrorism: La Braderie, For Example
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Excellent and important article from Hugh Fitzgerald.
This is not some sort of side effect of Jihad; this, too, is a major goal of Jihad itself. Osama bin Laden said, over a decade ago:
“Bin Laden: Goal is to bankrupt U.S.”
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/01/binladen.tape/
“We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah,” bin Laden said in the transcript…
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We tend to think of the main target of 9/11 as the “Twin Towers”–but what it really was was the *World Trade Center*.
And Jihadists don’t just want to bankrupt America, but the whole of the West–really, the whole of Dar-al-Harb.
Angemon says
Great article.
mortimer says
The Islam tax is too high. We cannot afford to have a large, 7th-century, conspiratorial Muslim population in Western countries. Large Islamic no-go zones are breeding grounds for terrorism. Muslims in these no-go zones are refusing to integrate. We cannot afford large, growing counter-societies within our Western societies. Islam is per se a counter-society and no amount of bribery or re-education or manipulation of Muslims will convince them they shouldn’t pursue their divinely-mandated conspiracy to take over the world. Muslims must be deprogrammed right out of Islam by government protocols that convince Muslims that Islam is false.
Jerry says
You said it well.
marina says
We need another 18th century type French revolution in Europe. The ordinary citizens has to rise up and wipe these sword wielding savages from the face of the earth. Our leaders are too soft on these mahommedans. Europe is slowly losing it’s identity. By whatever means Europe has to fight and take back what belonged to them in the first place.
Jay Boo says
Maybe a wave of backlash attacks would allow Muslims a moment of contrite reflection until cooler heads prevail in the aftermath because the lack of any repercussions seems to be making Muslims act as this is not really THEIR problem.
gravenimage says
I don’t think I’d count on *that*, Jay Boo. Muslims would just hysterically demand a crack down. Look how they are now when the “backlash” is fictive.
Jay Boo says
Not defining the true enemy.
I am reminded of the Leftist Democrat Party voters who take huge student loans knowing full well they could never pay them back then go max out their credit cards on ego gratification vanity vacations they can’t afford only to sit in puzzlement of what happened while expecting other tax payers to pay off their extravagances or have it all go away by wishing it so.
Green Infidel says
And yet, a week ago in Krakow, Poland the Catholic World Youth Day events passed off peacefully, with 2.5 million attending, many from across the world. I was there for the final night vigil, and the mass with the Pope. On the way in to Krakow, every junction on the motorway had police vehicles waiting, and getting closer to the site of the mass were ever more police vehicles. In among the massive crowd, we were taken aside for a bag search, and there was in the media some fear that this may be a target for Isis. However, in spite of sleeping in the open air in a massive crowd, and surrounded by a mass of people (it took 7 hours for the last pilgrims to leave the site of the mass, due to congestion on the footpaths leading out), I had somehow never felt in much danger – somehow, there was always the feeling that the police would focus their attention on the small number of “suspicious-looking” people, and that any such people would be subject to numerous checks before they got anywhere near the site. Such was the appreciation for the police, that pilgrims were filmed giving a standing ovation to passing police officers after the event had finished (in Poland, a rare sentiment indeed). Yet their task was made much easier, due to there being so few “suspicious” people in Poland… long may it stay that way.
gravenimage says
Yes–Poland is one of the few nations of Europe with generally sane immigration policies. Muslims make up much less than 1% of the population there.
warmac9999 says
The cost to the French economy of the cancellation of the flea market is hard to fathom but not miniscule. Not only are the 10,000 exhibitors losing money paid to attend but also the loss of opportunity to sell. The vendors providing tables, food and goodies are also damaged. The buying and selling creates income for many folks, possibly a huge portion of their income, and certainly tax revenue.
Nigel GFF says
A fine piece Mr Fitzgerald.
The cost of multicultural enrichment.
(eg. only) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222613/Labour-let-migrants-engineer-multicultural-UK.html
John A. Marre says
It’s not for safety. It’s a gift to the Muslims, showing them that the French are willingly submitting to them.
Guy Jones says
The cost of Islamic totalitarianism that is taking root in the west goes far beyond economic costs alone. The cost is one’s freedom, one’s Judeo-Christian culture, one’s secular democratic values; one’s right to live a life free of oppression, fear and constant scrutiny from jackboot Gestapo thugs.
When shopkeepers fear selling alcohol; when festivals are canceled for fear of terror attacks; when bands of self-appointed sharia “police” (aka, Gestapo thugs) roam around, harassing and intimidating people for their dress and their conduct — then we can fairly say that people in the west are living under the boot of Islamic totalitarianism.
jewdog says
In the not too distant future, Europeans will only be able to go out if they absolutely have to, as they furtively run from one shop to another, scurrying like hunted rats at midnight. Then, once they are home and bolt themselves in, they will increasingy rely on the internet for commerce and communication. Yet, that may not even avail them, as their browsing will frequently be interupted by Islamic hackers who will display the black flag of jihad on their screens, while ominous messages scroll by, advising them to convert, pay the jizya, or die.
I think I’ll visit somewhere safer, like Chicago.
dumbledoresarmy says
And let us remember that the Mohammedan mob is similarly battening upon, terrorising, and dragging down *every* country where they are entrenched; degrading public life, causing terror, trouble, expense; robbing, plundering, corrupting.
Think of Southern Thailand and the Southern Philippines.
Think of Russia.
Think, especially, of India.
Think of many countries in Africa. Would Ethiopia be in quite as much difficulty as it is, if it didn’t have a huge Muslim mass sticking to it?
Islam is not only the religion of death, the religion of murder, rape, robbery and falsehood.
It is the religion of RUIN. It produces palaces (inhabited by ruthless despots) surrounded by slums surrounded by ever-widening and ever-worsening deserts.
John Quincy Adams summed up the fruits of Islam thus – “desolation and delusion”.
gravenimage says
And *this* is what they want for beautiful France, for the rest of the West, and for all of Dar-al-Harb.
Larry A. Singleton says
Letter to Jihad Watch 8-9-16
Calculating the Costs of Muslim Terrorism: La Braderie, For Example by Hugh Fitzgerald.
I was just catching up on my “Booklet” reading Government Unions: How They Rob the Taxpayer, Terrorize Workers and Threaten Our Democracy by Matthew Vadum. A good “companion booklet” to Barack Obama’s Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model by David Horowitz. Both describe, along with John Perazzo’s The New Shame of the Cities, how We the People are now serfs to “public servants” who have teamed up with government to take away our rights and liberties.
Public employee unions should also be taken into account when it comes to the financial ;and moral health of cities and states as the outrageous and obscene pay and benifits of these public employee unions are bankrupting this country one sanctuary city at a time and turning them into one big Extortion Racket. As much as half of a city’s revenue goes to pay public employee pay and benefits.
I live here in Riverside CA where red light cameras, solar powered parking meters and weekly speed traps are used to generate revenue. I won’t go into this but I watched a girl die because of the city’s priorities were a speed trap one block away instead of this “death corner” on my street.
People should really, REALLY read the information below. I’m sure the people here think I’m wacked for some of my rants. And I am a little crazy. From having my two boys abducted then having the power of the state come after me for child support. I’m sure most people balk when they see the words “child support”. Most people’s first thought when seeing “child support” is “deadbeat dad”. I’d mention “Driver’s Rights” and the propaganda campaign that is reducing driver’s rights to a “privilege” in order to regulate, control and BLEED the public, but it will just go over most people’s heads so I will refer to the more familiar “Islamophobia” and CAIR’s massive propaganda campaign to intimidate and stigmatize people into silence.
I don’t mean to be insulting when I say things will go over people’s heads. Most people simply don’t study the issues. When you say “unions”, that’s all people think; “unions” or “teachers unions”. “What about em’?” Same with “Islam”, “Muslim” or anything else. Their thinking process stops. Their understanding stops right there. No curiosity or inclination to understand the deeper meaning of these words they hear on the news and in everyday conversations.
Child Support is exactly the same. Like Islamophobia, the “deadbeat dad” is a myth. Made out of whole cloth. The State would have you believe that fathers don’t love their children. Don’t want to be with them. And don’t want to support them. How many fathers do you personally know who don’t love their children? How many fathers do you know who wouldn’t crawl over broken glass to not be separated from their kids? The black community with the double whammy of single family households are particularly hit but I won’t go into that either because that also will go over most people’s heads as will the issue of “racism” which most people really don’t have a clue about.
Let me just say that if you read the books and booklets below you will be able to “connect the dots” and see that public employees and their unions are playing a bigger and bigger part in controlling every aspect of our lives: Health and Safety Nazis and local ordinances against smoking and smokers is part of that. Having our police prey on smokers in public parks. ;Turning a segment of our population into pariahs and second class citizens.
The Better Homes and Gardens Gestapo, better known as Code Enforcement, controlling what you can and can’t do on your private property. Including restoring that “eyesore” in your back forty, that 67 Chevy pickup you’ve been getting around to fixing for the last ten or so years now has to be removed because it’s a “danger to the public welfare” or some such crap.
I’ve been going to local city and county meetings for most of my almost sixty years and “fighting city hall” on the ISSUES. Most people vote on election day, strut around with that stupid “I VOTED” sticker on their chest and then proceed to sit on their collective asses while those they voted into office continue the same harmful, corrupt policies that have been going on for generations. And who also fail to “watchdog” these “representatives” to make sure they do the jobs they were elected to do.
I’ve been dedicating my life to the “issues” ever since I was sixteen when my gra’mom had me go around with a petition to save the “old auditorium” where the Public Library now sits in San Bernardino, CA. My gra’mom used to read three newspapers in the morning and even though I was unaware of it at the time showed me a sign of things to come when she started kicking over the furniture when Gannet took over our local paper, the Sun Telegram.
People, again, have No Idea how massive child support is or how much control it has over the lives of every every family. Of every man, woman and child in America. Banks are required to turn in the names of everybody in America to their local Child Support Office. Every employer in America is required to “inform” Child Support of every new hire in order to check his name against their data base that would make the NSA’s people information data base look feeble by comparison.
If you’re a member of the working poor and can’t afford a high priced attorney your Constitutional Rights come to a dead stop the moment you walk into a Family Law courtroom. They simply cease to exist.
“Unfair” doesn’t begin to describe the economic genocide and extortion racket that ruins people’s lives. Turns fathers into criminals on “Wanted” posters and fugitives forever separated from their children that Stephen Baskerville exposes in his book Taken Into Custody. (see below)
Couple this with the control and “gender and transgender equality” they are now forcing on your children and young adults in what are now Indoctrination Centers. Where The State dictates what your child learns and where a father’s or family’s influence & Christian values is verboten.
Christina Hoff Sommers has written the definitive “War Against Boys” (see below) where she describes how teachers (unions) are trying to turn boys into girls by taking the “boy” out of boys. Making “boys will be boys” almost a capital crime. “Feminizing” our schools the same way Obama is emasculating our military.
The Most Shameful Injustice: In this first video in the new FIREWALL series, host Bill Whittle shows what four, five, six, seven or more decades of Death by Democrats has done to our nation’s cities. I encourage people, if humanly possible, to watch the first twenty minutes of the movie Lean on Me before watching this video. (Not the You Tube version) You’ll get it after watch them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weqQR-NnnIs
The New Shame of the Cities by John Perazzo (booklet) Read about how Democrats &Teachers Unions have helped destroy our cities and school system.
Government Unions: How They Rob the Taxpayer, Terrorize Workers and Threaten Our Democracy by Matthew Vadum.
Plunder: How Public Employee (Teachers, city and county, cops and fire…) Unions Are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation by Steven Greenhut
Teachers Unions vs. Students
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG8w9PcA-ig
War on Boys (Prager U. You Tube Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFpYj0E-yb4
Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage and the Family” by Stephen Baskerville;
Purple Heart’s Final Beat – A Soldier Suicide Story (You Tube video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_StCzStBy0
Battle for the California Desert: Better Homes and Gardens Gestapo/Code Enforcement (You Tube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw3RiMdS7sE#t=46
Indoctrination U: The Left’s War Against Academic Freedom and The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America by David Horowitz
“Indoctrinate U.” Watch This Documentary!!! (You Tube Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHyvRHrYYBA
Ivory Towers On Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America by Martin Kramer
Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case by Stuart Taylor Jr. and KC Johnson (Read this after you’ve read Indoctrination U.) (Another book explaining how our universities are totally out of control and taken over by liberal fascists. This is a mix of Edward Humes book about Prosecutorial Misconduct, Mean Justice and Horowitz’s Indoctrination U. and how our universities have purged all signs of conservatism and common decency.) Students are subjected to mandatory gender and racial-sensitivity, (diversity), training akin to thought reform. Faculty members and administrators are made to understand that their careers are at risk if they deviate from the accepted viewpoint….university presidents and boards, (not unlike corporate boards/executives-[intimidated by SEIU]), look increasingly like fearful faculty puppets.” There has been a total downsizing in academic standards; to make way for unqualified liberals totally lacking in the traditional academic disciplines which they have made no secret of ultimately wanting to eradicate. “The over-riding goal: do whatever it takes to choose diverse or feminist candidates regardless of qualifications” in the name of “social justice”.
The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukinoff and Jonathan Haidt.
How Would Orwell Feel About Today’s College Campuses by Amanda Borschel-Dan.
What University ‘Snowflakes’ Are Really About: A key factor feeding the campus ‘safe space’ culture by Bruce Thornton.
Ivory Towers On Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America by Martin Kramer.
Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate by Greg Lukianoff.
One Nation Under Arrest: How Crazy Laws, Rogue Prosecutors and Activist Judges Threaten You Liberty by Reosenzweig & Walsh
Jury Handbook
http://www.apfn.org/pdf/citizen.pdf
Mean Justice: A true account of a prosecutorial misconduct, power and betrayal by Edward Humes
The Innocent Man by John Grisham
The Man by Irving Wallace (The “Black” President we should have had.)
Larry A. Singleton says
8-19-16
Yep: Who gives a shit?
David M says
The French surrender monkeys have just given up, as usual. They are cancelling everything they can, because of security concerns due to having too many Muslims.
France is an example for countries of what not to do. European cycling event in Nice cancelled as well.
http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjxn-vPr7bOAhXDoJQKHWMuCsYQqQIIHDAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyclingweekly.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fracing%2Feuropean-road-cycling-championships-nice-cancelled-due-terror-threat-272404&usg=AFQjCNFwU_J7zZMtjOxEqLdH5POAt-6Flw&sig2=3AyEqRHOsc1TFY0i-7ZZGw
johnj says
The loss of tourism dollar will create significant changes. For a start it is the 10 -20 percent that is the profit margin for many enterprises. The extra tourist does not cost much for a hotel – and accounts for the profit. The bulk of tourists pay the expenses of the hotel and the margin is made up by those 10 to 20 %. So we will see the hotels trying to trade and eventually laying off staff, and then not paying the suppliers, finally closing. The same with the restaurants. No hotels therefore no accom and fewer going to the restaurants. museums, shops,…. It will flow through a society geared up for the 50 years for tourism – all the service industries will collapse. There is little else – so Paris will fall. Basically become like Khartoum, Karachi or any of the other Islamic paradises. Congratulations Mr Hollande.
EL says
Now i see Stalin’s logic. All these socialists etc were purged during the 1930s by Comrade Stalin. I guess he had a point.
Richard Paulsen says
There are lots of terror and terror threats in Europe. Does not frighten muslims from coming to Europe.
Parliaments and lots of politicians as well as media are against terror and terrorism, but support immigration of muslims.
They do not seem to care that one thing follows from the other. Terrorism results in immigration of muslims and immigration of muslims increases terror.
rbla says
In a paper a few years ago on the cost of immigration and diversity I assembled the following estimates of the cost to the US just of the 911 attacks; costs attributable to mass Muslim immigration and the lack of vetting of Muslims coming into the country.
The immediate cost of the attack on the World Trade Center was estimated in 2002 by the New York City comptroller’s office to be $55 Billion. This amount consists of $8 billion for the destruction of the World Trade Center buildings; $5 billion for the destruction of nearby buildings; $6 billion for computers, furniture and cars; $6 billion for PATH, subway, phone and electrical facilities. The imputed cost of the loss of life based on government actuarial guidelines was $24 billion with an additional $5 billion for injuries. The final bill for site cleanup was estimated at $1 billion.
An estimate of the economic impact of the attacks made by researchers at the University of Southern California amounted to $123 billion. This amount consists of $22 billion for the length of recovery and relocation time of businesses damaged in the attacks; $39 billion for the decline in air travel through 2003 all other factors equal; $61 billion for other travel reduction and $1 billion for event cancellation.
Greater still was the increase in the amount devoted to homeland security and domestic intelligence concerns. Researchers at Ohio State University have estimated the increase in such spending at $589 billion. This amount consists of $360 billion for the Department of Homeland Security and other federal security spending; $100 billion for the extra waiting time in airports at approximately $10 billion a year; $19 billion for car accident deaths due to the fear and the inconvenience of flying and $110 billion for domestic national intelligence.
Military expenditures on the wars consequent to the attack amount to twice as much as all of the domestic costs. The total cost to date is some $2.4 trillion. In addition there are projected future war and veterans’ care costs of some $867 billion. Early withdrawal will cut back on these costs; however some $589 billion are projected for future medical, disability and retirement benefits. Another estimate that is reasonably close is the Financial Times $2 trillion price tag for the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks. A higher cost estimate from the National Priorities Project is $8 trillion. In any event, the ideology that has arisen over the last half century enabled the enemies of the U.S. to leverage a minuscule expenditure into an enormously costly impact on the economy.
citycat says
One needs to nurture the ‘rebel’ in one’s soul and in one’s mind and in one’s body, before one is crushed beneath the weight of lies, before it’s too late to fight.