At a Party meeting, the Party leader addresses the audience:
“All of you will be hanged tomorrow. Do you have questions?”
Silence.
The Party leader:
“I will repeat the question. Tomorrow you all will be hanged. Does anybody want to say anything?”
A timid voice is heard from the audience:
“Shall we bring our own rope and soap or they will provide it to us?”
This was a Soviet anecdote of the 70s.
The world of Quisling’s followers, barbarian colonizers, and a submissive, or at best frightened, murmuring herd — this is the Western Europe of the 21st century
In 1975, he was 40 years old, and he was well-known already: his performances were popular; he was a member of the editorial board of a famous literary magazine. Any path was open before him, but he chose a different way.
After putting down the Prague Spring, he challenged the authorities, having written an open and furious letter addressed to the President of Czechoslovakia, which was occupied by the Soviet troops. He was arrested, accused of attacking a civil servant and put into prison. Later on he was released, accused of an attempt to overthrow the communist regime, imprisoned for four years and five months, released again and imprisoned again in 1989.
He spent years in prison and turned into an unbreakable leader of his people – a future president of the Czech Republic. His name is Vaclav Havel. Like Thomas Masaryk, the founder of the Czech Republic, he was an embodiment of the best qualities of a statesman: mind, fortitude, strength and decency.
The West presents a gloomy picture of impending darkness and tyranny, the likes of haven’t been known to the civilized world for centuries. This is the world in which an aggressive, patriarchal and primitive religion has taken root in the very heart of the continent; in which bearers of dark prejudices, intolerance and barbarism, who came from the far ends of Asia and Africa, murder, rape, mock and disparage those who trustfully and carelessly opened their doors to them. This is the world in which the elite have turned into Quisling’s followers, the guides of colonization, and the governments of the nations have chosen (more or less eagerly) the role of Vichy.
However, we notice a striking phenomenon: masses of people doomed to inevitable suffering keep silent or, at best, passively and anonymously express their disagreement during elections — although they have almost no chance to win, since the whole state system is aimed at brainwashing, and the people of Western Europe and Canada are deprived of individualism and self-reliance, like the people of America. Undoubtedly, there are those who dared to raise their voice against the invading despotism, but there are few of them, surprisingly very few for a society that is still relatively open. This applies to both intellectuals and ordinary people.
I am not talking about the so called “useful idiots” — sectarians blinded by ideological clichés and ready to use the corpses of their compatriots to pave their path to the Pastures of Hell. I am not talking about those who receive grants and privileges — they have chosen this cynical and dirty role. I am talking about the thousands of ordinary professors, teachers, lawyers, writers, actors, filmmakers, journalists. I am talking about priests and rabbis, human rights activists, feminists, activists of the LGBT community — those who will be the first victims of the forthcoming theocracy. They will not be granted an easy death.
What makes those whose relatives, friends and neighbors are blown up, raped, humiliated and held in terror keep silent? Haven’t they already lost a sense of security and calm in their own homes, streets and cities? We see sentimental scenes with weeping people, toys, candles and wreaths at places of massacre, where mass demonstrations, rallies of protest and pickets are needed instead. We see exalted the opponents of Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders, and the Women’s Marches, but we do not see any opponents of politically correct tyranny. Why do people submit their throats to murderers, being obedient like sheep?
What is this — self-censorship, conformism, the hope that they will avoid the fate of being a victim? They won’t escape this. After the terrorist attack in Manchester, the pop star Katy Perry, the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and a member of the French Senate for Nice, Nathalie Goulet, expressed the opinion of the Western elites by saying that Europeans should get used to terrorist attacks. And they will make them get used to them. Finally, they will get used to the fate of the so-called “dhimmis” – semi-slaves, human cattle, whose lives will be taken by servants of the bloodthirsty cult.
Do they fear turning into racists, fascists, Islamophobes? Do the fear losing jobs, opportunities for career growth, invitations to conferences on human rights and inter-confessional dialogue? Do they fear paying a fine for defamation?
I started this article with Vaclav Havel’s story not at random. For decades, the world has witnessed Eastern European people desperately struggling for their rights and dignity against tyranny. The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the Prague Spring, the Polish Solidarity movement, the Romanian revolution against Ceaușescu’s dictatorship, the courage of the Lithuanians who escaped the “bear embrace” of the Soviet empire in January 1991 at the cost of dozens of lives – crowds of people led by the intellectual class walked out to the streets and were confronted not by courts or comments on Facebook and anonymous threats on Twitter, but by bullets, tanks and the State Security. They had neither lawyers nor rights. They knew that they could be put into prison for years, like Havel, or even die (Havel’s friend philosopher Jan Patočka died during an interrogation). Nevertheless, Eastern Europeans became stronger owing to this experience, ready to defend Democracy and their freedom. They gained immunity against universalistic utopias and put forward courageous and determined leaders.
There was a powerful dissident movement in the very citadel of Soviet tyranny. Many of these people disappeared in prisons, camps and psychiatric hospitals. They shared prison cells with criminals, who were encouraged to bully them and commit sexual violence (carte blanche) against them. Most of the Soviet dissidents were represented by scientists and writers headed by the academic Andrey Sakharov – they were the color of the nation. During the Soviet Coup in August 1991, armored troop carriers in Moscow crushed three people, but the restoration of the Soviet regime was prevented.
In our time, Ukrainians have overthrown their corrupt ruler, and in Moscow, people go out to protests against autocracy. In Israel, after the vicious Oslo agreements and the subsequent murderous mass terrorist attacks, tens of thousands of people repeatedly took to the streets demanding a stop to inhuman political experiments on the living body of the society. People blocked the roads and organized marches to the Prime Minister’s residence. About eight years ago, the mass outbreak forced the Israeli government, despite enraged opposition from left organizations and the media, to build a fence on the border with Egypt to protect the country against hordes of African migrants.
It is symbolic that Pegida, which did not find followers in the rest of Western Europe, appeared on the territory of the former German Democratic Republic.
Democracy is not just voting once in every four years. First of all, this is a civic activity, and requires courage — it is not the act of a weeping child in a kindergarten. A primary task of a democratic state is the protection of its people. If a state and elites do not comply with the social contract, and what is even worse, sacrifice their own people, culturally and physically, in the name of a dubious ideology, utopian conception and personal interests, then the people have their right to demand the revision of that social contract. They have a full right not to allow totalitarian structures (and the Western elite has implanted a sophisticated cultural totalitarianism) to turn them into guinea pigs of social engineering.
In 1984, in the essay called “Politics and Conscience,” Havel wrote: “I advocate an anti-political policy, that is, a policy considered to be not a method of power and manipulation, not a cybernetic system for managing human beings and not a pragmatic person’s skill, but one of the ways to seek and achieve a meaningful life, protect such life and serve it. I advocate a policy considered to be practical ethics, service to the truth, people’s care of their fellow human beings, measurable by human standards.”
The Western elites have created a system of manipulating human beings, having forgotten that they are dealing with real people, their lives and feelings.
Havel called Communist regimes Absurdistan (The Land of the Absurd). Today Absurdistan is the West, and most of all Western Europe, where freedom is destroyed under the guise of its protection, where the right of migrants to murder and rape is above the right of law-abiding citizens to live a normal and safe life, and where democratic institutions are used to implant the worst possible kind of theocracy.
Nowadays, people still have an opportunity to prevent despotism. However, censorship is getting stricter, penalties are increasing, colonization is spreading rapidly like cancer cells, and the window of possibilities is narrowing. A specter is haunting Europe: the specter of the Caliphate.
Alexander Maistrovoy is the author of Agony of Hercules, or a Farewell to Democracy (Notes of a Stranger).
Paul N Silas says
Well, they haven’t had to deal with Crackers from Florida, Red Necks from Georgia, Alabama, or Mississippi, Coon Asses, from Louisiana, coal miners from Kentucky and Pennsylvania, or a whole army of deer hunters from Ohio, Indiana, up state NY, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
Let’s not forget the Cowboys from Texas, Montana, New Mexico, OK and Arizona.
God, Guns, and Grit/Guts, come on Mo, (and you left wing turds), make our day!
Djandel says
You can’t stop them without learning Reconquista..
Paul N Silas says
We haven’t been fully conquered yet. The American Spirit is alive!
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Studying the Reconquista is very educational. (Make sure to get the full story and not just the Moorish propaganda.) The Visigoths lost Spain because of infighting. The Spaniards took back Spain because leaders like Isabella I of Castile understood that united they could overcome the enemy.
Lesson learned: united we stand; divided we fall.
LB says
That’s why the author only mentions “Western Europe and Canada”. USA is still considered the most free country in the world, regardless of all the newly-sprung communists, straight outta leftist brainwashing institutions (AKA universities). All I can say is thank god I live in Eastern Europe! Zero mudslime rapefugees here.
Joy D. Brower says
The grit, strength, passion and persistence in defending democracy and individual freedoms that the author spoke of when remarking that the tyrannies that dominated the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc countries only made them stronger, is totally applicable now, when the only resistance to the Muslim invasion (conquest by mass immigration) of Europe is how the Eastern European countries, as a whole (and individually) are resisting this national suicide and blocking the borders to these dangerous refugees. It is noteworthy to observe that there have (so far) been no terror attacks in Hungary, e.g. – nor, of course, on the other side of the globe, in Japan, where immigration is strictly enforced to MOST in the “outside” world!
Monty says
The Europeans, especially the Western countries, have created a situation near impossible to reverse. Their dealings with Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations made them beholden long before the Muslim invasion began. Who dares to offend Saudi Arabia? Why should the USA have to pick a side in the Shia/Sunni dispute between Iran and the Saudis? When trade is involved, all issues of conscience, ethics and any kind of morality are jettisoned immediately. Only when the nation involved is of no consequence (South Africa decades ago, North Korea and Iran now) will sanctions be imposed. Communism demonstrated that people can be oppressed, punished, blackmailed, bribed and deceived into accepting something that deep down they know is wrong. How can the people resist the state when the state has so much power? Democracy has demonstrated just how ineffectual it can be when faced with governments that are opposed to the real interests of their people. People are inclined to believe what their leaders say. The few realise that they are being conned, but they get shouted down. So for short term expediency, the West dances with the devil in the hope that it can somehow keep itself alive. It is not working. The enemy is within the gates.
gravenimage says
I think it *can* be reversed, if Western patriots have the knowledge and will.
Lynda says
This is writing at its best; profound, crystal clear and straight to the heart. Thank you, Alexander Maistrovoy.
Rufolino says
What a lot of nonsense ! Why, the Mayor of London himself has said there is nothing to be alarmed about.
gravenimage says
Ha ha
Matthieu Baudin says
“…Why do people submit their throats to murderers, being obedient like sheep?
What is this — self-censorship, conformism, the hope that they will avoid the fate of being a victim? …”
Alexander – for a very many people much of the time this behaviour is just a consequence of ‘fashionable thinking’. Hopefully when the tide changes many of these people will fall into line behind attitudes that are more conducive to self defence rather than self sacrifice.
Your comments on Central European Societies are excellent; perhaps they are receiving a dividend in self awareness from the many years of struggle for identity and freedom.
Georg says
“Your comments on Central European Societies are excellent; perhaps they are receiving a dividend in self awareness from the many years of struggle for identity and freedom.”
Absolutely. Where the Western/Northern Europeans have become bored and silly Eastern Europeans value their quaint freedom and safety. And it looks like we’re approaching showdown.
gravenimage says
Fine article from Alexander Maistrovoy.
Donovan Nuera says
I wish somebody would have read this as a Graduation Speech at all of our colleges this week.
Deb B. says
Brilliant idea, Donovan.
Martel says
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10525/europe-population-replacement
Elizabeth Gray says
Wow! I usually only read the posts by Robert Spencer, but this was ENLIGHTENING! Keep up the good work!
sliverp says
that’s where you’re wrong kiddo
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Pardon my obtuseness, Alexander Maistrovoy, but I don’t “get” your joke, and I disbelieve your narration of history.
[1] A person who will be hanged tomorrow says, “Shall we bring our own rope and soap or they will provide it to us?” Soap? Why? How is soap needed for a hanging?
[2] “After putting down the Prague Spring, he [Vaclav Havel] …”. You say that Vaclav Havel put down [= suppressed] the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring ? Or am I misunderstanding you?
Please explain.
Frank Anderson says
Mark, I have no answer for the second question. But I suggest the soap is used to lubricate the noose so it will break your neck easier.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Thanks for this soap-for-a-hanging information, which is completely new to me. I have seen hanging scenes in old Western movies, in which none of the cowboys who “string up” the rustler ever remember to bring any soap. But an Internet search finds
http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/aug/12spec.htm
in which it is said, “[The executioner] has waxed the noose made from special ropes [plural?], applied soap and ripe banana to make it slide smoothly on the convict’s neck.”
So in India they use both soap and mooshed bananas as a noose lubricant. Well, live and learn.
This soaping procedure seems silly, like remembering, in an execution by lethal injection, to swab the skin with an alcohol swab to prevent infection.
Frank Anderson says
Mark, the difference to the dead person is that there is either a quick break of the neck or slow strangulation. See what Hitler prescribed for hundreds of people who were executed by hanging with piano wire following his assassination attempt in July, 1944. He loved to watch films of the choking victims.
gravenimage says
Mark, the main point about the hanging is that some people are such dhimmis that they will even aid in their own deaths. That is certainly true now re Islam.
Benedict says
“This is the world in which an aggressive, patriarchal and primitive religion has taken root in the very heart of the continent;” –
This continent has brought upon itself this primitive religion with its replacement theology and now the caterpillar carries in its flesh the eggs of a parasitoid wasp.
Because this continent has abandoned the religion of the true patriarchs: Abraham Isaac and Jacob – and done so through feminism and leftist ideology – it has to put up with a warped, twisted caricature of the authentic thing.
It is nothing but the ironic judgment of a righteous God upon a once privileged continent.
dumbledoresarmy says
Now you’re just being silly.
Jihad isn’t just happening in Western Europe. It is also taking a terrible toll in many previously-historically-non-Islamic countries in Africa, in many of which, in recent years, much of the population have become devoutly *Christian*. So how do you explain *that*? Are *they* being punished, too, for not keeping their wicked wimmens sufficiently under control? And how do you explain all the millions of pre-modern Christian victims of Jihad mass murder, who perished between the 7th century and the 19th, who are very, very numerous – most notably the Armenian Christians, but then also the millions of Byzantine Christians, Greek Christians, Bulgarian Christians, massacred down through the centuries as Islam attacked, invaded, and occupied. What did *they* do wrong??
PS Islam isn’t even a ‘warped caricature’ of the Biblical faiths. It is at its core nothing but – as William Palgrave inimitably discerned – “a pantheism of Force”.
Franz Rosenzweig, Jewish philosopher and theologian, saw that long ago, too; he placed Judaism and Christianity together, on the one hand, and then classified Islam as… a species of paganism.
Read Mark Durie, “Which God?” He also argues that the ‘allah’ of Islam is wholly antithetical to the Biblical God. The ‘god’ of Islam is… an alien ‘god’. Utterly alien, and also, hostile.
Benedict says
dda: in my opinion Allah is the devil in disguise. –
Maybe you could profit from listening to this sermon? :
http://ia600300.us.archive.org/20/items/SERMONINDEX_SID3144/SID3144.mp3
gravenimage says
Fine post, DDA.
John Butler says
The problem is that people are so gravely ill-informed about Islam. They rush to embrace ‘Diversity and Multiculturalism’ – ( Can anyone tell me what actual benefits these confer ) – believing that Islam is like any other religion and that anybody who questions it is a far right, fascist bigot. Such positions are actively fostered by our leaders.
It’s time to inform what’s in the Qur’an and Hadith and time to unite and fight.
Jon says
‘Follow me on Facebook’ !!!
A splendid piece of writing accurately summing up the current situation, but doesn’t the writer realise that Facebook is culling those of us who post contributory material outlining the dangers he poses. Facebook doesn’t actually or openly appear to censor our material, just cancels our accounts for ‘material which doesn’t conform to our standards’ or weasel words to that effect.
It’s not just the professional people which Maistrovoy mentions who are sticking their heads in the sand, it’s the people who own and censor Facebook. The virus is spreading!
Jayell says
JW readers might lkike to see this emai, that I received:-
How the British have passively succumbed to Muslim invasion:
Mayor of London … MUSLIM
Mayor of Birmingham … MUSLIM
Mayor of Leeds … MUSLIM
Mayor of Blackburn … MUSLIM
Mayor of Sheffield … MUSLIM
Mayor of Oxford … MUSLIM
Mayor of Luton … MUSLIM
Mayor of Oldham … MUSLIM
Mayor of Rochdale … MUSLIM
Over 3,000 Muslim Mosques
Over 130 Muslim Sharia Courts
Over 50 Muslim Sharia Councils
Muslims-Only No-Go Areas Across The UK
Muslim Women … 78% don’t work and are on FREE benefits/housing
Muslim Men … 63% don’t work and are on FREE benefits/housing
Muslim Families … 6-8 children planning to go on FREE benefits/housing
It actually gets worse when you consider
(a) the number of senior police officers who are muslim, and the transparent level of muslim influence in police affairs where this has been seen to corrupt police action in favour of muslims and against non-muslim British people;
(b) the number of senior CPS officials who are muslim, and their corrupting influence on the administration of the law;
(c) the number deputy mayors across the UK who are muslim (e.g., Worcester, which is NOT a recognised ‘muslim’ city);
(d) the fact the present Head of Religious Broadcasting at the BBC AND the previous one have both been muslims;
(e) the perceptible of level muslim infiltration and influence in the UK media (e.g., with reference to the press treatment of the tragic fire at a west London tower block where muslims who had been awake at the time due to Ramadan actually helped out for a change, and this has been used for pro-muslim propaganda).
This is a very, very, bad situation in the UK. Time something was done about it.
TL says
No one should deny that Islam is “an aggressive, patriarchal and primitive religion”, but we need to know also what flip-flopping ISLAM says about the matter. So we are fortunate that the facts are in plain sight and available for all to see:
(P1) “There is no compulsion in religion.” (Koran 2:256) This is Islam’s own definitional claim about the word religion itself.
(P2) Hence, if there is compulsion in the Koran, then Islam is not a religion.
(P3) There is compulsion in the Koran, e.g. jizyah (9:29)
(C) Therefore, according to Islam, Islam is NOT a religion.
gravenimage says
TL, if you understand abrogation in the Qur’an none of this is confusing.
Lon Spector says
Monkey see. Monkey do. The “Jewish Police” herded the Jews into the cattle cars that
took them to the Concentration Camps. It’s called social proof. Did you see the film
“Compliance?”
nicu says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTDlY4o23XA&list=FLmb4aCSNG4aqhJjDM3y9shw&index=1
Not the first time the USA has their hands in other countries wars and crisis !
Lydia says
It is better to be informed even if that is all you can do.
There are different levels of warfare and different approaches for each one.
As a Christian I know the times we are in and focus on what matters most.
The rest is a lost battle. I hate to sound like a pessimist, don’t believe me if you don’t want to.
I just know stuff. Even if I chose not to see that, we are too few in number against the powers pulling the strings to change anything. They are steering the titanic towards the iceberg. We can’t change that, but there are things we can do.
When it comes to the situation in Europe, when one thing leaves, another enters. A void or vacuum is created and something else finds a place to rest and take root. That is what has happened. The churches were empty for quite some time because people considered themselves too ‘enlightened’ and ‘modern’ and ‘intellectual’ or ‘academic’ and ‘scientific’ to honor the Lord. They have sown to the wind and are now reaping the whirlwind. Many churches that were empty have been converted into mosques. The same principal existed during the times of the nation of Israel when the Bible was written. If they don’t honor God, their enemies were strengthened and would come against them. It is a spiritual battle that has physical and material manifestations. That is what we are seeing in the world today.
Regarding the phenomena of the population not fighting back against this tide, there are several things at work here:
1. Complacency. I will use the illustration of a family. One generation arrives in the US, they work hard, save money, build their lives and buy a house, put their kids through school or at least the next generation, and after a while they are truly established, rooted, and comfortable. Then something happens to the grandkids. They have it all. They take it for granted. Complacency sets in. They have every luxury and comfort. Their hearts grow fat. They gain a sense of entitlement. They start demanding, “I want this!” “I want that!” and on it goes. They don’t have that same sense of struggle, of fighting for what they have, and value of what they have. They squander it all. They are not willing to continue to pursue excellence. I know of so many who came from poor beginnings, made it and became somewhat wealthy, only to see their kids or grandkids on drugs, spurning education and college, disrespecting how their parents raised them to be responsible, and much money gets dumped into drugs and rehab programs. It was a sad fall to a promising beginning. All the parents lofty hopes and expectations were dashed. The kids had even more at their disposal. But the difference was in their perspective, their attitudes, what they valued, their character and work ethic and outlook alone! That is what has happened to Europe. Their heart has grown fat.
2. Ostrich approach. Many see it and don’t want to know. There are countless ways of blinding oneself. They tell themselves it will all go away. It will all get better again. Someone else will handle it.
3. Even if something is ‘a hill to die on,’ they are too busy with their own selves and lives to consider the bigger picture. They only care about their own mini kingdoms and are not willing to put any effort into holding the fort outside of that.
There are more reasons but this is what I see so much of.
“The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time”,
~British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey
101 years before the trojan horse invasion of Europe in 2015
High Plains says
Strategic Engineered Migration as Weapon of War
by Leonid Savin
” On 15 September, Barack Obama signed an executive order on the use of behavioural science techniques in public administration. The most recent branch of behaviourism, known as «Nudge”, is nothing more than the latest way to manipulate people.
The hand of Cass Sunstein, who previously worked at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration, can clearly be seen here.
Along with a British colleague, he co-authored the book Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness, in which psychological manipulation techniques in the context of everyday life are hidden behind fine words.
(Incidentally, Sunstein’s wife is Samantha Power, United States Ambassador to the UN.) There is no doubt that the ‘nudge’ technique will be used far beyond the borders of the US.
The most effective weapon, however, both metaphorically and literally, may be those migrants capable of setting up a small guerrilla group to carry out subversive terrorist acts on the new territory. It is rather interesting that the US is not just playing host to the ones who seem the most ‘promising’ for this, but is also granting them refugee and resident status as well as the official protection of the US government.
As far as one can judge from a recently leaked internal document, a special report to US Congress for the 2014 financial year on the issue of migration prepared by the US Department of Homeland Security states that in 2014, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services applied 1,519 exemptions to individual applicants granted refugee status, resident status, and the official protection of the US government. And the most interesting thing is that in one way or another, all of these people have links with terrorist groups and extensive experience of subversive activities. “
Lou says
”The Western elites have created a system of manipulating human beings, having forgotten that they are dealing with real people, their lives and feelings.”
The very successful manipulation techniques of the pervert, well organized, well funded Globalists should be the topic of an International Study Committee.
Why not make use of our sophisticated Western knowledge: psychology, philosophy, social science, etc…..(free from leftist corruption, of course…etc…)
Populations should be regularly informed about the results of their work.
Only the creation of a strong, well organized and well funded International Anti-Globalist Organisation could fight the Globalist spreading cancer. And save our minds and lives from their poisonous influence.
Enough with fighting useless isolated battles ….The West is globally attacked..the West should fight globally.
Tabitha Korol says
A wonderful article. I believe for many of us, it is our nature to be acquiescent, and hope for the best. The new generation is being taught to be submissive; jihad took over our schools and turned the majority of our children into dhimmies, to follow orders. Riot, and they march and burn tires here just as the jihadists do in their native countries. The pattern is being followed to a tee. In the Muslim countries, they are primarily illiterate; here they can read, but the reading material is limited and they’re taught not to think, but to feel. They even vote to be unarmed in the event of a takeover! The UK is already unarmed. The only one who can get us out of this is a clear-thinking President Trump, despite all the obstacles thrown in his path. It is interesting that this writer’s surname contains MAISTRO, an expert.