The sheep-like mentality in Britain

Submitted by PS (United Kingdom), Aug 29, 2006 at 19:29

I read the article "What if the Heathrow Bombers Succeeded?"on http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-ferguson28aug28,1,2197564.column and far from blaming the Muslim community, at least 55 million of Britain's 60 million population would have blamed it on Blair and our relationship with the US, and they'd be harping on about how our relationships with the US and Israel, and how our affrontery to actually help our allies to take out the terrorists made us more of a target.

The typical Brit can't see beyond the headlines of the BBC, the Guardian, Independent, Daily Mirror and the rest of the vindictive British press and media which has spent the last five years waging a vicious vendetta against Blair and Bush, and for the last 50 years, Israel. The media here in Britain never inform their readers and listeners that we face a global Jihad with no opt-out clause other than pitiful surrender to the forces of evil. To do so would make Blair and Bush more popular, and that explains why they would rather see our civilization extinguished like the Roman Empire than inform us of what we are up against.

As a result, few people here seem to know that Filipinos are being massacred by Jihadis. They've forgotten about Mumbai, and never seem to have heard about the Jihad being waged in Thailand. They're mentally lazy and have no imagination or grasp of reality whatsoever. They can't be bothered to bone up on Islam and the history of Jihad or read any of the hundreds of blogs, which deal with this subject, and get the answer as to why atrocities like 911, Bali, Beslan, Luxor, Mumbai and many more have taken place in the name of Islam every day for 1,400 years and counting.

They're more interested in who gets evicted from the Big Brother house. The whole place reeks of defeatism, which can only lead to total and unmitigated defeat. There's none of the spirit that got us through two World Wars. The reason they want Blair to quit is because their fatuous line of thinking is "If we get or elect another Prime Minister, he will pull our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan and sever our special relationship with the US, and hey presto, our problems will be solved and we will no longer be a target for Islamists". Based on this fairy tale, they want to hang both our countries out to dry and run up the white flag of surrender to the Jihadis, with all the horrors it will entail for us, and our descendants. A Winston Churchill would be totally out of place in the Britain of today, and had the generation of today been around in 1940 instead of that generation, brought through the school of hard knocks, they would have blamed our own Government for the Blitz rather than Hitler, and trotted out the refrain "Our cities are getting bombed because we declared war on Germany" - that is, if we weren't utterly defeated and conquered by the Nazi war machine before the Blitz even began.

Even a Chamberlain would have too much of a backbone for the weak-willed masses which populate Britain today. In short, we are in a very invidious position.

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