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Living faith

Taki

Wednesday, 23rd April 2008

Taki lives the High Life

During the Pope’s visit, a friend of mine who writes for my website from a European country was threatened with death by Muslims. He had previously been threatened by the authorities, European authorities, with arrest for writing nothing more inflammatory than what I’m writing now. Hence he is writing under a pseudonym as he fears for his wife’s and children’s safety. And this is taking place in Europe 2008. In an impromptu talk, the Pope spoke of St Peter failing, failing and yet becoming the rock the Church had been built upon. In other words, try and try again, with joy and enthusiasm. I agree, but, as my ancient Greek ancestors said, Sin Athina ke Hirakin, we believe in Goddess Athina but we also need to help ourselves.

We must do something about the Fifth Columnists among us, which are the Islamists. We must do something about Israel holding us hostage to its brutal occupation of Palestinian lands, which we, the West, as guarantors of Israel, are held responsible for. Europe has to wake up and vote out of office any appeasers towards violent Islam and violent Likud. Anyone who threatens our freedom of speech has to be deported immediately, and to hell with his human rights; we are not the ones responsible. Or jailed for the duration.

There are many among us who have given up on Europe, and write in order to remind America what can happen to it when professional politicians play it safe and look to cover up rather than to correct. Hillary Clinton has just pledged that if Iran attacks — listen to this — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE, she, as president, would nuke Iran. She is mortgaging America’s future — the Clintons have collected more than 18 million big ones from the Saudis alone — in order to protect the very countries which are holding us to ransom with their oil prices. Forget about human-rights violations by those countries, forget about Israel’s human-rights violations against millions of Palestinians; just get the votes. Be ready to press the button to save some of the world’s most repressive regimes because the Arabs have the moolah and the Israelis have the votes. And people still go weak at the knees when this monster drives by surrounded by her goons. Go figure.

And it gets worse. Some clown by the name of Jones writes against ‘the slippery sleazeball and the far Right’ in a tabloid in England. He means Berlusconi and the Lega Norte, a party which is anti-immigration. When clowns are given the right of their opinions in major newspapers, it’s time to emigrate. Italy is sinking under the weight of illegal immigration. It has open borders everywhere and they’re pouring in. Berlusconi will try to do something which should have been done long ago. He’s called a sleazeball as a result. The Lega Norte, like the Flemish Vlaams party in Belgium, does not wish to end up like the Dutch, held hostage to fanatic Islamists. What is so sleazy about that?

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robert

April 24th, 2008 7:16pm

"Jones" is a one-trick pony who owes his livelihood to Berlosconi. He's wheeled out every time some downmarket rag needs an op.ed. piece on Italian politics, Berlusconi in particular, and as such he displays all the most repulsive characteristics of the English "professional Italophile". His version of Italy is no more illuminating than the next Tuscany-lover. He has more in common with the Chiantishire mob than he'd care to admit...

David Lindsay

April 27th, 2008 1:21am

Where nuclear matters are concerned, our response should be our own civil nuclear power programme, not providing them with a shield of nuclear weapons against a country which not only has none of its own, but has no cause or desire to attack Saudi Arabia, Kuwait or the United Arab Emirates. Clinton is despicably putting into people’s heads the idea that Iran might wish to do such a thing, on absolutely no basis whatever.