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il ragno [OP]

2003-01-11 23:38 | User Profile

He knows something's wrong, knows who's causing it and will openly name the Effect. But he's got a magazine to sell now - one that a distributor or retailer-boycott would sink in circulation and'significance'...so there's no naming The Cause. Even though he knows that, too, and moreover he knows you *know.

Interesting dilemna......you spend your money to acquire a podium they can't take away from you...and suddenly you're hedging your words in a way you never did when somebody else was paying for the podium.*

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**Thoughts on thuggery

Taki**

It seems almost obscene to be sitting in bucolic Gstaad rubbing it in, but boy, oh boy, was Enoch — God rest his soul — ever right! Now there’s a man who was tough on the causes of crime long before crime had been Blaired. Or Strawed. Or Blunketted. What a bunch of bullshitters. Britain is being mugged by black hoodlums, people are being cut down in the streets à la Mogadishu in the early Nineties, and these clowns are passing a Bill which will put the poor little Greek boy in jail if I dare to defend Slobodan Milosevic (which I do, by the way).

It doesn’t take an extremely high IQ to figure out that the two girls who were shot in Birmingham were killed because a member of their family belonged to a rival gang. Nor does it take a genius to conclude that turf wars between mostly black gangs are fought over the control of drugs, mainly crack cocaine. Finally, only a moron would not surmise that what politically correct newspapers refer to as ‘disaffected young people’ are black thugs, sons of black thugs and grandsons of black thugs, in it for the money.

But let’s lighten up a bit. If you thought comedy was dead, what about Blunkett instructing Woolf to instruct the judges to use community penalties against violent criminals rather than sending the poor dears to do a Taki? This only six weeks ago. What a bunch of yo-yos! Talk about a gang that can’t shoot straight. If they had any shame, they would invite the hoodlums to take over the government, and I’m willing to bet my last euro that things would improve. At least we’d have some law and order. The trouble is if they did that, they’d all have to go on welfare, as none of them are capable of earning a living except in the bullshit business.

Writing in the Mail, Melanie Phillips, a good writer who knows her stuff, refers to the hoodlums as lacking self-esteem because of their shattered emotional backgrounds. I remember tens of millions whose backgrounds were shattered during the war — by rape, murder and pillage — who did not turn to crime but managed to live useful lives. No, the problem is not lack of self-esteem, a trick word used as often as racism. It’s being given something for nothing. It’s the welfare state. The socialist creed. The compassionate society. The bullshit society. West Indians were allowed to immigrate after the war, multiply like flies, and then the great state apparatus took over the care of their multiplications. The Rivers of Blood speech by Enoch was prophetic as well as true, and look what the bullshitters of the time did to the great man.

But back to bucolic Switzerland. One of the reasons it remains so is that when Taki backs his brand-new yellow mini into a tree, Taki is hauled off to explain. Zero tolerance is strictly applied in good old Helvetia, and I’m all for it, even if it doesn’t suit me late at night. And speaking of yellow minis against trees, I never realised how much publicity is generated when someone is questioned by the fuzz. The top diarist in America, Richard Johnson, writing on Page Six mentioned my last week’s column, then Washington picked it up, followed by El-Lay and the rest. By backing into a tree, I got countless mentions of my magazine, the American Conservative, which gives me food for thought.

I know a publicity-addicted woman by the name of Rena Sindi in New York. Last year the Sunday Telegraph mentioned her when her name appeared on the best-dressed list. ‘Who in heaven’s name is Rena Sindi?’ wrote the diarist. It was a good point. Well, I’ll tell you. She’s an Iraqi-born woman in her mid-thirties, recently divorced from a Saudi. She’s not a bad girl at all, actually quite kind, but her problem is she loves publicity about as much as I love the Wehrmacht. She gives parties which are paid for by sponsors; but I thought she should have disqualified herself after 9/11 because of her background. To the contrary. She even published a book on how to throw parties someone else pays for. Rena, take a plane to Switzerland, get a yellow mini, back it into a tree rather hard, and then wait for the fuzz at home. You’ll have all the publicity you have ever wished for.

But I digress. The snow is finally here, the sun is shining, and I’m off on a chopper for some high-mountain skiing. And, kidding aside, I do feel for the good English people back in England. I remember when England used to feel like Switzerland. That’s before the bullshitters took over.

seq

2003-01-12 00:19 | User Profile

“Interesting dilemma......you spend your money to acquire a podium they can't take away from you...and suddenly you're hedging your words in a way you never did when somebody else was paying for the podium.”

Yes. But he managed to slip this insolent thrust into the heart of the holiest of holy PC:

“ ... she loves publicity about as much as I love the Wehrmacht.”

Dan Dare

2003-01-12 01:02 | User Profile

Old Taki is gilding the lily a bit with his remarks about bucolic Switzerland. It may still be so where the millionaires hang out in Gstaad, but the urban areas now suffer the same afflictions as most other Western European cities: rampant crime, vandalism, drugs, gangs and guess what: hordes of darkies and swarthy Balkan types.

I recently went back for the first time in 20 years and took the train from Geneva to Zurich. The railways still operate impeccably including those amazing synchronized clocks on every station platform. But the graffiti! It was almost like a continuous stream for the whole 3 hour journey, in even the smaller towns no vertical space along the line was left untagged. Worse than anything I've seen before. Pretty amazing really how quickly somewhere can go down the nick once the floodgates open.

Centinel

2003-01-12 01:43 | User Profile

**Interesting dilemna......you spend your money to acquire a podium they can't take away from you...and suddenly you're hedging your words in a way you never did when somebody else was paying for the podium. **

Seeing how The Spectator is Conrad Black's podium (along with The Telegraph, The Jerusalem Post, and Canada's National Post until he sold it to Izzy Asper), Taki has never completely been at liberty to open up with both barrels at once there either. On the occasion he has tried, Black has jerked his leash and reminded him who owns the podium. So long as Taki insists on writing for The Spectator and Buchanan insists on having a job at MSNBC or any other American TV network, TAC will remain a neutered, PC publication for the perceived consequences of extreme candor.

Writing in the Mail, Melanie Phillips, a good writer who knows her stuff, refers to the hoodlums as lacking self-esteem because of their shattered emotional backgrounds.

For anyone who doesn't know already, Ms. Phillips is Jewish. Some recent articles by or about her:

Christians who hate the Jews [url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-01-11&id=1580&searchText=]http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?ta...580&searchText=[/url]

Why the Jews are always to blame [url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-01-11&id=1783&searchText=]http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?ta...783&searchText=[/url]

Jewish angst in Albion [url=http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=119116&contrassID=2&subContrassID=15&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y]http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/Sh...sID=0&listSrc=Y[/url]