The Monarchist 1.0
Defending the British Crown Commonwealth and the English-Speaking Peoples
[+] HONOURING OUR PATRON, SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, VICTOR OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
[+] HONOURING OUR QUEEN, ELIZABETH THE SECOND, ON THE 80TH YEAR OF HER BIRTH (1926 - 2006)
[+] HONOURING OUR KING, SAINT EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, ON THE 1000TH YEAR OF HIS BIRTH (1005 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR HERO, LORD NELSON, ON THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR (1805 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR SONS, THE QUEEN'S COMMONWEALTH SOLDIERS KILLED IN THE 'WAR ON TERROR'
Chief Warrant Officer Robert Girouard, 46, Royal Canadian Regiment, Nov 27, 2006 (Afstan)
Staff Sergeant Sharron Elliott, 34, Intelligence Corps, Nov 12, 2006 (Iraq)
Private Jacob B. Kovco, 25, Royal Australian Regiment, April 21, 2006
[+] HONOURING OUR VETS ON THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORIA CROSS (1856 - 2006)
Sunday, July 17, 2005
Don't panic - it's only a terrorist.
As grave and atrocious as the London bombings were, and they were, it is not the end of the British life by a long shot. Having been subjected to the single greatest loss of life since WWII has hardly even rattled us, the citizens, and we continued with our normal lives within hours of the attacks. That is the quiet strength that we hold dear. As for being "surrender monkeys" just because we don't emulate France's egotism, well that's just nonsense.
We are not the French, we do not burn truckloads of sheep just because we're a bit miffed with the state. Nor are we the US, blasting the living daylights out of the world's poorest country for the sake of revenge and call it justice. We are the British. The world's quietest, most tolerant and most determined peoples.
In our post-imperial world we have had to seek a new role which, ironically, has become the very role we set out to carve for ourselves with the building of an Empire - the world leader, the true home of modern democracy and the strongest, most adaptable culture on earth. This strength has come from the assimilation of other cultures into our own and, while this has caused certain intra-cultural tensions, has overall been a success. Though I'm not a great fan of multiculturalism, which I continue to see as divisive, the one thing it has brought us is closer together as a people with a common set of moral values: peace, tolerance and a commitment to law and order.
We are not surrendering in the face of a terrorist attack, we've had far too many already to do that, nor are we pandering to extremists within our culture - the closest any Briton has come to endorsing the attack is stating that they can understand how someone would think that an attack of the nature of the one on London could be justified - not that they themselves see it as such.
Should you really need someone to blame then take a close look at those two foundations of a free country that we hold unnervingly dear: our government and our media. The former chants the old mantra that "we do not negotiate with terrorists" when the world can see that is exactly what we have done with our old enemy, the Provo. The latter rubs their hands with glee at the opportunity to force images of a torn apart bus, casualties and those suffering from shock on the verge of tears, all the while thinking about the ratings and how to beat the rival channel in getting even more gruesome, even more "human" footage onto our screens. The people themselves, the quiet, angry, determined people think not of how to milk this horror for their own political and commercial purposes but rather consider how this one attack got through the net and how they can best show the bombers of the future that their actions are futile.
We are the British, we've been bombed before and we will be bombed again. Still, however, we live our lives and defend our liberties from those who would rather we were fearful and enslaved - bombers and MPs alike. As the media refuses to let their very own "Islamic fundamentalist suicide bombers" slip quietly into oblivion but instead makes them some of the most famous people of this year and the next few (let's not forget all the anniversaries the media will gorge themselves on) maybe we should put it in the past here and get on with what we're supposed to be all about - making a future together based around those self-same common British values that unite us.
BTW, if you're wondering about the name, I'm Scots-Irish, hence the Mac Paddy. The preceding Mc is just to give the comic tone to someone who, having been through more bomb scares, armed robberies and other terrorist nonsense, adamantly refuses to take anything in this world seriously. ;-)
POSTED BY: Anonymous AT 5:31 a.m. | LINKS |
As grave and atrocious as the London bombings were, and they were, it is not the end of the British life by a long shot. Having been subjected to the single greatest loss of life since WWII has hardly even rattled us, the citizens, and we continued with our normal lives within hours of the attacks. That is the quiet strength that we hold dear. As for being "surrender monkeys" just because we don't emulate France's egotism, well that's just nonsense.
We are not the French, we do not burn truckloads of sheep just because we're a bit miffed with the state. Nor are we the US, blasting the living daylights out of the world's poorest country for the sake of revenge and call it justice. We are the British. The world's quietest, most tolerant and most determined peoples.
In our post-imperial world we have had to seek a new role which, ironically, has become the very role we set out to carve for ourselves with the building of an Empire - the world leader, the true home of modern democracy and the strongest, most adaptable culture on earth. This strength has come from the assimilation of other cultures into our own and, while this has caused certain intra-cultural tensions, has overall been a success. Though I'm not a great fan of multiculturalism, which I continue to see as divisive, the one thing it has brought us is closer together as a people with a common set of moral values: peace, tolerance and a commitment to law and order.
We are not surrendering in the face of a terrorist attack, we've had far too many already to do that, nor are we pandering to extremists within our culture - the closest any Briton has come to endorsing the attack is stating that they can understand how someone would think that an attack of the nature of the one on London could be justified - not that they themselves see it as such.
Should you really need someone to blame then take a close look at those two foundations of a free country that we hold unnervingly dear: our government and our media. The former chants the old mantra that "we do not negotiate with terrorists" when the world can see that is exactly what we have done with our old enemy, the Provo. The latter rubs their hands with glee at the opportunity to force images of a torn apart bus, casualties and those suffering from shock on the verge of tears, all the while thinking about the ratings and how to beat the rival channel in getting even more gruesome, even more "human" footage onto our screens. The people themselves, the quiet, angry, determined people think not of how to milk this horror for their own political and commercial purposes but rather consider how this one attack got through the net and how they can best show the bombers of the future that their actions are futile.
We are the British, we've been bombed before and we will be bombed again. Still, however, we live our lives and defend our liberties from those who would rather we were fearful and enslaved - bombers and MPs alike. As the media refuses to let their very own "Islamic fundamentalist suicide bombers" slip quietly into oblivion but instead makes them some of the most famous people of this year and the next few (let's not forget all the anniversaries the media will gorge themselves on) maybe we should put it in the past here and get on with what we're supposed to be all about - making a future together based around those self-same common British values that unite us.
BTW, if you're wondering about the name, I'm Scots-Irish, hence the Mac Paddy. The preceding Mc is just to give the comic tone to someone who, having been through more bomb scares, armed robberies and other terrorist nonsense, adamantly refuses to take anything in this world seriously. ;-)
POSTED BY: Anonymous AT 5:31 a.m. | LINKS |
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