The readiness of the British government to treat with individuals (Sinn Fein) it had recently dismissed as murderers was noteworthy, with the lengthy talks themselves generating all manner of human sympathies among the negotiating parties. Just in case they failed, Lloyd George threatened to wage all-out war with the entire resources of the British Empire within three days....Ironically, the provisional government resorted to measures indistinguishable from the British to win what had become a civil war - although unlike the British it had the support of the Catholic Church, which eagerly excommunicated the IRA.
It was Alexander's tragedy that, having failed to institute thoroughgoing liberal reforms, he proved incapable of re-establishing his father's austere police regime too....The intelligentsia were a sub-set of the educated classes, encompassing those who talked about books they hadn't read....They were kept afloat like some speculative fraud, on a bubble of liberal good taste, for among an older generation corrupted by liberalism it was not done to challenge youth or its progressive causes until the example of renegade Dostoyevsky gave birth to a right-wing intelligentsia late in the day....Middle-aged and elderly dupes saw in Nechaev the wayward idealism of youth rather than a psychopathic conman.....Many people with liberal views irresponsibly sympathised with the terrorists up to the point of aiding and abetting them....
The British Labour Party and the German Social Democrats acting as ignorant cheerleaders....Indeed, fear of foreign liberal opinion inhibited a tsarist regime sensitive to the charge of being Asiatic from adopting effective measures to repress terrorism.
This was the first in a spate of assassinations that made the years 1894-1901 more lethal for rulers than at any other time in history.....The multfarious acts of anarchist violence achieved nothing beyond the individual tragedies of the people killed and maimed. [US] immigrants who "converted" to anarchism in their first three years in the country could be deported, an interesting example of conditional citizenship....the British persisted in maintaining liberal asylum law that anarchists were manifestly abusing.
Mrs Thatcher on the Fenian hunger strikers: "There is no such thing as political murder, political bombing or political violence. There is only criminal murder, criminal bombing and criminal violence. We shall not compromise on this. There will be no political status." The fact that special category status had been conceded in 1972 rather militated against that degree of certainty, as did the wording of The Prevention of Terrorism Act itself, under which these men had been imprisoned, since it spoke of "the use of violence for political ends".
Books on German left-wing terrorism never include chapters on the working class, a revealing omission that distinguishes Germany from Italy. There was no significant radicalism in working-class Germany unless you count young neo-Nazis., chiefly because workers were generally represented, as of right, on the managing boards of most companies.... But, as in Italy, the West German higher education system had been massified...."The Vietnam War is not what interests me, but difficulties with my orgasm do," as one Communard put it.
The group's preference was for powerful BMWs, so much so hat colloquially they were known as Baader Meinhof Wagen.
Insofar as the RAF prisoners had a strategy, it was to dramatise their predicament, making it seem as if the German state had finally let slip its mask to receal a Fascist inner heart...The detainees claimed they were being held in conditions resembling Auschwitz...The remand prisoners were permitted radios and record players...They received any reading matter they wished, which enable Baader to study theories he had spouted as slogans for years. In this fashion they built up extensive libraries (Baader some 974 books, Raspe a further 550)....Left-liberal defence lawyers, whose cynical occuupation of the high ground spared them from close press scrutiny, played a major role in facilitating communication between their imprisoned clients and the next generation of RAF terrorists.
There is something narcissistic about this assumption that the West is obsessed with Islam and seeks to destroy it. It is not. It is obsessed with itself, followed by China, India, and Russia, which jostle for Westerners' short attention span. It is drawn, wearily, into so many Middle Eastern crises because this region, with a manufacturing capacity only equal to that of...Nokia...is the primary source of instability in the modern world and sits on top of two thirds of the world's known oil reserves. If huge oil deposits were discovered beneath Canada, the West would disengage from the Middle East tomorrow, leaving it to implode amid its multiple conflicts.
Multiculturism means that each diverse group adopted a story of victimhood so as to put itself beyond close scrutiny, enveloping itself in the myth of moral purity that comes with being the historically oppressed. These diverse communities spoke to the government through their so-called community leaders, a liberal version of an imperial power dealking through nabobs and tribes with the natives....
Multiculturalism is likewise negligent of the shared moral values that make civilised living possible.
By sharing a common password, it was possible to access messages left in the Draft box, which technically, therefore, were read but never sent, thereby preventing the NSA from intercepting them.
Within weeks of 9/11 Bush became the first US President to ackowledge the desirability of the two state solution in Israel-Palestine, in an attempt to cauterise the issue that so antagonises the Muslim world. He then spent six years doing nothing about it.
It was Alexander's tragedy that, having failed to institute thoroughgoing liberal reforms, he proved incapable of re-establishing his father's austere police regime too....The intelligentsia were a sub-set of the educated classes, encompassing those who talked about books they hadn't read....They were kept afloat like some speculative fraud, on a bubble of liberal good taste, for among an older generation corrupted by liberalism it was not done to challenge youth or its progressive causes until the example of renegade Dostoyevsky gave birth to a right-wing intelligentsia late in the day....Middle-aged and elderly dupes saw in Nechaev the wayward idealism of youth rather than a psychopathic conman.....Many people with liberal views irresponsibly sympathised with the terrorists up to the point of aiding and abetting them....
The British Labour Party and the German Social Democrats acting as ignorant cheerleaders....Indeed, fear of foreign liberal opinion inhibited a tsarist regime sensitive to the charge of being Asiatic from adopting effective measures to repress terrorism.
This was the first in a spate of assassinations that made the years 1894-1901 more lethal for rulers than at any other time in history.....The multfarious acts of anarchist violence achieved nothing beyond the individual tragedies of the people killed and maimed. [US] immigrants who "converted" to anarchism in their first three years in the country could be deported, an interesting example of conditional citizenship....the British persisted in maintaining liberal asylum law that anarchists were manifestly abusing.
Mrs Thatcher on the Fenian hunger strikers: "There is no such thing as political murder, political bombing or political violence. There is only criminal murder, criminal bombing and criminal violence. We shall not compromise on this. There will be no political status." The fact that special category status had been conceded in 1972 rather militated against that degree of certainty, as did the wording of The Prevention of Terrorism Act itself, under which these men had been imprisoned, since it spoke of "the use of violence for political ends".
Books on German left-wing terrorism never include chapters on the working class, a revealing omission that distinguishes Germany from Italy. There was no significant radicalism in working-class Germany unless you count young neo-Nazis., chiefly because workers were generally represented, as of right, on the managing boards of most companies.... But, as in Italy, the West German higher education system had been massified...."The Vietnam War is not what interests me, but difficulties with my orgasm do," as one Communard put it.
The group's preference was for powerful BMWs, so much so hat colloquially they were known as Baader Meinhof Wagen.
Insofar as the RAF prisoners had a strategy, it was to dramatise their predicament, making it seem as if the German state had finally let slip its mask to receal a Fascist inner heart...The detainees claimed they were being held in conditions resembling Auschwitz...The remand prisoners were permitted radios and record players...They received any reading matter they wished, which enable Baader to study theories he had spouted as slogans for years. In this fashion they built up extensive libraries (Baader some 974 books, Raspe a further 550)....Left-liberal defence lawyers, whose cynical occuupation of the high ground spared them from close press scrutiny, played a major role in facilitating communication between their imprisoned clients and the next generation of RAF terrorists.
There is something narcissistic about this assumption that the West is obsessed with Islam and seeks to destroy it. It is not. It is obsessed with itself, followed by China, India, and Russia, which jostle for Westerners' short attention span. It is drawn, wearily, into so many Middle Eastern crises because this region, with a manufacturing capacity only equal to that of...Nokia...is the primary source of instability in the modern world and sits on top of two thirds of the world's known oil reserves. If huge oil deposits were discovered beneath Canada, the West would disengage from the Middle East tomorrow, leaving it to implode amid its multiple conflicts.
Multiculturism means that each diverse group adopted a story of victimhood so as to put itself beyond close scrutiny, enveloping itself in the myth of moral purity that comes with being the historically oppressed. These diverse communities spoke to the government through their so-called community leaders, a liberal version of an imperial power dealking through nabobs and tribes with the natives....
Multiculturalism is likewise negligent of the shared moral values that make civilised living possible.
By sharing a common password, it was possible to access messages left in the Draft box, which technically, therefore, were read but never sent, thereby preventing the NSA from intercepting them.
Within weeks of 9/11 Bush became the first US President to ackowledge the desirability of the two state solution in Israel-Palestine, in an attempt to cauterise the issue that so antagonises the Muslim world. He then spent six years doing nothing about it.
