tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28615995.post1799231793335156993..comments2023-09-30T04:41:24.558-07:00Comments on Ephemeral Isle: What to do?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28615995.post-60208849817637074572011-08-19T06:40:56.634-07:002011-08-19T06:40:56.634-07:00Just finished reading _Generation Gaps_. Quite the...Just finished reading _Generation Gaps_. Quite the horrific story, and while somewhat exaggerated, not entirely off the mark unfortunately.<br /><br />While I'm not a supporter of forced eugenics, I'm quite sympathetic to the idea that any able-bodied person of breeding age who is dependent of taxpayer handouts should not be allowed to reproduce. Give them a choic: the dole and sterilization, or retained fertility and no money from the state.jabrwokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14537636497352864636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28615995.post-79298615512985342372011-08-17T00:38:36.710-07:002011-08-17T00:38:36.710-07:00Are we reading the same statistics here? These ar...Are we reading the same statistics here? These are the ones I used and they distinctly show a drop in indictable offences. <br /><br />As to forced abortions, sterilisations and licensing reproduction; no. I will assume that this was meant rhetorically and not as a serious proposition. Eugenics is nothing to joke about.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04574453357460196584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28615995.post-24988184259278120442011-08-16T23:18:54.719-07:002011-08-16T23:18:54.719-07:00Oh, the link doesn't work. Here again: http://...Oh, the link doesn't work. Here again: http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-111.pdfIronmistresshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06980947020126620086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28615995.post-88375602265411111162011-08-16T23:17:48.535-07:002011-08-16T23:17:48.535-07:00Here. Crime rates peaked immediately after the war...<a href="www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-111.pdf" rel="nofollow">Here.</a> Crime rates peaked immediately after the war. They began to sink down around 1950 once the war veterans either managed to find meaningful life (i.e. got jobs, married and had children) or drank themselves to death. That is an universal phenomenon and happens everywhere after each war.<br /><br />They again began to rise in the 1960s because of two reasons. First, crime is the pastime of young men, and the baby boomers became adult at that time. The second was reckless immigration, which caused a surplus population of idle young men - which usually came from very warlike, lawless or tribal populations. They then rose until 1992 when they again began to sink.<br /><br />A plethora of unemployed, single and desperate men with no prospects of work, studies or family is a sure-fire recipe of a disaster. Welfare will dampen the effect to some extent, but with no welfare - and no jobs available and no hope of better future - the situation is like a powder keg looking for a spark. Just look at the Arab countries earlier this year.<br /><br />What is the solution? The first and foremost solution is to prevent such dangerous critical mass of idle young males from emerging at the first place. Since jobs are becoming more and more scarce, the Western world has been pretty much deindustrializing since the 1980s, all the production jobs are being outsourced to cheap labour cost countries and living labour is needed all the time less, the focus should be aimed on preventative means. Forced abortions of male fetuses, sterilizations, sterilizations, immigration quotas for females only and making childbirth as licence issues are some of the means.Ironmistresshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06980947020126620086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28615995.post-22755137387219326342011-08-16T09:59:34.972-07:002011-08-16T09:59:34.972-07:00And, yes, gun control.And, yes, gun control.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04574453357460196584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28615995.post-86570654189531275022011-08-16T09:54:48.253-07:002011-08-16T09:54:48.253-07:00Ironmistress: I don't know where you're g...Ironmistress: I don't know where you're getting your statistics from, but the official records show a marked <i>decline</i> in violent crime in Britain until 1961. In fact, the crime rate tallies very nicely with the rise of the welfare state, social engineering, mass immigration, etc.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04574453357460196584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28615995.post-74570784964562013282011-08-16T00:35:20.649-07:002011-08-16T00:35:20.649-07:00Guns will definitely help. I live in a very well a...<i>Guns will definitely help. I live in a very well armed community and it is very safe and very polite.</i><br /><br />Britain was full of guns - both legal and illegal - just after the WWII. Was it any safer place than today? If the statistics are to believed, no.<br /><br />The crime in any Western countries has never been higher than after the war when men returning from war who had learnt to kill, maim and hurt in the war and who had too much spare time, too much alcohol and too little meaningful things to do, turned on crime.<br /><br />Plus then those yobbos, punks and dregs of the youth who had access on firearms at will, and which were used not only on assaults and other crimes, but gang fighting as well. My image is that post-WWII Britain resembled pretty much prohibition-era Chicago. The only reason why Germany didn't fall into complete anarchy was that it a) was under martial law and b) the Allied were clever enough to both disarm Germans and give then meaningful jobs.<br /><br />In the end Derek Bentley got hanged from a crime he did not commit but which a legal loophole made possible to hang him for.<br /><br /><i>In Britain, the covenant between rulers and ruled is now broken and the people have the right to defend themselves. Armaments up to and including assault weapons combined with carry/conceal permits will prevent anything like this happening again.</i><br /><br />Given to the lessons of Britain immediately after WWII, I would not be so sure about that.<br /><br />The situation was exactly the same in all European countries, not only Britain. Finland likewise experienced the highest resurgence of violent crime - felonies, murders, robberies, rape - immediately after WWII. And God only knows how many pistols and revolvers still languish in Finnish cupboards, attics, garages and hideouts.<br /><br />Besides that, knives are better than handguns in close quarters. At 10 m distance, a gunman has a slight edge over a knifeman. At 5 m distance, the knifeman has the edge. At 3 m and less, the knifeman will almost always win. It usually is a good idea to bring a knife in a gun fight, as most punks are really poor shots. A slightly curved fish filleting knife is one of the best anti-human weapons ever come by.Ironmistresshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06980947020126620086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28615995.post-62744007467771863742011-08-16T00:19:27.002-07:002011-08-16T00:19:27.002-07:00As I have stated, the only realistic alternative s...As I have stated, the only realistic alternative scenario to save the Western civilization is falling into Fascism. Perhaps a military dictatorship will do just as well.<br /><br />I wish to be out at the oceans when it finally happens.Ironmistresshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06980947020126620086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28615995.post-46818180783630424142011-08-12T04:52:39.633-07:002011-08-12T04:52:39.633-07:00Also, in my personal experience, a looting mob is ...Also, in my personal experience, a looting mob is composed primarily of those who like to beat up targets weaker than themselves. They are not composed of particularly courageous individuals- just thugs and punks out for their definition of a good time at everyone else's expense. They tend to stop and think twice when shown even a sidearm. <br /><br /> In one case, an officer with a 1911 .45 faced down a mob of about 40 or so would-be Che' types during the arrest of a Molotov cocktail enthusiast. When the bomb thrower exhorted the mob to free him in the name of the "Glorious People's Revolution", saying "He only has eight shots", the officer responded, "Right. Which eight of you want to be first?"<br /><br /> The answer turned out to be, none of the 40 or so.<br /><br /> (Athens, OH, "Devil's Night", 1977.)<br /><br /> A repeating shotgun with an extended magazine makes an even bigger impression. Especially when you rack the action. (Personal experience.)<br /><br /> This is why we call firearms "force multipliers". And half the time, you never need to pull the trigger. Just remember that you need to be ready to do so. Mobs can sense a bluff, and smell fear nearly as well as a Border Collie can smell a bunny.<br /><br />cheers<br /><br />eoneonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08580152241525427599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28615995.post-83653627844348157992011-08-11T18:07:28.210-07:002011-08-11T18:07:28.210-07:00Guns will definitely help. I live in a very well a...Guns will definitely help. I live in a very well armed community and it is very safe and very polite. In Britain, the covenant between rulers and ruled is now broken and the people have the right to defend themselves. Armaments up to and including assault weapons combined with carry/conceal permits will prevent anything like this happening again.<br /><br />Also, an armed populace is not only a deterrent to the criminal, it's a deterrent to the state. As one Second Amendment campaigner in the US said to a congresswoman a few months back, "The Second Amendment is meant to protect <i>us</i> from <i>you</i>".Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04574453357460196584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28615995.post-8262919396227663662011-08-11T15:09:43.329-07:002011-08-11T15:09:43.329-07:00So, let's say we arm the Brits. Do you think ...So, let's say we arm the Brits. Do you think it will do any good? I don't ask this as a rhetorical question. It is said that even a mouse will fight when cornered, but humans are not mice. Humans are capable of the courage to charge a machine gun, but also of being stuck in indecision about whether to pull the trigger until it is much too late.<br /><br />If the answer to my question is still yes, then the place will pull through. If not... I would guess a period of anarchy like the one the former USSR saw after the collapse and before Putin. In the best case. In a worse case... legend has it that Rurik gained Ladoga because all the men were out of town raiding, so the viking walked in and declared himself king.<br /><br />I hope Britain's still got enough of the old spirit to recover.Sergejhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04220098289020600208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28615995.post-28953047353997395232011-08-11T05:34:15.687-07:002011-08-11T05:34:15.687-07:00Bravo.
Britain has two choices. It can either, as...Bravo.<br /><br />Britain has two choices. It can either, as you say, turn the clock back to a more civilized time (I'm thinking of the time when every gentleman and lady had a Webley Bulldog in their pocket or muff, and more importantly knew how to use it)- or the clock will turn back of its own accord, to a much earlier time.<br /><br /> At best, about 1645. At worst, about the time of Lindesfarne.<br /><br /> The U.S. may find itself facing the same choice very soon. Fortunately, we at least already have our Bulldogs, as you've stated. <br /><br /> As for the ruling classes in both nations, they have a choice, too. Their best one is to quietly fade away.<br /><br /> Failing that, if they continue their present course, a bullying quest for Utopia and power at all costs (to us), and continuing to blame us for all the ills we have suffered as a result of their quest, I think jail is an appropriate remedy, as P.J. O'Rourke once observed.<br /><br /> At some point, even limitless ambition coupled with boundless stupidity must have a price. To be paid - finally- by the ambitious and stupid, as opposed to everybody else, who have to live with the consequences of their delusions.<br /><br /><br />cheers<br /><br />eoneonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08580152241525427599noreply@blogger.com