One of the attackers then stopped, knife and cleaver in his blood-soaked hands, and spoke to passersby, even pausing to make a statement to a video camera justifying his actions and warning that “you people will never be safe.”
And he may be right. At least, if the many politicians here (mostly Democrats, but some from the GOP) pushing gun control get their way. The proof being that it wasn’t until the police arrived — twenty-minutes later — and were beset by the same attackers that the threat was ended. There wasn’t a Brit around to put down these animals with a pistol or a rifle or a pump-action shot gun.
Which is why those of us in the States who are doing the difficult work of protecting the 2nd Amendment against sneering liberals and cosmopolitan faux-conservatives using the government to attempt to strip us of a natural right plan to remain a helluva lot safer than the people in London who were powerless to stop the attack. Regardless of what laws are passed here.
Multiculturalism as the left has sold it is a pernicious and profoundly stupid attempt to give the appearance of tolerance rather than pushing assimilation and the kind of liberty agenda that actually engenders it in the long term.
It is a divisive strategy disguised as an inclusive one, and will be the downfall of westernized countries who buy into it.
Like everything else the left sells, it is a lie. And a dangerous one at that.
But it’s a lot less dangerous when you still have the means to defend yourselves. As many of us know, and many erstwhile nannystatists may one day come to learn.
(h/t geoffB and Darleen)
Piers Morgan: Why, How Dare a Foreigner Like Dana Loesch Take an Aggressive Political Position on a Horrific Attack in My Home Country!
On this side of the pond, we call that a random act of street violence.
Because workplace violence won’t do in this instance.
Spot on Ernst.
While on both sides of the big assed ocean the respective governments will place the unfortunate eyewitnesses to the killing into subsidized infantilizing psychological treatment for the “violence” done to their “mental health”, so called.
To make babies of grown adults, on the other hand, is no violence at all.
You don’t suppose that it was intended to do precisely that do you?
Or is that crazy talk?
“Shouting ‘Allahu Akhbar’”
My money is on Irish Catholics or Scottish/Scots-Irish Presbyterians.
IIRC, there was pretty conclusive evidence that Labor’s immigration policy was intended to tweak traditional British culture and piss off patriotic Britons.
That was just a bonus Alec. It was intended to enable the politicians to vote themselves a better class of electors.
Or however that phrase goes.
It took 20 minutes for an armed cop to show up? This happened right outside an army barracks, for crying out loud. Don’t they have MPs?
Remind me again not to visit London. Ever.
So it wasn’t designated as a ‘No Beheading Zone’ then?
Seriously, this is disgusting. Barbaric. Just awful.
I thought once they made private ownership of guns illegal that violence would disappear.
Who figured?
They’re already working on knife control over there (no joke). Look for this to provide further impetus.
They should outlaw jihad.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4581871.stm
Scissors next, no doubt.
I’m trying to remember whether it was second or third grade when we were allowed to use pointy scissors at school.
Just outlaw Muslims. It may be unfair to the overwhelming majority of them, but they add nothing of value to the world anyway. Send em all back to the desert until they get a fucking Martin Luther or something.
Rounding up all the muslims and fencing them in isn’t an option?
That’s not nice, Abe. You’ll have to be punished.
SBP says May 22, 2013 at 3:03 pm
Re: banning kitchen knives
I’d hate to try to tackle a winter squash of any variety without a big old knife.
From what I read of their courts and sentencing in British media, I’d say they need to lock up dangerous people and keep them there, and not worry so much about kitchen tools.
Wonder what they’ll do about hands and feet since barehanded killings outnumber all rifle and shotgun killings (here in the US where we can have such things).
Sounds like its about time to start burning down Mosques. During evening prayers. After nailing the doors shut.
Remind me again not to visit London. Ever.
Having just spent a lovely 10 days in London, I urge you to reconsider. I can’t remember seeing even a single jihadist while I was there. Perhaps they just gave me a wide berth ‘cuz the recognized me as one of them crazy aggressive Americans…
You didn’t go to their shitty neighborhoods, Squid. This problem with muslims (we called them Arabs back in the day) has been going on for ages. One of my girlfriends from college studied in France for a year in 1979. The school she went to was in Aix-en-Provence which is in the south of France. She had an opportunity to go to Paris for a weekend over Easter break and was riding the Metro and go robbed by some Arab toughs. Naturally, the Embassy was closed for the holidays, so she got to call her folks long-distance and get them to wire her some money so she could stay in a hotel until the Embassy opened up so she could report her identification was stolen.
Well, these bastards have been stopped. And who stopped them? Good guys with guns. But remember, in Great Britain only government officials are allowed to be good guys with guns, so the next time this happens, you’re on your own for the twenty minutes or so it takes the police with guns to get there.
“When the going gets tough, the shitheels get gone.”
Just saw an article a few days ago about groups of muslims patrolling London enforcing sharia (i.e. harassing infidels http://tinyurl.com/nzz67wo).
Also recently at Gates of Vienna a profile on two young men in Norway (natives) and the challenges they’ve faced dealing with muslim immigrant classmates. Seems no matter what the situation, it is the native who is blamed, meanwhile they must protect themselves from getting caught alone (because they will be attacked by a group of them). http://tinyurl.com/bn5ppdp
How bad will it get, and will it already be too late?
gun free zone
When the police arrived, the two men rushed the officers brandishing their weapons, which included a gun.
Me either. You do NOT want to let it get away from you, wounded.
They hold grudges.
Having spent the summer of 2012 in the UK, I agree with Squid. Moreover, I am also with Abe and Lee: time to end the West’s ongoing Muslim problem once and for all.
The Front Pages Of Tomorrow’s UK Newspapers Are Chilling
“You’ll have to be punished.”
Bring out the comfy chair?
this is a new thing
ask danny pearl how new it is
Courtesy of ABCNews, we now know the three men were either beheaded or nearly beheaded (anyone see a trend?).
[…] Protein Wisdom: “British Soldier Beheaded In London By Attackers Shouting ‘Allahu Akhbar’” […]
1st responders
Mum talked down Woolwich terrorists who told her: ‘We want to start a war in London tonight’
That woman was quick-thinking and brave. I would never engage a murderer in conversation to prevent further mayhem. The police are lucky their 20 minute response time didn’t lead to something much worse.
News reports say people stopped and got out of their cars.
In other words, they abandoned their weapon in the face of a murderous threat.
Guns or no guns, the Brits have been effectively disarmed, no doubt from fear of prosecution should they take immediate matters into their own hands.
Not even subjects, they have gone back to being serfs.
This was a call out to all others who might be thinking of doing something along the same lines. A demonstration of just who are the wolves and who are the sheep. Who was, is, and can be the strong horse.
If there are more “youths” so inclined it can be expected that each will try to outdo the ones that have gone before.
other jihad news
Riots grip Stockholm suburbs after police shooting
from the above
“Police in the deprived, largely immigrant suburb of Husby shot a man dead last week after he reportedly threatened to kill them with a machete.”
Chicago is headed in this direction. Doesn’t take “immigrants” just disarmed citizens and community organized gangs who want everything their way and want it NOW!
I lived in the UK almost 20 years ago. I asked one etate agent about crime in the area we were looking at and she told me, “the police don’t let that happen here.” It was simultaneously comforting and a little scary to be honest. Of course, Labour hadn’t taken over then and further dismantled the traditions and institutions of Britain.
Welcome To The Jungle.
Chicago, New York, Philly, DC, Baltimore are all having these flash mob problems with the yoots roving through the shops and stealing or roughing people up on the streets.
I’m sure I left out some cities, but these mayors need to crack down and crack some heads.
“Chicago, New York, Philly, DC, Baltimore”
But oddly not Houston, Phoenix, Dallas, Jacksonville, Indianapolis…
I wonder what could be different.
Our system expects the majority of the people to behave themselves. When more than a tiny fraction stops doing that, we have severe problems.
The NRA has it’s next pro-2nd Amendment ad waiting for them. It just needs a caption:
This is the America Obama and the anti-gun Democrats want for us. Is this what YOU want?
On another note, is anyone quoting Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech, yet? Apparently, the EDL is trying to organize a protest at the scene of the attack. I’ll bet the British police will be out in force for that, protecting the Jihadis…
I wonder what could be different.
An armed society, is a polite society.
Where’s Levin been this week? I’m missing the righteous and constitutionally correct rants.
“Where’s Levin been this week?”
ca doing son’s graduation
I’m missing the righteous and constitutionally correct rants.
I’m listening to an audio rewind from last week or so. I hadn’t realized Hilary was not placed under oath for her testimony on Benghazi. Looks like she’s totally scot-free. I’m so mad now that I’m teetering on the edge of swearing off ever voting for an R again.
Ah. Family does come first.
Especially if they’ve got time on their hands.
god family country snack cakes facebook low-carb dieting and the vampire diaries in that order
“god family country snack cakes”
the muslims will get you pikachu. itll be an “honor”
islam is fascism
“. . . pulled a knife during his interview with the FBI”
Maybe I’m wrong about this, but it seems odd to allow a suspect guy being interviewed on a murder beef to have a knife on his person while the interview is going on. Too bad about the finish, if the outcome would truly have been a confession along with the implication of Tsarnaev.
I’m not buying it either sdferr.
I buy it far enough as an account of the facts leigh, it’s just that I’d have thought a pat-down would be the customary procedure in a situation like that — yet for all I know maybe not.
Pretty sure once they pat you down, you’re in custody, with all that that entails.
the fbi is no more or less trustworthy than the piggy fascist bitches at the IRS
it’s cause of we live in a banana republic
Maybe he decided to get his 72 raisins soonest and join his friend Tsarnaev who also did suicide by cop.
Tsarnaev got runned over by the dreamy tiger beat one
He had also been shot up as he walked toward police firing at them. He was lying on the ground and about to be cuffed when little brother ran him over on his way out. IIRC
you’re right and it was an ignominious end
still don’t trust them fbi boys though
piggies what work for eric holder is piggies and you can’t give em the benefit of the doubt
because they’re part of a deeply fascist organization is why
Responses to terrorism:
Sept 2001, Flight 93 – “Let’s roll!”
May 2013, Woolwich – “Imma film this on my iPhone, blud, innit!”
Sickening…
Sickening, but not surprising.
It’s an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth kind of thing, I hear.
If I were Great Britain, I’d feel a toothache coming on. Perhaps some prophylactic extractions might also be in order.
It’s bad that Europeans don’t realize that the Saracen are at war with them (and us), but too often conservatives don’t realize that the progs are at war with us. It’s part of that whole wishing-us-dead thing.
Ah, Mondamay, let us not forget the words of Lenin, who summarized Totalitarian Thinking in a rather pithy way:
We’ll ask the man, where do you stand on the question of the revolution?
Are you for it or against it?
If he’s against it, we’ll stand him up against a wall.
I am all for revolution against the revolutionaries, myself.
Wait. I thought their new phrase was ‘Coexist‘ ?
The the response to this in the UK is….”Commanders have advised troops not to wear uniform travelling to and from work or outside bases following the brutal killing of a member of the military close to Woolwich barracks. ” http://tinyurl.com/nvjjtx7
That will teach those brazen jihadis! You wanna kill our troops? Well good luck identifying them now that they’re no longer wearing their uniforms in public in their own country. Winning.
The UK along with its nominal leadership seems to suffer the same disease as the Obazm Administration: Aphasia Islamosis
The Gates of Vienna are 900 miles away from Woolwich. The front line seems to have somehow caught us unawares. I wonder how much we would have to pay to be left alone.
Serr8d, it’s that newfangled unilateral coexistence thing.
Get with the program!
allan ackbar news
Fort Hood shooter fires attorneys, tells judge he’ll represent himself in murder case
It rubs the
lotionIslam on itsskinbrain or else it gets thehosebutchery in the streets again“ Aphasia Islamosis“
@Libby – that instruction immediately countermanded by Cameron:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/woolwich-killing-keep-wearing-your-military-uniform-david-cameron-tells-london-troops-8628981.html
Not, I suspect, because he’s suddenly discovered a backbone, but because the PR consequences of such a decision are sufficiently awful that they’ve penetrated his thick skull….
David Cameron, (partial) statement outside 10 Downing St. after a cabinet meeting:
*** “First, this country will be absolutely resolute in its stand against violent extremism and terror. We will never give in to terror or to terrorism in any of its forms. Second, this view is shared by every community in our country.” ***
Yes, well, if that’s the limit of PM Cameron’s ability to identify his belligerent enemies, and if that limit is shared by every community in his country, then he and his are in the deepest of a-cognitive holes imaginable.
An a-cognitive hole is a pretty apt description of Call Me Dave.
Give him a little credit, at least he saw that it was Danegeld by another name and countermanded the order.
Meet Afghan War Vet Lee Rigby.
Thanks, geoff. It’s good to see someone remembering the victim.
If only we knew what these youths motivation was. If only we understood what they wanted.
/wrings hands
If we parse the language in just the right way, we can prove that we’re just as bad as them. No, really.
SW, if you can stomach it, read a transcript of Obama’s speech today. It was an exercise in moral equivalency.
Let your leader Obazm lead:
*** Interrupted again by the heckler, the President, said: “The voice of that woman is worth listening to,” noting that they both agreed on the fundamental importance of closing the Guantánamo prison facility. ***
*** (The heckler was reported by other observers to be Medea Benjamin, a founder of Code Pink and frequent gadfly.) ***
Medea the Shrill? I thought that was her.
The Wan seemed to think it he kept scattering data points for long enough we’d throw up our hands and say “Uncle!”
I wonder if he believes the shit that comes out of his mouth.
I doubt it. “It reads the words or it gets the hose.”
It’s not terribly surprising that Anjem Choudary is alive to breathe another breath so little do Britons guard their own lives.
Bumblefuck said “cut the young lady some slack”.
She’s 60.
She’s 60.
And that’s besides being a Marxist nutter.
Maybe he wasn’t wearing his contacts.
Obazm’s thumbnail history of the inception of war with Al-Qaeda (notice anything missing?):
*** With the collapse of the Berlin Wall, a new dawn of democracy took hold abroad, and a decade of peace and prosperity arrived at home. For a moment, it seemed the 21st century would be a tranquil time. Then, on September 11th 2001, we were shaken out of complacency. Thousands were taken from us, as clouds of fire, metal and ash descended upon a sun-filled morning. This was a different kind of war. No armies came to our shores, and our military was not the principal target. Instead, a group of terrorists came to kill as many civilians as they could. ***
From out of the blue! No attack on the USS Cole. No attack on Embassies in Kenya (Kenya! You’d think he could recollect his daddy’s nation at least!) and Tanzania. No declaration of war by Al Qaeda in 1996.
Nope. Those things didn’t happen.
From out of the blue, we made it happen.
Laura Ingraham had a young lady on her radio program today who was explaining the ideology of the Muslims and global jihad. Man, that was depressing.
Trying to understand the followers of Allah is a fool’s errand.
everything you need to know, in an easily remembered slogan:
Muslims good, Kafirs bad
Funny, that was the young lady’s conclusion, as well!
Say it with me:
Muslims good, Kafirs bad
Straight out of the introductory class in “Community Organizing”. You’d think they might have enough respect for us to at least go to using the 201 level tactics not the 101 crap.
Think of all the time you could have saved, to say nothing of spared angst, if you’d just asked me instead of listening to the radio.
*sigh* You’d think I’d learn.
Oops!… Obama Calls Fort Hood: “Violent Jihad” not “Workplace Violence” During Drone Speech (Video)
Side by side with preacher of hate? Choudary claims picture shows arrested Islamic fanatic, 28, at 2007 demo
So Obazm has called for the repeal of the AUMF. No damn wonder he sculpted his history to remove the provocations. What a putz calling for his own nation to surrender.
this is the second term carter never had
I thought Obama’s first term was Carter’s second.
that was Daddy Soros’s first term