I received the following email in response to "The Thing That Menaced Walthamstow":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6670903.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4784919.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2630899.ece
http://www.salaam.co.uk/themeofthemonth/january03_index.php?l=52%82%22=0
http://moonbatmedia.com/mosqueofterror/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/13/nplot113.xml
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/August2006/110806_b_suspects.htm
http://infowars.net/articles/August2006/110806plots.htm
I get that the UK now has a culture within a culture, and there is a clash, if I may understate, between the two. I assume Julian's concern is that a loose round could be indicative of potential armed terrorist activity, and thus the reaction of the shopkeeper who found it is more prudent than hysterical.
With no other considerations, I could concede that point. But here's the thing: When you have two disparate peoples with competing and often antagonistic ideologies occupying the same territory, the historical probability is that hostilities will erupt--especially when some newcomers, through their vocal proponents, have advocated taking over their host land.
The appeasers running the UK appear to have no threshold, no line from which they will not back down. From official proclamations that jihad-inspired acts of terrorism be renamed "anti-Islamic activities," to that basest of Quislings the Archbishop of Canterbury advocating establishment of Sharia courts (where's the infamous Tower of London chopping block when you really need it?), it's clear that denizens of the "green and pleasant land" will be the ones to suffer if worst fears come to pass.
And their government's reaction? Mandate their helplessness. Then punish those who won't go gently into that good night. The gun control debate indeed has relevance.
With all due respect, Julian, I would prefer the reaction of a peaceable citizen of the UK, from whatever background or religion, upon finding an unspent cartridge on the ground, to be the same as mine would be: "Hmmm--it's not like me to be so careless as to drop these things and leave them lying around...I'd better make sure everything I own is secure and under control, right now."
With all the implications such a reaction would suggest...
I did enjoy reading your blog, and can see how the bullet story must have been amusing. I'm afraid you are seeing the issue entirely through the eyes of a gun control debate, which has little relevance here: I hope this series of sources/articles will be of interest to you, and provide you with the all important context you didn't have about Walthamstow and what it might mean that bullets are turning up in the street. (There is little gun crime to speak of here, but some very dangerous people have been living among us, and still may be).Here are the links he included with his email:
Best regards,
Julian
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6670903.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4784919.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2630899.ece
http://www.salaam.co.uk/themeofthemonth/january03_index.php?l=52%82%22=0
http://moonbatmedia.com/mosqueofterror/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/13/nplot113.xml
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/August2006/110806_b_suspects.htm
http://infowars.net/articles/August2006/110806plots.htm
I get that the UK now has a culture within a culture, and there is a clash, if I may understate, between the two. I assume Julian's concern is that a loose round could be indicative of potential armed terrorist activity, and thus the reaction of the shopkeeper who found it is more prudent than hysterical.
With no other considerations, I could concede that point. But here's the thing: When you have two disparate peoples with competing and often antagonistic ideologies occupying the same territory, the historical probability is that hostilities will erupt--especially when some newcomers, through their vocal proponents, have advocated taking over their host land.
The appeasers running the UK appear to have no threshold, no line from which they will not back down. From official proclamations that jihad-inspired acts of terrorism be renamed "anti-Islamic activities," to that basest of Quislings the Archbishop of Canterbury advocating establishment of Sharia courts (where's the infamous Tower of London chopping block when you really need it?), it's clear that denizens of the "green and pleasant land" will be the ones to suffer if worst fears come to pass.
And their government's reaction? Mandate their helplessness. Then punish those who won't go gently into that good night. The gun control debate indeed has relevance.
With all due respect, Julian, I would prefer the reaction of a peaceable citizen of the UK, from whatever background or religion, upon finding an unspent cartridge on the ground, to be the same as mine would be: "Hmmm--it's not like me to be so careless as to drop these things and leave them lying around...I'd better make sure everything I own is secure and under control, right now."
With all the implications such a reaction would suggest...