Drumbeats and Smoke Signals for Jews (Part I)

By Jason Gold

1. Defining Deviancy Down

Some years ago I was dragged to a political function in New York, which, unfortunately in New York City invariably meant and still means a Democratic Party dinner/fund raiser/sycophantic glad-handing soiree. However, the lone bright spot was the presence of the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Pat, as he was fondly known, was a brilliant man, an eloquent speaker and perhaps the last remnant of what the Democratic Party used to be. The fact that as a Senator, professor and UN Ambassador, he was also a fierce supporter of Israel was just the cherry on the cake.

One of his most famous essays was on “Defining Deviancy Down”. Triple D, as I called it (he was somewhat amused) states that as a society begins to implode, it will gradually tolerate more deviant behavior than was previously thought possible and redefine its normal standards lower and lower. We discussed that seminal essay of his and also discussed how the decay in the US began during the sixties and how Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” spending binge just made things worse. Peering at me over the top of his reading glasses, Pat told me that no matter how much money was thrown at poverty and inner city youth, unless education and programs to strengthen the traditional family unit accompanied it, it was doomed to failure and things would just get worse and worse. Not exactly PC and he was called all sorts of names for this but he was right on the money. I have to wonder how horrified Pat would be if he were alive today and saw just how accurate his predictions about Triple D have become starting with Europe and now the US.

2. Attention Jews! Kiss England/Europe Goodbye

Watching the riots in England, I really wanted to feel sorry for the country. But no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t. Forget the fact that England was the incubator to the Crusades and had the honor of being the first European country to throw out the Jews, or how it specializes in that nuanced, gentlemanly anti-Semitism (nee Jew-hatred) that is so chic to speak about at British functions, on the BBC, and at tea time. But here in the European heartland of political correctness, we got to see in living color the absolute and complete failure of the Left liberal welfare state brought to an explosive end of thirteen years of binge spending on failed social programs by Tony Blair and the Labour Party hoards. Abortions for unwed mothers, cradle to grave entitlements, no encouragement of work, complete disintegration of the family unit with alcohol and drugs; yes the nanny state in all its glory. Triple D, indeed. Nine and eleven year olds who have never seen their parents (or parent) work a day in their lives rampaging for the fun of it because the British government in an all-too-brief moment of fiscal urgency realized it had to cut the financial handout cancer that Blair et al let grow. And so the hooded masses rioted, stole, and pillaged, despite having food, clothing shelter, health-care and of course, flat-screen TV’s. The defining moment of this came when Labour party hack Harriet Harman faced off against Conservative Secretary of Health Michael Gove and tried to score political points by blaming the riots on the current government’s cost-cutting. Mr. Gove handed Ms. Harman her head in a way that would have made Pat smile.

What’s the point of all this? Is this good for the Jews or bad for the Jews of England (and, not just England; riots in Greece, Spain, Italy although a bit more subdued). I fear the latter as into the breach of this social chaos usually steps the opportunistic Islamists. Couple this social disaster with the massive immigration explosion of Muslims over the last decades, the exponential expansion of Sharia law in Europe with its associated "no go" zones (see "European 'No-Go' Zones for Non-Muslims Proliferating"), the unemployment of both youths and adults, and it is time to bid the old mother country good night. As the financial crisis intensifies, as the Islamists take over more and more of the continent, the Jews will start bearing the blame for everything both from the Islamists and the Europeans who will find themselves powerless against the Islamist tide and only able to fight against....the Jew. It has happened before in Europe. It will happen again.

I daresay if Pat were here, he would have tried to make the hyper PC correct, left wing British pansies (as a British friend calls them) read Melanie Phillips’ “Londonistan” and Bat Yeor’s “Eurabia” which were prescient roadmaps of the end of Europe as we know it and the establishment of the future Islamic Euro-Caliphate. The drumbeats and smoke signals were there but there are none so blind as those who will not see and none so deaf as those who will not hear. Not good for the Jew and not a place you want to be in the coming years. Unfortunately I see no people of courage in England ready to stand up to this like Geert Wilders in Holland. I see no hope for England and the continent. England and Europe will indeed become Eurabia. Time for the Jew to say to Europe farewell, adieu, arrivederci, buona note, etc. What was that song by The Clash? “Safe European Home”? Not for the Jews anymore.

(Tomorrow; Part II, Next stop, the US)