Metamorphing into jellyfish

Now here is an author in the USA who has a firm grasp on reality and tells it like is. Why he could be writing about Australia!

Read it and make up your own mind. if you agree send it on to those who  you normally wouldn't and of course, to your Politicians and ask them for their explanation and opinion. After all it's us that's paying them so surely we can get something back even if it's only excuses or rhetoric, at least we will know where they stand.

A Gold Coast hospital has a non denominational church attached to it. A few days ago some Moslems visited it and then complained of the Cross in it whereupon the hospital decided to remove it.

But what a breath of fresh air when complaints from the public forced the hospital to restore it.

More of this resolute determination should prevail!

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Soft People, Hard People

Written by Selwyn Duke
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

If the 1976 western The Last Hard Men has it right, we Occidentals metamorphosed into jellyfish sometime around the early twentieth century.. After all, Robert Baden-Powell, a lieutenant general in the British Army, was motivated by the belief that western boys were becoming too soft when he originated the Boy Scouts in 1907.

Regardless of the origin and rapidity of our transition from he-men to she-men, one thing is for certain: We have become a very soft people. 

Then I think about our unwillingness to discipline our children, something to which our jungle-like schools bear witness. And should someone use punitive measures harsher than the euphemistically named "time-out" – something that may actually work – he is often excoriated for damaging the little darlings’ "self-esteem." And a spanking? Perish the thought. We’re told this could scar a child irreparably and the idea is so foreign to many parents they cannot even conceive of placing a hand on their cherubim’s sanctified little posteriors.

In contrast, the people of the Third World – and especially the Moslem fanatics who have designs on the West – are hard as stone. We fret over the fact that Saddam Hussein endured some taunts during his execution, while next door in Saudi Arabia they may still chop off the hand of a thief. We cater to the religious wants of incarcerated terrorists, providing everything from the Koran and prayer rugs to desired foods, and the soft set still laments the terrible privation these poor "victims" must endure. In contrast, the terrorist’s brethren often disallow the practice of other religions in the Abode of Islam. We let illegal aliens run roughshod over our nation, sometimes bestowing government benefits upon them, then still feel guilty about not exalting them sufficiently. In the Third World, however, foreigners are often treated like second-class citizens. Under the Mexican Constitution, one foreign-born will never enjoy the full rights of citizenship. In many Moslem societies, a certain kind of second-class status is reserved for "infidels"; it’s called dhimmitude.

All this is not surprising. After all, luxury and living high soften the sinews and, regrettably, sometimes also the head.

There is an immutable truth of human nature: When soft people clash with hard people, the soft are vanquished. That is, unless they become harder.

People may laugh. That’s crazy, say they, we have the greatest military in the world, the most advanced technology, and a nuclear umbrella. Yes, that’s true. But first, I don’t claim we’ll fall tomorrow, next month, or next year. Even more significantly, though, external enemies would not initiate our undoing. The fact is that no body, no matter how strong, imposing and well-armored, can survive an untreated disease metastasizing rapidly within. The smallest bacteria can kill giants as easily as dwarves.

And that is what ails us. Every time an action designed to preserve western civilization is taken or even proposed, a great internecine battle ensues. We capture combatants on the battlefield and then spend millions in legal fees debating whether to adjudicate their cases in civil or military courts. We rightly scrutinize Imams making a scene at an airport and then spend millions more arguing about so-called "racial profiling."

And let’s be very clear: Every dollar in currency and passion we spend on litigation is one less we have to fight those who would see us in ashes. This means fewer resources – in terms of not just money but also attention and zeal – to secure our borders, ensure domestic tranquility and root out terrorists within and without. A united people would confront threats as a monolithic front; we are expending ourselves fighting a cold civil war. And the end result is that the lawyers get richer, we get weaker, and the hard people, waiting and watching in the darkness, laugh louder.

And here I think of G.K. Chesterton’s profound description of our condition:

"Nowadays, we have Christian values floating around detached from one another. Consequently, we see scientists who care only about truth but have no pity, and humanitarians who care only about pity but have no truth."

The Moslem world is one extreme, we are the other, the humanitarians who have no truth. Why can’t we control seven-year-olds, prosecute a war efficiently or strike fear into the hearts of criminals? It’s all for the same reason. We’re soft-headed pseudo-humanitarians to whom the kind of action or punishment necessary to deter evil behavior seems medieval. We should bear in mind that you can walk Singapore’s streets safely in the dark of night. The same cannot be said of ours.

Moslem beheadings tells the tale, as too many of us are epitomized by panties while our adversaries are by swords. While they bat nary an eye at the torture of an innocent, we eat ourselves alive over the humiliation of the guilty. But what is truly humiliating is when the hard people laugh, watching the soft people play the fools, bray at one another, and commit cultural suicide.

And make no mistake, they laugh. Why do you think the Mexican government distributed literature instructing its citizens on how to best violate our southern border? Why did Islamists issue advice on how to play the victim card in the American legal system? They don’t tolerate such under their dominion, but they know about our lawsuits, protests, pandering politicians and capitulating clergy. They know the game. They know us. And they don’t really think we’re barbaric or unjust.

They just think we’re weak and stupid.

Soft people and hard people, two sides of the same world. Of course, we were harder too, a long, long, long time ago. But it would be nice to find that happy medium, something that seems ever elusive. A bane of man is that he jumps from blind prejudice to blind tolerance and back again, without ever making a stopover at the ethereal land known as enlightened distinction.

Will we find it within ourselves to strike that balance? That is doubtful. But fairly certain is that we won’t much longer have the luxury of being a soft republic. With enemies on both sides of the gate, it’s only a matter of time before we see a 9/11 that is not a 9/11, but 9/11 squared. Thus, to use a play on Otto Von Bismarck’s metaphor, we can proceed with a velvet glove, but within must lay an iron fist. We have no other choice. Unless, that is, we fancy death a viable option.

About the Writer: Selwyn Duke lives in Westchester County, New York. He's an entrepreneur, writer, and public speaker whose works have appeared in the print media and on various sites on the Internet. Selwyn has traveled extensively in his life, visiting exotic locales such as Taiwan, India, Morocco, and Algeria.