Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
‘Silence is Violence’, said Black Lives Matter and its army of media
cheerleaders in the tumultuous summer of 2020.
In their mind, anyone who
stayed schtum about anti-black racism was complicit in it. If you
failed to take the knee or put a black square on your Instagram page or
faithfully mouth BLM’s political platitudes, then you were an aider and
abetter of violence against people of colour.
Does this still hold? Is
it still the case that saying nothing about racism amounts to supporting
racism? If so, then the very same woke activists who spent the past two
years saying ‘Silence is Violence’ should turn themselves over to the
cops, because racist attacks have spiked horribly in the US in recent
weeks and they have uttered not a word about it.
In New York
in particular there have been some truly grim racially motivated
assaults. On 11 March, in Yonkers, a 67-year-old woman was viciously
assaulted on account of her race. She was punched in the face 125 times,
had her head stomped on seven times, was spat on, and was subjected to
racist epithets.
It was so severe that the suspect has been charged with
attempted murder. At the start of April, a young man in Brooklyn was
set upon by a gang, again because of his race. He was kicked repeatedly
and subjected to insults. One anti-racist organisation said it was ‘shocked by the viciousness’ of this act of racist violence.
You haven’t heard about these attacks? Your social-media feed hasn’t
filled up with expressions of sympathy or anger? You haven’t seen anyone
take the knee for the victims? Well, that might have something to do
with who the victims were. The 67-year-old woman punched in the face 125
times is Chinese-American. ‘Asian bitch’, her racist assaulter said as
he spat and stomped on her.
The young man brutalised in Brooklyn is
Jewish. A Hasidic Jew, to be precise. These are not fashionable or
favourable victims according to the woke ideology. They place very low
indeed in the hierarchy of racial victimhood constructed by the woke
elites. Jews, we’re constantly told, enjoy ‘white privilege’. They’re
hyper-white, according to some accounts, so how can they be sympathetic
victims of racial hatred?
As for Asians, they enjoy ‘honorary whiteness’, apparently. We frequently hear about ‘the whitening of Asian Americans’.
In short, they’re privileged, and thus suspect – or at least not as
deserving of solidarity as other, apparently more oppressed groups.
