Starts when you're always afraid

Back to the Buffalo Springfield song I quoted a few weeks ago - it's an old song?

Maybe but it is still relevant.

I quoted to a friend on a MyLot discussion on Hitler yesterday: "Antifa und sehr stolz darauf". For the non-German speakers "Anti-Fascist and very proud of it"!

And shout it loud and clear, boldly without a trace of fear in your voice! And stand proud in your beliefs, as tall as you can, as fiercely indomitable as you could ever want to be!

Don't let these thugs (whether European Fascists, their American counterparts, or their seemingly opposing Islamofascists) make you cower in the face of their threats! You have everything in your favour, they have only cowardice, so don't run for cover, take them on, face them down. They will only win if you let them have the psychological advantage.

There was an excellent item by Magnus Ranstrop, a leading Swedish researcher into terrorism, on cnn.com this morning. He pointed out absolutely correctly that while the ideologies seem different at first glance, the tactics, psychology and approach of Al Qaeda and the likes of Anders Breivik are almost an exact parallel.

This makes sense. They are all Fascists, working on the inclusive/exclusive basis (if you belong you are honoured, if you do not belong you are scum to be humiliated or even destroyed). There is no respect for other beliefs or cultures, eventually it is a war to eradicate the non-believers. And create some ludicrous form of purity, whether ethnic purity (à la Eurofascism) or religious purity (à la Islamofascism).

Eventually we can all live in fear of these people - and they will win. Or we can stand up and shout from the rooftops that they are the scum, not us, and we will not submit to their mediocrity and to their threats.

Dedicated to the memory of Cato Bontjes van Beek, Sophie Scholl, Eva-Maria Buch and Liane Berkowitz, who bravely resisted Hitler's doctrine to their personal cost. And to the thousands of forgotten names who were slaughtered by the Nazi regime in Plötzensee jail in the name of "justice". A return of that form of justice, or alternatively the imposition of Sharia Law, we do not need ever again!