{"id":5460,"date":"2017-06-04T11:58:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T11:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/04\/theresa-may-still-pussyfooting-around\/"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:58:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T11:58:33","slug":"theresa-may-still-pussyfooting-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/04\/theresa-may-still-pussyfooting-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Theresa May: Still Pussyfooting Around"},"content":{"rendered":"

The prime minister is right that ". . . our values – pluralistic British values – are superior to anything offered by the preachers and supporters of hate."<\/span><\/p>\n

But her Enough is Enough<\/a> statement shows that she and her countrymen lack the will to take the steps necessary to deal adequately with the Islamist scourge and defend their values.<\/span><\/p>\n

She did not mention the necessity of a moratorium on Muslim immigration.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nor did she mention the necessity of reinstating the death penalty.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I predict that the 'new normal' will continue.  After enough blood is shed and disruption caused, you will see the moratorium and the reinstatement. <\/span><\/p>\n

Let's just hope that it doesn't take a nuclear event to rouse the Brits from their suicidal tolerance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here<\/a> are some of my arguments in defense of capital punishment.<\/span><\/p>\n

………………<\/span><\/p>\n

London Ed responds,<\/span><\/p>\n

I think significant progress has been made in that May specifically refers to \u2018Islamist\u2019 extremism, which she never has before. She also mentions some specific measures that will be taken. Only two days before that, Paul Nuttall (UKIP leader) in the BBC General Election debate said \u2018Politicians need to have the courage to name [the problem]: it\u2019s Islamist extremism\u2019 and was jeered at by the other panelists. This<\/a> article discusses.<\/span><\/p>\n

BV: Progress, yes; but significant<\/em> progress? The good lady shed a tiny bit of her political correctness and finally admitted publicly what everyone knew all along.   Big deal! She now grants that 2 + 2 = 4.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course that is not as strong as saying that Islam (rather than a \u2018perversion of Islam\u2019 or suchlike) is the problem, but it is progress. She is a politician, and politicians speak in code, and are mindful of relationships with Islamic countries, of the reaction of sillier members of the public, and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n

BV: Good point.  Politicians, with the exception of Trump the the anti-politician, have to be politic<\/a>, diplomatic, mindful of the foibles and fatuities of members of their audience.  The trouble with this civility is that it typically goes too far and ends up in the precincts of the effete and the epicene. Western liberal politicians  then become easy marks for thugs whether Nazi, Commie, Islamist, you name it. I might cite your own Neville Chamberlain as an example. Herr Hitler played him like a fiddle. The restoration of manly virtue among the tribe of politicians must then come in the form of boorish individuals like Donald J. Trump.  Think of him as an unpleasant but necessary corrective.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t see how the death penalty would deter suicide bombers.<\/span><\/p>\n

BV: My dear Ed, you are making a nit-picking defeatist lefty move of which I cannot approve. There are people over here who say things like, "A wall along the Southern border won't stop illegals coming from the north." What a penetrating insight! As a logician, you like fallacies, or rather the avoidance thereof. The present fallacy is to think that if a policy won't solve every problem, then it won't solve any problem. The Great Wall of Trump won't solve every problem re: illegal aliens, but it will solve some of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Similarly, the swift and sure execution of jihadis won't deter suicide bombers, but it would deter those of the London Bridge stabber ilk, and many others besides.  <\/span><\/p>\n

But of course the restoration of the death penalty and its serious implementation won't happen until much more blood is shed if it happens at all.  If PM May is only now coming to call the threat by a properly descriptive name, then there is little hope that she and others in power will come to their senses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Addendum<\/strong> (6\/5)<\/span><\/p>\n

Two related YouTube videos (HT: Bill Keezer)<\/span><\/p>\n

Paul Joseph Watson<\/a><\/p>\n

Stephan Molyneux<\/a>
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