Metaphor, Authority, and the Moral (4)

Why Left dhimmi fascism? How did the West get itself into this bind whereby anyone with a "grievance" can claim victimhood and compensation while the West ties itself in knots of guilt and self-loathing? In past posts we've searched through history to examine the ideas of the Counter-Enlightenment thinkers who concocted the base for this idiocy, thinkers such as Herder, Fichte, Heidegger among others. Recently we've looked at the history of the Renaissance popes of the Catholic Church and the Protestant Reformers. We've seen the story of Sawney Beane, of morality based on the authority of one cannibal living in a cave. Here we will continue on that theme of moral authority and the metaphors that motivate us in our moral lives.

The Catholic Church has, for many in the West, lost its position as a moral authority. Whether that's right or wrong is a matter of dispute, but it is the objective reality in the West. It leaves a moral vacuum. Worse, it leaves a hatred in the collective mind of the very idea of an organised moral institution. The Protestant Reformation arose from that revulsion the Catholic Church brought upon itself and the world. Unfortunately, Protestantism isn't much better than the Catholic Church, in the eyes of many. The very idea of religion at all, and of God, is a source of hatred for many. For the past 250 years science has provided some kind of stop-gap as an authority, if amoral, but it too is discredited. We are left standing as the children of Sawney Beane, the ignorant children of a cannibal who has raised us to look upon the world as empty of meaning, as people as things to be eaten. We are the vacuous creatures of consumerism. We are assailed by Islam, a vigorous and primitive force of reaction and fascism; and Islam is aided and abetted by those among us who are atheists in a sense so deep that the world has never before experienced anything so despairing: people in the West generally have not anything at all to believe in but MTV.
The argument is that there is no authority to base our beliefs on. We ask an empty universe for answers to our moral questions, and in return we receive radio static and x-rays. It will not do. We ask each other, and we receive nothing better than one man's opinion, he possibly being Sawney Beane. The echoes from the cave of morality discourage.

Some of our more repulsively stupid fellows, usually our intelligentsia, feel that there is no universal truth, that there is only contingent truth, relative morality, and finally, that there is only astrology or tarot cards to base our morals judgements on. Some go so far as to opine that there is no such thing as truth at all, it being a social construct-- usually described as concocted by the dominant class in support of its own power, we being dupes who believe in phantasy that tricks us into acting against our own interests. The idea is originally Platonic, Plato being, as Neil Postman writes, "the first systematic fascist." That "narrative" is the dominant one in the West today. It leaves us in a state of moral stupor. I argue that the current Left dhimmi fascist moral narrative is as corrupt and disgusting as anything the Catholic Church is accused of. I argue that we today are in a state of public moral ruin. We cannot fight Islam if we do not care at all for our own lives. If we have no meaning as people, if our lives are no more worthwhile than the lives of chickens and Amazonian rain forests, then we are doomed to die out and to be overrun by Islam. Many in the West feel that that would be a good thing, the end of our revolutions of Modernity. Those who so argue are fascists. They are my enemies. What do we fight them with? What authority do we claim that proves us right in our struggle to further our revolutions?

We have written here many times on Georges Sorel and the Myth of the General Strike. Sorel is right, in our opinion, that the Myth is essential rather than the kind of myth it might be. We require a reformation of our social and therefore universal myth if we are to not only survive but triumph. I intend to win. To win, to survive at all, we must reform our Myth of what it is to be moral.

Math is a metaphor. Language is a metaphor. So too are Time, Money, Colour, Shape, Extension, and so on. And yet, Human myths, metaphors though those concepts are, they are also Human realities, and they are universal. So too must be our reformed Morality. But it must also be authoritative.


Where do we begin? I begin with the story of Lazarus from the Book of John, 11: 39-44, perhaps surprising for one self-proclaimed atheist:

39 Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.

40 Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?

41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.

42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.

The verses above distinguish clearly the problem of the Moral from that of the ethical. The ethical hardly interests me, it being a matter of how to act like a decent person. I don't much care. It is the Moral that is of concern. Look at Lazarus arisen. His ethical behavior is not important to the story of his reliving. The moral of his new lease on life is what is.

Suppose, if you will, that Lazarus is a smelly and creepy guy who has no job, hangs out in the market place and gropes women, and shop lifts. He might be unethical, but to Jesus that is not important. What is? Jesus could have raised up Brad Pitt or Clark Gable. He did not do so. He chose a guy who wasn't special. He did not pick a man who had qualities the world missed and wanted back for however long the life could last. He chose a guy off the street. Ordinary nobody guy is as important as Brad Pitt for some reason. Why him?

Lazarus, if no one else, must have wondered. And perhaps Lazarus was pleased. But Lazarus must also have been anguished: What was he supposed to do now that he found himself alive again after being so comfortably dead already? He found himself back on the street, in need of the things one requires to keep body and soul together. He had to return to shoplifting and girl groping and smelling bad. His ethical problems pale in the light of what the moral of his story is. Having returned to life, what was the meaning of it? What was he supposed to live? Forget what he was supposed to do, that's obvious: he had to live. But why? Was he supposed to live because the city ran out of shoplifters and gropers who smell bad? Not likely. So what is the purpose of his life? He has it again, and aside from making a living, what is he supposed to be? What isn't trivial? And what is important? What is so important that it makes his new life worth the effort of having raised him up from the dead? Watching MTV isn't likely what Jesus had in mind for him. Being thankful and acting as Jesus's servant isn't likely either because it's not something he would have done had he been allowed to die in peace. No one would like to live again only to do something in the new life he wouldn't have felt right about in the old. Lazarus, I believe, was free to choose his own destiny-- if he could understand what it was. A clean slate. A chance to do anything at all from the beginning. What would he choose? What could be important?

That, according to me, would be the Moral. Not the what but the why. The moral would be as mythical and as real a metaphor as math and time and money.

I argue that we in the West have generally lost the authoritative moral that tells us Why. Our metaphor of Why is as corrupt as the Catholic Church in the Renaissance. We have no legitimate metaphor and no authority we can believe in. We are as lost and helpless as the children of Sawney Beane. Our moral authority could as easily be a cannibal living in a cave. How do we know if he's right or wrong, and if we hear from others, from even so many as all others, how do we know they are right? Everyone could easily be wrong about the moral, as wrong as Sawney Beane. And how would we know? Where do we turn for the answer of true authority? We turn, I suggest, to the metaphor of morality that is as solid as the metaphor of math and as universal.

We in the West do not have an agreed upon universal moral based on true authority. Without that we are like Lazarus standing in the dust wondering what to do next.

Every morning when we awake we are like Lazarus arisen from death: we are alive again and faced with what we live for. What do we live that isn't more of the same trivia? If it's more of the same trivia then why do we live at all rather than not? If it's the same trivia, we would have been better off being dead so as not to have to suffer more of it. Reliving would be no good thing. We wouldn't thank anyone for that. And yet we do wake each morning to face a new day of life. I think we in the West find that harder to do daily. I think Islam triumphs because we have lost our moral.

In coming posts we'll look at the return to irrationality as pseudo-religion and see how it fits into the pattern of Left dhimmi fascism that we go on about at such length here.

Metaphor, Authority, and the Moral (3)

Where does moral authority come from? What is it if one is raised without the guidance of a moral community with a tradition of moral precepts? What if you were raised in a cave by a cannibal? What if all you know is the result of being part of a family of killers who look upon the world of others as a food source? What if your intuitive morality doesn't quite extend so far as mine, and what if you think it's just so to eat me?

There is a limited interest all round in this blog. I have a limit to my own interests, and this is one of them, the story of Sawney Beane and his family. We first ran this back in early June as one of our first posts. It's back again. This question will not go away.
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This moral story, though not strictly accurate historically, gives us a good vantage point from which to look at Islam, and other aberrant forms of religion and ideology. Who, raised to ruin from birth in an evil environment, is guilty; and at adulthood, who is culpable for the crimes they commit? What is our relationship with Muslims who are culturally insane? How do we deal with them? What do we do with a billion people raised from birth to see the rest of the Human population as little more than a food source?

The work below has far-reaching implications for all of us, of course, but to restrict ourselves to the question of how we deal with Islam is consequential in our time. We, being imperfect, have the duty to strive for better. Part of our struggle is to understand what to do with a billion Muslim people living in a moral cave. We aren't likely to eat them. What is to be done?
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The Complete Newgate Calendar
Volume I

Sawney Beane

SAWNEY BEANE

An incredible Monster who, with his Wife, lived by Murder and Cannibalism in a Cave. Executed at Leith with his whole Family in the Reign of James I

SAWNEY BEANE was born in the county of East Lothian, about eight or nine miles eastward of the city of Edinburgh, some time in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, whilst King James I. governed only in Scotland. His parents worked at hedging and ditching for their livelihood, and brought up their son to the same occupation. He got his daily bread in his youth by these means, but being very much prone to idleness, and not caring for being confined to any honest employment, he left his father and mother, and ran away into the desert part of the country, taking with him a woman as viciously inclined as himself. These two took up their habitation in a rock by the seaside, on the shore of the county of Galloway, where they lived upwards of twenty five years without going into any city, town, or village.

In this time they had a great number of children and grandchildren, whom they brought up after their own manner, without any notions of humanity or civil society. They never kept any company but among themselves, and supported themselves wholly by robbing; being, moreover, so very cruel, that they never robbed anyone whom they did not murder.

By this bloody method, and their living so retiredly from the world, they continued such a long time undiscovered, there being nobody able to guess how the people were lost that went by the place where they lived. As soon as they had robbed and murdered any man, woman or child, they used to carry off the carcass to the den, where, cutting it into quarters, they would pickle the mangled limbs, and after- wards eat it; this being their only sustenance. And, not- withstanding, they were at last so numerous, they commonly had superfluity of this their abominable food; so that in the night time they frequently threw legs and arms of the unhappy wretches they had murdered into the sea, at a great distance from their bloody habitation. The limbs were often cast up by the tide in several parts of the country, to the astonishment and terror of all the beholders, and others who heard it. Persons who had gone about their lawful occasions fell so often into their hands that it caused a general outcry in the country round about, no man knowing what was become of his friend or relation, if they were once seen by these merciless cannibals.

All the people in the adjacent parts were at last alarmed at such a common loss of their neighbours and acquaintance; for there was no travelling in safety near the den of these wretches. This occasioned the sending frequent spies into these parts, many of whom never returned again, and those who did, after the strictest search and inquiry, could not find how these melancholy matters happened. Several honest travellers were taken up on suspicion, and wrongfully hanged upon bare circumstances; several innocent inn- keepers were executed for no other reason than that persons who had been thus lost were known to have lain at their houses, which occasioned a suspicion of their being murdered by them and their bodies privately buried in obscure places to prevent a discovery. Thus an ill placed justice was executed with the greatest severity imaginable, in order to prevent these frequent atrocious deeds; so that not a few innkeepers, who lived on the Western Road of Scotland, left off their business, for fear of being made examples, and followed other employments. This on the other hand occasioned many great inconveniences to travellers, who were now in great distress for accommodation for themselves and their horses when they were dis- posed to bait, or put up for lodging at night. In a word, the whole country was almost depopulated.

Still the King's subjects were missing as much as before; so that it was the admiration of the whole kingdom how such villainies could be carried on and the villains not be found out. A great many had been executed, and not one of them all made any confession at the gallows, but stood to it at the last that they were perfectly innocent of the crimes for which they suffered. When the magistrates found all was in vain, they left off these rigorous proceedings, and trusted wholly to Providence for the bringing to light the authors of these unparalleled barbarities, when it should seem proper to the Divine wisdom.

Sawney's family was at last grown very large, and every branch of it, as soon as able, assisted in perpetrating their wicked deeds, which they still followed with impunity. Sometimes they would attack four, five or six foot men together, but never more than two if they were on horse- back. They were, moreover, so careful that not one whom they set upon should escape, that an ambuscade was placed on every side to secure them, let them fly which way they would, provided it should ever so happen that one or more got away from the first assailants. How was it possible they should be detected, when not one that saw them ever saw anybody else afterwards? The place where they inhabited was quite solitary and lonesome; and when the tide came up, the water went for near two hundred yards into their subterraneous habitation, which reached almost a mile under- ground; so that when some who had been sent armed to search all the by-places about had passed by the mouth of their cave, they had never taken any notice of it, not supposing that anything human would reside in such a place of perpetual horror and darkness.

The number of the people these savages destroyed was never exactly known, but it was generally computed that in the twenty-five years they continued their butcheries they had washed their hands in eke blood of a thousand, at least, men, women and children. The manner how they were at last discovered was as follows.

A man and.his wife behind him on the same horse coming one evening home from a fair, and falling into the ambuscade of these merciless wretches, they fell upon them in a most furious manner. The man, to save himself as well as he could, fought very bravely against them with sword and pistol, riding some of them down, by main force of his horse. In the conflict the poor woman fell from behind him, and was instantly murdered before her husband's face; for the female cannibals cut her throat and fell to sucking her blood with as great a gust as if it had been wine. This done, they ripped up her belly and pulled out all her entrails. Such a dreadful spectacle made the man make the more obstinate resistance, as expecting the same fate if he fell into their hands. It pleased Providence, while he was engaged, that twenty or thirty from the same fair came together in a body; upon which Sawney Beane and his bloodthirsty clan withdrew, and made the best of their way through a thick wood to their den.

This man, who was the first that had ever fallen in their way and came off alive, told the whole company what had happened, and showed them the horrid spectacle of his wife, whom the murderers had dragged to some distance, but had not time to carry her entirely off. They were all struck with stupefaction and amazement at what he related, took him with them to Glasgow, and told the affair to the provost of that city, who immediately sent to the King concerning it.
In about three or four days after, his Majesty himself in person, with a body of about four hundred men, set out for the place where this dismal tragedy was acted, in order to search all the rocks and thickets, that, if possible, they might apprehend this hellish cure, which had been so long pernicious to all the western parts of the kingdom.

The man who had been attacked was the guide, and care was taken to have a large number of bloodhounds with them, that no human means might be wanting towards their putting an entire end to these cruelties.

No sign of any habitation was to be found for a long time, and even when they came to the wretches' cave they took no notice of it, but were going to pursue their search along the seashore, the tide being then out. But some of the bloodhounds luckily entered this Cimmerian den, and instantly set up a most hideous barking, howling and yelping; so that the King, with his attendants, came back, and looked into it. They could not yet tell how to conceive that anything human could be concealed in a place where they saw nothing but darkness. Never the less, as the bloodhounds increased their noise, went farther in, and refused to come back again, they began to imagine there was some reason more than ordinary. Torches were now immediately sent for, and a great many men ventured in through the most intricate turnings and windings, till at last they arrived at that private recess from all the world which was the habitation of these monsters.

Now the whole body, or as many of them as could, went in, and were all so shocked at what they beheld that they were almost ready to sink into the earth. Legs, arms, thighs, hands and feet of men, women and children were hung up in rows, like dried beef. A great many limbs lay in pickle, and a great mass of money, both gold and silver, with watches, rings, swords, pistols, and a large quantity of clothes, both linen and woollen, and an infinite number of other things, which they had taken from those whom they had murdered, were thrown together in heaps, or hung up against the sides of the den.

Sawney's family at this time, besides him, consisted of his wife, eight sons, six daughters, eighteen grandsons, and fourteen granddaughters, who were all begotten in incest.
These were all seized and pinioned by his Majesty's order in the first place; then they took what human flesh they found and buried it in the sands; afterwards loading themselves with the spoils which they found, they returned to Edinburgh with their prisoners, all the country, as they passed along, flocking to see this cursed tribe. When they were come to their journey's end, the wretches were all committed to the Tolbooth, from whence they were the next day conducted under a strong guard to Leith, where they were all executed without any process, it being thought needless to try creatures who were even professed enemies to mankind.

The men had their hands and legs severed from their bodies; by which amputations they bled to death in some hours. The wife, daughters and grandchildren, having been made spectators of this just punishment inflicted on the men, were afterwards burnt to death in three several fires. They all in general died without the least signs of repentance; but continued cursing and venting the most dreadful imprecations to the very last gasp of life.

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/newgate/beane.htm
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The question of the authority of the moral is one that disturbs the sensitive atheist. Many of our contemporaries find there is no answer, that all morality is relative and contingent. We could kill them. Who'd care? We could eat them. Maybe they're not really worth more than the lives of chickens after all. But even if they, the relativists, aren't worth dead birds, others likely are, and we should consider why we think so. We'll return next time to look further at this question. And we'll likely return to it again and again.

France to end State of Emergency: Trains Run on Time.

More news on the news the French government didn't want you to know:

France accused of covering up train gang attack
By John Lichfield in Paris
Published: 05 January 2006

Opposition politicians have accused the French government of covering up a sustained attack by a gang of 20 young people on a crowded train near Nice on New Year's Day.

The group robbed and sexually assaulted passengers at knifepoint, smashed windows and slashed seats. No information on the incident was released by the authorities, who announced that he New Year festivities had passed off without a widely feared resumption of the violence seen in deprived suburbs in November.

The Socialist former education and culture minister, Jack Lang, accused the government of "disinformation", and the Socialist Party said the Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, had imposed a "stupefying silence" on the attack. Details of the incident emerged only when two people appeared in court three days later, accused of robbery and sexual assault.

It was reported yesterday that more than 100 young people from deprived districts of Marseilles and Avignon had been escorted on to the train by police at Nice early on New Year's Day. The group, some of Arab or African origin and others white, had taken advantage of an offer from the French railways, the SNCF, to travel to Riviera resorts for New Year's Eve for only €1.20 (80p) return. After SNCF security officers left the train at St-Raphael, a gang of 20 terrorised passengers, stealing their wallets and phones and sexually assaulting two women. The train, bound for Marseilles and Lyon, was stopped at Les Arcs sur Argens while gendarmerie reinforcements were called. Six people were arrested.

M. Sarkozy blamed the SNCF yesterday, saying police had not been warned the bargain fares might attract trouble-makers.

After meeting SNCF officials to discuss the incident, the Interior Minister said he hoped to create a national railway police force with 1,000-1,500 officers.

He added that he would host a meeting next week with officials from the country's train, tram and subway systems to talk about ways to better co-ordinate transport security.

Opposition politicians have accused the French government of covering up a sustained attack by a gang of 20 young people on a crowded train near Nice on New Year's Day.

The group robbed and sexually assaulted passengers at knifepoint, smashed windows and slashed seats. No information on the incident was released by the authorities, who announced that he New Year festivities had passed off without a widely feared resumption of the violence seen in deprived suburbs in November.

The Socialist former education and culture minister, Jack Lang, accused the government of "disinformation", and the Socialist Party said the Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, had imposed a "stupefying silence" on the attack. Details of the incident emerged only when two people appeared in court three days later, accused of robbery and sexual assault.

It was reported yesterday that more than 100 young people from deprived districts of Marseilles and Avignon had been escorted on to the train by police at Nice early on New Year's Day. The group, some of Arab or African origin and others white, had taken advantage of an offer from the French railways, the SNCF, to travel to Riviera resorts for New Year's Eve for only €1.20 (80p) return. After SNCF security officers left the train at St-Raphael, a gang of 20 terrorised passengers, stealing their wallets and phones and sexually assaulting two women. The train, bound for Marseilles and Lyon, was stopped at Les Arcs sur Argens while gendarmerie reinforcements were called. Six people were arrested.

M. Sarkozy blamed the SNCF yesterday, saying police had not been warned the bargain fares might attract trouble-makers.

After meeting SNCF officials to discuss the incident, the Interior Minister said he hoped to create a national railway police force with 1,000-1,500 officers.

He added that he would host a meeting next week with officials from the country's train, tram and subway systems to talk about ways to better co-ordinate transport security.

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article336549.ece

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French Riviera gang terrorises passengers in two-hour train rampage
By Colin Randall
(Filed: 05/01/2006)

Hundreds of passengers were terrorised by a mob of youths rampaging through a train on the French Riviera.

One young woman was sexually assaulted, travellers were robbed of phones and cash, and carriages were wrecked in the two-hour assault, it emerged yesterday.

Up to 40 youths involved in the attacks had taken advantage of a special fare of about 80p to travel from Marseilles and Avignon to celebrate the New Year in Nice.

They were part of a larger group of 100, many drunk from their overnight festivities and escorted by police to Nice station for their return journey at dawn on Sunday.

A small police team accompanied the Lyons-bound train at first. But trouble broke out soon after their departure.

Eventually the driver stopped the train at Les Arc-sur-Argens to appeal for extra police assistance. Only three officers turned up and violence continued as they awaited reinforcements before boarding the train. The line was blocked for an hour and a half as police gained control of the train.

Passengers spoke of being warned they would be killed if they refused to hand over belongings or told police what had happened.

They said they were too frightened to intervene and several refused to lodge complaints of theft or assault.

"It was a real scene of pillage on the train," the regional prosecutor, Dominique Luiggi, said yesterday as details emerged. "Passengers were in a state of panic."

One witness said there had already been assaults and threats, including other indecent attacks on young women, on Saturday's outward journey.

He said the robbers were of Arab origin and had boasted about their plans to cause more trouble on the train.

President Jacques Chirac promised yesterday to bring the gang to justice. He said those responsible would be "found and punished".

France's Le Parisien newspaper likened the youths to the gang in the film Clockwork Orange.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/05/wgang05.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/05/ixworld.html
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More on the cover-up of the great train robbery, beatings, rape....

More here in French

Mas ici en Francais

Mas aqui en el ferrocaril banditos en Francesa

http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=348950

Thank you, Merci, Gracias: Pastorius from/desde Cuanas
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Train Nice-Lyon: la SNCF plaide non coupable

Le directeur SNCF de la région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur a estimé mercredi ne pas avoir minimisé la gravité des incidents survenus le 1er janvier dans un train assurant la liaison entre Nice et Lyon.

par REUTERS
LIBERATION.FR : mercredi 04 janvier 2006 - 18:21

Yoots Attack 600 French on Train.

Happy New Year from France, where a gang of 20 to 30 "yoots" swarmed a commuter train and robbed, beat, and raped civilians in what is comparable to a major terrorist attack in Spain, England, or America. There are two accounts in French below, and one in English that happens to mention at the end that three of those involved were Moroccan. The rest? Well, likely Quakers. Said one Muslim to a French girl:

"We will kill you. You will croak."

Where is the media coverage of 600 people terrorized by Muslims? On blogs. We'll update this as we can.
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Chirac vows to hunt down train gang

From correspondents in Paris

January 04, 2006 FRENCH President Jacques Chirac has vowed to bring to justice a gang that terrorised hundreds of train passengers in a long rampage of violence, robbery and sexual assault on New Year's Day.

The two hour criminal frenzy by between 20 and 30 youths was "totally unacceptable," he saidr.

"Those guilty will be found and punished as they deserve."

The gang boarded the train, bound from Nice on the French Riviera to Lyon, in eastern France, early on January 1, as it carried 600 passengers home from New Year's Eve partying overnight.

Once inside, they went wild, forcing passengers to hand over mobile telephones and wallets, and slashing seats and breaking windows.

A 20-year-old woman cornered by several of the marauders was sexually molested.

Train staff alerted police, and the train pulled into a station to wait.

The three officers who initially turned up had to wait for reinforcements before boarding, during which time the youths continued to cause trouble.

The train then resumed its journey with a heavy police presence aboard but, just before Marseille, the youths pulled the emergency stop and escaped by running along the tracks.

Only three - two 19-year-old Moroccans and a minor, all living in France - were arrested.

Both men were being held for robbery and one was also facing charges of sexual assault.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17733327%255E1702,00.html
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L'effroyable voyage des passagers du Nice-Lyon

Une bande de délinquants a terrorisé et dépouillé les passagers du train Nice-Lyon en gare des Arcs dans le Var le 1er janvier. Deux suspects ont été placés en détention provisoire à l'issue de leur comparution immédiate devant le tribunal correctionnel de Draguignan. La justice tentera de faire la lumière sur ces accusations le 6 mars prochain.

Créé le 03 janvier 2006
Mis à jour le 03 janvier 2006 à 22h08

Une vingtaine de jeunes gens au moins, dont trois seulement ont pu être interpellés, ont écumé un train Nice-Lyon en gare des Arcs (Var) le jour du Nouvel An, semant la terreur parmi les 600 passagers, dont certains ont été violentés et rançonnés.

Deux jeunes gens de 19 ans, soupçonnés d'avoir participé à cette équipée sauvage, ont été placés en détention provisoire à l'issue de leur comparution immédiate lundi devant le tribunal correctionnel de Draguignan, dans l'attente de leur procès, renvoyé au 6 mars. Les deux prévenus de nationalité marocaine devront répondre de vols en réunion et, en plus pour l'un des deux, d'atteinte sexuelle en réunion. L'un des deux serait en situation irrégulière sur le territoire, selon le parquet qui procédait à des vérifications. Un mineur, également arrêté, sera jugé séparément.

Billets à 1,20 euro

Il est 07H00 le 1er janvier: l'arrêt en gare des Arcs du train Nice-Lyon, prévu pour ne durer que quelques minutes, se transforme en scène de Far-West. A bord du train bondé, plusieurs bandes de jeunes, entre 20 et 30 personnes en tout, selon les témoins, sèment la terreur.

Selon les gendarmes, ils font partie d'un groupe d'une centaine de jeunes des Bouches-du-Rhône et du Vaucluse, descendus la veille réveillonner et faire la fête à Nice, Cannes et Fréjus, grâce au tarif spécial Nouvel An à 1,20 euro mis en place par la SNCF sur les lignes régionales.

Le lendemain, ils reprennent le premier Corail Nice-Lyon. Dès le départ de Nice, des incidents sont signalés. Des passagers sont dépouillés de leur téléphone portable. Des bousculades surviennent. Un couple de Parisiens de 25 ans est méthodiquement dépouillé de ses portefeuilles, cartes bancaires, téléphones portables. Prise à partie par tout un groupe, une jeune fille de 20 ans, domiciliée à Besançon, subit des violences sexuelles. "T'es mort. Tu vas crever!", lancent certains des agresseurs à l'encontre de passagers qui ont osé alerter des contrôleurs.

Apeurés, des voyageurs s'enferment dans les compartiments. "C'était une véritable scène de pillage du train", a raconté lundi à l'audience le procureur de Draguignan, Dominique Luiggi. Le chef contrôleur fait alors usage de son "droit de retrait", appelle les gendarmes, et prend la décision de stopper le train en gare des Arcs, estimant que la sécurité des passagers n'est plus assurée.

"Mouvements de panique"

Des gendarmes arrivent. Il ne sont que trois et doivent, de plus, attendre un dépôt de plainte formelle de la SNCF avant de monter à bord, d'où le délai de blocage en gare d'une heure et demie, explique Alain Wiart, directeur de la communication de la SNCF de la région PACA.

Pendant ce temps, les jeunes continuent leurs saccages: poubelles renversées, sièges et rideaux lacérés, vitres fendues. Des "mouvements de panique" sont observés parmi les 600 passagers du train, rapporte le procureur.

Trois jeunes, dont un mineur, sont alors interpellés en gare des Arcs. Il faudra l'intervention massive de renforts de diverses brigades de gendarmerie ainsi que de pelotons de surveillance et d'intervention de Draguignan et de Fréjus, qui montent à bord, pour que le train puisse repartir.

Peu avant l'arrivée en gare à Marseille, dans la confusion générale la plupart des jeunes toujours à bord, parviennent à s'échapper. Ils tirent le signal d'alarme et s'enfuient sur les voies, au péril de leur vie. Selon la SNCF, ce train avait bien fait l'objet d'un accompagnement par la police ferroviaire et un chien, mais seulement entre Nice et Saint-Raphaël. La SNCF a porté plainte pour vandalisme.

D'après AFP

http://news.tf1.fr/news/france/0,,3276662,00.html

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PARIS (Reuters) - L'affaire du train Nice-Lyon, où quelque 600 passagers ont été terrorisés par des jeunes le 1er janvier, a tourné à la polémique politique mercredi, le Parti socialiste interpellant Jacques Chirac et Nicolas Sarkozy.

Le ministre de l'Intérieur, qui devait intervenir au 20h00 de TF1, a reçu en fin d'après-midi le P-DG de la SNCF, Louis Gallois, "pour tirer les leçons de ces incidents", a indiqué la place Beauvau dans un communiqué.

Signe d'une effervescence certaine, un second communiqué du ministère de l'Intérieur a rappelé qu'après celui de Paris, trois services régionaux de sécurisation des transports en commun avaient été créés à Marseille, Lyon et Lille depuis septembre 2005.

La SNCF a de son côté fait savoir que seules deux des dix voitures du train n°17430 avaient été dégradées, avec des portes cassées et des sièges lacérés et souillés.

Deux personnes ont été dépouillées de leurs portefeuilles et téléphones portables, "menacées verbalement mais sans violence physique", et une jeune femme majeure a été victime "d'attouchements à caractère sexuel", a précisé la SNCF.

Les incidents se sont produits en moins d'une demi-heure entre les gares de Saint-Raphaël et des Arcs, où les gendarmes sont intervenus et ont procédé à trois interpellations, dont celle d'une personne mineure.

Les deux jeunes majeurs ont été écroués en attendant leur comparution, le 6 mars prochain, devant le tribunal correctionnel de Draguignan.

D'autres incidents sont survenus peu avant l'entrée du train en gare de Marseille. "Se doutant qu'ils étaient attendus par la police, des jeunes ont tiré le signal d'alarme pour faire stopper le train et descendre sur le ballast. Certains ont jeté des pierres sur les voitures", a indiqué la SNCF, qui a déposé dimanche une plainte pour les agressions et une seconde pour vandalisme.

Des responsables des forces de l'ordre ont reconnu avoir escorté dimanche matin en gare de Nice et laissé partir une centaine de jeunes Marseillais venus fêter le réveillon sur la Côte d'Azur grâce au billet à 1,20 euro offert par la SNCF et la région PACA à l'occasion du Nouvel An.

LA GAUCHE ATTAQUE SUR LA SÉCURITÉ

A seize mois de la présidentielle, se souvenant sans doute de la campagne de la droite sur l'insécurité, qui avait fortement déstabilisé le socialiste Lionel Jospin, contribuant à son élimination dès le premier tour en 2002, l'opposition s'est emparée de cette affaire.

Le Parti socialiste a dénoncé "le silence assourdissant" de Nicolas Sarkozy. "Pourquoi ces faits d'une extrême gravité datant de dimanche ne sont révélés que trois jours après?", a-t-il demandé dans un communiqué.

Le premier secrétaire du PS, François Hollande, a interpellé Jacques Chirac et Nicolas Sarkozy sur ces agressions "d'une exceptionnelle gravité". Il a reproché au chef de l'Etat de se contenter de "dresser des constats d'impuissance" face au "durcissement" de la délinquance depuis quatre ans en France.

"Faut-il lui rappeler que son rôle n'est pas celui d'une autorité morale faite de compassion, de dénonciation ou de regrets, mais qu'il a fait campagne en 2002 sur l'insécurité et qu'il en est aujourd'hui à dresser des constats d'impuissance", a dit le numéro un du PS.

François Hollande a dénoncé "la défaillance du gouvernement" et raillé "les déclarations d'autosatisfaction des plus hautes autorités de l'Etat" en matière de délinquance.

Il a interpellé "directement" le ministre de l'Intérieur, à qui il a reproché d'avoir "tardé à donner l'information sur les faits eux-mêmes" et de vouloir faire "reposer sur la SNCF une responsabilité qui n'est pas la sienne".

Nicolas Sarkozy a déploré le manque de communication de la SNCF avec les forces de l'ordre et affirmé qu'il n'avait cherché ni à dissimulé ni à minimiser les agressions.

"Pour des raisons que j'ignore, la sécurité propre à la SNCF s'est arrêtée à un moment donné sans que les services de gendarmerie ou de police aient été prévenus", a-t-il dit.

"Le problème c'est que les services de sécurité ne savaient pas qu'il y avait une opération de promotion tarifaire de la SNCF" sur ce train, a dit le numéro deux du gouvernement.

Jacques Chirac, qui présentait ses voeux à la presse, a jugé "totalement inacceptables" les agressions qui ont été perpétrées dans le train et affirmé que les coupables seraient "recherchés et punis comme il se doit".

"Les forces de l'ordre et la SNCF doivent évidemment assurer la sécurité des voyageurs", a-t-il souligné.

http://www.boursier.com/vals/all/feed.asp?id=8405

Much Bull, Some Dozer

Presbyterians go choking bonkers when they see they're making money from investments in Caterpillar Corporation, the same company that Israelis get bulldozers from in their efforts to build a wall to keep terrorists from murdering civilians. The Presbyterians pull out of Caterpillar rather than taint their souls by profiting from dealing with those who deal with Israel. They're so fucking moral.

Rachel Corrie, air-head extraordinaire, also extra flattened, died when she tossed her idiot self in the path of an oncoming wall. Corrie's idiot parents, not smart enough to raise a child with the sense to survive, have now come close to being kidnapped by same victims of Israeli aggression, like the idiot Burton dhimmis. No doubt the Presbyterians, finding the Muslims easier to deal with than the Israelis will find some new and disgusting way to send more kids to their deaths to make themselves even more righteous in their own mirrors.

Below we have some bulldozer stories. One can only long for the day when Presbyterian churches are set alight in Gaza and all the dhimmi scum inside are cooked.
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In other chaos, Palestinian gunmen burst into a Rafah house early Wednesday and tried to kidnap the parents of Rachel Corrie, who was killed in 2003 as she protested the impending demolition of a house in the southern Gaza town, according to a witness.

The five gunmen appeared to be affiliated with the ruling Fatah movement, according to Samir Nasrallah, the Corries' host, though it was not clear if they were from the same group that blockaded the border. The gunmen eventually relented after being told who their targets were, he said.

Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in 2003 as she tried to stop it from demolishing Nasrallah's house. Her parents, Craig and Cindy, have repeatedly visited Nasrallah since their daughter's death. They left Gaza safely after the attempted kidnapping, Nasrallah said.

By IBRAHIM BARZAK | Associated Press
January 4, 2006

RAFAH, Gaza Strip - Palestinian militants, angry at the jailing of their leader by the Palestinian police, stole two bulldozers Wednesday and rammed through a wall near the border with Egypt, hours after they blocked the official border crossing and took over government buildings.

The gunmen, who belong to the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a violent offshoot of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party, rammed through massive wall as a show of force against the Palestinian Authority. They had not yet breached a second wall that is directly on the border with Egypt, according to an Associated Press photographer there.

The militants' rampage through the southern Gaza town of Rafah underscored the growing lawlessness in Palestinian towns, especially in Gaza. Abbas, who has condemned the chaos, has been unable to impose order, and his failure to keep the gunmen in check is expected to harm Fatah's prospects in Jan. 25 parliament elections.

Fatah-affiliated vigilantes demanding government jobs or the release of imprisoned friends have been responsible for much of the anarchy, particularly since Israel's pullout from Gaza in September.

The tightly run Islamic militant Hamas, whose followers have rarely been involved in vigilante violence, is expected to do well in the vote against the corruption-tainted Fatah.

The rampage began late Tuesday, when Palestinian intelligence arrested Alaa al-Hams, an Al Aqsa militant, on suspicion he and his followers kidnapped human rights activist Kate Burton and her parents for two days last week. The Burtons were among 19 foreigners abducted by Fatah gunmen in Gaza in recent months. All have been freed unharmed.

Al-Hams followers then fired at the Palestinian security headquarters in the southern town of Rafah where he was held. Police and gunmen fired in the air, but there were no injuries.

On Wednesday morning, some 40 masked gunmen took over the central election office in Rafah, the local branch of the Palestinian parliament, a court and another government building. Gunmen were seen on rooftops, inside the buildings and posted at the main doors. Most workers fled the buildings.

A truckload of gunmen then drove to the nearby Rafah border crossing with Egypt, Gaza's main gate to the world.

Firing in the air, they closed the entrance gate to the crossing compound and told waiting passengers to leave the area. They also set up an impromptu checkpoint at the access road to the crossing, turning away travelers.

They left the buildings and the crossing after three hours.

But hours later, with al-Hams still in jail, the militants stole two bulldozers in Rafah and led an impromptu parade of hundreds of jubilant residents toward a massive wall a few hundred meters from the border. Five militants rode in the shovel of one bulldozer, while children held onto the back of the vehicle.

"We are going to do everything we can to pressure the Authority to release our leader," said an Al Aqsa leader who gave his name as Abu Hassan.

The bulldozers smashed two holes in the large wall at the same spot where Hamas militants had blasted through the towering concrete barrier during the border chaos that followed Israel's Gaza pullout. Palestinian security officials had closed the earlier hole with a patch of heavy concrete blocks, but those quickly gave way before the bulldozer's shovel Wednesday.

Hundreds of Palestinians swarmed into the Philadelphi border corridor as militants shot in the air.

"Many people walked through. The Palestinian police can't stop them," said Fawzi Shaheen, a 26-year old Rafah resident who ran toward the border.

Egyptian tanks and dozens of soldiers _ some of whom fired in the air themselves _ prevented the Palestinians from jumping the small wall, which marks the official border, on the other side of the corridor, according to journalists there. Palestinian youth retaliated by throwing stones.

The Rafah crossing was handed to Palestinian control, under European supervision, as part of a U.S.-brokered deal with Israel last month. Since then, the crossing was forced to shut down several times during attacks by gunmen.

Salima Abu Maghaseeb, 42, said she was angry over the disruption of her plans to travel to Egypt with her daughter for her daughter's wedding later in the week.

"I don't know why the Palestinian Authority is allowing them to do this," said Abu Maghaseeb, who had her documents checked at the impromptu roadblock. "Those people should use their guns ... to protect people and not to come and terrify us. They can go to the border and clash with the Israelis. God only knows what the future holds for Gaza."

A spokesman for the European observers, Julio de la Guardia, said the disruptions outside the crossing was an internal Palestinian matter. "Our functioning at the border crossing has not been disturbed," he said.
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/37270.html

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Palestinians are garbage people. They are the trash of the Human race. They should all be locked up in lunatic asylums till they die. And they should have Presbyterians for company. The lot of these scums should all commit suicide and leave the rest of us to enjoy our lives in peace. If they won't, then one can only hope someone will help them along.
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Thousands of Egyptian Interior Ministry troops swarmed the border, firing tear gas and shooting into the air. An Egyptian armored vehicle was set ablaze and a witness said three Palestinians were injured - one seriously, when a troop carrier crushed him against a wall. http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/ap/2006/01/04/ap2427708.html
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Christmas Solidarity: Activists, Media and Churches Unite with Palestinian People and Boycott Apartheid Israel
Worldwide Activism, Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, December 28th, 2005

Christmas celebrations around the world were this year used by solidarity activists to remind the public of the dramatic and ongoing ghettoization of Bethlehem and the rest of Palestine. Journalists wrote countless features describing the imprisonment of Palestinians in Bethlehem, and Church leaders used their Christmas sermons and services to call for justice for the Palestinian people and to urge international solidarity with those under Occupation and imprisoned behind the Apartheid Wall.

In Oslo, the Norwegian Boycott Campaign distributed Spanish and Moroccan clementines and oranges as "Christmas presents" to festive shoppers in order to highlight just how easy it is to find alternatives and boycott Apartheid Israel. 50 kilos of clementines were handed out, together with boycott leaflets to an overwhelmingly supportive Norwegian public.

As Palestinians in the city of Bethlehem prepared for the annual Christmas services at the Church of the Nativity, Christian leaders drew particular attention to the current suffering of the city that is the traditional focus of global Christmas celebrations.

The international catholic grassroots movement Pax Christi organised visits to Bethlehem for the sixth successive Christmas. Representatives of Pax Christi presented Palestinian groups in Bethlehem with Christmas messages of support from hundreds of Christians and churches worldwide condemning the Wall, land theft and the brutal Occupation.

Catholic leaders in Jerusalem itself denounced the Occupation and described Bethlehem and the rest of the West Bank as an "immense prison".

In London, the Archbishop of Westminster – the leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales – urged people to visit Bethlehem to resist what he described as the Occupation's "blockade". Describing the inhabitants of the city as "terribly alone" and "trapped in" behind the Wall and Occupation checkpoints, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor used his Midnight Mass sermon – one of the biggest of the year – to demand, "Let Bethlehem be what it is meant to be: a free and open city."

A movement called Churches Together In Britain and Ireland (CTBI) – incorporating churches across the full spectrum of denominations including Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Pentecostal and more – denounced the Occupation and the Wall in a specially issued Christmas statement. Describing Bethlehem as a virtual prison for 160,000 people, and condemning the closure of the historic Bethlehem-Jerusalem road to the great majority of Palestinians, CTBI described the Wall there as "a grave injustice to its people, a serious threat to its economic life and social fabric, and an affront to all Christians."

The spirit of solidarity and resistance was also present in other traditional Christmas events. In Oxford, Cardiff, London and many more cities across the UK, activists held "Alternative Christmas Carol Services" accompanying traditional carol singing with songs of resistance to the Occupation. The carol singers also handed out leaflets and posters drawing attention to the injustices of the Occupation.

Bethlehem is increasingly becoming one of the areas of the West Bank worst hit by the continued expansion of the Apartheid Wall. More than 20,000 Palestinians in the Bethlehem district will be isolated behind the Wall and villages such as Nahhalin, Battir, Hussan and Wadi Fukin will find themselves imprisoned. The Wall slices right through the heart of the city of Bethlehem itself, passing just streets away from the Church of the Nativity and Manger Square and completely sealing off and annexing Rachel's Tomb to the Occupation.
stopthewall.org/latestnews/948.shtml

Sarko en Blog

Bloggers might be lying incompetents with no credibility but that puts them right up there with the MSM if it's true. The weasels in the mainstream media are so full of their supposed self-importance, which even they can't believe in anymore unless they're held hostage by Presbyterian dhimmis and get their pretty faces on TV to see themselves in all their idiot glory, that fewer people every day are even pretending to take them seriously. Politicians lie for a living. We all know that. And more and more people are coming to realise that the MSM lies for a living too. More people all the time now choose to compare the varied works of bloggers to make some sense out of what the world is about. Yes, even politicians are understanding how irrelevant the MSM is becoming. The conformity weasels can find work as department store mannequins when the whole commercial media edifice crashes.
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Mon Dieu, A Media Breakthrough
Presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy is the first to make his pitch in a podcast

Nicolas Sarkozy, the law-and-order Interior Minister who wants to be France's next President, rarely passes up a chance to speak before an audience. So when Loïc Le Meur, one of the country's most widely read bloggers, approached him about doing a podcast interview, the answer was mais oui.

The Dec. 22 interview has created a sensation in the French blogosophere. It has attracted more than 50,000 views on Le Meur's blog, www.loiclemeur.com, and has been picked up by scores of other French blogs. True, that's a small audience compared with the millions that tune in to the nightly TV newscasts. But in France, the Sarkozy podcast -- the first ever by a French political leader -- qualified as a watershed event. Equally startling to the French, Sarkozy and Le Meur broke with customary etiquette by addressing each other with the familiar "tu" rather than "vous" during their meeting. Hundreds of viewers have posted messages on Le Meur's site in recent days, showing that French politicians can no longer ignore the growing importance of nontraditional media (BW -- July 11).

Still, the interview in the Interior Ministry's elegantly appointed drawing room didn't generate any headline news. Le Meur and Sarkozy chatted amiably about the Internet and podcasting, and Sarkozy described how, as head of the ruling Union for a Popular Majority, he has used e-mail appeals to boost party membership. On a more controversial subject, Sarkozy defended his handling of the recent rioting in the suburbs of Paris and other cities. Critics have said that Sarkozy's tough policing methods stirred unrest among minorities and that he spurred more violence when he referred to rioters as "rabble."

Le Meur says some journalists have criticized him for going too easy on Sarkozy. But, he says: "I didn't want to be confrontational. I did this mainly for my own enjoyment and to learn more myself." .... Although he admits he has little expertise in either journalism or politics, Le Meur says many French journalists have lost objectivity in their coverage of Sarkozy. A recent interview with him in the left-wing newspaper Libération, for example, included the question: "Weren't you ashamed of the way you responded to the riots?"
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_02/b3966059.htm
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In time more and more bloggers will find themselves subject to politicians begging for interviews because no one bothers with television and newspapers. In fact, if George's secretary calls my secretary I think I can find a few minutes for him next week. Jacques, sorry, mon ami, you're out of luck.