Theodore Dalrymple om diktatorer

Jep. Diktatur. Det er det, der er fremtiden:

Dictatorship: The Wave of the Future?

by Theodore Dalrymple – November 2011

No one ever deserved a grisly death more than the late Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, but this is only a proof – if such a proof were needed – that justice is far from the only human desideratum. Gaddafi was responsible for untold misery, its amount limited only by the relative insignificance and impotence of the country in which he seized power; but when I first saw the photograph of him taken, lying bloodied but conscious, by a French photographer (a photograph that is surely destined for such immortality as the world can confer), I felt for him what I did not think I could ever feel for him – compassion. The fact is that no one should die as he died, or be killed as he was killed.

Other dictators have met grisly ends, of course. Mussolini was strung up, Ceausescu shot and Saddam Hussein hanged, all unceremoniously and without dignity. It is possible, even, that Gaddafi’s death was not absolutely the worst suffered by a tyrant in the last hundred years. President Guillaume Sam was dragged out of the French Embassy in Port-au-Prince, in which he had taken refuge, by an enraged mob, impaled on railings, cut into pieces and his parts exhibited in the city. President Sam was no guardian angel of the rule of law: he had just had 169 political prisoners summarily executed, but this should not prevent us from accepting as a basic moral principle that impaling and cutting up people is wrong.

Mere HER i The New English Review. Og om sundhedshysteri:

E.Coli in Organic Food Leads to 50 Dead in Germany

Theodore Dalrymple – November 7, 2011

Perhaps health-food and vitamin supplements should be labelled, “Warning: Over-Concern for Your Health May Be Damaging to Your Health.”

As everyone knows, Mother Nature not only knows best but means us no harm: and therefore, the less we mess around with her and her products, the better. Although many people may have remarked, more in sorrow than in anger, how small and shriveled organic vegetables often appear by comparison with those that have been treated with chemicals, it is obvious that they (the organic ones) must be better for us because they are nearer to what Mother Nature intended.

This item of faith took something of a knock recently with the outbreak of Shiga-toxin-producing E. coli food poisoning in Germany. It was no small matter: more than 4000 people suffered from it and more than 50 died.

Mere HER hos Pajamas Media.

Opdatering 13. november 2011 – Dalrymple om mobiltelefoner:

The Cellular Telephone and its Discontents

by Theodore Dalrymple – November 11, 2011

A new study claims that cell phones don’t cause tumors. Which doesn’t mean that they don’t cause other forms of harm.

When I am a pedestrian I am frequently astonished by the carelessness and selfishness of drivers. When I am driving I am frequently astonished by the carelessness and selfishness of pedestrians. Equally astonishing, of course, is the way I can change the behavior of people so profoundly by the mere act of getting in or out of a car.

Mere HER i Pajamas Media.

Theodore Dalrymple om Nordkorea

En boganmeldelse:

The Meaning of Pyongyang

by Theodore Dalrymple – September 2011

There are some countries that, once visited, retain a disproportionate hold on your imagination. Among them, for me at least, are Haiti and Liberia, two small states that are known to the world at large principally for their political, and sometimes for their natural, catastrophes. They are marginal from the point of view of the world economy, I need hardly say, and yet their history has something about it that makes it seem significant beyond itself. No one, I think, can study the early history of either country without being moved by it; and just as the biography of a single person can also be a portrait of an age, so the history of an otherwise insignificant country can tell us something important about the human predicament as a whole, for example our tendency to turn liberation into a new form of servitude.

Mere HER i New English Review.

Audio og artikel: Theodore Dalrymple – igen om vold i England

Theodore Dalrymple tror, at det handler om at vælge de rette økonomiske incitamenter. Det gør det ikke. Det handler om kultur og religion. Selv FN aner ikke, hvad de skal stille op, nu hvor modellen ”best practices” er slået fejl. Hvad kan det dog være, der går galt? En del af de konservative fatter lige så lidt som venstrefløjen. Man kan følge med i en komplet udskrift her. Varer knap 5 minutter:

British commentator blames welfare system for riots

One conservative British social commentator believes the riots that have swept the country were entirely predictable, if only the ruling elite had eyes to see it.

Theodore Dalrymple is a retired prison psychiatrist who’s been writing for years in British papers and magazines about what he sees as a welfare-addicted, under-educated underclass. Mr Dalrymple says the solution is to dismantle the social security and education system as well as liberalise the labour laws, then let those who refuse to work, starve.

He told Matt Peacock the current violence came as no surprise.

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player.

Where youth admire criminality

By Theodore Dalrymple – August 12, 2011

Only the wilfully blind could have been surprised by the scale or ferocity of the riots that have engulfed Britain in the past week. Unfortunately, most of the country’s political and intellectual class have been wilfully blind for years, in a state of the most abject denial; a brief walk in any of our cities should have been enough to tell them all that they needed to know.

How anyone could have missed the aggressive malignity inscribed in the faces and manner of so many young men in Britain is a mystery to me. Perhaps, like Dr Watson, our political and intellectual class saw but did not observe; and they did not observe because they lacked the moral courage to attempt anything but appeasement.

Mere HER i The Deccan Chronicle.  Dalrymple snakker godt for sin syge moster:

British rioters the spawn of a bankrupt ruling elite

Theodore Dalrymple – August 11, 2011

The riots in London and elsewhere in Britain are a backhanded tribute to the long-term intellectual torpor, moral cowardice, incompetence and careerist opportunism of the British political and intellectual class.

They have somehow managed not to notice what has long been apparent to anyone who has taken a short walk with his eyes open down any frequented British street: that a considerable proportion of the country’s young population (a proportion that is declining) is ugly, aggressive, vicious, badly educated, uncouth and criminally inclined.

Unfortunately, while it is totally lacking in self-respect, it is full of self-esteem: that is to say, it believes itself entitled to a high standard of living, and other things, without any effort on its own part.

Mere HER i The Australian.

Video: Lisa Anderson om Mellemøsten

En øjenvidneberetning fra opstanden i Egypten og insiderviden om Tunesien og Libyen. Der er mange interessante og ukendte detaljer her. Det er en optimist, vi hører. Fra 25. marts 2011:

President Lisa Anderson Speaks at the Carnegie Council on Arab Uprisings

As president of the American University of Cairo, Lisa Anderson was a witness to the recent protests in Tahrir Square. In this fascinating talk, she analyses the significant political and economic transformation taking place across the Arab world.

Man kan følge med i en komplet udskrift her hos Carnegie Council.

Reservelink: Kan også ses her hos Carnegie Council.

Audio: Edward Luttwak kritiserer indsats i Libyen

Fra programmet Background Briefing with Ian Masters den 24. marts 2011. Luttwak er virkelig fin her:

Criticism of NATO in Libya

Edward Luttwak discusses the ideas in his article, “Libya: It’s Not Our Fight.”

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 22 minutter.

Andre kilder: CSIS – Center for Strategic and International Studies,

Anne Bayefsky om Egypten og FN

The People of Egypt Were Abandoned By the U.N. For 30 Years

By Anne Bayefsky | February 03, 2011

There is one main reason why the Obama administration misjudged Egypt entirely – they cannot get their facts straight. For the last two years they have been busy defending the U.N. as an effective vehicle for promoting U.S. interests, in the name of engagement.

But for the three decades of Hosni Mubarak’s reign the U.N. has dedicated its human rights apparatus to demonizing the state of Israel and ignoring the human rights victims in Egypt and across the Arab world. As dissatisfaction and unrest have grown in the region over his presidency, the Obama administration failed to recognize the U.N.’s gross negligence or to take responsibility for ensuring an alternative vehicle to promote democracy. Instead, it legitimized the U.N.’s top human rights body, the Human Rights Council (HRC), by joining it.

Mere HER hos Fox News.

Fire artikler af Christopher Hitchens

The Blair Hitch Project

Since leaving 10 Downing Street, Tony Blair has faced continuing public condemnation for leading the U.K. into Iraq, converted to Catholicism, and plunged into the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Debating Blair in Toronto, the author finds the former prime minister battered but unapologetic.

By Christopher Hitchens – February 2011

Say “Toronto” or “Ontario” and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency. But this part of Canada also has its quixotic and romantic dimension. It was to here that the Tory loyalists fled the American Revolution. In the village of Deptford, Ontario, on the banks of the local river Thames, the great Canadian novelist Robertson Davies cast and situated a trilogy variously composed of the elements of magic and exile. One of his chief characters, Percy “Boy” Staunton, gives up much of his life and energy to the cause of the Prince of Wales, a once dashing and promising young blade who shatters and demoralizes his admirers by falling under the thrall of a designing woman and abdicating the throne without a fight.

Mere HER i Vanity Fair.

Latest Nixon tape buries Kissinger’s reputation

Christopher Hitchens – December 14, 2010

“The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern.” — Henry Kissinger

Over the last few weeks, this modest little column of mine has been acquiring an almost eerie prescience and potency. I called for the death sentence on Tariq Aziz to be commuted, and it was only a matter of days before the president of Iraq announced that he would not sign Aziz’s death warrant. I called for Julian Assange to turn himself in, and he appeared at a London police station within hours of my words being published. Small stuff, you say. Show us something with a bit more heft and handle to it. All right, how’s this? In a November column, I denounced the shameful offer made by the Obama administration to the Netanyahu Cabinet in Israel and called for it to be withdrawn. And last week, in a wretched and furtive manner that befitted its original taint of bribery and corruption, withdrawn it was. How do you like that?

Mere HER i National Post. Kan også læses her i Slate. Christopher Hitchens har skrevet mere om lydoptagelserne:

Mr. Kissinger, Have You No Shame?

Ignore the recent excuses. Henry Kissinger’s entire career was a series of massacres and outrages.

By Christopher Hitchens – Monday, Dec. 27, 2010

Until the most recent release of the Nixon/Kissinger tapes, what were the permitted justifications for saying in advance that the slaughter of Jews in gas chambers by a hostile foreign dictatorship would not be “an American concern”? Let’s agree that we do not know. It didn’t seem all that probable that the question would come up. Or, at least, not all that likely that the statement would turn out to have been made, and calmly received, in the Oval Office. I was present at Madison Square Garden in 1985 when Louis Farrakhan warned the Jews to remember that “when [God] puts you in the ovens, you’re there forever,” but condemnation was swift and universal, and, in any case, Farrakhan’s tenure in the demented fringe was already a given.

Under artiklen følger der en længere disput mellem The American Jewish Committee og Christopher Hitchens – læs mere HER i Slate. Kan også læses i National Post her.

The Pak-Af Problem

Are we committed to Afghanistan or to Hamid Karzai’s government?

By Christopher Hitchens – Dec. 20, 2010

Friends of his would enjoy disputing whether his heart or his ego was the larger, but it was sad to know, as Richard Holbrooke’s heart eventually burst, that he had strained a good deal of it in upholding a policy in which much of his best advice had been, or was being, ignored. He was frequently left off the Obama plane when sensitive talks with Pakistani officials were in prospect. He was publicly rebuked by the administration when he stated that almost every Pashtun family contained at least one Taliban sympathizer. His early warning about the stupidity of incinerating the Afghan poppy crop was often ignored. And his death coincided with the latest confused review of a policy—known as “Af-Pak”—whose very abbreviation contains the seeds of its own negation.

Mere HER i Slate.

Andre kilder: New York Times,

Video og artikel – Michelle Malkin

Det juridiske autokrati buldrer frem overalt. Multikulturalisternes rambuk. Demokratiets fjende nummer ét. Michelle Malkin rapporterer om deres nyeste overgreb:

Obama throws Arizona to U.N.’s human rights dogs

By: Michelle Malkin – September 1, 2010

An indignant President Obama complained last week, “I can’t spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead.” Fine.

How about plastering a copy of his presidential oath of office there instead? The kowtowing commander-in-chief is in dire need of a daily reminder that his job is to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” – not international law or global diktats.

Case in point: Last week, Obama’s State Department handed in America’s first-ever report to the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights in conjunction with something called the “Universal Periodic Review.” In short, the 29-page document is a self-aggrandizing report card touting the administration’s far-left domestic and foreign policy initiatives for the world’s approval.

 Læs mere i  The Washington Examiner HER.

Og video – ligeledes om indvandring:

Michelle Malkin and Jeffers Dodge discuss Secession, Illegal Immigration, the Future of America and Racism

On July 31, 2010, Stand With Arizona, State Senator Russell Pearce, and Black American Patriot Ted Hayes held a Summit and Rally to support SB1070 at the State Senate Building in Phoenix. The day prior, Al Sharpton’s Activist Network, and assorted Leftist extremist groups including socialists, communists, anarchists, liberation theologists, and reconquistas held demonstrations that led to civil disobedience and havoc in the streets of the Arizona capitol.

Michelle Malkin attended the Summit and contributed this interview. What you are seeing here is an abridgment of the full interview that will be in the documentary entitled Trumping the Race Card: Battleground Arizona.

Der er link til endnu en artikel af Michelle Malkin HER i The Daily News Record. Den handler om de uhyrlige påstande om racisme, der er fuldt i kølvandet på Katrina-katastrofen i New Orleans, som USA i disse dage markerer 5-året for.

I Niger er gennemsnitsalderen for førstegangsfødende 13 år

Men nu vil man – i det mindste i provinsen Zinder – sætte den tilladte ægteskabsalder op fra 11 til 15 år. Ja, du læste rigtigt! Aldersgrænsen er kun 11 år i øjeblikket – islams pædofile sharia tillader børneægteskaber efter “profetens” forbillede. Han giftede sig med en 6årig.

I Niger siger en lokal sultan i følge Aftenposten:

– Her i provinsen har vi problemer med tidlig bryllup og manglende skolegang for jenter. Noen jenter blir giftet bort når de er 11-12 år. Det er grunnen til at vi har problemer med fistel, sier sultan Mustapha. Fistel er en fødselsskade som blant annet rammer fødende som ikke har en voksen kropp.

– Vi mener at jenter ikke bør være yngre enn 15 år når de gifter seg. Koranen og andre hellige skrifter forbyr tidlig ekteskap, fastslår sultanen. Selv for eldre jenter må man vente til kroppen er moden nok før hun kan få barn, mener han.

Fistler er sprængninger i vævet i kvindernes underliv, der kan opstå under en fødsel. I væggene mellem skede, tarm, og/eller urinrør opstår der huller, der kan ikke vokse sammen igen. Urin og afføring siver konstant ud. De småpiger, som får den tilstand – for den rammer især de små barnemødre – bliver udstødt og må leve alene i hytter udenfor landsbyerne. De lugter og kan ikke tåle flere fødsler. De har mistet deres seksuelle værdi.

Kun 9 ud af 10 kan hjælpes med operation, men de færreste får den tilbudt. I praksis er deres invaliditet livsvarig.

Spædbarnsdødeligheden er enorm og mængden af hjerneskadede børn ligeså. De små babyer sidder fast i barnemoderens underudviklede bækken og de mange hjerneskader skyldes som regel iltmangel under de langtrukne fødsler. En fødsel kan vare op til 3 uger.

Omskæring er en anden hovedforklaring på den høje børnedødelighed. Man har skåret kvindernes kønsorganer af og fødselskanalen fungerer derfor ikke længere naturligt. Det arrede og sammensyede væv modarbejder fødslen. Arvævet bliver værre med årene, for efter hver fødsel sys kvinderne sammen igen. Når det er helet, skal manden endnu engang sprætte sin barnekone op med kniv, barberblad, machete eller hvad den stedlige muslimske traditionen nu foreskriver.

I Niger bruger man den absolut mest omfattende form for omskæring på pigerne. Det er et af de lande, hvor kvindelig omskæring er mest udbredt. Antallet af piger, der dør af komplikationer efter disse brutale amputationer, er meget stort. Mange dødsfald er et resultet af underlivsinfektioner, der opstår flere år efter operationen.

At omskæring officielt er forbudt i følge landets love, gør ikke indtryk på nogen. Mange afrikanske lande har kun den slags love for fortsat at kunne modtage vestlig bistandshjælp.

Generelt er barnebryllupper udbredt i Etiopien, Nigeria og Indien, hvor over 40 procent af pigerne er gift før de fylder 15, skriver WILPF.

I Niger, Chad, Bangladesh, Mali, Nepal, Mozambique og Uganda er mindst 50 procent af pigerne gift, før de fylder 18 år.

Og Niger har verdenrekorden i forekomst af børneægteskaber. Mere end 76 procent af alle piger er gift før de fylder 18 år, skriver IRCW.

Den gennemsnitlige aldersforskel mellem mand og kone er 10 år og flerkoneri er udbredt.

Landet har verdens hurtigste befolkningstilvækst, – der fødes 7,1 barn per kvinde. Det skriver Reuters.

Muslimske mænd opdrages og opmuntres systematisk til pædofili, for i Niger mener folk, at et pigebarn skal giftes, så snart hun begynder at udvikle bryster. Ellers er der risiko for graviditet udenfor ægteskabet og det er lig med en dødsdom i islam.

For at undgå den vanære, arrangeres børnenes tvangsægteskab i mange tilfælde allerede inden de bliver født, skriver UNICEF. Familierne har mange børn at vælge imellem og en aftale kan effektueres, hvad enten det ventede barn bliver en dreng eller en pige.

De små piger er analfabeter ved brylluppet og har ingen indflydelse på, om de skal være gravide eller ej. Mange pigebørn dør i barselsseng. Skoler har landet næsten ingen af, men moskeer findes overalt. Niger et af verdens mest forarmede lande og der er udbredt slaveri, kunne Berlingske Tidende oplyse i august. Og slavepiger bliver ikke spurgt om, hvad de vil.

Ikke mindre end 100 millioner småpiger verden over forventes at få en lignende skæbne over de næste 10 år, skriver PBS.

Korantro islam er helt ekstremt fattigdomsproducerende.

Andre kilder: Skolenettet, USA Today, ICRW, Wikipedia,

Den største straf man kan give nogen

Pædofili invaliderer børn:  

Mindst to millioner kvinder i u-lande lever med fistler, forårsaget af fødselskomplikationer. Fistlerne medfører udstødelse af kvinderne, fordi de bliver inkontinente og konstant lugter af urin eller afføring

 

Da en flok kvinder lænkede sig sammen og sprang i havnen i Mogadishu i Somalia, var det den sidste udvej fra et liv i fortvivlelse og elendighed. Kvinderne kunne ikke længere leve med de fysiske og psykiske konsekvenser af de fistler, de havde pådraget sig, da fødslen af deres børn udviklede sig problematisk.

Historien om de somaliske kvinder viser, hvor invaliderende og umenneskeligt et liv med fistler er, fortæller gynækolog og fistelekspert Peter Bech Larsen, der har arbejdet med fistelprojekter for Læger uden Grænser i blandt andet Liberia, Rwanda og Elfensbenskysten.

Fistler er huller, der opstår i kvindens underliv, når barnet ikke kan komme ud. Ofte sker det for meget unge piger, hvis bækkener ikke er fuldt udviklede til at klare en graviditet og fødsel. Ud over forfærdelige smerter i forbindelse med fødslen, der kan vare helt op til tre uger og ender med, at barnet dør, lider kvinderne også af store problemer efter fødslen.

Denne artikel forbigår hele to af de øvrige hovedårsager til så mange kvinders ulykke: islam, som er grunden til at pædofili tillades og kvindelig omskæring, som også skyldes islam. Men artiklen HER fra Kristeligt Dagblad er ellers god. Anbefales.

Video: Andrew Bostom – The Legacy of Jihad

 The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims

The Legacy of Jihad provides a comprehensive, meticulously documented compilation, which includes Muslim theological and juridical texts, eyewitness historical accounts by both Muslim and non-Muslim chroniclers, and essays by preeminent scholars analyzing jihad (“holy war”) and the conditions imposed upon the non-Muslim peoples conquered by jihad campaigns.

The Legacy of Jihad reveals how, for well over a millennium, across three continents – Asia, Africa, and Europe – non-Muslims who were vanquished by jihad wars, became forced tributaries (dhimmi in Arabic), in lieu of being slain. Under the dhimmi religious caste system, non-Muslims were subjected to legal and financial oppression as well as social isolation. Extensive primary and secondary source materials, many translated here for the first time into English, are presented, making clear that jihad conquests were brutal, imperialist advances, which spurred waves of Muslims to expropriate a vast expanse of lands and subdue millions of indigenous peoples. Also examined is how jihad war, as a permanent and uniquely Islamic institution, ultimately regulates the relations of Muslims with non-Muslims to this day.

Fra 9. maj 2006 – varighed 1 time og 9 minutter. Åbner Windows Media Player, når man klikker HER.

Dr. Andrew G. Bostom
Author of The Legacy of Jihad and
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Division of Renal Diseases,
Rhode Island Hospital

Laurent Murawiec, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow,
Hudson Institute and
Author of The Mind of Jihad

Flere hjemløse fodboldspillere er forsvundet

Nu mangler der 24 af slagsen, skriver TV2 News.

I første omgang valgte 15 personer at bliver væk, da de skulle med flyet hjem, men nu er yderligere ni hjemløse forsvundet.

De sidste deltagere skulle ellers have været rejst i sidste uge.

De kommer hovedsageligt fra afrikanske lande. De første 15 forsvindingsnumre drejede sig om syv spillere fra Burundi, tre fra Cameroun, fire fra Liberia og en afghaner. To af dem er siden dukket  op i Sverige.

Der er ingen oplysninger om, hvor resten kommer fra.

Heldigvis har Socialminister Eva Kjer Hansen taget ansvaret, så det bliver ikke noget, vi som skatteborgere skal betale for. Øh – eller? Nå nej….

Andre kilder: Berlingske Tidende,

Yderligere ni hjemløse fodboldspillere forsvundet

I alt 15 deltagere er nu forsvundet i Danmark.

Allerede ved turneringens start forsvandt den første gruppe på seks personer.

Indtil i dag, har det ikke været noget større problem, men nu hvor spillernes visum er udløbet, overgår sagerne til politiet

Det drejer sig om i alt syv spillere fra Burundi, tre fra Cameroun, fire fra Liberia og en afghaner, skriver dr.dk/Nyheder.

Da det blev bestemt, at mesterskabet skulle til Danmark luftede Dansk Folkeparti bekymring over netop det, at nogle spillere måske kunne finde på at søge asyl eller blive i Danmark.

Både lokal- og landspolitikere sagde dengang i maj 2006, at der ikke var grund til bekymring.

Selvfølgelig sagde de det. Danmark har juridisk set haft et indvandrerstop siden 1973. Lov er lov og lov skal holdes? Nej, sådan spiller klaveret ikke. Det har ligesom stået klart i nogle år…

Andre kilder: TV2, Berlingske Tidende, Jyllands-Posten, B.T., Kristeligt Dagblad, EkstraBladet,

Opdatering 7. august fra Jyllands-Posten:

Rigspolitiet regner ikke med, at de dukker op igen.

»De er formentlig allerede rejst til andre Schengen-lande (lande med formindsket grænsekontrol), hvor de har bedre chancer for at opnå asyl, eller hvor sandsynligheden for at kunne gemme sig og leve illegalt er større. Erfaringsmæssigt ser vi ganske sjældent forsvundne turister igen,« fortæller vicerigspolitichef Hans-Viggo Jensen

Ligeledes fra Jyllands-Posten:

Mindst to af de 15 udenlandske hjemløse, som stak af i forbindelse med VM i fodbold for hjemløse, befinder sig i Sverige. I hvert fald har to af dem ringet fra Sverige til deres holdkammerater

Hjemløse fodboldspillere forsvundet

Fire af de seks manglende spillere kommer fra Liberia, mens én mangler fra Cameroons hold og én fra Burundis.

De seks spillere fra VM i hjemløsefodbold i København mødte torsdag morgen ikke op til træning og har manglet lige siden. Det fortæller EkstraBladet. Man regner med, at de vil dukke op igen af sig selv.

Hm!

Andre kilder: dr.dk/Nyheder,