Charlottesville :
[A Tale Of Two Groups]
There was were two victims of the Charlottesville Terrorist Attack – and neither of them was Donald Trump.
The First Was Heather Heyer.
The Second Was Race Relations in America.
To the chants of 'Jews Will Not Replace Us!' President Trump pushed back against 'the fake media' reporting of this and other racist chants to the American people with the words (and I paraphrase): 'These (so-called neo-Nazi protesters) had some very fine people amongst their ranks and they all had a legal right to protest - in contrast to those protesting against their presence. 'The neo-Nazis and those protesting against Nazism are equally at fault.' (i.e. there is a moral equivalence between Nazism and those opposing it.)
I just wonder how he will explain his equivocation of Nazism and those who oppose it to his part-Jewish grandchildren when they grow up?
I contend that those marching as neo-Nazis know very little about Nazism, it's history, it's origin nor it's mythology.
Yes no doubt their hierarchy (leadership) most certainly do but not the rank and file – more motivated by personal grievances based on race-hate and division - a unique form of American racism resulting from the enforced mixing of the races in this land of immigrants, than anything else.
Yes all these groups worldwide have certain things in common – and all are motivated by a hatred of foreigners based on race and tribal origin.
Many see themselves as 'Aryan' – without understanding that the word itself - and indeed the origin of the Aryan Race – is thousands of years old and derives from Northern India and lands we know today as Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran. [It may be the ultimate Greek pathos and supreme irony that those most hostile racists may very well be killing their own (99% genetically identical) 'kit and kin' brothers and sisters, some generations or centuries removed. They would probably say 'we don't care' – so I'll leave it at that.]
But in this blog I want to focus on a tale of two groups.
Not the ones you probably think I will highlight but two very different and separate organisations with very little in common.
El Al Security at *******:
It Was A Circus (!)
I, a civilian, should not be able to identify an El Al agent on protective duty anywhere in the world. Neither should I be able to identify any local (official) secondary 'spotters' (be they local army personnel or civilians) working with them.
Even if the government of a host country forbids them to carry an open or concealed weapon in a particular area (such as an international airport near the El Al Desk) I should be totally oblivious to their presence. It is only if I am totally unaware that they are there can they be successful and effective in the event of an issue arising.
In actual fact, where I was, El Al protective security created such a circus with their entourage that it defied belief to the point of my exasperation (!)
If I was a terrorist, it would be so easy to 'take out' (or, with a little more detective work, capture – a more likely scenario for the environment I was in) the security agent(s) and his or her entourage – forget about the El Al flying passengers - these would be better trophies – their heads impaled on wall somewhere anonymous. Besides, with such sloppiness the likelihood of obtaining their home addresses for kidnap, capture for ransom, or assassination, if I was determined enough, would be a piece of cake.
[On an observational note, it is possible that because there has not been an incident for a long time here that these individuals have become 'sloppy' – and are now making very dangerous mistakes, even to an untrained observer, which endanger both themselves and the people they are supposed to be protecting.]*
American neo-Nazis (or AN Supporters)
Are, coincidentally, having the same problem as their El Al security 'counterparts' – that of 'blending in' to new environments.
They look so 'out of place' it is almost unbelievable.
The stories they make up to justify their presence are so laughable and fictitious that they beggar belief.
They (neo-Nazis) also, while generating their cover story, get their racist terminologies all mixed up – confusing African-Americans (or more derogatory terms used by them) with local indigenous individuals of color (and using the same U.S. derogatory terminology for them also.)
They even talk (with me) of their personal experiences of living and working on Kibbutz' in Israel and are so violently (rabidly?) anti-Arab (anti-Palestinian) that this too beggars belief.
I too have some limited knowledge of Israel and when I challenge them on inaccurate statements they go to ground with little more to say.
[Because of the perceived future (beyond the Trump administration years) real dangers to the physical security of Jews in America (and, by association, Israel) a new 'public relations' campaign has been launched in Israel to attempt to dissociate Zionism from neo-Nazism. This campaign is, in my opinion, about 60 years too late and will have no impact on entrenched positions of extremism within American and European politics on the political left and on the right – a legacy of the Presidency of Donald Trump.]
Now I do not have anything in common with the Turks or Arabs (Christian nor Muslim) but, thankfully, I never volunteered for a Kibbutz – where all (Christians) who I knew that returned had been 're-programmed' as Zionists and, more importantly, as rabid anti-Arab racists.
This is why I have said that Trump is a 'gift' to the Aryan Nation and neo-Nazi movements in America – because what will follow (and their leadership is aware of this) on the left or right, will be very hostile to Israel - it having been seen as being responsible for creating divisions in American politics solely to further the aims and objectives of Israel against the security and economic interests of the United States, hamstrung as it is from furthering it's global priorities because of this ongoing issue of Palestine and how it has impacted negatively U.S. foreign policy interests.
So these individuals (neo-Nazis) go out of their way to boast about their 'loyalty' to Israel' to the extent that it raises red flags – when you look beyond their 'hype' to what they really represent.
[It reminded me of the fact that Israel itself has a 'home-grown' neo-Nazi movement – imported mainly from Russian and Ukrainian emigres into the country.]
At one encounter a particular individual, a U.S. citizen, brought a local ('donkey') who had Swastikas temporarily tattooed on his fingers and arms, and, in a drunken fit of rage, having had a few drinks over lunch, accused me (someone he had never met before now) of not being 'real family'. He had obviously been told certain 'facts' by his 'mentor' and, in a drunken fit of rage, wanted to challenge me to a fight. I asked him to explain what he meant by 'real family' and he just went silent before getting up to challenge me. His mentor told him (in no uncertain terms) to sit down. This donkey gave him a 'lap-puppy' look and complied with the order. The entourage around our table just looked at the pair of them in utter horror and disbelief. [This 'mentor' had to spend some considerable time in quiet diplomacy after the event (and in my absence) rebuilding 'confidence' and 'trust' of some pretty sceptical individuals seated around the table that particular afternoon.]
Which is why I say that this U.S. neo-Nazi movement is uniquely American and moving further apart (maybe even a world apart) from global modern National Socialism ideology of today and its objectives worldwide.
What Your Mainstream Media Is Concealing
There are many countries throughout the world (in Africa, in Asia and in the Americas) which have the equivalent of national socialist governments – but your mainstream media will not tell you this so as not to 'confuse' you.
I define a national socialist government as one concerned with placing the primacy of one particular tribe or group or caste as paramount in policy whilst not disenfranchising other communities.
The Trump administration could be called the first National Socialist government in America – but don't expect to hear this from your mainstream media.
President Obama recently called on Trump to be President for all Americans.
Why should he be? That is not the purpose of a National Socialist government.
U.S. politicians better quickly wake-up and be more pro-active before their cherished values are consigned to the history museums along with other symbolic artefacts - 'vestiges d'un gloire disparu'.
The oligarch owners of mainstream media prefer their editors to call them 'nationalist' rather than what they really are - national socialist governments.
They (journalists working in the mainstream) will never use the term 'national socialist' for fear of both getting fired, being blackballed, and terrifying the populace at large – with all the evil connotations associated when you combine the words 'nationalism and socialism' into a political ideology or movement.
Anything that is 'national' and 'socialist' combined is supposed to be evil – and when you see and hear American neo-Nazis as I did I can well understand why nobody sane and in their right senses would want to associate with such rabidly (and obsessively) hateful and divisive groups.
It will take a long time before the concept and values of nationalism and socialism are seen as anything other than all I have described above for the reasons given.
[If you attempted to tell people the truth, you too can expect to be 'labeled' as an 'extremist' or neo-Nazi sympathizer or supporter (!)]
Arrogance, outlandish behavior, racism, bigotry, or just sheer incompetence always seem get the better of their sense and sensibilities.
'He's Trained To Bite!'
Not too long ago, in a European country, I passed a Police Officer with a fierce-looking dog near a very well-known Shopping Mall,
I had to ask him what he thought the presence of this dog (or indeed the visible presence of a big gun!) would have on a would-be suicide bomber.
His cordial reply to me was 'well Sir, he'll bite you if commanded' - as the dog sniffed my hand just waiting for that incentive (!)
(What I wanted to reply here was 'well, given the current situation, if you also trained him to shoot to kill you might be getting better value for money!'; but I refrained from this impolite comment!)
I then relayed to him my experience in Morocco (which I told you about earlier) and the surprise of the armed Officers on duty outside the popular tourist Cafe overlooking the Square in Marrakesh were at my remarks; and which Cafe was devastated with a terrorist explosion about a year later killing dozens and badly wounding and disfiguring many ex-pats and tourists.
We then had a ten-minute or so conversation (where he became more candid about the facts of life and realities on the ground) about the issues at hand.
Paper Tigers
The point I am making here is that 'visible' deterrence – be it El Al airport security (part-paid for incidentally by the Israeli government, worldwide) or the Police with guns or dogs or indeed the Army on the streets will not one iota deter committed individuals – be they Islamic suicide bombers or neo-Nazis terrorists or the sheer insane.
Indeed it may well have the opposite effect on fanatics who may very well see their visible presence as a great challenge too good to be missed to blow up (or in the case of Islamic radicals run down with an improvised attack weapon) as many members of the security forces as is possible and practicable in one very visible - and very prominent – location.
Fear Is The Key
Politicians in Western Europe and in the United States have given up trying to justify and explain to increasingly hostile electorates the links between Islamic terrorism in Christendom and their (the West and the United States) meddling in Arab Muslim lands and the chaos which their overthrowing of Arab regimes have created, the refugee displacement and anarchy - which I told you years ago would spill over into Christendom.
These same politicians are fighting past counter-insurgency wars in modern urban environments and are more concerned about intimidating their own populace to be submissive and compliant in the 'war on home-grown terror' than they are about deterring would-be extremists, terrorists or suicide bombers – since they already know the sad truth – which they must conceal from the general population as they implement new technologies of political and social controls with little to no scrutiny.
The Myth Of Islamic Terror Beyond the Dispossessed and Disenfranchised, The Religious Ideologues, the Deranged, and the Mentally Vulnerable
What has given vent to racism and xenophobia in Western Europe has been the huge influxes of (mainly Muslim men) into Western Europe. This is often interpreted as a planned exodus from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. I do not know the truth about this. What I know is that before wars in Libya, in Somalia, in Syria, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Niger, there were no millions of boat people and displaced refugees seeking sanctuary from torture and terror in Europe.
You must ask yourself:who is responsible for creating the conditions where these people. who had good jobs, professions, stable communities and societies, are now fleeing in fear?
I know that you know the answer so I do not need to spell it out.
You need to hold your politicians to account when they and their mainstream media again beat the drums of war and intervention - because there are always unexpected consequences.
[By now, you, as an intelligent readership, already know that the acts of terror (resulting in real and terrible heartbreak and carnage however) being committed by Islamic terrorists are pretty unsophisticated and fairly crude in comparison with, say, the ability to manufacture a rocket (or 'mortar' or 'projectile' as the mainstream media prefer to say rather than create widespread panic amongst the general population) and accurately use relatively crude technology to project a flight path which lands it into the back garden of number 10 Downing Street – which the IRA did on one occasion -nearly killing the Prime Minister of Great Britain and her 'inner' Cabinet, or, as with the Tamil Tigers, to cause utter devastation using an estimated 2000 pound bomb with nail bombs at a busy bus terminal early in the morning – killing or wounding hundreds of men, women and children on their way to work or school – with body parts strewn everywhere - a scene from hell relayed to me by a lucky survivor reliving the trauma and who only escaped death because he was running a few minutes late for work that particular morning.]
The myth is perpetrated that Islamic terrorism is a great threat to world peace.
Yes terrorism is a threat but it cannot be defeated without political and social justice.
There is a difference between the war on terror and regime change worldwide.
It has been the loss of the clear objective and decisions to dismantle whole countries (about which our politicians know next to nothing - outside what economic resources they possess) that has got us into the quagmire we are in todayin Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Syria and in Libya.
And to think these same individuals now want to start a war with Iran, having learned nothing from their most recent fiascoes, want to send more troops to die needlessly.
I contend that the greatest threat to world peace and national security is military interventions on the orders of politicians with little experience of war nor the countries being invaded, to secure economic and strategic resources, contracts, military bases and link roads (see earlier blogs about the ancient Silk Road route from China to Northern Syria) using humanitarian reasons and NGOs as cover.
After the Middle East, the Caucasus' and Caspian Sea regions will be the new fountains of the blood of innocents - massacred and butchered wholesale or displaced as refugees to further Mammon's priorities.
The myth is perpetrated that Islamic terrorism is a great threat to world peace.
Yes terrorism is a threat but it cannot be defeated without political and social justice.
There is a difference between the war on terror and regime change worldwide.
It has been the loss of the clear objective and decisions to dismantle whole countries (about which our politicians know next to nothing - outside what economic resources they possess) that has got us into the quagmire we are in todayin Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Syria and in Libya.
And to think these same individuals now want to start a war with Iran, having learned nothing from their most recent fiascoes, want to send more troops to die needlessly.
I contend that the greatest threat to world peace and national security is military interventions on the orders of politicians with little experience of war nor the countries being invaded, to secure economic and strategic resources, contracts, military bases and link roads (see earlier blogs about the ancient Silk Road route from China to Northern Syria) using humanitarian reasons and NGOs as cover.
After the Middle East, the Caucasus' and Caspian Sea regions will be the new fountains of the blood of innocents - massacred and butchered wholesale or displaced as refugees to further Mammon's priorities.
The presence of neo-Nazis on the streets of Charlottesville and other American towns and cities is a wake up call – the same wake-up call as the presence of these same individuals with twisted and false ideologies in foreign lands.
Now you might have gotten the impression that I keep 'bad company'.
This is not the case at all. What I want to do here is impress the negative aspects of my encounters rather than my responses to them in other settings, or, to misquote someone else:
'most of those folks I met there were pretty decent people.'
©Patrick Emek, September 2017
*the reason I have not mentioned the location of the El Al protective team I observed is because their ridiculous visible presence represents a disaster waiting to happen and when it does, they will be looking for someone or something to blame - other than their own incompetence
