Jury of Our Peers?
The Suicide of the West
Is anyone surprised? The British jury privileged with the opportunity to send seven Islamaniacs accused of plotting the most spectacular terrorist attack since September 11, 2001 to legal martyrdom, hadn’t the nerve to do so.
Evidently they found greater accord with the defence which proposed these gentlemen had no intention whatsoever of simultaneously blowing up six transatlantic airliners full of innocent men and women with liquid bombs while flying over American metropolitan areas, but instead were merely planning a little anti-war protest at Heathrow airport enhanced by a few homespun pyrotechnics.
To their credit, the jury did manage to find three of the plotters guilty of conspiracy to murder, which is rather like finding John Wilkes Booth guilty of disturbing the peace.
British defense and intelligence officials are beside themselves and prosecutors are expected to seek a retrial as soon as humanly possible.
We submit, however, and regrettably so, that whatever gaggle of British citizens are thrown together in judgment of this case, they are all too likely to arrive at precisely the same verdict.
Stewed in a culture of relativism, non-judgementalism, and multi-culturalism; and seasoned with daily sprinklings of contempt for Western Civilization, they could hardly arrive at anything else.
Far be it from us to draw sweeping conclusions from isolated incidents, but do we not see here the suicide of the free world in microcosm? If a jury of our peers in an open and shut case cannot bring themselves to apply the full weight of the law where and when it is needed most, then why bring the case to trial at all? Why the pretense of a judicial process when in practice it will be subordinated by our fashionable distaste for judging others?
In the post 9-11/7-7 world, if we cannot bring our 800 year tradition of jurisprudence to bear in defence of itself, we are no longer worthy of it.
Cheers,
(We invite any and all to peruse this photo essay by our personal secretary, Mr. B Walter Farley, What I Learned on Tuesday: Lessons of Tuesday September 11, 2001.)
Charlie, I was imagining, the other day, what the world would have been like had Constantine not Christianized the Roman Empire. When Islam rose up years later they would have met against a fractured Europe, sans Christendom. After spreading into Northern Africa, they would have seeped up through Spain and Italy, and rather than meeting any semblance of a unified resistance, they would have met fractured pagan tribes.
Europe would have been overrun, Islamized, centuries ago. Imagine the world today…
Doesn’t exactly fill you with confidence about the state of British justice, does it? Another slightly less dramatic incident this week was the acquittal of several green activists who had vandalised a power station, the acqapparently on the grounds that by drawing attention to the issue of climate change they were preventing a greater crime. Add into the mix Britain’s reputation as a centre for libel tourism, and what you basically have is a country where the rule of law has broken down.
Paul Dennetts last blog post..America’s moral authority
My Dear E.D.,
Fascinating and frightening to ponder. However, were events to have unfolded as you suggest, it would have saved us all the agony of watching Europe evaporate today. Then again, none of us would be here to see it as our ancestors would have all been beheaded, stoned to death, or converted at the edge of the scimitar. What a glorious addition to human history is Islam, eh?
Cheers,
Charlie
Churchill’s Parrot–
And the Americas? What would have become of them? We certainly would never have known the Constitution or the Bill of Rights or any other document.
Then again, as my wife posited, what if there was something inherent in Europe (even without Christendom) that would have led to the reformation of Islam?
It’s impossible to say, but my stance is that any religion so determined to remain entwined with Government, so totalitarian in nature, would not reform so easily. Christianity went through dark hours, but its nature is less inextricably bound to the State…
I agree with E. D., that Islam somehow is an entirely different beast, intrinsically averse to secularization and reform on its own.