About That "Bathtub" – And The Security Of One's Person

I've heard it all from Obama, from London's Sadiq Khan, from Macron, from Supreme Party Chairman Merkel – and other political elites or from those lackeys mouthing them in concert, with a smugness which may not come back to bite them with a nasty vengeance, but more likely you and the general public in any population being led by the nose by those you're still told to trust.

And you've heard it as well. Regardless of who says it, the words are the same, nearly down to the letter. The message always sadistically, cynically two-faced, DoubleSpeak sowing and harvesting a collective schizoid confusion:

"The thing to do is carry on as always, don't be affected by any of this, pick yourselves up and get on with your lives, your usual business – show those terrorists, and party hardy! After all, statistically you're going to be far more likely to die or to be injured in a bathtub accident or on the freeway."

And then comes: "Terrorism has become a part of living in a major city, you just have to accept that and come to terms with it. We'll continue to look after your security as always – after all, you're in the safest of places to be."

Well I have a problem with that sheer fallacy of the bathtub-and-car-accident argument – because like those kids after the London concert nail bomb, it's full of holes, you see.

An accident – fatal or otherwise life-changing – results from an oversight, a neglectful action or inaction, a chance slip, a carelessness, to name a few. A bathtub (or a ladder) does not cherish an intention motivated by a 1400 year old, world class politically religious ideology and doctrine to murder you as kafir or as apostate. Nor does someone running a red light one sunny morning, whether DUI or just recklessly distracted taking a selfie, do so out of some plan – sudden or long-hatched – to take you out, whatever it takes to do so.

It doesn't matter whether "most" or moderate Muslims will quite probably never visit such violence upon you, it begs the question, it avoids the issue intentionally. Most bathtubs, ladders, cars or trucks will also not take your life, "statistically speaking". If the mere act of addressing this stark reality for what it is – or calling attention to signs of a preventable act of terror – designates you as somehow "racially profiling", as "xenophobic" or "singling out Islam and Muslims", then tell me this: where are all the other ethnic terrorists in our cities, where are all the Jewish and Catholic and Protestant and Hindu and Buddhist ones carrying out massively promoted acts of terror, with truck or bomb or AK-47 or machete in increasing regularity in major cities and towns and neighborhoods throughout Western EUrope and the UK, Austrailia, the U.S., Canada, and much elsewhere as well – driven by a central doctrine steered on a global level with absolute domination in mind?  Where is their Shari'a, their jihad?

A better argument if you will, still altogether wobbly and fallacious at best, pathological at worst, would be to pose the jihadi in comparison with some mental case like a the guy who walks into a McDonalds and opens fire, or a Columbine scenario. That doesn't wash, and even the German Red Army Faction (RAF) or the KKK fail in this dubious comparison.

A female co-worker of mine, while driving her tour in a company car had stopped at a light this last week on a typically street-empty, quiet Sunday morning, and quite unexpectedly received the dubious blessing from one of Merkel's Guests which had been hitherto unknown in that part of the city but concerning the likes of which I have frequently posted articles or written about elsewhere in Berlin, or in West Germany, or in France or Sweden or the UK.

As there are refugee-asylum facilities being established in neighborhoods all over Berlin and all over Germany, with – quite aside from the former police statistics now being reassessed and published reflecting the reality which they'd been denying or playing down till even they no longer could, on the enormity of the rise of crime among the nearly exclusively Muslim flood of Merkel's unvetted New Settlers – plenty of attacks, rapes, muggings, robberies or burglaries in their wake, my co-worker, a mother of two young kids, got a good taste of that.

(She began with the familiar and obligatory "I'm not xenophobic, but..." and I stopped her right there – not because she is so but because she already is not so and shouldn't have to justify – as Germans especially and now all EUropeans are demanded to do and Stockholm-Syndromatically expect of themselves: to justify stating the facts as they are and telling it like it is.  Becaus in today's climate just doing that much alone makes either of us already politically-incorrect, and this above all for confronting others with their own uncertainty and indecision, and their own self-disempowerment in the face of daunting Regime propaganda and Chairman Merkel's Communisation of Germany politically and de-indigenation of its population.  I told her to never bow to their game, "because you as a German are already fair game.")

So, not being "an intolerant xenophobic and hateful" native German, she got "approached", so to speak.

The middle-age guy of recognizably Arab description, with the well-known formula (earlier used by Turkish versions in prior decades as well) of: "Hey! Du ficki-ficki??" tore open her car door and peered in at her. Beside the prospect of being molested or even raped, she was aware of all that she had with her right there on the front seat, which she decidedly could not afford to have stolen from her should he then force her out of the car while his awaiting accomplices cleaned everything out. It was a horror, whose frequency those of us paying attention are well acquainted with by now. Acting clearly, she stepped on the gas and drove through red and got the hell out of there.

On telling me this she added another shuddering concern, which turned her into one of those now paying attention: a female co-worker of her husband's had recently gotten the following treatment to Chairman Merkel's tolerant policies: in the office rooms of the social care-giving facility located in a district not far from the above incident, this female colleague had just gone to use the restroom or go check on something, leaving everything unattended. In the short time she was away, all the handbags and such lying about had been absconded with by someone who had just traipsed in there and helped himself. All, everything. When she returned, finding her own purse gone, she reacted in panic. She went out to her car: gone. Later, on getting home, she found her domicile had been cleared out, of everything. She had lost everything you can name. She went as soon as possible to her bank to have her account blocked – too late, all her accounts were now empty. All, everything. The insurance wanted to have nothing to do with her, she "had been negectful"... So the #WelcomeRefugees Club did get something right: With Open Borders there really ARE more possibilities available.

Address this, talk about it, demonstrate or remonstrate about it – call it by its name – and you're already a "Nazi". So people speak in low tones or say nothing. Familiar?

And this you also don't get from a bathtub or a reckless driver.