The American media is fawning over a video from a French T.V. station/news program. It might be the dumbest thing I've ever seen and at the same time it explains how France allowed itself to be attacked and how we, the U.S., are setting ourselves up for an attack. We are creating victims from an early age.
A crowd was gathered outside one of the venues that was attacked by terrorists. As usually happens people had come to lay flowers outside in remembrance of those that died. The reporter was doing the obligatory story including interviewing cute little snowballs of fluff aka children.
One child was with his dad; the dad said his child was 5 years old. When asked what he thought, the boy said he was afraid because the bad men had guns and wanted to hurt us. Dad said that everything would be OK since we have flowers. The boy wasn’t buying it, he said the bad men have guns, flowers protect us from guns? Dad said flowers do protect us from bad people. Like any child, the boy wants to trust his father so after a couple more reassurances that flowers do indeed protect us from guns, the boy said he felt better.
Some in the American media thought it was the perfect response; it symbolized how we are going to overcome the hate in the world by being loving instead of hateful; how the little boy will sleep better knowing that love protects him. You people are a special kind of stupid.
Here's the deal, the 5 year knew instinctively that we needed guns to protect ourselves; he was at first unsure that flowers would protect us from men with guns. But, because he trusts his dad, he went against his instincts and bought into the argument. So next time an attack like this happens or a thug pulls a gun to rob him, this kid is going to pull out a flower and assume that it will somehow protect him from bullets. I hope he lives through the experience to realize that his dad is an idiot.
All this bull crap about loving the terrorists and how we created the hatred because of our torture, our imperialistic actions, our overthrowing of democratically elected governments; this is why there are still terrorist groups gaining strength and expanding their operations.
France is the perfect example of acquiescence as a failed policy. France has welcomed Muslim refugees for years. France tried to get them to assimilate but the refugees refused. They set up communities, enacted and enforced Sharia law. When French officials tried to send in French police to protect the native French citizens, the Muslims rioted. The French government backed down agreeing that they could keep their way of life and their legal structure in place and were no longer subject to French law. French authorities were barred from entering those communities. In short, they gave the refugees everything they asked for. How did that work out for them?
The root cause of their actions is not what we have done to them over the last 50 years, it's what they have believed for the last thousand years; that their sole purpose in life is to expand Islam, creating a world wide caliphate, and vanquishing all non believers. Period, end of story. Until you liberal flower children understand that, we will continue be in danger and innocent people will die.