When the scouts returned,
reporting that Edward the Longshanks had hired Irish mercenaries in
his attempt to defeat Scottish rebels fighting for their
independence, Hamish, William Wallace’s right hand man asked in a
puzzled way "Irish? What’re they duin’ faytin’ wit the English?"
Stephen, the Irishman who had long before joined in the cause of
Scottish liberation and knowing something about the Irish mindset
replied confidently "Don’t worry about the Irish!" His prediction
was right, for that day, as the Scottish and the Irish charged at
each other, spears and swords drawn in what was expected to be a
hideous battle of the oppressed fighting the oppressed, instead,
halted their mad dash 100 feet short of clashing into one other, and
after recognizing that they were all brothers thirsting for the same
freedom and justice, thus began embracing each other on a
battlefield which was planned by the English to have been the very
place wherein they would have hacked each other to pieces.
Such were the events famously presented
in Mel Gibson’s movie Braveheart. How much of this
particular scene was historically accurate is not important here, but
rather the point which was made, namely a moving-picture adaptation of an
old saying which still reverberates in many Middle Eastern societies which
is "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." We in America would do well to
consider this phrase for ourselves, for we are in a situation very similar
to the above described scene in the movie, although most are unaware of
it, in that we are like the Irish mercenaries in Braveheart
who have been hired to slaughter a people for the benefit of someone else
more powerful and more devious than we imagine.
We are told and have been on a daily
basis since September 11 that the peoples of the Middle East are our
enemies, that they are terrorists with no regard for human life, and that
they hate us for our freedom and for our Christian values. The fact that
this fiction has gained such wide acceptance by the American public is
puzzling, given the that in recent years a good portion of the population
had developed a healthy sense of skepticism with regards to a government
and media which they knew couldn’t be trusted. Adding to this puzzling
situation is the fact that these same skeptics came to understand with
equal clarity that the real threat posed to America came not from without,
but rather from within.
The truth is that we in America are now
subjected to a propaganda extravaganza that is rivaled in its intensity by
only a few events which have infamously occurred throughout human history,
from Rome’s obsessionist desire for the destruction of Carthage to Adolph
Hitler’s attempted destruction of his own enemies, and in points which
parallel the above mentioned cases, the new Rome, America, has embarked
upon a program of wiping out not just a country, (as in the case of
Carthage) but an entire civilization and culture, as was attempted by
Hitler.
There are, of course, those who will
cheer such a program in much the same way that they cheer during a
pro-wrestling match. It seems to escape their consideration that the
entire affair may be just a charade created for their amusement and
distraction, as well as for the obvious intention of separating them from
their money while simultaneously separating them from their ability to
reason. Such is the reality of every culture, from the mob who came to
Rome to watch the daily fights between the gladiators to those individuals
who today have reduced themselves into a frothing, maniacal group of
"patriotic" spectators who have come to enjoy the bestial aspects of blood
sport, whether it is in the ring or on the battlefield.
But despite what our government/media
complex tells us, the enemy of America is not to be found in the caves of
Afghanistan or in the sands of Iraq. We do not need to fear that any
true harm will come to us by such a group of people thousands of miles
away. As President Abraham Lincoln once noted, America as a nation was
impregnable to invasion and defeat by an outside foe, and were she ever to
fall it would be due to the destruction caused to her from within. No,
rather the real enemy is to be found right here, in those individuals who
wield power and influence and who work tirelessly against us in the
executive offices and meeting rooms located in New York and Washington DC.
Our enemy doesn’t speak with a funny accent or wear funny clothes, but
rather the expensive suits worn by gangsters who disguise themselves as
media executives and as politicians. But there is one thing the
media/government complex did accurately portray, which is the fact that
our enemy hates us for our Christian values, and that he has no regard for
human life.
For who is our real enemy? Someone who
flies planes into buildings? Someone who poisons our mail system with
tainted letters? Assuming that these crimes were committed by
Middle Easterners (all evidence to the contrary not withstanding) they
fall way short of the crimes that are committed against us not every two
or three years, but rather every minute of everyday. Do these "terrorists"
from the Middle East rob us of half our livelihood, or steal our property
and liberty if we don’t give it over to them willingly? Do they come into
our homes in the middle of the night, dressed in black, sticking guns in
the faces of our wives and children while they haul us away for speaking
out against them? Do they take our children from us when we refuse to
enroll them in a public school system which is not only dangerous to them
physically but morally as well?
And while we should remember with agony
the day on which all our countrymen died in the inferno that engulfed the
Twin Towers, in similar fashion we should remember all our countrymen who
have perished in similar circumstances deliberately brought about by the
same government which now seeks to demonize those in the Middle East,
circumstances no less terroristic in their methods or approach as those
highlighted for us on the news everyday. Lest we forget, it was our own
home-grown terrorists who, one day in North Idaho, shot a 10 year old boy
in the back and then blew the head off of that boy’s mother as she stood
in her doorway holding a 9 month old baby. A year or so later, these same
men burned and gassed to death almost 100 men, women and children in
Texas, and in reward for both of these atrocities, received medals of
honor for their bravery. No one went to jail for these acts of terror
committed against Americans on their own soil. And, in the interest of
keeping things in perspective we should remember as well that the
terrorists of the Middle East who are credited with exterminating 4,000
Americans on September 11 accomplished the same kind of mass murder which
is done everyday in this country through the butchery of infanticide, also
a gift from a government whom we pay to protect us.
The truth of the matter is, it can
arguably be said that we do not have a good handle on who the real
terrorists are.
When we speak of "we" and "us" here, we
should be more precise in our language of just about whom we are speaking.
As is to be expected, there are and forever will be those individuals in
our society who are just along for the ride and do not care, individuals
who will inaccurately gauge America’s greatness with the amount of wealth
and comfort they possess. Rather, I am referring to those other
individuals who recognize that America’s greatness can only exist while
virtue is maintained, and that the real danger which threatens our
existence is to be found in the destruction of our morals and decency,
which, if destroyed, will inevitably bring about the loss of all order,
and by default, the loss of all liberty. Although often ridiculed by the
"free-thinkers" and secularists among us, this abandonment of the laws
which govern moral behavior nevertheless poses as serious a threat to our
existence as does any deadly virus which has penetrated the body’s
defenses. It works its destruction slowly but surely, and oftentimes
leaves the body in such a state which is impossible to repair. We need
look no further for proof of this than in history, in that the destruction
of some of the world’s greatest civilizations has come about as a result
of implementation of the exact same processes.
Over the last decade, there was reason
for optimism in this nation due to the fact that a great movement of
public opinion had taken place in coming to terms with America’s descent
into moral oblivion, mainly due to the fact that the rising tide of
decadence became so comfortable in its exposure to the light of day. And
in the spirit of that public awareness to this problem, there were those
who, after becoming understandably alarmed by the approaching storm, took
up arms against the leviathan that is the media/government complex and
began to see the perfectly logical association between a society’s loss of
moral values and its loss of liberty. During the 90’s, when the horrors of
Partial-Birth Abortion were made known to all, and the explosion of
hard-core pornography on the internet and soft-core pornography on
primetime TV signaled that the head of the Beast had proudly reared itself
up for all to see, many Americans began to focus on the sinking ship known
as American morality and sought ways to either plug up the holes or
evacuate.
But all of that seemed to have changed
on September 11.
Now, the clarity with which concerned
Americans recognized the danger posed to their nation and to their way of
life by a degenerate set of social values (values which have never and
will never remain dormant) suddenly became cloudy in the aftermath of that
day. In one horrible and fantastic instant, the enemy changed from someone
domestic to someone foreign, to a group of people who live in far away
caves and who wear funny clothes and speak with a foreign accent and who
hate us for our freedom and our values. What these concerned Americans did
not and do not realize even now was that on that day a great bait & switch
tactic had taken place right before their eyes, one which was done so
quickly and cleverly as to escape their notice.
No, America. The Middle East is not
where our enemies lie. At least, it wasn’t. It was where our best friends
were, for in being the enemy of my enemy, they became our friends.
When we come to the realization that
our real enemies are those individuals who are responsible for the
destruction of all the laws governing the morals of our society, laws
which are necessary for any society of people that considers itself to be
civil, we then can better appreciate why there is so much mistrust and
animosity towards America in that region of the world. After all, in our
analysis of the source of anti-Americanism in that region, we must note
that these countries which are deemed to be our enemies have not yet
enshrined the likes of Pamela Anderson, Brittany Spears, or Christine
Aguilera into the halls of sainthood as have we here in the West.
To their own credit, theirs is a
society which does not allow their unborn citizens to be murdered in the
millions per year, nor does it allow their women to be abused and
exploited by the pornography industry which enslaves not only those being
filmed but as well those who are its purveyors. When we consider the fact
that they do not allow the status of the nuclear family to be denigrated
by the inclusion and acceptance of institutionalized sodomy or same-sex
marriage, as well as the refusal to have their children scandalized by the
pornographic education that children here in America receive, suddenly
this mystery of Middle East antagonism for the West becomes less and less
of a riddle. In all the charges which are leveled against these people, it
is forgotten that they have been champions in opposing these things in
their societies, as well as rejecting the wholesale assault on religion
that we have come to accept and tolerate here in the West. There are no
art exhibits to be found among the "enemies of Christianity" in the Middle
East which depict a crucifix being immersed into a jar of urine, nor films
depicting Christ as a homosexual whose mother works in an abortion clinic.
They do not have public parades wherein men and women march in the nude
down through the center of the city and perform sexual acts for all to see
under the sanction of a government which is supposed to enforce existing
laws concerning decency. Their courts do not take extra-legal measures in
striking down laws which prohibit the same cancers which have grabbed the
West by the throat from entering their societies, measures that are
constantly justified by their perpetrators here in the West with
complicated legal theories which in essence do not exist. And in our
weighing of these facts, we should, rather than hold the peoples of the
Middle East in suspicion and derision, instead look upon them with
admiration and respect for having refused to allow these practices into
their communities.
In our acknowledgment of all those who
would scoff at the arguments listed here as to why the societies in the
Middle East should be viewed in such favorable terms, it should as well be
noted and remembered that scoffing individuals such as these do not view
America’s slide into moral oblivion to be anything noteworthy or
worrisome. In fact, more often than not, they openly embrace such
decadence and haughtiness against the laws of nature and of nature’s God,
and in this light, their thoughts should not be weighed with any undue
consideration.
The reality of the matter is that we
here in the West are members of a dying civilization, despite all of the
assurances to the contrary which we are given by pundits who refuse to
acknowledge this unavoidable truth. Our death is a degenerative condition
which is the result of our willingness to engage in suicidal tendencies,
and which will not be cured by any measure of technology, industry, or
craftiness that we may possess. The social ills that at one time were but
small sores which erupted every great while have now consumed the body, so
weakened have its defenses become, and those individuals responsible for
this death and decay are now attempting in like manner to infect other
societies not yet sickened as such. For this reason, they (all the while
disguising their designs in the language of noble ideas such as freedom
and prosperity) are striving for the annihilation of a culture which has
resisted such attacks on their morals, a culture which has openly refused
to sink into the abyss of moral oblivion that afflicts us here in the
West, a culture that in many ways has surpassed the West in its quality,
despite Rush Limbaugh’s assertion that they are a backwards people for
having never developed a car of their own.
To what other conclusion are we
supposed to arrive besides this? For those of us who understand the
concept that America’s loss of morals and decency ranks at the top of the
list of dangers which threatens her existence, how then can we not say
that in comparison to the culture of those living in the Middle East that
theirs is not the superior? They have stable families. They have stable
social order. They do not murder their children at the rate of millions
per year. They do not have divorce rates over 50%. Theirs is not a society
flooded with pornography and all the ills that inevitably tag along for
the ride. For those who blindly allow themselves to be swelled up with
pride over America’s greatness (a greatness which in reality is shallow
and perceived to be so by mere illusion) they should recognize that indeed
the spirit of the American Revolution is alive and well, but not here in
the West where it began. Rather, it is to be found in the Middle East,
whose peoples would not shrink away from their duty in rising up and
overthrowing any government which attempted to impose such outrages upon
them. And as for those who call themselves Christians, individuals who
will maintain that these tendencies which are rooted in the healthy and
justifiable interest of self-preservation are only superficial qualities,
given the fact that the religion of Islam is the predominant faith in
those regions, we would have to respond with one big "so what?" Results
are what matter, or to borrow a phrase from that very same Book which they
use to denigrate such peoples, "a good tree produces good fruit." With
this is mind, these individuals must be intellectually honest enough to
admit that having produced good fruit indicates that the societies of the
Middle East must therefore be good trees.
When we come to understand wherein lies
the real battle for the survival of our nation and our way of life, we
will then understand how to read between the lines of the propaganda that
we are fed everyday. The architects of our enslavement and destruction are
desperate in their desire to prevent at all costs any friendship from
developing between those of us here in the West who recognize where our
real danger lies and those in the Middle East who are fellow travelers,
and as such we will be told incessantly, as we have, that these people are
our enemies.
But our enemies they are not. With
regards to America’s real enemies, namely those parasites within our
society who have seduced America and the West into accepting the
slow-death of national and cultural suicide, those in the Middle East are
the best friends we could ask for, and we would do well to learn from what
they know and apply it to our own situation. After all, they must know
something, given the fact that theirs is a culture which has remained
intact for thousands of years.
And in like manner, as the Scots and
the Irish prepared to slaughter each other under the gaze of those
directors who stood comfortably away from all danger on a far away
hilltop, watching and waiting for the events to take place which they put
in motion for the furtherance of their own greedy and lustful desires, we
should take pause as did the warriors that day at the battle of Falkirk
and recognize in like fashion that those people living in the land where
Western Civilization began are fighting for the same things as are we,
namely the right to live and to live in decency, and in consideration of
this fact, we should come to terms with the reality that our enemies they
are not, but rather brothers and sisters who deserve our friendship and
our alliance, an alliance which, if some of the prophecies prove to be
correct, may actually turn the tide for mankind’s existence.
Mark Glenn is an American and former high school teacher turned writer / commentator.
"Our Enemies They Are Not" is
an excerpt of the recently completed work by the author entitled "Not
My Words, But Theirs : An American Christian’s Defense of Middle Eastern
Culture and its people"
(www.notmywords.com).
For information regarding the purchase of
this book, please contact the author at:
MGlenn@mediamonitors.org. He contributed above article to Media Monitors Network (MMN).
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