Jihadis, Better Not Tangle with Normies.
A year ago, Hamas terrorists decided that paragliding into a concert and shooting up kibbutzes was a good way to call attention to something. The aftermath has been causing all sorts of consternation among Democrats, particularly civil-rights era Jews, and on campuses run by people who should know better.
That attack also prompted Kurt Schlichter to wonder about how such an event might play out in the United States, and he wrote The Attack as a work of fiction from the perspective of participants in preparing, carrying out, being affected by, responding to, or settling accounts with the organizers. Today seems as good a day as any to offer a brief Book Review No. 10 taking stock.
The Attack has in common with the Kelly Turnbull novels Mr Schlichter's jaundiced view of many of his fellow citizens, particularly those who would push Democrat politicians further left. That comes with the territory: expect the affluent white female urban liberals, assorted sensitive civilians, and senior Democrat officials to be presented in the worst possible light, perhaps even beyond parody, and expect the people who own firearms and know how to use them to offer a lot of information on the nomenclature of their shootin' irons. And yet, when law enforcement is overwhelmed and National Command Authority dithering, the people who know how to use them deliver the message of my post title.
It also has in common with the Colonel's People's Republic series the message that maybe regular order and bourgeois norms ought not be lightly questioned or deconstructed. Once National Command Authority is restored, martial law, military tribunals, hunter teams armed with .45 pistols, and assorted things that fly and go boom get to work. Those responses might have been logical, but perhaps the book is in our hands in order that we reflect carefully on what we do.
Furthermore, there are references throughout Attack to other state actors who might be at work intending to ruin infrastructure, sabotage military bases, and perhaps pit citizen against citizen, and otherwise disrupt our on-balance-OK-despite-the-political-noise existence, and perhaps it's worth asking our elected officials if they are aware of those possibilities and what they intend to do to preempt or contain them.
(Cross-posted to Cold Spring Shops.)
That attack also prompted Kurt Schlichter to wonder about how such an event might play out in the United States, and he wrote The Attack as a work of fiction from the perspective of participants in preparing, carrying out, being affected by, responding to, or settling accounts with the organizers. Today seems as good a day as any to offer a brief Book Review No. 10 taking stock.
The Attack has in common with the Kelly Turnbull novels Mr Schlichter's jaundiced view of many of his fellow citizens, particularly those who would push Democrat politicians further left. That comes with the territory: expect the affluent white female urban liberals, assorted sensitive civilians, and senior Democrat officials to be presented in the worst possible light, perhaps even beyond parody, and expect the people who own firearms and know how to use them to offer a lot of information on the nomenclature of their shootin' irons. And yet, when law enforcement is overwhelmed and National Command Authority dithering, the people who know how to use them deliver the message of my post title.
It also has in common with the Colonel's People's Republic series the message that maybe regular order and bourgeois norms ought not be lightly questioned or deconstructed. Once National Command Authority is restored, martial law, military tribunals, hunter teams armed with .45 pistols, and assorted things that fly and go boom get to work. Those responses might have been logical, but perhaps the book is in our hands in order that we reflect carefully on what we do.
Furthermore, there are references throughout Attack to other state actors who might be at work intending to ruin infrastructure, sabotage military bases, and perhaps pit citizen against citizen, and otherwise disrupt our on-balance-OK-despite-the-political-noise existence, and perhaps it's worth asking our elected officials if they are aware of those possibilities and what they intend to do to preempt or contain them.
(Cross-posted to Cold Spring Shops.)