{"id":7884,"date":"2010-03-24T10:48:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T14:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7884"},"modified":"2010-03-24T10:48:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T14:48:39","slug":"barbarians-insides-the-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/barbarians-insides-the-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbarians inside the gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Malcolm Muggeridge noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So the final conclusion would surely be that whereas other civilizations have been brought down by attacks of barbarians from without, ours had the unique distinction of training its own destroyers at its own educational institutions, and then providing them with facilities for propagating their destructive ideology far and wide, all at the public expense.\u00a0\u00a0 Thus did Western Man decide to abolish himself, creating his own boredom out of his own affluence, his own vulnerability out of his own strength, his own impotence out of his own erotomania, himself blowing the trumpet that brought the walls of his own city tumbling down, and having convinced himself that he was too numerous, labored with pill and scalpel and syringe to make himself fewer.\u00a0 Until at last, having educated himself into imbecility, and polluted and drugged himself into stupefaction, he heeled over \u2013 a weary, battered old brontosaurus \u2013 and became extinct.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Canada is busy breeding a league of barbarians in the University of Ottawa under the tutelage of Provost, Francois Houle. When Ann Coulter tried to speak at the University of Ottawa, she was greeted by the Nazi tactics of intimidation and mindless chanting \u2013 the book burning will begin soon. Imagine what would have happened if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/ottawa\/story\/2010\/02\/26\/ottawa-israel-apartheid.html\">something really controversial had taken place<\/a> \u2013 oh, right, nothing.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/blogs\/posted\/archive\/2010\/03\/24\/ann-coulter-event-at-the-university-of-ottawa-cancelled-over-security-concerns.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">National Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSince I\u2019ve arrived in Canada, I\u2019ve been denounced on the floor of Parliament \u2014 which, by the way, is on my bucket list \u2014 my posters have been banned, I\u2019ve been accused of committing a crime in a speech that I have not yet given, I was banned by the student council, so welcome to Canada!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201caccusation\u201d of which Ms. Coulter speaks is a reference to an email she received from University of Ottawa vice-president and provost Francois Houle on Friday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/news\/story.html?id=2710026\">warning her that freedom of speech is defined differently in Canada<\/a> than in the U.S. and that she should take care not to step over the line.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Coulter said that letter set the tone for and encouraged the protesters. She said it\u2019s well known on the campus speaking circuit that conservatives need to travel with security staff, as she did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pretty sure little Francois A-Houle does not need to travel with a bodyguard,\u201d she said. \u201cI would like to know when this sort of violence, this sort of protest, has been inflicted upon a Muslim \u2014 who appear to be, from what I\u2019ve read of the human rights complaints, the only protected group in Canada. I think I\u2019ll give my speech tomorrow night in a burka. That will protect me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Malcolm Muggeridge noted: So the final conclusion would surely be that whereas other civilizations have been brought down by attacks of barbarians from without, ours had the unique distinction of training its own destroyers at its own educational institutions, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/barbarians-insides-the-gates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[774,2227],"class_list":["post-7884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-fall-of-the-west","tag-free-speech","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}