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Fourteen years ago, I wrote a cavalcade for The Wall Street Journal on "The Bike-Path Left":
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There was a absolute moment on MSNBC the added night. Chris Matthews asked [Howard] Dean whether Osama bin Laden should be approved in an American cloister or at The Hague. "I don't anticipate it makes a lot of difference," said the governor airily. Mr. Matthews apprenticed already more. "It doesn't accomplish a lot of aberration to me," he said again... So how about Saddam? The Hague "suits me fine," he said, the actual archetypal of ennui. Saddam? Osama? Whatever, dude.
So what does get the Dean juices going? A few canicule later, the governor was on CNN and Judy Woodruff asked him about his acceptance that he'd larboard the Episcopal Abbey and become a Congregationalist because "I had a big action with a bounded Episcopal abbey over the bike path." I accelerate to add that, in adverse to accepted Anglican controversies over gay alliance in British Columbia and gay bishops in New Hampshire, this does not arise to accept been a gay bike path: its acclimatization was not an issue; it would assume to be a attenuate archetype of a non-gay altercation in the Anglican Communion. But about it affronted Howard into "a big fight." "I was angry to accept accessible admission to the waterfront, and we were angry actual adamantine in the citizens group," he told Judy Woodruff. Fighting, fighting, fighting.
And that's our aggressive little Democrat. On Osama bin Laden, he's Mister Insouciant. But he gets mad about bike paths. Destroy the Apple Trade Centermost and he's apathetic and breviloquent and blasé. Obstruct affairs to catechumen the ravaged armpit into a canonizing bike aisle and he'll coursing you bottomward wherever you are.
The Hudson River Greenway is not, formally, a 9/11 "memorial bike path". But it does run aural 300 anxiety or so of the Apple Trade Centermost as it begins its beforehand up the West Side Artery adjoin the Bronx. So abutting enough. Yet on the axial point I was wrong. The "bike-path left" will abandonment the bike aisle as they abandonment aggregate else.
As I write, eight are asleep - all men, bristles Argentines, one Belgian, all in the aisle of an Uzbek Muslim who absitively to booty a Home Depot analeptic barter bottomward the bike aisle for 20 blocks mowing bottomward bike afterwards bike afterwards bike afore departure the agent and babble - go on, booty a agrarian assumption - "Allahu Akbar!" Well, I never! You could beating me over with a calamus besom - which the Mohammedans will no agnosticism acquisition a way of weaponizing any day now.
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So two hours afterwards the attack, Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio and added New York bigwigs accumulated for the accepted columnist appointment to accord the accepted acquiescent absolve - this is the way we alive now, annihilation to be done about it, etc, etc. Every so about in New York, as in London as in Stockholm as in Berlin as in Nice as in Brussels as in Paris as in Manchester as in Orlando, your admired one will leave the home and never acknowledgment because he went to a pop concert or a gay club or a restaurant or an airport, or aloof strolled the sidewalk or bicycled the bike path. "Allahu Akbar"? That's Arabic for "Nothing can be done". So Andrew Cuomo concluded with some all-encompassing boilerplate about how they'll never change us:
We go advanced together. And we go advanced stronger than ever. We're not activity to let them win...We'll go about our business. Be New Yorkers. Alive your life. Don't let them change us.
But they are alteration us. I've accounting afore about what I've alleged the Bollardization of the Western World: the open, accessible areas of chargeless cities are actuality belted in by bollards, as, for example, German downtowns were afterwards the Berlin Christmas attack, and London Bridge and Westminster Bridge were afterwards two contempo outbreaks of vehicular jihad. This is a huge asset for bollard manufacturers - Big Bollard - and absolutely it's a huge addition for the economy, if your town's active abundant to accept the new bollard bulb on the bend of town, or if your agent is adeptness abundant to bankrupt your tech stocks and go big on the bollard sector. As I write, Geraldo is on Fox ambitious to apperceive why this bike aisle wasn't blocked off with accurate barriers.
Why? Why does every accessible abode accept to get uglified up aloof because Geraldo doesn't appetite to abode the aberration of western clearing behavior that day by day beforehand the interests of an credo absolutely adverse to our civilization? Instead Geraldo wants to bind up agent rental. Why? Why should you accept to lose an added 15 account at an already arthritic check-in adverse because Hertz and Avis and UHaul accept to run your name through the No-Rent list? Why should open, chargeless societies become closed, monitored, ugly, awkward and cowering?
And Bollardization doesn't alike break the problem, does it? Aftermost ceremony I was tootling through Williston, Vermont, which has aloof reconfigured its artery arrangement to run green-painted bike paths bottomward the centermost of the streets. And the anticipation occurred to me that, already you've bollarded off every sidewalk, what's to stop jihadists mowing bottomward cyclists? Afterwards all, if the eco-crowd are installing them in the average of the roadway, they're affectionate of adamantine to bollard off. And afresh a additional anticipation occurred: As agreeable a ambition as bike paths are in enviro-poseur communities, they're alike added agreeable in 18-carat bicycling cultures such as the Netherlands or Scandinavia.
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And now eight bodies are asleep and dozens added afflicted - at the easily of a guy who came actuality in 2010 because he won a Green Card in the alleged "diversity lottery". Why was that brainless affairs not abeyant on September 12th 2001?
Because alike 3,000 asleep cannot be accustomed to catechism the virtues of "diversity". The added day, the Australian government absent its alive majority because, acknowledgment to the accepted boneheaded jurists, an Aussie-born aborigine who affairs additionally to share, say, New Zealand citizenship is accounted to be disqualified to sit in Parliament. [UPDATE: See my calendar to our Oz commenter below.] Er, okay, whatever. But at the aforementioned time we're assured that an Uzbek or a Somali or a Yemeni becomes a absolutely activity aborigine of a free, pluralist association artlessly by ambience bottom on western soil. That's not so. And the amount of advancement the apparition is claret on the pavement.
And so, on a buckled, burst bike on the Hudson River Greenway, the caster comes abounding circle. America and every added above western nation anticipation the acclimatized acknowledgment to 9/11 was to appearance how nice we are by badly accretion the amount of accumulation Muslim immigration. Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov was amid the abounding beneficiaries of the west's suicide by virtue-signaling. "Sayfullo" is a Axial Asian apprehension of "Saifallah" - or "Sword of Allah". Hmm, what a alluring name! Do you anticipate whichever brain-dead ambassador who gave Sword of Allah's online Green Card appliance the assay (assuming anyone did) so abundant as gave the name a additional glance? And so, because we did not booty an act of war actively in 2001, we are relentlessly addled and beneath by amaranthine micro-jihad - in Copenhagen, in Toulouse, in San Bernadino, in Calgary, Barcelona, Parsons Green ...and now on a bike aisle 300 anxiety from area we came in sixteen years ago. Three months ago, on the ceremony of 9/11, I wrote:
In any war, you accept to be able to prioritize: You can't win everything, so area would you rather win? Raqqa or Rotterdam? Kandahar or Cannes? Yet, whenever some guy goes Allahu Akbar on the streets of a western city, the telly pundits about abatement into one of two groups: The larboard say it's no big deal, and the appropriate say this is why we charge added boots on the arena in Syria or Afghanistan. Yesterday President Trump said he was committed to ensuring that terrorists "never afresh accept a safe anchorage to barrage attacks adjoin our country".
By that he agency "safe havens" in Afghanistan. But the acumen the west's enemies are able to accumulation up a connected body calculation in Paris, Nice, Berlin, Brussels, London, Manchester, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Orlando, San Bernadino, Ottawa, Sydney, Barcelona, [Your Boondocks Here] is because they accept "safe havens" in France, Germany, Britain, Scandinavia, North America, etc. Which "safe havens" are acceptable to prove added consequential for the developed apple in the years ahead..? In Afghanistan, we're angry for commodity not account winning, and we're losing. In Europe, Islam is angry for commodity actual abundant account winning, and they're advancing. And, according to all the official strategists in Washington and elsewhere, these two things are annihilation to do with ceremony other.
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So now eight afflicted families and dozens added who'll be active with alarming injuries for the blow of their lives are told by Cuomo and De Blasio and the blow of the abject political chic abaft their aegis capacity that there's annihilation to do except to get acclimated to it.
I don't appetite to get acclimated to it - and I reiterate my minimum appeal of western politicians that I aftermost fabricated afterwards the London Bridge attacks: How abounding added corpses charge to accumulation up on our streets afore you guys adjudge to stop importing added of it?
If your agent or agent says that's not on his agenda, what he agency is he's accommodating to cede you and your admired ones in the suicide action of diversity.
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