Updated driver's licence test

In accordance with government policies of embracing multiculturalism and celebrating diversity, road signs in Europe and North America will be updated effective immediately. The written tests for driving licences will be adjusted accordingly. Here is a sample question from the 2013 version.

This is the version now being used in France. If you require a translation, please use Google Translator or send a postcard to Poor Len Canayen. Thanks to Agent 6 for keeping us informed.

Londoners! Militant Muslims ARE out to get you!

Walt doesn't live in England any more. And a good thing too, from what I hear (thanks to Agent 17 and the Daily Beast). Seems Paris is not the only major European city with "Muslim no-go zones". Check out the video in "Muslim 'no-go' zones in France -- the failure of multicult". London has them too, and white Christians who venture into such places are risking life and limb. No kidding!

We know this from a criminal trial which wrapped up in London yesterday. The court heard a band of Islamic vigilantes admit to roaming the streets of East London, confronting and threatening to kill non-believers in an attempt to force everyone to obey Sharia law. Three men have pleaded guilty to related charges after self-proclaimed "Muslim Patrols" attacked, intimidated and threatened to stab members of the public in an area of London that hosted the 2012 Olympic Games.

Here's the thing about these "Muslim Patrols". Judging by the pictures and the court report, the terrorist wannabes are almost all homegrown -- white boys with Christian names who have converted to Islam and entered the fast lane on the road to Paradise. Ricardo McFarlane pled guilty to affray (fighting in a public place), while Jordan Horner (the red-bearded one in the picture) pled guilty to two charges of assault and use of threatening words and behaviour. They refused instructions to stand in court as the charges were read out.

The yoofs admitted taking part in an attack on January 6th, when a group of five men were approached in the wee hours while on a toot in London's tough and grimy East End. They had cans of beer snatched from their hands and poured out. A previous hearing was told that Horner said, "Why are you poisoning your body? It is against Islam. This is Muslim Patrol. Kill the non-believers." He then told someone to "go get the shank". Horner has admitted to throwing punches at the men as they attempted to flee the scene.

Ed. here. I'm going to cut this short. One VIDEO is worth 1000 words. Here's a clip from Sky News.



The chap doing the stand-up says the bobbies are concerned that this kind of antisocial behaviour could become more widespread as other disaffected yoofs start copycatting. Indeed. Coming soon to a city near you...

USA "the brokiest brokey broke nation in the history of the world"

One of Walt's favourite socio-political writers, Mark Steyn, is thinking seriously of moving back to Canada. He left the Great Not-so-white North in a huff, after having to defend himself before Canada's kangaroo court [Human Rights Commission, surely! Ed.] against charges of racism related to his warnings that the West risks being overrun by militant by Muslims.

His most recent books -- best-sellers highly recommended by Walt -- are America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, and After America: Get Ready for Armageddon. Reading between the lines of an interview with the Notional Post last week, Walt senses that Mr. Steyn has given up sounding the alarm and calling for a return to small government and economic discipline. In his opinion, changing the direction of the Obama maladministration will be very difficult. "America is the brokiest brokey broke nation in the history of the world," he told Jan Gerson. Here's more from the interview; the emphasis is Walt's.

Q: Let’s have that discussion about how terrible things are about to get: Brokiest broke of all the brokiest countries in the world.

A: On its present trajectory, America is looking at $20-trillion debt by the time this president leaves office, just the federal debt. That will mean the 44th president has run up more debt than the previous 43 presidents combined. It was $10-trillion when he took office. No one has ever spent that much in the history of the planet. And he has nothing to show for it.

The question then becomes, is serious political course correction possible in the United States? And I think the answer to that is very difficult. The question then is whether the rest of the developed world sits back and watches America drag everybody else over the cliff, or whether they start making plans, as Australia and certain other countries are doing, for the post-American world.

The post-Second World War American order is over. [The West] didn’t ask for [this]. The Americans did this to us; we didn’t do it to them. But, you know, it’s a new world out there and we have to look for other partners.

Q: When do we know that we’ve reached the tipping point of the end of the American age?

A: Goldman Sachs thinks that China will become the world’s biggest economic power sometime around 2016. In other words, and if that year is right, let’s just suppose for the sake of the argument it is, it means Barack Obama will end his term in a position no president has been in since Grover Cleveland. We’re in a post-American world. And at that point the question is whether it’s a gentle decline, like for the European empires after the Second World War, or whether it’s, you know, Mad Max on Interstate 95.

War is hell... so why are we in such a hurry to go there?

At this time of year -- Remembrance Day, Armistice Day, Veterans Day or whatever you choose to call it -- our custom is to pause for a moment and remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Where Walt comes from, someone, often a child of schoolgoing age, will recite In Flanders Fields. Let's listen, after which Walt has some questions for veterans and survivors of our wars.



Since Lt.-Col. McCrae wrote those touching words, hundreds of thousands of young and not-so-young men and women from the western so-called democracies have given their lives. So have even greater numbers of our enemies. And still greater numbers of men, women, children and babes-in-arms who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

As Eric Bogle wrote in "The Ballad of Willie McBride" (aka "No Man's Land" or "The Green Fields of France"), "it all happened again and again and again."

It is right that we should remember with sorrow and pride those who "joined the glorious fallen" in Flanders, France, Italy, the Ukraine, North Africa, Korea and all those other places. I include Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, not because I'm proud of what American, Australian, British and Canadian forces did there, but because those who died in a terrible place far from home did so without questioning of complaining.

Most of those who died in the West's adventures in Asia didn't have much choice. Some of them were conscripts, some were volunteers. No matter. They wound up in uniform and went where they were sent, and (mostly) did what they were told. And there their lives ended. Nowadays it's possible to bring more of them home in body bags, but many of them are still there. They must not be forgotten.

But Walt has a couple of questions for those who lived -- sometimes at the cost of an arm or a leg or worse -- to tell the tale.

What were you doing there in Iraq or Afghanistan or some other fly-blown God-forsaken sandpit?
What did they -- the generals and the politicians -- tell you about why you were there, putting your life on the line?
Did you believe all that BS about fighting a war against terrorism and defending your homeland?

What did you do, there, that you could tell your mother about?
Are you proud of what you did? Are you proud about what your comrades-in-arms did?

And... most important... would you do it again?
Would you gladly throw the torch to your son or daughter, asking them to be part of the next generation to be "butchered and damned"?
Don't you think it's about time we stopped spilling blood and spending treasure in foreign wars... for nothing?!

Here's a quote from Neil Sheehan's A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam: The war in Vietnam was never going to be won. Nothing had been achieved by the outpouring of lives and treasure and the rending of American society. The assurances the public has been given were the lies and vaporings of foolish men.

Further reading: "‘Why the hell would I kill this kid?’: One Canadian veteran remembers the horrors of war", in this weekend's National Post.

Some thoughts about Toronto's mayor, from someone closer to the (re)action

Ed. here. Walt hasn't seen fit to dive into the lamestream media feeding frenzy over the Mayor of Toronto, now notorious for admitting to drinking way too much, and having used crack cocaine at least once while in office, yet refusing to resign or even take a leave of absence to check himself into rehab. [Didn't they teach you in j-school to keep your sentences short? Walt]

Walt's not going to take a cheap shot at Rob Ford because (a) he (Walt) has some empathy for people who cross the line every now and then, and (b) the low-hanging fruit has already been picked by Stephen Colbert -- Colbert for Prime Minister of Canada! -- and America's Most Important Jew. Besides, Walt doesn't live in Toronto, so it's no skin off his back.

However... one of Walt's agents has sent along some thoughts, which we think express the feelings of a large number of Torontonians (and others) who think there's been rather too much tut-tutting about one man's problem with ups and downs and cops who are clearly out to get him. So we turn the podium over to Agent 2.

When it was hinted many months ago that Mayor Rob Ford was caught on video with some unsavoury characters, the media frenzy began. The public was inundated with speculation that Mayor Ford was a drug addict and you couldn't turn on CBC's much-revered The National, pick up the Toronto Star, or listen to Toronto's All News 680 Radio without it being featured week after week.

At social events, I could not escape the topic and I listened intently to my friends' and family's views. They couldn't shake mine -- I like the guy.

Many things in life are unlawful. This means there is a governing law, but to me it does not mean it is illegal. Such as adultery -- according to the law it is grounds for divorce. Assault and murder are grounds for incarceration. But as far as social smoking, shooting up or drinking is concerned, it is in the same category as eating. It is a personal thing and not illegal.

The late-night talk show hosts and television shows around the world have picked up this news item. What an opportunity! I see it as a terrific marketing ploy to include Toronto in their travel plans in the coming years. Why can't we have a Pan-Am Games banner in the background?

Will the relentless media feel the same way if the very stressed Mayor has a tragic heart attack? Leave the guy alone.

When it comes to gay rights, Africa is... errr... ???

Africans are just like the rest of us, right? We in the West -- Europe and North America -- are no more civilized or progressive than our dusky-hued brethren in the Dark Continent. Right? And they're just as committed to equality for everyone, regardless of race, religion, or sexual orientation. Right? That's what the "human rights activists" keep telling us.

However, as this Amnesty International map discloses, there is at least one significant difference between Europeans (including us gringos) and Africans. The latter overwhelmingly reject the sexual diversity which our governments, media and opinion-makers tell us we must embrace. The Church told us (under Pope Ratzinger at least) that homosexuality was "disordered". But in most African cultures, being gay is regarded as sick, depraved and contrary to the laws of God and nature!

It follows that homosexuals acts, even between consenting queers, are illegal in most of Africa -- the countries shown in red. Walt is surprised to find Chad, Niger and Mali (in west Africa) coloured grey, given the strong Islamic influence in those states. Perhaps they have not yet adopted Sharia law, which also forbids homosexual acts. But Sharia is surely coming, and the LGBT crowd should be packing their bags.

Turns out that queers from the "red countries" are already en route to Europe in record numbers. Having mastered the English word "REFUGEE", they are arriving by the hundreds in EU countries such as the Netherlands [home of Zwarte Piet! Ed.], where they believe they will be made welcome and gifted with houses, cars and condoms. Will you be surprised when Walt tells you the gay asylum-seekers are not entirely welcome? I thought not.

In fact the Dutch Council of State asked the European Court of Justice -- the EU's supreme court -- whether homosexuals could be considered a "particular social group" (thus potential victims of discrimination) and whether criminalization and possible imprisonment amount to persecution. Will you be surprised when Walt tells you the ECJ's opinion?

Not much of a spoiler here then. The ECJ ruled that homosexuals from Sierra Leone, Uganda and Senegal who fear imprisonment in their home country have grounds for asylum in EU member states. Asylum can be granted, the court said, in cases where people are actually jailed for homosexuality in their home country.

The ECJ says laws specifically targeting homosexuals do indeed make them a separate group. (Walt guesses that would be "the LGBT community" that the gay rights activitists and our lamestream media bang on about.) But, the court said, it is up to the national authorities - in this case the Netherlands - to determine "whether, in the applicant's country of origin, the term of imprisonment...is applied in practice". In other words, do the "homophobic" laws exist only on paper, or do places like Uganda actually lock up their queers?

Walt finds it interesting that the Netherlands would ask the ECJ "Do we have to take them?" What the Dutch -- always a practical people -- should be doing is greeting them at Schiphol and handing them one-way tickets to JFK, LAX or (best of all) SFO. [Crackheads could be sent to YYZ. Ed.] American and Canadian politicians wouldn't dare ask the queers to prove they were legitimate asylum-seekers. Hell no! Instead, they'd probably organize a "pride parade"!

The Canuck version of Zwarte Piet?

Walt's earlier post about the Disunited Nations' disapproval of "Zwarte Piet" ("Black Pete") -- a character from Dutch Christmas tradition -- brought an almost instant message from Agent 3, with a link to "Board apologizes for vice-principal's blackface costume".

This story comes from the central Canadian province of Ontario, whose ultra-liberal Liberal government -- headed by a self-proclaimed lesbian -- is so politically correct that it won't offend anyone... except white, born-in-Canada Christians. If you work for an Ontario school board, woe betide you if you do, say or even think anything that could possibly be construed as racist, homophobic, Christian, pro-life, and so on ad nauseam.

The lesson was apparently not learned by Lionel "Blood" Klotz [no more cheap jokes, please. Ed.], a vice-principal at Mayfield Secondary School in Caledon, Ontario. Mr Klotz foolishly dressed up for Hallowe'en as, errr, Mister T. Fool!!!

Putting on blackface anywhere in Canada, even just to amuse the kiddiewinks, is like following a lit fuse in search of an explosion. You don't have to wait very long. Progressive thinkers in Caledon -- one of Canada's richest exurbs -- complained to the Peel District School Board, who duly investigated and found Mr Klotz guilty of racial insensitivity, for which he is going to be disciplined. And the school board has issued the standard grovelling apology to any and all who might have been offended.

Meanwhile, as seems to be SOP nowadays, an online petition in support of Mr Klotz has been started. Hundreds of students -- smarter than their teachers perhaps -- have already signed at #SaveKlotz2013. According to the Red Star, Mr Klotz could not be reached for comment this afternoon. Agent 3 thinks perhaps he's on his way to Amsterdam to take up a new position as a Zwarte Piet.