Weak-Kneed and Whiny
Posted on July 16, 2016 by Baron Bodissey
[Terrorists beware -- we've got flowers and candles, and we're not afraid to use them!]
Many thanks to Nash Montana for translating this editorial from Junge Freiheit:
Weak-kneed and whiny
How pathetic. A Tunisian mows down 84 happy and innocent people celebrating Bastille Day, injures dozens heavily, women and children are lying on the street covered in blood — and the only reaction that immediately follows is the same old threadbare phrases, just like after Toulouse and Brussels, Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan.
One knows them by heart. Consternation, bewilderment, shock, pre-cut empathy and feigned grief, solidarity and partnership and thoughts and prayers and so on and on and on. Flowers and stuffed animals in front of the embassies, spotlights in the national colors of the at the moment affected country’s buildings, Facebook profile pictures with “je suis something” — messages, the rituals are as practiced as they are helpless.
Where is the righteous anger, the determined and absolute call to the terrorists followed by actions, instead of the ever-identical phrases and hang-in-there rallying calls? “We strongly stand on France’s side” sounds exactly like the phrase machine from the chancellor, regardless of whether she resides in Berlin or in Ulan Bator.
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