Thoughts About Paris

Even with my friends I have been uncharacteristically quiet on the issue of what has happened in Paris and the immigration issue here.  Being a student of history, I am seeing the replay of the isolationism which led this country, and the world, into world war twice in the past century.

One group in my face has felt that my silence is because I hate Frenchmen and they got what they deserved.  Unfortunately, I lived in France for many years, spoke the language only - for eight years and was where I studied for my chef skills.  So, been there, extremely familiar with the French and their problems.  But, no I do not hate the French, I still have several online friends whom communicate with me regularly.  Most of them date back to my  life in northeastern France.  I may joke about being one of the 5,000 survivors of the NATO gulag of Laon - but make no mistake - the French are a wonderful people no more deserving what happened to them than anyone else.

And others have this hodgepodge mix of views pro-Islamic/anti-Islamic etc.  But, hey, I have worked with Islamic co-workers for decades from Jordan, Iraq and Iran - with no difficulties at all.  Even if my ancestry is Hebrew (on both sides!) there was never ever a problem.  So, no, I have lived in peace with Islamist's and they with me.  But, with that said, this little atheistic Hebrew boy was smart enough to know not to take that computing contract in Saudi ...

Conversely, importing scores of 17 to 40 year old single able bodied males is really just an invitation to horror!  Not paranoia, just a observations from all over the world across the past 40 years.  Europe and the America's should have learned from over a hundred years of terrorism throughout the Middle East, Near East and Pacific Island countries.  We (western culture) will not be immune.  There is no excuse for such naive stupidity - history is there for all to read and learn from!  And, oh, there is only one view of history - not multiple, and it is based on facts with the appropriate conclusion attached - not well wishes.

Yet, the story of the Syrian issue is one of US and British culpability for having created ISIS in the first place!  Yeah, we have the photos and news reports, even of Biden meeting with these power hungry thugs!  And yet, no one remembers, no one cares, no one wants to hold this US administration accountable for this ongoing apocalypse in Syria and throughout Africa!  And, yet, God will.

And where do I live now?  In the northwestern part of the USA with my family and even extended family now.  Paris is but one occurrence of foreign terrorism and through acts such as a blind immigration policy ... it is just a matter of time I fear.  All I can pray is for the safety of my own, should violence extend to this isolated spot in the world.

Again, prayer, lots of prayer is what is needed for your safety, you family's safety and God to move against those accountable for what happens.  Unfortunately, lots of innocents can be hurt in the meantime but that is in God's hands and His time table.  And lots of innocents can be hurt when we do not allow valid immigration for refugees to occur as well.  A fine line but not an invisible one.

As for Paris, the blind mania to allow immigration based upon an open border and pictures of children (when they are by and large an army of able bodied men) has led to the obvious problem and more to come.  A country which refuses to arm its citizens should express no surprise with high causality counts.  The populaces' allowance of a press' unwillingness to tell of the terrorist acts in Hamburg and Copenhagen only fuels the problem.  To wax poetically on metal fatigue when a tail section falls 3 miles from the body of an aircraft only causes to confuse - it is a bomb that does this - not metal fatigue!  But, we listen to the voices of the uninformed and the ignorant, failing to use the brain each one of us possesses.  To have no uproar over the literally hundreds of thousands of Christian executions in the past year .....  I am sorry if drugs, partying and games fill your life - it does not remove the requirement for you to use your brain.  Nor your own personal culpability before God.

And yes, God is going to allow you to be held accountable for your disinterest and isolation.  ISIS is but a symptom, the disease is this modern "culture", sorry but the cure is a terribly hard pill to swallow.

(Now my eMail audience, aren't you sorry you asked?)

As for me ...  I will continue to live in peace with all men, until such time as they feel empowered to not do so with me and mine.  And just as I have done in the past, those whom are guilty will be brought to justice, but not vengeance, because I am a pacifist and I believe in the sanctity of human life.  For those whom do not, well it is best they learn before they are brought openly to face God.