The Valkyrie

"A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we here it cry,
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much more we ourselves complain."
--William Shakespeare

Normally I am the last person that will come around to argue
ideology or politics. However there are lessons to be learned in
acts of men with ideas long dead.

Earlier this month a neo-Nazi group made the announcement that they
were going to march in a city north of me in protest of gang
activity. The city could not stop them from marching just because of
their views. You have to love America. At one point in time we did
the most vial things to try and stop the torcher, murder, and
destruction of an entire people by others who followed the same
ideology. Now we are forced to let them pass.

Residents of the area were shaken by the announcement that the Nazi
group was going to be walking down their sidewalks. To counter the
Nazi groups the locals organized their own anti-demonstration rally.
They too had a right to protest. But where the city officials made
their biggest mistake was the planed a rout that led the Nazis right
into the anti rally.

Sounds foolish from one point of view. But from another you see a
simple tactic. Let the situation explode in one area and then arrest
them all when it is all over. City officials and law enforcement
would come out heroes in the end!

It didn't happen.

The neo-Nazi group didn't march. And as it turns out they didn't
have to.
Violence broke out on Oct 15th after rioters (the locals) turned
their anger towards the police.
The Nazis didn't come and so they vented on the next available
target. Their own people.
Vehicles and business were vandalized, a bar was looted and torched,
a police officer was hit in the head with a chunk of concrete, and
all out anarchy reigned for over 4 hours. The idea was that the
police were protecting the neo-Nazis. In the end 114 people were
arrested. Mostly young boys and men. But not one neo-Nazi went to
jail. The dispersed and let the locals do all the work for them. Not
to mention take the fall.

In the aftermath the local are now saying things like "Violence only
breeds violence, we should have never let them in our
neighborhood." "The problem is poverty! We nee more money!" NO, the
problem is our youth. They need something to do."

Sad justifications for random acts of stupidity. Not one person has
said, "We were tricked into showing our true natures." The mask has
been ripped off. And everyone who thought they were fighting for the
greater good have turned out to be the very ones who cast out
destruction. Those who were thought to be there to destroy went home
and laughed their Asses off, coming out as the "peaceful party".
Adding credit to a radical movement with the darkest history in the
world.

The tactics may have changed but the message and lesson are still
the same. One man's ideology is another mans death. One group's
views are another groups annihilation. The saddest part of it all is
when it becomes our own sins that lead to our destruction. When one
group can cause another group to implode. And if there is no outside
catalyst we eventually make our own. The Catholic Church knows that
lesson well. They came up with one of the biggest sex scandals in
world history. Governments come up with recycled excuses for war.
Pagans tend to hold to and oath of silence until so many of them
pass away there is nothing left to reconstruct. And couples have so
many inter-relationship issues that the divorce rate is at an all
time high.

We're falling apart as a race. Society in starting to unravel at the
seams. People have turned into rocks. Unbending and unmoving. But
winter is coming and time has placed the waters of mortal sin in our
cracks. How do you think the world is going to turn out when our
emotions become so cold that the water freezes and the rock breaks?


AngelSnowden-2006