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August 26, 2014
Where the Black Flags Fly
Killing is easy. Self-control is hard.
If there's no accountability, no local bigshot that wants infidel tourists and their dollars and will make the killer's family suffer, then he has no reason not to beat you, steal from you or drag you into a home in some slum somewhere and wait for the fabled wealthy infidels to pay him a king's ransom. If not he always cut off your head to raise the price on the next one. His life is cheap, but yours is even cheaper. It's best to understand that we are not dealing with a moral code that looks anything like our own. The nastier qualities of human nature, deceit, violence and greed, are practically virtues. Especially if they are directed at the right targets. There's a reason that Islam was born here. There's a reason that it still thrives here largely in its unaltered form. There is no civilization where the black flags fly.- -Sultan Knish:
Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 26, 2014 9:58 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Most of civilization has been nothing more than a royal pain in the ass for all of my life. So I fly my own black flag and civilization better stay away. I'll have it on my terms or I won't have it at all.
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at August 27, 2014 6:51 AM