Patrick Neid

Signing 'things' is usually pretty useless by my standards. You know "save Tibet" and all that hollow sloganeering. But this one, this is different. It's not as if we/humanity have not been here before. The Inquisition comes to mind. Burnings at the stake, beheadings, that sort of thing. Having said that, fully 50% of Westerners can't get their arms around the fact that beheadings are actually happening. Oh they see it on TV but it's a rerun of the "Night of the living dead".
It's video. It's not real. It's probably fabricated by whomever is in office for some crazy political gain. If nothing else we drove them to it! Whatever, my mind reels.

Maybe because I was born in the projects in the Bronx I get it. I'm tired of being one of a handful in San Francisco that gets it. I need company. I need to declare with like-minded folks that we are tired of our culture making excuses for primitive dark age SOBs. For the last thirty years I have had to live in a world where there have always been excuses -- some very good -- why thugs and despots get to roam free on their killing fields. My head-bolt started to loosen after the Munich Olympics. It's been unwinding ever since.

WE ARE ALLOWED TO MAKE MORAL JUDGMENTS. If we don't it's almost certain this horror will end with a pogrom. That's our dark side. Any casual reading of history should be alerting the Muslim community that they had better wake up to the 21st century and cut out the cancer. Society is a very fragile delicate organism. Think guillotine, think French revolution. Think madness. Civil society losing it's collective grip. Oh, you think it could never happen today? You need to put the bong down.

So with hope, I cling to the thought that wiser heads will prevail and the message of history will sink in and unify us all. With a little backbone this could all turn out to be the Barbary Pirates part II. For comedic purposes we'll let Stone direct. Otherwise, practice your 'heil' for the Adolf/Stalin redux. These guys don't show up in a vacuum. When great societies unravel very strange characters make their appearance. Bin Laden, with all his faults, knows this. Society is basically a handshake agreement. Reneging is what the Islamic fascists are doing. Body parts are the currency of their realm. They know us. With our help they are giving us the rope to hang ourselves. Sadly, in our blindness and excuses, we are in the knot making stage. Signing this declaration is the first step in
renewing the handshake........