The Ideology of Failure

by Stephen Pax Leonard

  The number of nation-states have multiplied since 1945. There are new nations and new concepts of nationalism all over the world following the decolonisation period in the 1950s and 1960s and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The non-violent Velvet Revolution led to the emergence of two new nations at the heart of Europe: the Czech Republic and Slovakia. There are now fifty-four independent member states of the African Union, but at the end of the Second World War only Ethiopia, Egypt and South Africa were independent.

  So why do people assume that in the absence of the EU, we would all be at war? It is first and foremost propaganda used to justify the new, multicultural EU federalist empire. It is a pretext for creating a superstate whose Commissioners are answerable to nobody, whose accounts have never been signed off on and whose enormous power encompasses twenty-eight countries. We should not be relinquishing sovereignty to unelected European Commissioners at a time of crisis. We cannot take the passports away from British passport-holding ISIS jihadists, of which there may be over 1,000, because of the European Convention on Human Rights which litigates for the protection of stateless persons. This is no time for nations to be ceding such powers.

  In 2011, elected Prime Ministers in Italy (Berlusconi) and Greece (Papandreou) were removed by bullying European technocrats and replaced by former Goldman Sachs employees after the ECB deliberately suspended its support for the Italian bond market by buying the bare minimum of bonds. During the Euro Crisis, the European Council of the Heads of the Eurozone governments emerged as the key decision-making body. Unregulated by law and aloof from democratic constituencies, it managed the crisis by authoritative decision-making. In 2016, Goldman Sachs employed Barroso, the President of the European Commission who supervised the removal of national, elected leaders. This is how far the ‘liberal’ authoritarianism has gone. Greece was told by the EU President when it should have an election. The implication was that in order to calm the markets, conventional politics must be suspended. With these kind of actions, it is clear that the policies of the European Union will lead to its own collapse.

  The EU oversaw a financial crisis so extreme that national economies can only be kept afloat by an ECB that buys up all their debt. The EU has used the financial and migration crises as an excuse for full fiscal and political union amongst member states. It is apparently only those that created the crisis that can get us out of the crisis. Putin is watching this and like the rest of the sane world can barely believe what he is seeing. In the heart of Europe, there is a system of thought which is sufficiently destructive, it will completely undermine the nation-states and lead to a United States of Europe run by a few grey technocrats. Attempts to undermine, ridicule and transcend national borders and identities end up in centralised totalitarianism, as in the Soviet Union. The former Eastern Bloc countries joined the EU to regain their sense of sovereignty, but have now discovered that they just passed their sovereignty from the Soviet Union to the European Union.

  X. In Denial

  From husks and rags and waste and excrement

  He forms the pavement-feet and the lift-faces;

  He steers the sick words into parliament

  To rule a dust-bin world with deep-sleep phrases.

  When healthy words or people chance to dine

  Together in this rarely actual scene,

  There is a love-taste in the bread and wine,

  Nor is it asked: “Do you mean what you mean?”

  But to their table-converse boldly comes

  The same great-devil with his brush and tray,

  To conjure plump loaves from the scattered crumbs,

  And feed his false five thousands day by day.

  — Robert Graves

  The view from Château Hill is serene. The palm-tree lined Promenade des Anglais encircles the pale sand and the rhythmically grating surf of the Côte d’Azure. Pebbles hastily in retreat mark the shank of the evening. The shadowed mountains undulate in the evening crimson and crayola sky. With its imperious façades and pink roof, Hotel Negresco — home to red-haired grande dames — sashays as the epitome of French faded elegance, of temps passé when the truly wonderful Sir Roger Moore with his luxuriant dulcet tones would be seen playing Lord Brett Sinclair of The Persuaders beneath the Baccarat chandelier. With all its eccentricity, froth and from above the mink bed-spreads, the spangling Bay of Angels sweeps effortlessly past. French poodles feeling confident and in the pink sniff the fragrant breeze.

  It is Bastille Day, commemorating the beginning of the French Revolution, and the Maralpins’ celebrations will continue long into the night. After the military parades in Paris, great crowds of people have gathered on the Prom to watch the renowned fireworks display. The sky lights up and young children gasp, tightening their tiny grip on their parents’ hands. Then, the horror begins. A lorry mounts the pavement of the Promenade des Anglais and accelerates into a crowd of terrified knee-height children. The Tunisian jihadist careens down the promenade in a frenzy, swaying and swerving to crush as many people as possible. He smiles and laughs aloud as the blood of his young victims first spatters and then floods the wind-screen. Bodies are smashed onto the bumper, dragged under the lorry and then crushed under the weight of the vehicle. Young women soaked in blood lie helpless on the pavement, screaming, trying to resuscitate their dead babies lying next to them. The nineteen-tonne lorry drives for just over a mile along the promenade smashing into the dispersing crowds, the killer shooting at those desperately trying to flee before the home-grown mass murderer is shot by the police.

  A man in a lorry killed eighty-six innocent people and injured 434 others, all of whom had gathered to celebrate the French national holiday. Mohammed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel is one of a reservoir of do-it-yourself jihadists living in France. In the wake of the attack, Hotel Negresco’s main hall was used to triage the hundreds of wounded. Porters donning blue frock coats, red knee breeches and top hats and looking as if they belonged to another era were seen ferrying mangled bloody bodies of children into the Royal Lounge, commissioned by Czar Nicholas II. This is the new norm in France.

  Shortly after, the French police destroyed all the CCTV footage of the attacks. Twenty-four hours of footage was destroyed from memory cards. As with every Islamist terrorist attack in Europe, the media reproduced the factual information, and then quickly moved on to puerile stories about celebrities’ weight loss. Within a few days, all was forgotten and the evidence had been erased. Life goes on. After all, there was no jihad here. The films of Islamists savaging Westerners are broadcast all over the internet by ISIS, but any footage of Islamist atrocities that ends up in the hands of the police in the West is erased. There was no jihad either in France in December 2014 when a driver in Dijon did the same thing, mowing down dozens of pedestrians shouting Islamic slogans. We were told once again it was the work of a mentally unbalanced man whose motivations were vague and ‘hardly coherent’. His intentions could not have been more coherent if he had tried to make them so. Just two months earlier, a spokesman (Al-Adnani, 22nd September 2014) for ISIS announced that Westerners should be attacked using any means possible: ‘Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him’.154

  As mentioned previously, another part of our new cultural grammar is obfuscation — covering things up — preventing people from knowing the truth. The fact that obfuscation exists implies that political leaders realise that the impact of telling the truth about what is happening could be just too incendiary. Obfuscation of aspects of the Muslim migration issue has created a dangerous cocktail of lies and cover-ups in Sweden. In August 2015, an Eritrean man who was about to be deported entered an IKEA store in Sweden on a Saturday afternoon and partially beheaded a fifty-five year old Swedish woman who was shopping with her son. Her twenty-eight year old son was also killed. This brutal atrocity was completely covered up by the Swedish media who described it as a ‘
knife attack’, which in 2015/16 has become something of a ritualised term.

  The Government is feeding Swedes a diet of lies, trying to conceal the reality of the fiasco of its immigration policy. Somebody at the crime scene took a photo with a Smartphone. It is clear that a customer’s head was (partially) removed using a knife. The advent of social media means it is not possible to cover-up these terror acts, and expect to get away with it. After the double murder, IKEA closed the shop and put up a notice saying that the store was closed because of a ‘technical error’. As we have seen previously, it is reasonable to assume that in a pseudo-totalitarian country like Sweden, the media and politicians collude on a regular basis to ensure the multiculturalist project is not tarnished in any way. We know that this happens at a corporate level with the Wallenberg family, which owns a third of the Swedish stock market and collaborates closely with the Government. So much for equality.

  This kind of thing is not happening just in Sweden: the Enemedia (to use Pamela Geller’s term) across Europe (but not in the UK where there is to be found fortunately a much more aggressive kind of journalism) gloss over the facts. If one listens to the accounts the nuns gave who witnessed the beheading of the French Catholic priest in July 2016, they speak of how the ISIS attackers filmed the beheading while laughing and how the hostages were forced to speak Arabic at the altar on which the Sacrifice of the Mass is offered.155 The symbolism of the barbaric event is beyond taboo, with a Catholic Priest being ‘sacrificed’ at the altar in his own church by two thugs who claimed to be acting in the name of religion. Forcing the Congregation to chant the synecdochic Allahu Akbar is a metaphor for the attackers’ desired Islamification of France. The French media were quick to suppress the details, saying that the Priest had his ‘throat cut’ and making no mention of the forced invocations. The news item was quickly replaced with a piece of celebrity gossip about somebody or other potentially being pregnant.

  Back in Britain, the BBC went a step further in accommodating radical Islam by providing a platform for hate-imams such as Choudary. Such media complicity might suggest that liberal modernity is beginning to subside into nihilism. A resurgent Islam is being juxtaposed with a self-deprecating ideology of failure. If an ideology turns in on itself like this, it surely means that its life is coming to an end. Liberal society will end when the Islamist attacks in Europe are so sustained that the electorate has no choice but to vote for parties that offer radical solutions, or when immigrants from the Middle East become the majority group in European countries. That moment is rapidly approaching, and the first option is being chosen by many voters.

  With the exception of SD, it seems all the political parties in Sweden are reluctant to question this culture of obfuscation. The twenty-two year old Swedish girl working in a Swedish refugee centre who was stabbed to death by a fifteen year old asylum seeker in January 2016 was headline news in the UK, but was barely mentioned in the Swedish newspapers.156 It was just another ‘knife attack’. The Swedish media covers up the crimes of asylum seekers and illegal immigrants. It was The Daily Mail that showed his photograph in the UK newspapers. In Sweden, he was anonymous.

  Unable to tell the truth about the mass rapes in Stockholm which were covered up in Sweden (but reported by the BBC) following the migration crisis of 2015/16, journalists such as Ivar Apri are forced to express their views in publications such as The Spectator (February, 2016) in the UK.157 The series of grenade attacks in Swedish suburbs in 2018 was covered in full by The New York Times, but ignored by the Swedish media. Such events should have been a sword of Damocles for the Swedish Government, but instead they were just whitewashed. It is more than regrettable when newspapers in apparently one of the most ‘open’ and ‘liberal’ countries in the world refuse to publish the truth, even when it is written by well-respected journalists. A spate of rapes and attacks by asylum seekers on Swedish women in the hitherto sleepy town of Östersund was fully reported on in the British Press, but absolutely no mention was made in the Swedish Press.158

  The Swedish media will do anything to divert the hearer or reader from the truth of the crime epidemic that broke out in Sweden following the mass migration of 2015. The media was busy in the winter of 2015 trying to convince Swedes that the real news story was Russia, and the fact that Sweden apparently faced an immediate military threat. The same tactic was used the following summer to cover up the news story of large groups of Swedish girls being assaulted at music festivals around the country one weekend after the other. The radio (P1) even managed to find a senior Army officer to tell listeners that Russia would attack Sweden within five years. In May of 2018, Sweden distributed leaflets to every Swedish household telling them how to respond to an invasion (from Russia). Swedes use Russia as a scapegoat as it is too sensitive to talk about Islam. It has been a common tactic to cast Russia as the enemy when it is obvious that the West will need her to defeat militant Islam.

  Instead of imposing sanctions on Russia, a country that strongly defends traditional Christian values, it is surely time to impose sanctions on Saudi Arabia, which for forty years has financed Islamic extremism all over the world. It is estimated that Saudi Arabia, a country where running a blog promoting the freedom of speech could get you 1,000 lashes, might have spent US$100 billion on promoting Islamic extremism over the last forty years.159 Cableleaks prove that the West has known about this for a considerable amount of time. Reports from the European Parliament and the United States Senate Committee both verify this, and even the German Vice-Chancellor has (finally) spoken out against it publicly.160

  As has been noted, Sweden has a continuous, unambiguous national identity and a strong system of national values. But the Government wishes to present Sweden as a ‘rootless’ country, when its roots are in fact much less mixed and intertwined than many other European nation-states. It is precisely this cultural sharedness that underpins strong communities.

  The former Leader of the Opposition, Mona Sahlin — the master (or mistress) of self-abusive discourse — said that Muslim immigrants to Sweden had a culture, a history and identity whereas Swedes had nothing but a Midsummer’s Party (in a speech to the Turkish youth organisation Euroturk, March, 2002). Previously in 2000, the same woman said that if there are two equally qualified candidates for a job, then it should go to the one called Mohammed.161 She also claimed that it is for Swedes to integrate into the new Sweden, not vice versa, i.e. Swedes should become Muslims.162 Subsequently, it was rumoured that she converted to Islam. The very same woman was appointed two years ago as the first ever official coordinator against violent extremism. The anti-racist propaganda streamed through the State media has tragically embedded itself in the psyche of the Swede. It is attempting to negate the natural collective consciousness of Swedish society. If a culture cannot assert itself, if it is not authoritative in any way, then it will indeed wane and be replaced with something else. It is deeply troubling that one cannot question so-called multiculturalism in Sweden without being denigrated.

  Europe is living in the age of jihad, and yet jihadist sympathisers were appointed to the Government in Sweden, and in the case of Jeremy Corbyn hold the post of Leader of the Opposition in the UK. Jeremy Corbyn has described Hamas as ‘friends’, and has shared a platform with the British representative of an Iranian-backed militia which killed British troops.163 This is how far things are going awry. Only now in the light of revelations of anti-semitism in his party are prospective Labour voters beginning to reassess their opinions of him. In 2016, Sweden’s Housing Minister, Miljöpartiet’s Mehmet Kaplan had to resign once it was proved that he had links to extremist groups. In the summer of 2014, he compared jihadists who travel from Sweden to Syria to the Swedish volunteers who travelled to Finland to fight in the Winter War in 1939-40.164 And yet all one will read about in the Swedish Press is how Kaplan was on the receiving end of racist abuse, and thus his position as ‘victim’ is assured. Subsequently it was shown that Islamism had infiltrated the party far m
ore deeply than suspected. Anxious to pursue a pro-Muslim agenda, Sweden became the first EU country to recognise a Palestinian state — a gesture which has left the Swedish police investigating whether the State of Israel is planning an assassination attempt on the Swedish Foreign Minister, for many in the Middle East believe Sweden is funding Hamas (via the NGO Islamic Relief Worldwide to whom the Swedish state paid SEK 24 million in 2013).165

  There must be a sense of ‘fellow-feeling’ in societies, as Carl Schmitt (2007), who was keen to promote realism (and not utopianism and the fetish of diversity), would have said. Without such, Sweden will have lost its meaning and sense of purpose. It risks becoming a multicultural entity without direction and self-worth because radicals will have abnegated the heritage, traditions and history shared amongst Swedes for over a thousand years. But Schmitt would have argued that this liberal utopianism that many Swedes stand for cannot succeed. It will be very successful in making society ‘diverse’ (as understood in the ideological sense), but will be completely incapable of managing the conflicts that come with it and will of course never replace capitalism. We need to be able to communicate such meta-political messages about authoritarian liberalism, before it becomes a case of there being something ‘rotten in the state of Sweden’.