[Vision2020] Arrest aftermath

[Douglas]

Dear visionaries,

Bob Hoffman asks if I acknowledge the possibility that one bad apple does 
not need to spoil the whole barrel. Of course I do. And of course it is 
ludicrous to condemn all Englishmen because of Jack the Ripper, etc.

So it is wrong to condemn all Germans because of the Nazis. At the same 
time, it was important for us to recognize that an important 
civil/religious/social/political movement was occurring in Germany in the 
rise of the Nazi party to power. If every one of Churchill's condemnations 
of the Nazis had been greeted with howls of PC protest -- "he is trying to 
marginalize the entire German race!" etc. -- the war would not have gone as 
well as it did. If western progressives (and Tom Hansen, along for the 
ride) insist on pretending that their little cosmopolitan world (in which 
imams at the National Cathedral sound a lot like Unitarians in turbans) 
represents what is actually going on in East Timor, the Sudan, Nigeria, the 
Ivory Coast, they are simply showing their deep and abiding provincialism.

To use Bob's illustration, I can look at an IRA bombing without condemning 
all Irishmen. But at the same time, if I were charged with trying to find 
the perpetrators of such a bombing, I WOULD START BY LOOKING AT IRISHMEN. I 
don't want to be unreasonable here, but can someone out there follow the 
argument? It would be poor time management to try to solve a Belfast 
bombing by looking at Peruvians. If we started with the Irishmen, we are 
not maintaining that all Irishmen are bad, or even that all Peruvians are good.

Tom Hansen asks for the profile for the disenfranchised militia types. I 
don't know -- here's a shot. I would have no objection if a fellow were 
profiled at an airport or federal building because of his camo gear, 
coonskin hat, combat boots, one tooth, and a fairly large Budweiser balcony 
peeping out underneath his "Lynch Janet Reno" T-shirt.

Cordially,

Douglas Wilson