By Selwyn Duke

When I see the hand-wringing over the rise of Italian
politician Beppe Grillo, I can’t help but think of a man complaining about cigarette
smoke while his own derriere is on fire. Oh, don’t get me wrong, Grillo is a
wacko, for sure. I can’t even take issue with the claim that he’s a wicked
wacko. But I also know this: one thing he isn’t is a wacko without company.

As to the hand-wringing, I’m specifically referring to the
recent articles co-authored by writer James Lewis. Now, let me preface my
remarks by saying that, based on what I know of Mr. Lewis, I’ve no reason to
have anything but the utmost respect for him. Yet his last title, “Dangerous
Times: Is Italy teetering?” evokes a certain immediate response from me:

Why wouldn’t it be?

All of the West is teetering.

In Mr. Lewis’ most recent offering, he and his co-author wrote,
“Grillo is one scary guy. …According to Grillo, AIDS
doesn't exist, vaccines will kill you, and the Holocaust
never happened.” And, without a doubt, these are views that range from wacky to
wicked. But let’s talk about that.

Just recently there was a story
about how the Toronto School Board is promoting curriculum that encourages
kindergarteners to cross-dress. For the uninitiated, this is designed to free
them from being “stereotyped” as a boy or girl and to encourage these children
— who are thoroughly malleable, as little babes always are — to explore whether
or not they’re a member of the opposite sex “trapped in the wrong body.” Lest
you think this an anomaly, know that all over the West children as young as five
are being diagnosed with “Gender Identity Disorder” and allowed to attend
school dressed as an opposite-sex child. And then the rest of the students
sometimes undergo “sensitivity training” so they can come to accept this
perversion as normal, and we have arguments about what bathrooms these birls
and goys should be allowed to use. In the same vein, Phoenix, AZ has just
decided to allow any man who thinks he really, you know, deep down, is a
woman to use ladies’ public restrooms. I imagine this is quite scary to the
ladies out there, however many are left in a civilization that does things such
as encourage girls to wrestle with boys in high-school sports. But that’s just
masculinization and emasculation, which are so yesterday. Now we’ve moved on to
do what thou wilt shall be the whole of your sexual identity.

By the way, I don’t know if Beppe Grillo advocates any of
these things. But I haven’t heard that he does.

Another group that might find such developments scary are
Muslim jihadists — don’t scoff, as even a broken clock will be right twice a
day, especially about another broken clock — people to whom Grillo panders,
we’re told. But what does this do other than undermine Grillo’s claim that he’s
a true political outsider?

That is to say, if Western pseudo-elites bent over backwards
any further to Muslim influence, they’d be bowing toward Mecca. Most of the
West is now infamous for “hate speech” laws that are used to imprison those with
the temerity to speak out against Islam, and ham-handed Western officials have
defined a new hate crime: the use of an assault ham.
Although it seems that not all Muslims are averse to touching the unclean food,
at least not when there’s the chance to tear
it from Christian students’ hands and throw it away.

One area where Grillo does distinguish himself is in his
anti-Jewish feelings — in that he’s honest about them. Other Western
politicians just tell Jews that they should
leave Europe because, well, hells bells, those new Muslim immigrants just
don’t want you there. More subtle still is Barack Obama, with his
passive-aggressive Israel policy.

Speaking of Mr. Scary himself, I don’t know if Brillo would
appoint communists to office, but our abrasive irritant sure did. There was
former communications director Anita Dunn, who called Mao one of her “two
favorite philosophers”; and ex-“green czar” Van Jones, who called himself a
communist.

Of those who aren’t quite so forthcoming, there is Obama’s
“science czar” John Holdren, who co-authored a book that suggested forced
abortion, mass sterilization, and a “Planetary Regime” that could orchestrate
population control. Former “regulatory czar” Cass Sunstein has said
that hunting should be banned and animals allowed to file lawsuits; Chief
Diversity Officer at the FCC Mark Lloyd has scoffed at freedom of speech and
said that there are too many whites in the media; former assistant deputy secretary
at the Department of Education Kevin Jennings is a radical homosexual activist
who has promoted
“fisting” for 14-year-olds; ex-director of the White House Office of Energy and
Climate Change Carol Browner was hand-picked
as a “leader” by the worldwide association Socialist International; Energy
Secretary Steven Chu once said that he wanted to boost the price of gasoline to
$8 a gallon; and Attorney General Eric Holder reportedly
carried a card in his wallet stating “Blackness is more important than
anything, and the black US attorney has common cause with the black criminal.” Of
course, Obama himself seemed to have common cause with white criminals who suggested
that it may be necessary to kill 25 million Americans to further the communist
program. Also note that while the association has not, staggeringly, been
investigated by the media at all, Obama appears to have been a
member of the socialist New Party in the 1990s.

Scary? Wacky? Wicked? How many Western effete elites aren’t
described by these adjectives?

The fact is that the Western world is teetering — and
tottering and doddering. And within the context of this distressing reality,
should we really worry that Italians may choose a different species of wacko
than what’s de rigueur? We may as
well say that Mario has some nerve killing himself with a gun.

He should drink the hemlock as we do.

To reiterate, this is no defense of Grillo. My attitude
toward his set and the jihadists — both the Muslim and the secular-liberal
variety — is to wish a pox on all their houses. But there is another factor.
You see, I know where liberalism comes from. And I know where it goes to.
Unless something upsets our apple cart of movement toward a cradle-to-grave
nanny state, we’ll end up prey to a grave-filling death state. Thus, I welcome
most any division, be it the Catalans in Spain, the secessionists in the US,
the Scottish in the UK — or maybe even the Grillo crowd. For if we can’t be
united in Truth, being so under international socialism is no more appealing
than under national socialism. 

Now if we could only find a way to get the Muslims, secular
liberals, and neo-fascists to kill each other off, we’d be in business.

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