The Value of a few screaming Hermits...

Sometimes I think we are involved in a people's crusade. The hermits of the internet (bloggers) have been preaching the dangers of Jihad, and the expansion of Sharia for sometime now, and many of us feel compelled to do... something. But none of us are experience in this bizarre sort of information warfare with which we find ourselves involved. We face a skilled, organized, and well funded opponent.

But we have heard the call, and set off on our course. Meanwhile our aristocracy continues to squabble amongst themselves as to whether any such problem exists at all, or if it does, it is very far away, and not central to their power struggles. Indeed to adopt the cause is to risk the loss of one's power and constituency. Santorum in Pa was outspoken about the need to counter the advance of Jihad's cause. And he was ousted from the Senate. Congressman Virgil Goode came under fire after questioning whether a vow on the Koran, (which states "War is deceit") was the same as a vow on the bible, (where to bear false witness is a grave sin). In Denmark, on the front-lines of the counter-jihad, the ruling powers could not find the stomach to allow the people to even speak out. So to the Ivory tower academics of San Fran.

The People's Crusade was disorganized, disordered, and confused. It warred with itself, was easily distracted, and lead to ignominy and slavery for those who undertook it. It was also vitally necessary. Only after the people set off, with a cause, but without a plan, did the nobility too take to the cause. They were more deliberate, and more organized, although they too suffered from confusion and disorder. Nobles, like Godfrey of Boullion, who gave up lands and rights in their own countries in order to move forward with a cause were the ones who were successful. So too, our politicans and leaders of today, will find themselves a new constituency if they take up the cause of countering Jihad, and the spread of Sharia, rolling back dictatorship and theocracy in favor of liberal government. The goal of we screaming hermits must be to convince those in power that the constituency exists, that we, the people, will reward those who abandon old partisan differences in favor of victory in the preeminent struggle of our time.