As our cocaine maker in Peru happily told us: ‘People want our cocaine because it is good and, for a while at least, makes them happy.’

So ends an interesting account in today’s Observer by Angus Macqueen  of a journey through the drug-growing badlands of South America.

There is no respectability whatever in drugs trafficking and only pathos or tragedy in drug-taking.  But the intellectual argument for drug liberalisation is becoming increasingly respectable because the alternative of prohibition has so manifestly failed.  Macqueen worries chiefly about the warfare and violence that drug moneys fuel in grower countries.  But he then makes what has become the standard case for liberalisation:-

This journey has left me thinking the politically unthinkable. With an election looming, the Blair government has made the war on drugs a populist law-and-order priority, once again conflating the taking of drugs with the crime and violence that surrounds them. But it is the war itself that is the problem. The politicians rightly warn that demand will go up if it is legalised. Not good but not the nightmare they summon up. Neither cocaine or heroin is a cancer. In quantities it destroys your nose and is bad for your brain, but it very rarely kills - unlike that other addictive plant we can use legally: tobacco.

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Hat tip to the redoubtable Pericles for this marvel of Arabian logic.

A Muslim Saudi professor says the earthquake and tsunami in south Asia were punishment from Allah for homosexuality and fornication committed by residents and visitors of affected countries at Christmastime.

A television interview of Sheik Fawzan Al-Fawzan, a professor at the Al-Imam University, was translated and posted on the Internet by the Middle East Media Research Institute TV Monitor Project, or MEMRI TV. The interview can be viewed on MEMRI’s website.

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Such a unique natural disaster as the Asian Tsunami should not go entirely unmarked on any news-based comment blog, and to date it has done so here.  So we will correct that.  It behoves us to acknowledge the human suffering the great waves caused and, also, the humility with which Mankind, however Westernised and modern he may be, must stand before such total, elementary and blind force.

We are of the natural world and not the master of it - not even the master of ourselves, though many a political fool of liberal mein may think so.  We do not yet truly understand the natural world, much less control it.  We have only really reached the callow stage where we may observe it systematically.

The sense of awe that follows upon that exercise is, perhaps, no longer awe of the Almighty.  But who among us, thinking on their own thoughts and feelings as they study the images on this link to News@Nature, can say with any certitude that the quality of those feelings is any more refined, better or even different to those of our faithful forefathers.

Well, it’s Faversham actually, in the green and watery, ancient county of Kent.  Not some mug-scarce inner-city blessed with that precious New Labour phenomenon, automatic weapons.  Aagh, didn’t mean that to slip out!  No, diversity – that’s what I meant to say.  Obviously, diversity.  And a jolly good thing, too, if you ask me.  And it’s entirely possible that Her Majesty’s new breed of politically correct, people’s policemen will knock on my door and ask me some time very soon (after Griffin you never know).  So we don’t want to be too white, do we?  Not too stuck in a chalky Kentish rut, so to speak, not too un…vibrant.  Decidedly not.  Constable.

So … back to Faversham, twixt the Kentish Swale estuary and the Kentish North Downs.  Beautiful, quiet, hardly troubled middle-England, all apples and beer and old church towers (hiding new and deeply dubious phone masts, but anyway we’ll not let that spoil the image).  Undeniably, though, there are too many cars.  Too few children.  Sufficient Conservatism, however.

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Thanks to Geoff for pointing out this convenient and commodius form of future transport.  Ideal if you are in a hurry.

By “the right”, of course, I mean those of us who care for truth and for our own people, neither one to the exclusion of the other.

By “right” I mean that the liberals and egalitarians, the elitists, the sensibility merchants, the anti-white racists, the politically correct, the identity artists, the rights artists, the self-haters, the liberty junkies, the complacent and the sleeping are all utterly, ingloriously WRONG!

So, a little naked truth-speaking …

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Around Spring 2006 British voters will be sent to the polls by the three-time election winner and Prime Minister of Smiles, Tony Blair, to vote on the proposed EU Constitution.  Opinion is settled on the matter and entirely accords with the long-established two-thirds, one-third majority for Euroscepticism.  So how will our internationalist PM and his new Master of the European Stage, that man of Brazilian passions, Peter Mandelson, ever persuade the British public to the contrary?

Well, reasoned argument is obviously out.  Something stronger is required, something befitting a desperate elite.  It has to be - can only be - threat.  And the only threat that has any purchase on the public mind is that of the lonely and dire future awaiting Little England outside the loving embrace of Europe.  There, Blair and Mandelson have a (softening) majority.  There they have an outside chance of pulling off a truly astonishing victory.

So be ready for it: a No vote will irrevocably lead to Britain having to quit the Union and, thence, walk the narrow and dark path to national failure.  That’s the line.

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This first post is a basic overview of anti-communitarianism for readers unfamiliar with another view of this philosophy. My work isn’t meant to insult anyone’s education, intelligence, or personal beliefs. Maybe you already know all about it and none of this post is news to you. But if you do, you’re a rarity among men. In the U.S., the communitarian agenda is never advertised on public service announcements. It’s rarely covered by major news. It’s never discussed by U.S. candidates for public office. In Great Britain and several other countries, it’s known as PM Blair’s and Labour’s political ideology. I begin with an “introduction” because I’m aware of the global barriers to understanding the exact philosophy that contributed to my overall conclusion. I pose that communitarianism is the ultimate third way synthesis in the Hegelian dialectic.

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