"It seems more likely [...] that by 2010 we’ll be watching burning buildings, street riots and assassinations [in EU] on American network news every night."
Mark Steyn is a Canadian author and a radio, television, and on-line presenter. He has written several books, including The New York Times bestsellers America Alone, After America, and Broadway Babies Say Goodnight. In the US he has guest-hosted the nationally syndicated Rush Limbaugh Show, as well as Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News, on which he regularly appeared as a guest and fill-in host.
"I find myself at odds with virtually the entire politico-media class in my reaction to the "storming" of the US Capitol... I was surprised that even politicians and pundits could utter all that eyewash about "the citadel of democracy" and "a light to the world" with a straight face. Its a citadel of crap, and the lights went out long ago: ask anyone who needs that $600 "relief"."
"The state has gradually annexed all the responsibilities of adulthood - health care, child care, care of the elderly - to the point where its effectively severed its citizens from humanitys primal instincts, not the least the survival instinct."
"[On protests against going to war with Iraq] One woman bore a picture of some female genitalia – possibly hers, the provenance was obscure – over the caption This Bush Is For Peace. Another waxed eloquent: Trim Bush. Out in Marin County somewhere, other bushes for peace disrobed, lay down on a hillside, and formed the words No War. I wonder if there are any conflicted nudists, with a bush for Iraq and a rack for Bush."
"[On Al Gore] The Eco-Messiah sternly talks up the old Nazi comparisons: "what were facing is an ecological Holocaust, and the evidence of an ecological Kristallnacht is as clear as the sound of glass shattering in Berlin." That 221,000 kilowatt-hours might suggest that, if this is the ecological Holocaust, Gores pad is Auschwitz. But, as his spokesperson would no doubt argue, when youre faced with ecological Holocausts and ecological Kristallnachts, sometimes the only way to bring it to an end is with an ecological Hiroshima. The Gore electric bill is the eco-atom bomb: you have to light up the world in order to save it."
"[On David Camerons Conservative Party] The carbon emissions trading system imposed by Kyoto is absurd and entirely ineffectual, but in London, David Cameron wants to apply it to hamburgers. Cameron wants to impose some sort of Kyoto-esque calorie trading system on fast-food purveyors whereby McDonalds would have some trans-fat cap imposed to ensure they pick up the tab for what that $3 Big Mac really costs society. And David Cameron is the leader of the alleged Conservative Party. Hes also living in a country whose major cities have been hollowed out by Islamist cells. Nevertheless, as England decays into Somalia with chip shops, taxing the chip shops is the Conservatives priority."
"Multiculturalism is a unicultural phenomenon."