Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux - 3693 What Pisses Me Off About The Ariana Grande Terrorist Attack
Aired: 2017-05-23
Duration: 08:36


=== Manchester Attack Update (06:07) ===

[00:00:00]  Today, tonight, at least 20 people have been killed in what's been reported as a possible suicide blast.
[00:00:09]  At a concert in Manchester, 50 injured.
[00:00:13]  There probably will be more fatalities, more dead, by the time you watch this.
[00:00:21]  UK authorities say that the incident, the attack, was probably a suicide bomber with a backpack bomb.
[00:00:29]  Possibly filled with nails.
[00:00:31]  People have been treated for shrapnel-like injuries.
[00:00:34]  Some people say there were two explosions.
[00:00:39]  And there have been reports of controlled explosions since.
[00:00:43]  It is, of course, currently being treated as a terrorist attack.
[00:00:48]  And you can see the video footage online.
[00:00:51]  Thousands are screaming and fleeing in tears from a venue where they have been singing along and dancing as people are...
[00:01:00]  Covered head to toe in blood and body parts.
[00:01:08]  I would imagine that the injuries are going to go up from here as well.
[00:01:19]  So, after the concert, or just as the concert was ending, there was a boom, it caught people.
[00:01:25]  As they exited, and of course, if it was outside the arena as people were leaving, then of course, security doesn't help you much now, does it?
[00:01:37]  Because you see, here was the problem.
[00:01:40]  Here was the problem for certain twisted ideologies that infest and infect this world.
[00:01:47]  You see, what happened was, people were out there at this concert, Having fun.
[00:01:54]  Enjoying themselves.
[00:01:55]  The base sense pleasures of music and dancing and sing-alongs.
[00:01:59]  They were enjoying a performer.
[00:02:01]  They were enjoying the performance.
[00:02:02]  They were enjoying the music.
[00:02:04]  And we can't have any of that, can we, for some people?
[00:02:07]  No fun to be had.
[00:02:12]  Well, London Mayor Sadiq Khan warned Londoners.
[00:02:17]  He said terrorist attacks are just part and parcel of living in a big city.
[00:02:22]  Really?
[00:02:25]  This is basically a children's concert.
[00:02:28]  This is Ariana Grande.
[00:02:29]  She appeals to the younger set.
[00:02:33]  What if it was your kids, Sadiq?
[00:02:35]  Your kids being assembled to be identified, being carted out in body bags with nails being driven through their eye sockets and limbs being blown off.
[00:02:46]  Is that just part and parcel of living in a big city?
[00:02:49]  You've got security!
[00:02:51]  You've got bodyguards.
[00:02:53]  You're safe.
[00:02:55]  Are you going to be so blasé if it's your kids?
[00:03:01]  And now, the usual response is occurring.
[00:03:08]  Now everyone's trying to help.
[00:03:10]  God bless them.
[00:03:11]  I think it's wonderful that they're trying to help, offering up places to stay, offering to look for people, offering to put people in contact with other people.
[00:03:18]  Great!
[00:03:18]  I love that people do that.
[00:03:20]  I love it even more.
[00:03:22]  If they did that just a little bit ahead of time, it's one thing to respond to this kind of murderous attack.
[00:03:30]  It's another thing to work intelligently to prevent these things from happening.
[00:03:39]  I'd rather people not be brave in the face of disaster, but show a different kind of courage before disaster, the kind of courage that can prevent this kind of stuff from happening over and over and over again.
[00:03:55]  And tomorrow, the speeches will come.
[00:03:59]  We are not going to let this change our way of life.
[00:04:03]  We are not going to let this change who we are.
[00:04:08]  Lies.
[00:04:10]  We're not going to change.
[00:04:13]  Of course you are.
[00:04:16]  Of course you are.
[00:04:18]  French women can't be seen in certain areas.
[00:04:22]  Can't be seen.
[00:04:24]  They're home like they were in Saudi Arabia.
[00:04:27]  They don't dare walk out their houses.
[00:04:33]  Multicultural house arrest is real for a lot of people in Europe.
[00:04:42]  Of course you're going to change.
[00:04:43]  Of course you are.
[00:04:47]  That's why people do it.
[00:04:48]  It changes your mindset.
[00:04:49]  It changes your sense of security.
[00:04:52]  It changes your sense of safety, of identity.
[00:04:56]  It makes you jumpy.
[00:04:58]  It makes you nervous.
[00:05:00]  And for sure, people will stop going to concerts because of fears like this.
[00:05:04]  Of course people change what they do when this stuff happens.
[00:05:08]  That's why it happens.
[00:05:09]  Children in Britain not doing that well in many ways.
[00:05:22]  Got masses of these pedophile grooming gangs roaming around raping the children, passing them around like party favors.
[00:05:31]  Kids being attacked in their schools and now, if some of these reports are true, nail bombs being driven into their broken bodies.
[00:05:45]  And now comes the sentimentality aspect of these things.
[00:05:50]  People who won't lift a finger to challenge existing decisions now will change the flags on their avatars.
[00:05:58]  Pray for Birmingham!
[00:06:02]  No!
[00:06:04]  No.
[00:06:06]  Everyone offering help after the fact.

=== Decisions, Then and Now (02:27) ===

[00:06:08]  Great!
[00:06:09]  But that's not the kind of courage that is needed at the moment.
[00:06:14]  I grew up in the UK. And back in the day, Europe could have had it made after two brutal world wars.
[00:06:30]  Nuclear weapons, mutually assured destruction.
[00:06:32]  Europe could have had it made.
[00:06:34]  Europe could have been utopia.
[00:06:39]  Europe could have continued to be what it was about when I was growing up, about culture and art, beauty, sculpture, movies, science, literature, philosophy.
[00:06:55]  That's what Europe used to be about.
[00:06:59]  What is it about now?
[00:07:02]  It's about gritting your teeth, checking your news feed, waiting for the next set of flying body parts.
[00:07:08]  Why?
[00:07:10]  Because of very specific decisions made by your leaders and supported by you in conversation.
[00:07:23]  The first responders are brave and save lives and thank God for them.
[00:07:29]  But we need the pre-responders who avoid this kind of stuff.
[00:07:34]  Conversations you have with people about the decisions being made.
[00:07:39]  Every decision that was made can be re-decided, can be undone.
[00:07:46]  For God's sakes, stop being passive.
[00:07:51]  Nothing is inevitable.
[00:07:58]  I know there are difficult topics to talk about.
[00:08:01]  I know people might look at you funny.
[00:08:03]  You might be criticized.
[00:08:06]  You might be ostracized.
[00:08:08]  You might be rejected.
[00:08:09]  You might get into some social trouble.
[00:08:18]  But British people, and not just British people, It's a choice.
[00:08:27]  It's a very stark choice.
[00:08:29]  It's easier choices than your forefathers had.
[00:08:34]  Do you want to be popular?