There is town in Germany that is effectively controlled by neo-Nazis. You can read all about it here. But there was a section in the article that I thought demonstrated both why Europe still functions and why Europe is going down the tubes.

It all started in 1992, on April 19 — Easter Sunday. About 120 neo-Nazis raised the Reichskriegsflagge, a symbol used by Hitler’s Nazi party, in front of the old farmhouse at the end of Forststrasse. They wanted to celebrate the 103rd anniversary of Hitler’s birth. “We’ll smoke you out,” the right-wing radicals allegedly told the G. family next door. The family had previously complained about constant neo-Nazi music. And it had paid a steep price for such complaints: break-ins and slashed tires came first. Then one day they found their chickens dead and hanging from the garden fence.

Partying with the Nazis

On Easter Sunday 1992, the family barricaded itself inside the house. The mayor at the time, Fritz Kalf, was there with them, armed with a shotgun. When the police were called, a mere four officers arrived — and they didn’t dare enter the farmhouse where the Nazis were partying. Later, three dozen more cops showed up and put an end to the revelries, but not before the doors and windows of the G. family’s house had been destroyed along with Kalf’s car. The culprits vanished in the darkness. Indeed, the only who received a citation that evening was the mayor — for carrying a gun without a permit.

It is impressive that Germany still has a mayor willing to put himself at risk to defend his people. But it is sadly typical of modern day Europe that he was the only one to receive a ticket.

The most basic function of any state is to insure that it is the only organization that uses force to compel people to do things. Therefore, armed gangs are one of the biggest signs of the failure of the state. The more powerful the gangs are, the weaker the state is.

In America, most white people don’t worry about gangs as long as they limit themselves to killing minorities. Thus, the growing power and sophistication of American gangs has escaped the notice of most Americans.

But for how long will this be the case? One thinks of how the failed state of Afghanistan suddenly came to people’s notice. Pockets of lawlessness have a way of making themselves know even on the wealthy and secure.

That is why I think it is worth listening as Stanley Crouch laments the fact that nobody wants to face the reality of the American killing fields.