Breivik's Brethren

 The Spirit of Terror in the West

Notorious killer, George Zimmerman has been released on bail.  Thus far, his notoriety derives from the apoplectic narrative coursing through sections of the US media.  Zimmerman, a community crime watch patrol member, has been arrested for shooting a black late-teen.  Whilst the public does not know what happened that night, racial demagogues have insisted that the shooting was a racist, murderous act. Fools rush to judgment.

Zimmerman's release on bail has resulted in a rise of vigilante sentiment.
  The New Black Panthers have already put a bounty on Zimmerman's head, dead or alive.  Strangely, the authorities--namely, the Department of Justice--seem to care not a whit.  Try issuing a bounty for the president, dead or alive and see what happens.  Justice in the United States, it would seem, is no longer blind but partially sighted.  

The vigilante spirit has poured forth on Twitter.  This from The Blaze:

Though the Associated Press described George Zimmerman’s release on a $150,000 bail as a “low-key” event, bloodthirsty individuals are already setting their sights on the man accused of killing 17-year old Trayvon Martin.
(Related: George Zimmerman Released From Florida Jail)
Twitchy captured a number of tweets on the topic, which included:

‘Ima kill Zimmerman myself *loads semi* where he at’
‘I think imma personally kill George Zimmerman…anyone’s welcome to join (: …Leggggoooo !’
‘I WOULD KILL DA SHYT OUTTA DAT ZIMMERMAN DUDE IF I SAW HIS A** BOAAAA’
‘Someone pass me a gun, imma go follow zimmerman, shoot and kill him and say #imstandingmyground’
‘Lets kill #zimmerman’
‘They let Zimmerman free lets kill that MF’
‘George Zimmerman Released From Jail 150,000 Bail! WTF!  Ni**a You Are About To Die, Start Writing Your Will!…

As Twitchy notes, the calls for violence include some “genius” posts, like this one, which confuses “double jeopardy” with being released on bail:

Once u been convicted of a crime & let out on bail u can’t be charged 2x for the same thing so that means sum1 gonna have to kill Zimmerman

One senses a genuine moral equivalence here between the sentiments above and terrorists doing their duty for Allah and Mr Breivik's mass murder in Norway.  The last two believe that a great evil has been perpetrated and punishment has to be meted out.  They also accept that the punishment necessarily has to be exemplary--to prove a point.  It needs to be an act of theatre, to wake people up to the existence of the greater evil.  Both believe the authorities have become blind and are tools of wickedness.  Someone has to become an instrument of just vengeance.  Both alike claim vindication from a higher power.

Exactly the same kind of rationales could be credited to the vigilantes now riding in Zimmerman's direction to right wrongs perceived by the own lights.  

The point is that the spirit of the Islamic terrorist, or the life force of  random, yet calculated murders of a Breivik, together with the spirit of these US vigilantes are present in every society.  When the law is politicized, when crime is ignored, and when evil is tolerated cockroaches come out from the sewers.  Civilisation is always only skin deep.  In all societies, the heart of darkness beats steadily, just below the surface.  To our knowledge, evil has not yet suffered a fatal heart attack--unless it be at Golgotha and the empty garden tomb.  If so, until the time all enemies have been placed under the feet of the risen, ascended Messiah, we must contend and fight against the vestiges and influences of wickedness which remain.

Consequently, "all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." --Edmund Burke.  And, if the Messiah has risen, all good men must, and will, act.