Human Events Online brings us a perhaps the greatest column ever. It’s about how William Golding foresaw Natalee Holloway’s disapppearance, and wrote about it in his classic Lord of the Flies. It turns out the culprit in the case was liberalism.

So, let’s take a look at this piece, because I think it will teach you a thing or two about a whole bunch of stuff:

Replace Liberal with Morally Decayed
by Mike Thompson

Fifty years ago, a decade after Europeans had been extricated from the hellhole of World War Two by their magnanimous American cousins, the Old World denizens again were enjoying the fruits of civility envisioned for them in their Maker�€™s original Garden of Eden.

So, if I’m following Mike, he claims that we Americans magnanimously won WWII for the Allies, thus allowing our wimpy cousins to regain the “fruits of civility” that were enjoyed by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden before they ate the “fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and rudeness.”

That was our history lesson for today. Now, let’s jump to our literature studies.

Yet, British writer William Golding, eventual winner of a Nobel Price for literature, foresaw how easily barbarism again could vanquish the West�€™s inherent Christian decency. His Lord of the Flies, published in 1954, was the first of three allegorical novels that would explore fundamental challenges to human existence, survival and freedom. Lord of the Flies specifically describes the horrific slide into savagery by a band of young children following the crash of their plane on a small tropical island (not too unlike Aruba, in the southern Caribbean).

Thus, LofF is about how Europe could again be overrun by Nazis if a bunch of kids ever crash on an island like Aruba … or is it?

True to Golding�€™s prophetic vision, by the mid- 1960s Western Europe, including the redoubtable British Isles, had begun a hedonistic rear march into the hypnotic ancient land of Anything Goes.

Hmm, so Lord of the Flies isn’t a novel about how man’s thin veneer of civilization can quickly be peeled back to reveal the savagery beneath (or something like that). No, it’s actually a prophetic vision about how Europe would fall prey to liberalism by the end of the century.

Here, as Golding predicted with clarity, are some terminal, cancerous, liberal sores that today fester on Holland�€™s once-traditional and healthy body politic:

*Scantily clad prostitutes laze about in urban storefronts so that sex-hungry passersby can window-shop for a steamy middle-of-the-day liaison. Meantime, the Sex Workers Union (blue-collar hookers) is pushing the Dutch government to allow the pimpish labor bosses to crank up in Amsterdam�€™s Schiphol Airport the fastfood-restaurant-sounding �€œYumYum Caviar Club,�€� which actually would be a bordello for horny in-transit travelers.

Golding predicted THAT? Man, I guess I need to reread LotF.

*Marriage is a legal right of homosexuals, even if it includes serial infidelity on both sides.

Unlike in moral America, where marriage is a legal right of heterosexuals, even if it includes serial infidelity (cough, Newt Gingrich, cough).

*Meantime, absorbed with systemic liberal guilt over its colonial past, the Netherlands has opened the floodgates for immigrants from Indonesia, the Islamic colony in Asia which the Dutch ruled for three centuries. This has resulted in one million Muslims (6% of Netherlands�€™ population) living in little Holland (slightly larger than Maryland), whose four largest cities now count Muslims under age 14 as the majority of their youth.

See what happens when your country becomes liberal? You end up with young Muslims living in your cities! As Conrad predicted with such prophetic accuracy in Heart of Darkness, “The horror, the horror!”

And that is the end of both our literary studies and our visit to Dutch dens of iniquity, because Mike only brought them up to explain Aruba to us.

Like Mother Holland, Aruba boasts that its crime rate is �€œvery low.�€� Also like Mother Holland, however, Aruba has a low crime rate in large part because so little tawdry and outright dangerous activity in its laissez-faire environment actually qualifies as a crime; furthermore, if such activity is criminal, the police tradition in many cases (based on the Dutch model) is to wink at the perps and head for the nearest Dunkin�€™van Donuts for a quick sugar-fix.

Yes, tourists flock to Aruba in part because of its low crime rate … but once they arrive, they find to their horror that robbery, rape, and murder aren’t even classified as a crimes there!!!

(Okay, so it’s actually stuff like gambling and teenage drinking that aren’t crimes, but do you think that a group of fine, upstanding Alabama teens would have gone to Aruba if they were aware of this shocking fact?)

And, per Mike, things are so bad in Aruba that “Natalee�€™skinfolk in Alabama, not the Karibbean Kops, nailed the prime suspect, the playboy son of an influential local official.”

(Okay, so the prime suspect hasn’t actually been “nailed,” in that there doesn’t appear to be a confession or physical evidence that could convict him of a crime, and all Natalee’s “skinfolk” and friends reportedly did was figure out that he was the guy whom Natalee had been seen with in the casino the night she disappeared, but still, this shows you what happens once your country becomes liberalized: you have to conduct your own police investigations when your women go missing.)

After witnessing the campaign carping and nonproductive palaver of John F. Kerry regarding the Iraq War, Americans solidly rejected his bid for the presidency in 2004.

Um, I guess we are no longer talking about Natalee (or Dutch prostitutes, or Lord of the Flies) now.

If the domestic War on Crime is as important to voters as the international War on Terrorism, no sensible candidate for president in 2008, even a Democrat as far left as Hillary Clinton, is likely to hold up the ultraliberal Dutch/Aruban police and cultural standards as models for the United States.

Certainly Natalee Holloway’s family will not be supporting that course of history.

For, as Tolkein so prophetically predicted in The Lord of the Rings, if a Democrat is elected President in 2008, our white women will disappear at an alarming rate, our politicians will become serial monogamists, and fire-breathing dragons will infest our coal mines.