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Started by mongers, August 04, 2016, 08:32:57 AM

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Malthus

Religious minorities, particularly Jews and Muslims, definitely have the feeling of having a bit of a target painted on them recently.  :(
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

jimmy olsen

It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

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Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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The Minsky Moment

Fake news, ISIS is defeated.
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Valmy

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on May 01, 2019, 11:32:34 AM
Fake news, ISIS is defeated.

They were at some point within 30 days of January 20, 2017 IIRC
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Zanza

#1114
QuoteWalter Lübcke murder raises specter of neo-Nazi terrorism

A suspected neo-Nazi's arrest in the Kassel politician's murder case has focused concerns on far-right terrorism in Germany. The city is home to an extremist scene and was the location of a notorious NSU murder in 2006.

Germany's federal prosecutors have taken over the investigation into the murder of Walter Lübcke, indicating that the killing of the Kassel district president on June 2 is being treated as a politically-motivated terrorist act.

A number of German outlets have reported details of the alleged far-right ties of the suspect arrested in the city of Kassel in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Monday that the 45-year-old man, named only as Stephan E., had a long criminal record, had already issued death threats via his YouTube channel, and that weapons were found during the search of his home.

According to the paper, Stephan E. had written a comment on YouTube in 2018 under his alias Game Over that read "Either this government abdicates soon or there will be deaths."

Few facts confirmed

Citing sources within security forces, the paper, along with public broadcasters NDR and WDR, said the suspect had been active in extreme-right groups, including the domestic neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) and a group known as the Autonomen Nationalisten (Autonomous Nationalists), a pan-European neo-Nazi group that has adopted some Antifa and far-left tactics.

Stephan E. is also believed to have been sentenced to six years in prison for an attempted bomb attack on a refugee home in 1995. He was also reported to have taken part in an attack on a trade union demonstration in 2009.

Officially, however, the federal prosecutors were giving little away about the investigation surrounding the suspect. Press spokesman Markus Schmitt appeared briefly before the cameras in Karlsruhe on Monday afternoon to confirm that the murder was being treated as a far-right extremist crime. He added that there was no indication yet that the suspect indeed belonged to a particular neo-Nazi terrorist cell, but that police were investigating whether others may have been involved.

:( Really bad development if the crazies turn to terrorism. I hope they crack down on these assholes with the full force of the law. But considering the right-wing sympathies in our law enforcement agencies, I have doubts. Let's see.

Zoupa

Quote from: Zanza on June 17, 2019, 12:17:45 PM
:( Really bad development if the crazies turn to terrorism. I hope they crack down on these assholes with the full force of the law. But considering the right-wing sympathies in our law enforcement agencies, I have doubts. Let's see.

Wtf  :shutup: 

2030 can't come soon enough...

Zanza


Syt

German law enforcement has long had a reputation of "being blind in the right eye." Former head of the domestic security agency was an especially egregious case who downplayed the problems with radical right wingers, cozied up to the AfD, and claimed that the Social Democrats were harboring left wing radicals.

But even without him there's the blunders with regards to the murders by the National Socialist Underground, the xenophobe hate sent by members of the Frankfurt police, etc.
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Razgovory

I used to think the laws in Germany that banned symbols of hate were stupid.  I believed that holocaust denial shouldn't be a crime.  I've revised some of opinion's recently. :(
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Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

The Brain

Denying false definitions of the Holocaust?
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mongers

Reading an article about the Dawson's Field hijackings, it almost seems 'quaint' compared with the terrorism people in some poor countries and we in the West now face; think of young children being used as suicide bomber in Nigerian market places vs Palestinian terrorists convening a news conference to spout some marxist bullshit.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

mongers

A terrorist attack at a Walmart in El Paso.

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Texas Walmart shooting: 'At least 19' killed in gun attack

3 August 2019 

At least 19 people have been killed in the latest mass shooting in the United States, the BBC's partner network CBS News says.

The shooting happened at a Walmart store near the Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso, Texas, a few miles from the US-Mexico border.

At least 22 people, including young children, are being treated at local hospitals following the attack.

A white man in his 20s is in custody and is believed to be the sole shooter.

The first reports of a shooting emerged at about 11:00 local time (18:00 GMT)
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More detail here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49221936
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jimmy olsen

Amazing how white guys are often taken alive after killing a bunch of people, compared to how other people the police interact with are treated.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Eddie Teach

Do you have any statistics on that, or are you just going by your gut?
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Zoupa

Quote from: Eddie Teach on August 03, 2019, 08:50:29 PM
Do you have any statistics on that, or are you just going by your gut?

Good luck finding statistics on that. The statistics on unarmed shootings though are readily available. African americans are 3.49 times more likely to be shot than caucasians.