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NuttBoxer says

The judge is a representative of government, not God.

The judge ordered the man to write Bible verses. He's clearly a Christian nutjob -- I know, that's redundant -- who holds a powerful government position. It's not being in government that fucked him up. It's being Christian. And he's abusing his state power precisely because of his faith. This is clear.

"Attacker in Nice plotted for months with 'accomplices,' prosecutor says"

thunderlips11 says

By his name?

I get the joke, but the name is a legitimate clue. Adults can change their names. If your parents were Nazis and named you Adolf Hitler Smith, I am guessing you would probably change that at the first opportunity, for example to Adam Harold Smith. Western culture has mostly renounced Nazis including HItler, and so the culture would help you make the right choice about your name and your life. Muslims in the west are harmed by a culture where people claim to "respect" Islam (usually without reading it). That ignorant "respect" enables too many Muslims to self-destruct and take others with them. The Nice attack cost the perpetrator his life, and 84 innocent people their lives, and who knows how many permanently debilitating injuries among the maimed. We can blame one Muslim and his accomplices for doing what Islam says to do, but at some point we must also consider politicians and voters who claim to "respect" that. If politicians funded by tobacco companies say they "respect" smoking, and enact policies to encourage and promote it and even subsidize it by importing smokers from all over the world, then they bear some share of blame for the deaths and suffering that smoking causes.

Meanwhile, in Belgium, the suicide trucker's name is now the most common name in elementary schools. The Muslim birth rate is much higher than the non-Muslim birth rate, and Muslims will probably be a majority in Brussels within one generation, and in all Belgium within three generations. Brussels is the capital of the EU, and Belgium is a NATO member with nuclear plants and American nuclear weapons. I don't know who will win the Presidency in 2016, but people are going to figure out one way or another that DJT is right about Islam. To borrow a phrase that has been unfairly discredited, I hope that confirmation won't come in the form of a mushroom cloud. Even if one boy cried wolf in the past when he shouldn't, that doesn't mean there are no wolves.

Some people look at the alleged Gulf of Tonkin incident and the alleged Iraqi WMD and draw a false conclusion that there are no threats, only the MIC making up enemies. The MIC does in fact look for enemies and at times invent them, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Some in the MIC may have begun to recognize the enemy that the military haven't thought much about since the Barbary Wars. Some might imagine that America's first enemy was Britain, but that wasn't really true: the complex relationship with Britain included both friendship and enmity and then alliance. The really inherent enemy was as President Jefferson saw when he read the Quran and ordered the first transatlantic mission by the United States Navy, including five separate bombardments of Tripoli and the famous landing by United States Marines. Jefferson and his protege President Madison recognized the problem, solved it, and most people forgot about it. I watched a politically fashionable historian's biography of Jefferson, and it omitted entirely the first Barbary War, choosing instead to agonize at great length about racism. I have stopped saying "politically correct" with regard to Islam, because the politically fashionable views are demonstrably incorrect. Westerners will see it sooner or later, but I hope it won't be too late.