French authorities are appealing to the public for help in finding Chérif Chekatt, the suspected gunman who killed two people and wounded thirteen others yesterday in Strasbourg. Hundreds of police officers and soldiers are searching for Mr. Chekatt in France and Germany. The gunman is alleged by eyewitnesses to have shouted “Allahu Akhbar” during his murderous spree. He had been arrested 27 times in the past for crimes in France, Switzerland, and other countries. The motive for his rampage is still unknown.
In other news, a 17-year-old Afghan culture-enricher was arrested while trying to flee Austria after he allegedly murdered a 16-year-old Austrian girl.
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GOP-Controlled Senate Breaks With Trump on Saudi Vote
The GOP-controlled Senate on Wednesday dealt a significant blow to President Trump by voting to advance a resolution ending U.S. support for the Saudi war in Yemen in the aftermath of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi’s slaying.
Senators agreed to begin debate on the measure despite only 11 of the chamber’s 51 Republicans joining with all Democrats to support it. The legislation would require Trump to withdraw any troops in or “affecting” Yemen within 30 days; the president has threatened to veto the bill if it reaches his desk.
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Twitter users seem to be fed up with the consistent threat of being suspended or worse for stepping out of line against the wrong person while the right people get a complete pass. Migrations have already begun to various platforms, but it would appear one is standing out.
According to the Daily Caller, an App called “Parler News” has seen a surge in users in such a short amount of time, the majority of them looking for free speech alternatives to the oppressive Twitter trust and safety nightmare:
While the platform itself has existed for three months, buzz about the app on Twitter earlier this week prompted thousands of conservatives to download the previously little-known app overnight. These new users include figures like Turning Point USA Communications Director Candace Owens, whose Twitter account was suspended and then reinstated in August after she sent out tweets meant to showcase the anti-white racism of New York Times editorial board member Sarah Jeong, and conservative activist Laura Loomer, who late last month chained herself to Twitter’s front door to protest her own permanent ban from the site.
Continuing growth throughout the week has bumped the app to the seventh most popular news app in the iOS App Store, ahead of The New York Times, Google News, ABC, CNBC, NPR, and The Wall Street Journal apps. Android users can find Parler in the Google Play Store as well. Those who prefer a web-based desktop version can expect one soon, says Matze.
This less than good news for Twitter, whom many thought was too big to fail. According to Parler News CEO John Matze, however, Twitter’s hubris will be its downfall.
“Alternative platforms will rise and those who are bold will switch,” said Matze in a post. “Big tech is not too big to topple, in fact, they are blinded by their size/power and are hurting themselves by ideologically targeting groups.”
Many names have already made their way there, including TPUSA’s Candace Owens, the NRA, Paul Joseph Watson, and Laura Loomer.
Whether the migration trend will continue to make Twitter shake in its boots is yet to be seen. Parler is still not as integrated into the very internet like Twitter is, and it’s not a household name. However, Twitter is only pushing more and more people off its platform, and Parler is going to catch them. Perhaps it will happen enough to the point where Twitter starts to get worried.
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The Administrative State May be Facing an Effective Death Sentence
One of the great tragedies inflicted upon this nation by its first Socialist president, Franklin Roosevelt, was the creation of the apparatus of the administrative state. Under his administration, executive agencies were not only allowed to decide how to enforce laws passed by the Congress, they actually got into the lawmaking business via the creation of a web of federal regulations that governs most facets of our lives. This graph shows the explosion of federal regulations since the Federal Register was first published in 1938.
Shortly the Supreme Court will hear a case called Kisor v. Wilkie which may bring this travesty to an end. This synopsis from Wikipedia shows how the administrative state works:
James Kisor is a veteran Marine from the Vietnam War, and had been a participant in Operation Harvest Moon. In 1982, stating that he had developed posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from his service, Kisor sought disability benefits from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). On review, the VA disagreed he has PTSD, and denied him disability benefits. Kisor appealed that decision in 2006, this time with additional documentation that was not available in 1982, including his service record. The VA granted benefits with this information, but with a start date of 2006 rather than 1982. …[…]
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Why did the VA act this way? Well, because they knew they could. And because they had no institutional interest in paying Mr. Kisor back-benefits for the nearly quarter century that he’d been requesting them. And, because, we can probably be sure that by this time Kisor had became a boil on the collective derriere of a lot of VA officials and they had decided “[to heck with] this guy, we make the rules.”
There are major federal rules created by the rule-making process and there are internal agency rules on how to implement rules they have created.
This leads to an interesting process in which agencies create rules, rules that can deprive you of liberty and property, without any public input and the courts are required to let agencies interpret those rules as the damned well please so long as they don’t go against the actual text of a rule.
The fact that the Supreme Court is probably going to rule in Kisor’s favor and overturn two precedents, Auer and Seminole Rock, has caused a lot of concern among the cheerleaders of the regulatory state.
If Kisor prevails, the process of agencies writing regulations regulating regulations will be dead. In order to administer regulations, agencies will have to engage in the rule-making process which will discourage a lot of nonsense. Then the fight can focus on making federal regulations no more deserving of deference than federal law.
[RTWT, and see links.]
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The White House hosted two Chanukah parties on Thursday. The annual celebration was delayed one day due to the funeral of the late President George H.W. Bush. on Wednesday.
The first party began at around 4:00PM. President and First Lady Trump, Vice President and Second Lady Pence were joined on stage by a group of 8 Holocaust survivors from Brooklyn, New York. They were accompanied by Assemblyman Dov Hikind, and thanked the president for deporting Nazi guard Jakiw Palij from the United States.
Trump noted the survivors had each endured “evil beyond description”.
The president also referenced the fatal October shooting of 11 Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue. He says in the aftermath of that “sinister” killing, “we reaffirmed our solemn duty to confront anti-Semitism everywhere. Trump added that we “must stamp out this vile hatred from the world.”[…]
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Footprints in History Aren’t Made Sitting Down
We are proud to share with you this speech by Valerie Price, our National Director for ACT for Canada. ACT for America has helped start sister organizations in 16 countries around the world, including Canada.
She spoke to over one thousand people standing outside Parliament Hill in -17 degree weather! It was so cold her hands were too cold to even turn the pages of her speech. Valerie’s speech was in opposition to the globalist UN Global Compact.
This is dedication and patriotism in action and should serve as an inspiration to all freedom loving patriots to stand up and take action.
Please take a couple of minutes to watch this short video of her speech…
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Anyone Celebrating France’s Terror Attack Will be Immediately Arrested — Italian Minister
Italian Deputy Prime Minister, and as many have seen defender of all things Italian, Matteo Salvini issues a strong warning to any who have considered ‘rejoicing’ at the Strasbourg attack.
Promising arrest of any who would consider celebrating the deaths of innocent people attending the Christmas market in France.
“Our postal police [service] is at the cutting edge and it is sifting the Web to find the heinous people who are celebrating someone else’s death,” ANSA quotes Salvini, he vows “immediate arrest for anyone who has been rejoicing online over the last few hours.”
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Czech Politicians Want to Ban Islam Completely as it ‘Colonises Society’
Political leaders in Czech Republic have previously condemned Islam in strong terms. Now, politicians in the Czech Parliament are discussing the complete ban of the religion.
If someone calls for the killing of infidels and Jews, then it is not a religion of peace, saysMP Jiri Kobza.
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France: A Revolt Against Europe’s Elites?
For years, those of us who write and worry about the rise of Islam in Western Europe have known that eventually, if the governments of these countries did not change course dramatically, something had to give. So far, the natives had, for the most part, been remarkably tame. They had swallowed a lot. Their leaders had filled their countries with huge numbers of immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa, a disproportionate number of whom were making it clear that they had no intention of fully joining or contributing to their host societies but, rather, were content to take, to harm, to damage, and to destroy, and were determined, in the long run, to conquer and rule.
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German Father Not Allowed to Swim With His Daughter Because of Muslim Women
Tim F. enjoys taking part in activities with his daughter and he has been welcomed everywhere but not in the swimming pool during swimming lessons.
The German father, who is on parental leave, spends a lot of time with his daughter as his wife takes care of their second child at home.
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‘Gilets Jaunes’: Left-Leaning MPs Table Motion of No Confidence in French Government
Left-leaning MPs have tabled a motion of no confidence in the French government in the wake of President Emmanuel Macron’s handling of the “gilets jaunes” (“yellow vests”) crisis.
The move has triggered a debate in the French parliament — the National Assembly — to be held on Thursday.
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On Monday, broadcaster SVT informed its readers about the damage that hand grenades can cause normal Swedish families.
The article is mocked on social media because Christmas time usually means warnings about forgotten Advent candles.
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Majority of French Reject Macron’s Offers, Want More Yellow Vest Protests
A poll has revealed the majority of French do not think the new policies unveiled by French President Emmanuel Macron this week are enough and say they want the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) protests to continue.
The data, released by polling firm Odoxa, shows that 59 per cent of French are not convinced by the measures to quell the Yellow Vest protests announced by President Macron earlier this week which included a 100 euro raise in the minimum wage and several tax breaks, Le Figaro reports.
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‘Still at Large’ — Strasbourg Shooting Suspect Convicted 27 Times Before, Yelled “Allahu Akbar”
French police have detained five people in connection with Tuesday’s deadly attack on a popular Christmas Market in the French city of Strasbourg — which unfolded only a few blocks away from the European Parliament. However, the shooter, who was reportedly wounded in the attack before commandeering a taxi to make his escape, remains at large, and French authorities worry that he may have fled to neighboring Germany, according to the Financial Times.
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Strasbourg: Italian Victim in Coma, Can’t be Operated on
Bullet position makes surgery impossible says girlfriend’s dad
(ANSA) — Rome, December 12 — Antonio Megalizzi, the Italian who is among the people shot in Tuesday’s terrorist attack in Strasbourg, is in a coma and cannot undergo surgery, the father of the young reporter’s girlfriend said on Wednesday.
“From what I understand, Antonio is on a coma and it is not possible to operate because of the position of the bullet, which reached the column at the base of the skull, near to the spine,” said Danilo Moresco, the father of Megalizzi’s girlfriend Luana.
He said he had this information from the family, who are already at the hospital.
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Strasbourg Shooting: Police Appeal to Find Chérif Chekatt
French police have issued a call for help to find the man suspected of opening fire near a Christmas market in Strasbourg.
Hundreds of police, soldiers and border agents on both sides of the Franco-German border are trying to find Chérif Chekatt, 29.
Two people died and 13 were injured in the gun attack in the eastern French city on Tuesday evening.
The gunman shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is greatest”) as he opened fire.
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UK: Muslim Council Leader Upset at Media for Accurately Reporting on Islamic Terror Attack
A spokesperson for the Muslim Council of Britain expressed his ‘disappointment’ at the media today for accurately reporting that the Islamic terrorist who killed 3 people and injured a dozen more in Strasbourg shouted “Allahu Akbar” during the attack.
“Disappointing to see BBC and Sky News lead with “Allahu Akbar” in their headline on the awful shooting in #Strasbourg vs. ITV and Al Jazeera who are being far more responsible,” tweeted Miqdaad Versi, adding, “This matters and it’s wrong.”
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UK: Theresa May Survives Confidence Vote of Tory MPs
Prime Minister Theresa May has won a vote of confidence in her leadership of the Conservative Party by 200 to 117.
After securing 63% of the total vote, she is now immune from a leadership challenge for a year.
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U.S. Bishops Applaud ‘Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act’
The United States Bishops have praised new legislation that will direct humanitarian relief to genocide victims in Iraq and Syria and hold Islamic State militants accountable for their crimes.
“Today is a signal of hope for the critically vulnerable of this region,” said Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, Chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, who also thanked the bill’s sponsors Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Anna Eshoo (D-CA), as well as President Donald Trump who signed the bill into law Tuesday.
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China was involved in 90 percent of all economic espionage cases handled by the Department of Justice over the last seven years, according to a report submitted Wednesday to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
“From 2011-2018, more than 90 percent of the Department’s cases alleging economic espionage by or to benefit a state involve China, and more than two-thirds of the Department’s theft of trade secrets cases have had a nexus to China,” the report stated.
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Chinese Christians Vow to ‘Stand Strong’ Under State Persecution
Despite ongoing arrests and torture of Chinese Christians after a raid on an independent church Sunday, the faithful are vowing not to bow to the Communist party “even if it means death.”
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Australian Court Finds Cardinal Pell Guilty of Sexual Abuse
A Melbourne court has reportedly convicted the Vatican’s finance chief, Cardinal George Pell, of sexually abusing two choir boys in the 1990s when he was archbishop of Melbourne.
After more than three days of deliberations, the court handed down a guilty verdictTuesday by a unanimous consent of the jury. If the verdict is confirmed, it will be the highest-ranking condemnation of a Church official for a crime of sexual abuse.
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A Muslim engineer with a shocking history of violence against his first wife has admitted to choking his second bride with an electrical cord.
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Police informants told detectives Thi Kim Lien Do and her boyfriend Son Hanh Nguyen had been brutally murdered inside a rented home in Canley Vale. The tip-off led to a remarkable discovery.
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Milton Friedman’s Brazil Moment: Band of Disciples Takes Charge
Paulo Guedes, the man tasked with fixing Brazil’s economy, likes to remind everyone that he’s a University of Chicago man. In interviews, he gushes at every opportunity about his days studying there under Milton Friedman. “Nobody had better training than me,” he proclaimed earlier this year.
And if the message weren’t clear enough, Brazil’s incoming economy minister is now proceeding to hand out one key post in his team after another to fellow Chicago grads: Joaquim Levy to run one state-run bank, Rubem Novaes to head another and Roberto Castello Branco to manage oil giant Petrobras. Two more alums, he said, will be made special envoys to key trading partners.
[Comment: Brazil will improve.]
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Religious Freedom Commission Slams Draft of New Cuban Constitution
The U.S. Commission on International Freedom (USCIRF) has sharply criticized a proposed draft for Cuba’s new constitution for its removal of key references to religious liberty and freedom of conscience.
This February, Cubans will vote on the new constitution through a public referendum and the Constitutional Commission is currently reviewing proposals for changes and is expected to submit a revised draft constitution to the National Assembly for approval in January.
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‘Spying & Threats’: Assange Complains of ‘More Subtle’ Silencing Than Khashoggi
Julian Assange has accused his Ecuadorean hosts of spying and feeding information to US authorities, and slammed attempts to block his journalistic work as a more subtle way of silencing than the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
Suggesting there were “facts of espionage“ inside the embassy, the WikiLeaks co-founder expressed concern during a hearing in Quito on Wednesday that Ecuadorean intelligence is not only spying on him, but sharing the data it has harvested with the FBI. Ecuadorean intelligence clearly spent a sizable amount of money equipping the embassy for surveillance, Assange added.
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Afghan Migrant Arrested After Trying to Flee Country Following Murder of Austrian Teen
A 17-year-old Afghan migrant has been arrested in connection to the murder of a 16-year-old Austrian girl after he attempted to buy a forged passport and flee the country.
Afghan migrant Saber Akhondzada, who came to Austria illegally in 2016, was arrested in Vienna by police on Tuesday evening after fleeing the city of Steyr in Upper Austria 48 hours before, Kronen Zeitung reports.
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‘Arrogant’ Merkel Defends Signing Highly Criticised UN Migration Pact
Merkel, unwilling and stubborn as ever, is how one could describe her speech. She simply dismissed all criticism of the pact as being based on false information.
“Now all know, that illegal migration in part causes great fear in our nations. These fears are now used by opponents of the pact to disseminate false information.”
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People smugglers will be closely watching Australia’s political debate over border protection for cues to restart the trade, the outgoing head of Operation Sovereign Borders has warned.
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Australia: Family of Iranian Refugees is Handed $100,000 Because They Were ‘Mistreated in Detention’
A family of refugees have been awarded $100,000 of taxpayers money after a court ruled they were ‘mistreated’.
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Father of Swedish Terror Victim Attacked by Migrant Who Vandalised Her Grave — Police Do Nothing
The illegal migrant who almost daily violates 11-year-old Ebba Åkerlund’s grave attacked Ebba’s father, Stefan, last night.
“When I called the police no one came,” the father writes on Facebook:
“This gets sicker and sicker. When I visited my beloved daughter’s grave tonight he was there, and he was extremely threatening. He looked even more terrifying with one eye missing. Given that he has previously pulled a knife on the verger, I suspect he’s capable of anything.”
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Migrant Transport NGO Announces Plans for New Vessel to Resume Operations in 2019
Only days after ending migrant transport operations, NGO SOS Méditerranée has announced they will be replacing their current vessel with a new one to resume operations in the New Year.
The group released a statement this week saying that they had not entirely given up on their commitment to picking up migrants off the Libyan coast despite the announcement from their partner Doctors Without Borders (MSF) that the Aquarius would be ending operations last week.
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Migrant Murder Suspect Okayed to Stay in Austria Due to Charges in Afghanistan
Saber Akhondzada, an asylum seeker suspected of stabbing to death his 16-year-old girlfriend in the Austrian city of Steyr, has been allowed to stay in the country, as he is wanted on murder charges in his home country Afghanistan. Austria notably does not deport people facing a death sentence in another country.
The 17-year-old suspect, who, according to local media, was brought into the Western country in the spring of 2016 by human traffickers, handed himself over to Vienna police yesterday after reportedly escaping through the window from his girlfriend Michelle’s bedroom, where she was found lying lifeless, having sustained two deadly stabs in the back, an autopsy revealed.
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UK Commitment to UN Migration Pact ‘All But Violates’ Govt Immigration Pledge: Think Tank
A leading immigration think tank has said that the United Kingdom’s adoption of the UN’s migration pact “all but violates” the government’s pledge to cut immigration.
On Monday, the UK and 163 other nations committed themselves to the United Nations’ Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration — the first attempt at the “global governance” and institutionalisation of migration.
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The United Nations are meeting in Marrakech, Morocco sign the Global Compact for Migration and we’re here to speak with delegates and cover the facts on the ground.
That is, we’re covering the facts from the outside because the United Nations is so threatened by The Rebel that my camera guy and I have been kicked from the compound.
But we don’t give up easily, and I was able to get some on-camera interviews with delegates to the convention from both Macedonia and Sweden to get their opinion on whether migration is a human right, and why a country would want to sign this agreement at all.
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Where’s Democracy? Brussels Bars Large Demonstration Against UN Migration Pact
A planned march against the UN Migration Pact in Brussels has been barred by the city’s mayor and the region’s Prime Minister, Belgian newspaper HLN reports.
“We cannot allow a ‘brown march’ in Brussels,” mayor Phillippe Close and regional Prime Minister Rudi Vervoort say.
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Catholic World Youth Day to Focus on Immigration, Environment, Women
In keeping with the priorities of Pope Francis, World Youth Day 2019 will focus on immigration, the environment, and the role of women in the Church, according to event organizers.
These will be “central themes” at the youth summit to be held next month in Panama, reported Crux, an online Catholic news outlet.
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Church of England Issues Guidance for Clergy on Sex Change ‘Celebration’ Ceremonies
New Church of England (CofE) guidance instructs parishes on how they should hold “celebratory” ceremonies to mark a person’s “transition” to the opposite sex.
Approved by the House of Bishops on Monday night, the pastoral guidance advises clergy to be “sensitive and creative” in incorporating the Affirmation of Baptismal Faith into church services which celebrate individuals embracing a new sexual identity.
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“Church of England Issues guidance for clergy on sex change @celebration’ ceremonies”
Damn them to Hell!
Ugh!
“Czech Politicians Want to Ban Islam Completely as it ‘Colonises Society’” interesting, I never saw this on any of our mainstream news…
Degeneracy everywhere. What a pile of [effluvium] El Pope too.
“French authorities are appealing to the public for help in finding Chérif Chekatt”
Wasn’t he already in the sights of those whom we assume are there to protect us?
Nah, they were too busy monitoring the every move of Marine Le Pen, intimidating students, and beating down gilet jaunes on the Champs de Elysee to keep an eye on just one of thousands of islamist thugs.
Hello gates,
not sure if ye picked up on this from last week, a retiring irish teacher in Paris was stabbed to death by a disgruntled pakistani former pupil;
See the comments to get the real story:
https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-lecturer-john-dowling-stabbed-paris-4378725-Dec2018/
From the comment section of that article:
“the French were never good at working out who their next aggressor would be.”
Muslim jobcentre worker sacked for anti-Trump and Tommy Robinson tweets gets £38,000 payout
Mr Patel told the tribunal in Manchester that his comments were ‘aimed at Islamophobic public figures’. According to an official who conducted disciplinary proceedings, Mr Patel’s comments could be regarded as ‘tasteless, offensive and political’, though it was accepted he was not racist.
Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2018/12/11/muslim-jobcentre-worker-sacked-for-anti-trump-and-tommy-robinson-tweets-gets-38000-payout-8232241/?ito=cbshare
The entire tribunal consisted of radical Islamists. Just in case the creature experience any discomfort. Too risky to find him guilty of anything. I can’t wsit for Mr Grump to be at 90%.
Wouldn’t that require a physical description? Or some kind of profiling?
That’s RAAAACIST!
From Le Monde France just now. French police found him and shot him. IS “soldier”.
I wonder if the BBC headlined it as “Man shot by French police”?
The Beeb is tritely predictable.
According to Spiegel Online (http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/strassburg-polizei-stellt-mutmasslichen-attentaeter-cherif-chekatt-a-1243647.htm) French police shot Cherif Chekatt today. Apparently he hadn’t even left Straßburg. Btw I’m not sure I believe the story. Couldn’t it all be orchestrated to distract the public from the Gilet Jaunes protests?
If it is meant as a distraction it is a very poor one. Such a distraction just draws attention to the flooding of France by muslim invaders, their criminality and bestial nature, and the incompetence of the authorities who supposedly had this scum on their radar, along with several thousand other potential islamic terrorists waiting for the right moment to slaughter infidels for allah.
I do not believe it either. Reports say he used a revolver( six bullets?)and killed 3 and injured many others. How can one accomplish this? Not even a trained special forces person could reach that body count without a semiautomatic or full auto.Questions remain.
One of the reasons I am a devout Christian is because of the biblical strategy against murder. Part of it is found in Joel 2. There God practices with some death events in the air and on the ground. This is done to show just how knowing God is when people are being killed. This activity against murder is a central part of the remaining prophecies in the bible. It is obviously very supportive of murder victims. This support for murder victims helps makes the bible prophecies relevant and respectable. This biblical strategy is very ominous against any murderer who is on the run and thinks he or she will get away with it.