Elephant in the Room- To Make Peace, First Make War

The Pros And Cons Of Militarizing The Police: Satire

Here are the cases for and against outfitting local law enforcement with military-grade weapons:
PROS

• Same tactics used successfully in Afghanistan, Iraq
• Modern law enforcement simply cannot do their job properly by relying on handguns, tasers, and tear gas alone
• A real shot in arm for nation’s ailing weapons industry
• Look on driver’s face when tank pulls up beside Mini Cooper always fun
• Local photojournalists now able to capture fog of war at home
• Nice surprise treat for veterans to see weapons they used in war pop up on their hometown streets
• Never a bad idea to put a more powerful gun in someone’s hand
• Actually going to seem pretty quaint when compared with police armaments 20 years from now

CONS

• Most police officers have proven fully capable of violently subduing protesters without any military-grade weapons
• It actually very hard to recite Miranda rights while holding 40-pound grenade launcher
• There no longer any middle ground between community watch and military
• Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles only get 5 miles per gallon
• Jesus, just look at this shit
• Military-style helmets limit peripheral vision while firing indiscriminately into crowd
• Could potentially be abused if put in lesser hands than America’s historically honest and virtuous police departments
• Takes away that personal touch of beating a suspect to death with bare hands

http://www.infowars.com/the-pros-and-cons-of-militarizing-the-police-satire/

Mosul Christians: And Then There Were Nun

That’s the Arabic letter pronounced “nun.” The genocidal Muslims of ISIS used it to mark Christian houses, businesses, and properties in Mosul, according to a report (with photographs) in Rorate Caeli. Why ‘nun’? Here:

Nun (ن), the 14th letter of the Arabic alphabet (the equivalent of letter N in our Roman alphabet), is the first letter of the word Nasara (نصارى : Nazarenes), the way Muslims have called Christians since the beginning of their invasion of the Christian world in the 7th century — Christians under Muslim rule never called themselves thus, since the intent of Muslims was to portray Christians as a contemptible and disobedient sect.

Rorate Caeli goes on:

They mean it as a mark of shame, we must then wear it as a mark of hope: Yes, we are in the army of the Resurrected Nazarene, the Master and Lord of the Universe, the Man who is God Almighty, the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity. You may kill our brethren and expel them, but we Christians will never go away.

Read the whole thing, including an excerpt of the interview with the Syriac Catholic patriarch, who confirms that the last Christian families were just driven from Mosul.
In another post, Rorate Caeli says what many of us are thinking:

For two thousand years, our dearest brethren saw it all from Mosul: Romanized Greeks, Hellenized Persians, Hellenized Romans from all origins later called “Byzantines”, Armenians, Arabs from the desert with a religion of the sword, Egyptians, Crusaders, Mongols, Turks, French and British, “Independence”… Then the clumsiest Empire in history, an Empire unwanted by most voters, unwarranted by the Republic’s own Constitution, led by bellicose hawks motivated by God knows what, justifying their actions on untruths, arrived, upsetting a balance that was not the best, but was best of all possible outcomes. Two Vicars of Christ had cried their hearts out in vain warning of the grave danger of an intervention, of the, “extremisms that could stem from it.”
Things were never the same.
For years, we have been warning that support for terrorists in neighboring Syria would surely end badly. But even we could not imagine that it would end so badly so fast and over such a vast area. And yet, the insane Empire-builders are still handing billions and billions, and hundreds of millions of dollars to “moderate” terrorists! Where’s the outrage? Have you contacted your congressman, senator, president, MP, prime-minister expressing your outrage, begging this madness to stop?

If anybody knows how we can get aid to the Christian refugees, please post it in the comboxes.


http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/nun-the-sign-of-genocide-mosul-christians/

Number of Churches That Left the ELCA From 2009 to 2013

This information comes from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America "Report of the Secretary," April 2014.

"ELCA Disaffiliation Votes"

"(T)he numbers of ELCA congregations disaffiliating for the past five years are the following:

2009 - 10
2010 - 302
2011 - 298
2012 - 49
2013 - 16

Total - 675

Nine hundred fifty-four congregations took a first vote. Several of these took multiple first votes. We still get occasional requests for explanation of the process of disaffiliation. These are referred to the appropriate synod office."

from: http://www.elcatoday.com/witness-stone-blog/number-of-churches-that-left-the-elca-from-2009-to-2013

Ferguson: When Stupid and Evil Reign, It's Good to Own a Gun

Society has broken down in Ferguson, Missouri. It's not the Zombie Apocalypse but a toxic stew has left law-abiding American citizens helpless. Thank God and the American Constitution some of those citizens own guns.

The gentlemen pictured above reportedly guarded their business establishment during last night's rioting. This morning they still have a business. Others weren't so lucky.

I don't know what happened when Michael Brown, an unarmed 18 year-old was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer. We have to wait for the facts to judge. Decent people wait for facts.

The indecent do not.

And the indecent are Ferguson's looters, rioters, and the mainstream media that enable them.

I don't think there's any question that the Ferguson police are in over their heads. But there's also no question that the media are gleefully pouring gasoline on the fire because the political upside that comes with race-baiting can oftentimes be huge. The 2014 midterms are only 80 days away. Nothing like a little racial toxicity to get out the Democrat vote.

One day the media and Democrats argue that only police should own guns.

The next day the media and Democrats argue that the police shoot unarmed citizens.

It's all a hustle.

They want you helpless.

In Ferguson … in America, looters and arsonists are on the loose. The cops are running around in circles. For political purposes, the nihilistic left-wing media is doing everything in its power to intentionally make things worse…

Incompetence and evil sometimes prevail. Even in America.

We can’t control stupid and evil.

We can buy firearms and learn how to safely use them in order to protect ourselves, our property, and our families.

Stupid and evil will tear apart a society whenever given the chance. You have an obligation to prepare yourself.

http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/08/16/Ferguson-When-Stupid-and-Evil-Reign-It-s-Good-to-Own-a-Gun

'There are no police': Ferguson store owners guard businesses; cite lack of police response

Looters in Ferguson, Mo., were met with little police resistance Friday night and store owners say they were forced to protect their businesses with their own guns, Fox2Now.com reported.

"I think the first message is to remind all law enforcement that they are hired to serve and protect and if they’re going to sit back and watch looting, they're not serving us; they’re not protecting us," Pastor Robert White told the station.

A reporter from the station tweeted that police cars were seen driving past some of the stores being looted and did not respond. It rained in Ferguson Friday night and protesters could be seen outside until 6 a.m.

Two store owners, standing outside their business holding guns, told Fox2Now.com that when they called 911, they were sent from one police agency to another, and got no response.

One of the owners, with a large black gun resting on his shoulder, told the station that police were lined up blocks from the looting, and did not engage looters making off with large boxes from these stores.

"There's no police," he said. "We trusted the police to keep it peaceful; they didn't do their job."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/16/there-are-no-police-ferguson-store-owners-guard-businesses-with-own-guns-lack/

OLD AMERICA (Moccasin Creek Official Video)

One more video to support these good ol' boys.