A British newspaper, The Sun newspaper is reporting that four British school children aged 16 and 17, together with their teacher have been allegedly raped at gunpoint on a school trip to Ghana.
According to the publication, the victims were attacked in their hostel-style accommodation by a man with a rifle on Saturday night, December 8.
The Sun newspaper indicated that the pupils flew to Ghana on a trip that was meant to give them the opportunity to experience life in a developing country. They were part of a larger group of ten schoolchildren who paid £1,200 each for the trip.
This same naivete and ignorance perhaps explains why so many Westerners are enthused about bringing third-world foreigners by the millions into their own cities. Everybody has had it pounded into their heads that Western nations were the worst in history, and the rest of the world was composed of “noble savages”. Yeah, what a load of crap. The fact is, it was Christian civilization that criminalized rape. And people want to throw that away? Do you want your countries to look like Africa?
A teenager was smashed over the head with a glass bottle as Chelsea beachgoers were attacked by a group of thieving youths in the Melbourne bayside suburb on Thursday night.
One swimmer was assaulted when he left the water to confront the teenagers, after spying them stealing unattended wallets and phones about 9:30pm.
Moments later the teenagers approached three men aged 25, 28, and 30, and assaulted them before stealing another phone.
The group then attacked a 19-year-old man sitting on the beach and struck him over the head with a glass bottle.
He was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Wow… I wonder what these “teenagers” look like?
The group was described as being aged in their late teens or early 20s and of African appearance.
No shit…? You don’t say…?
A caller to 3AW said a teenager had tried to open his car’s door as he waited at traffic lights but it was locked. He sped through a red light to escape but later found his vehicle’s door lock was broken.
Better a broken door lock than a broken skull.
No arrests have been made…
Ohh wow… no arrests? Let me see if I can find my shocked face.
Earlier this month, shocking footage emerged of the moment two men were ambushed and bashed unconscious in an “unprovoked, random, senseless and brutal” attack by a group of 20 youths on the St Kilda foreshore.
The victims were left unconscious, and one was robbed, after being repeatedly kicked and punched in the random assault on December 1.
“Youuuthhhhs…”
It was one of a number of violent incidents that prompted calls for Port Phillip Council to permanently ban alcohol on St Kilda’s foreshore during summer.
I don’t think it’s alcohol you guys need to ban.
Let me help the Aussies out here. Do you guys have any of those huge military cargo planes? Get a few of those. Fill them up with your “youths”. Fly them over to Africa. Open the cargo bay door and push the cargo out. Parachutes optional. Repeat round trips until your crime rate is zero.
According to the Department of Agriculture, if this government shutdown stretches into February there won’t be money for food stamps. And it certainly looks like this shutdown could last for quite a while, because President Trump is not backing down on his demand for border wall funding, and the Democrats have pledged not to give him a single penny.
So a few weeks from now, approximately 38 million people could be suddenly cut off from the food stamp program. If that scenario were to unfold, there is no telling what could happen. After just a few days, government workers are already freaking out about having their paychecks delayed. If people are getting this restless already, what will things look like when tens of millions of Americans are suddenly cut off from their primary source of food money?
Do you notice how the police insist that people don’t take matters into their own hands, despite them acknowledging that this is a long-standing problem that they refuse to address? The only thing the police do is come out and take your report after the fact. And even if the perpetrators are caught, they suffer no significant consequences.
All across the West cops are failing the loyalty test. They need to decide if they are on the side of the good people of their communities, or if they just obey their masters for a paycheck, even if it means letting anarchy and injustice tear apart their communities. How short-sighted can these people be? What good will their pensions be when their entire country has been turned into a third-world shithole?
Democrats and Republicans would be wise — and I know I’m already going off the rails here with undue hope — to take a peer over at Europe to get an idea of what is likely to come this way if they don’t pull their heads out of their asses and get serious about governing. Think the protests in France can’t quickly spiral into a larger conflagration? Think the rise of right-wing parties over there is just an anomaly? Europeans have a way of being a harbinger of unsettling moods.
Democrats and Republicans can dig their heels in and cry and pout and play games all they want, but one thing is certain: as the years wear on, the people of this country are not going to magically become more tolerant of our disastrous immigration policy.
If they were smart they would find a way to work with Trump and diffuse the heat a bit. Because if they don’t… they won’t want to see who comes after Trump.
The media is making much hay out of the fact that General Mattis resigned as President Trump’s Defense Secretary with a resignation letter that aired his grievances with the President’s foreign policy views. The media loves stuff like that because they think it makes the President look dumb and uninformed, in contrast to the “decorated” general.
But let’s go back to the beginning to find the first fissure and let us see if indeed Mattis was the bigger man or not.
In early 2017 the President signed an order to forbid transgendered people from entering the armed forces. From the reports that have come out, it was Gen. Mattis that thwarted and prevented the implementation of this new policy (which was simply a reversion to the policy of a few years ago). At this point it’s important to recall the order of things: the president is the commander in chief. The defense secretary is his subordinate. The defense secretary informs and advises the president. The president makes the actual decisions. The defense secretary carries out the president’s orders. This is how a sane government works. President Trump’s order (to exclude the transgendered) is logical and promotes the common good of the armed forces. As such, Gen. Mattis had absolutely no moral authority or standing to prevent its implementation.
From there, things unraveled.
Shortly after these events, we began to read reports in the media that the President was making foreign policy decisions without consulting his defense secretary. Well… why would he? Seriously — why would he? Mattis couldn’t carry out a simple order. What trust should the President have had in him after that?
It is surprising that Mattis lasted as long as he did. For how can a military be effectively run if members are free to ignore the orders of their superiors? Surely a general would know this?
Two-hundred years ago today — December 24, 1818 — was written this now ubiquitous Christmas carol by an Austrian priest named Josef Mohr, with Franz Xaver Gruber composing the music. Today it is often sung at Midnight Mass as a lullaby of sorts to Our Lord.
Continuing the idea of listening to carols in their native tongue, below is the 1977 performance by the Vienna Boys’ Choir. The Vienna Boys’ Choir is one of the oldest still remaining, dating back to about the 15th century or perhaps before. Boys’ choirs developed in the Middle Ages when treble voices were needed due to the acoustic designs of churches, and mixed choirs (i.e., with women) were still forbidden. These days, with the prohibition of mixed choirs having been relaxed, they are less common.
A few loops of that and it is easy to find a meditation. At this Christmas time, as people go about their business of celebrating without even giving Our Lord His due, I am reminded of something revealed to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, a French nun and mystic of the 17th century, when Our Lord established the Sacred Heart Devotion, beginning just two days after Christmas 1673.
He told this humble nun:
Behold the Heart that has so loved men that it has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming Itself, in order to testify to Its love; and in return, I receive from the greater part only ingratitude, by their irreverence and sacrilege, and by the coldness and contempt they have for Me in this Sacrament of Love. But what I feel most keenly is that it is hearts which are consecrated to Me that treat Me thus.
And:
I feel this more than all that I suffered during My Passion. If only they would make Me some return for My Love, I should think but little of all I have done for them and would wish, were it possible, to suffer still more. But the sole return they make for all My eagerness to do them good is to reject Me and treat Me with coldness.
Truly… it is hard to read. But upon taking some moments to reflect on these words, I think we must resign ourselves to acknowledge… it’s true. And we’re moved to ask, “What else more could He have done for us, so that we would love Him?”
At no other time of the year must this indifference be so painful to Our Lord than during the frenzy and fuss of the Christmas season. We, as a people, have lost sight of the fact that He came — not to be a great king here on earth, and even less so that we can have an annual month of celebration — but rather, that He was born with the sole purpose of dying, so that He can be king of our hearts, and that we may live in His kingdom forever.
Meditating on these thoughts while listening to the carol above — even for just fifteen minutes — can truly nourish the soul.
So let’s take this great feast of Christmas for what it truly is, and re-double our efforts in the coming year to grow closer to our entire reason for being.
There is no true civilization without a moral civilization, and no true moral civilization without the true religion: it is a proven truth, a historical fact. — St. Pius X
