France's Burning Barricades: "celebrating" natl holiday

The Daily Beast: "Rioters Burn 317 Cars in France"

This Bastille Day, the French celebrated their country in what is becoming a grim, albeit historically appropriate tradition: riots. Der Spiegel reports that at least 317 cars were torched yesterday in French cities despite the deployment of 10,000 police officers. Bastille-Day-eve violence has become traditional in France as disaffected young men seize the occasion to express anger at unemployment rates and failed policies toward ethnic minorities. The cars torched represented a seven percent increase over last year and police arrested almost double the number of protesters—240—despite a new law that has toughened punishments against rioters. Last night marked the third day of rioting in Lyon, and the second day of unrest in Paris, as people demonstrated against two unrelated incidents of alleged police brutality that took place on July 8. >>>

July 15, 2009
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The Brussels Journal: "...Sarko Had Better Bully France’s Thugs"

In my previous post I mentioned that 297 cars had burned during the night of July 13-14. Now it seems that another 295 were torched the following night, making a total of 592 cars destroyed – 150 in Ile-de-France (the Parisian region) and 145 in the provinces. In addition, 98 persons were arrested and 58 were placed in custody in all of France. The figures just for Ile-de-France are 48 arrests and 29 in custody. However the worst crime so far took place in Asnières, in the department of Hauts-de-Seine (Parisian suburbs). TF1 reports: He may lose an eye. On the night of July 13-14, a police commissioner was injured by a pyrotechnical device during a confrontation between young persons and the police. "The wound is extremely serious," according to a police source. (...) >>>

Updated: 16th July 2008
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Gallia Watch: "Crime Watch"

Crimes and urban violence go on all the time in France, as in the US. Sometimes there's a respite, but it's usually temporary. This article from Le Parisien, posted at Gaelle Mann describes a confrontation between "young persons" and gendarmes, that took place Saturday night and Sunday morning, in Vitry-le-François (Marne):

"(...) About sixty cars were torched, as well as trash cans, during the outburst in which 50 youth confronted gendarmes and firemen, according to Sylvaine Astic, an official in the office of the prefect. Two firemen, two gendarmes and five residents "not necessarily implicated in the violence," were slightly injured. The fighting broke out around 10:00 p.m. after the death of a young man about 20 years of age, killed by a gunshot in a neighborhood near the boundary of Vitry-le-François, a city of 17,000 inhabitants, 30 kilometers from Châlons-en-Champagne. Madame Astic spoke of "rather violent acts." (...) >>>

Updated: 17th June 2008
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Times Online: "France stunned by rioters’ savagery"

(...) Altogether 130 policemen were injured, dozens by shotgun pellets and shells packed with nails that were fired from a homemade bazooka. It prompted talk of urban “guerrilla warfare” being waged on French streets against the forces of law and order.

By the end of the week an extraordinarily heavy police presence in Villiers-le-Bel, where most of the rioting took place, appeared to have halted the violence: on top of public transport strikes and student protests against his reform plans, Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, could not afford a repeat of 2005, when a similar incident involving the deaths of two youths provoked the worst French urban unrest in four decades.

Things were so tense in the suburbs, however, that the riots could easily erupt again with the prospect of deaths on either side setting off a much greater explosion and, conceivably, the deployment of the army to keep peace.
“Given the weapons being used, it was lucky that nobody was killed,” said a policeman. Nearby were the charred remains of the local constabulary. The nursery school was burnt down. So was the library.
Rioting two years ago was widely regarded ... >>>

Updated: 2nd Dec. 2007
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The Brussels Journal: "The Strategy Behind the Paris Riots"

The endgame of muqawama and the "Civilization-Jihadist Process" is "the erosion of the enemy's resolve". For this reason, as Yaari notes, "the essence is to spill blood, and since that is the case, it is better to focus on the civilian population as the primary target". >>>

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Updated: 1st December 2007
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Gallia Watch: "A Doctor's Words"

A blogger named Eric Favereau writing at Libération (a left-wing paper), reports on an unprecedented aspect of the latest riots:He can't get over it. A doctor in the ER of a hospital of Val d'Oise made the rounds to record the total number of injuries from the two nights of rioting in Villiers-le-Bel and the surrounding communities.

"What is amazing is that all the wounded policemen that we admitted were wounded by firearms. I would say 99%. Most of the injuries are not serious, just lead shot (sic!), but nonetheless, we had never seen that before."Another peculiarity, according to this doctor >>>
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Gallia Watch: "Three Scenes of Destruction"

Three scenes that give some idea of the magnitude of the two-day spree of violence. (Post includes photo material and link to slide show) >>>

Updated: 29th Nov. 2007
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The Brussels Journal: "Are the French Waking Up? (2)"

A quote from the French writer Bernard Antony at his blog, 27 November 2007 [here is an English translation]
The racist scum of this civil war shows no emotion over the murder of Anne-Lorraine [Schmitt].
Anne-Lorraine, a young Frenchwoman, a young Christian woman, was murdered while heroically resisting the monster who was attempting to rape her. This murder did not trigger a single riot. And yet, at the very least, the early release of criminals ought to result in demonstrations in front of the Ministry of Justice.

On the other hand, once again, an accident was the pretext for an anti-police hysteria that saw veritable professionals commit acts of civil war with weapons suitable to the task. […] But now we are all waiting to see what the government of Mr. Sarkozy is going to do to prevent any offense being done to the triumphant scum. […] >>>

pdated: 28th Nov. 2007
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The Brussels Journal: "Are the French Waking Up?"

Citizen journalists are on the scene this time, far more than was the case during the previous rioting; now a whole parallel world of reporting is going on, in venues like youtube and dailymotion, and blogs like bafweb and Francois deSouche. The France of 2005/06 was not as wired as the France of today; let's see what difference this might make, as the French news consumers plug in >>>

Updated: 28th Nov. 2007
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The Brussels Journal: "Don’t Forget Anne-Lorraine, Monsieur le Président"

A quote from the French journalist Gérard Gachet at his blog, 27 November 2007 [here is an English translation]
In an attempt to calm things down the head of state may meet on Wednesday with the parents of the two dead youths of Villiers-le-Bel. Would it be asking too much of him to make a strong statement ... >>>

Updated: 27th Nov. 2007
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The Brussels Journal: "Paris’s Third Annual Intifada Festival"

Villiers-le-Bel, where French immigrant youths have been rioting for two consecutive nights, and Survilliers-Louvres are two suburbs to the north of Paris. They are only 10 kms apart. Last Sunday evening, Anne-Lorraine Schmitt, a 23-year old journalism student, the eldest of five children from a devout Catholic family, was stabbed to death on the RER suburban metro train. (...)

Barely three hours before Anne-Lorraine was stabbed, ten kilometres away, in Villiers-le-Bel, two joyriding immigrant youths of 15 and 16 years old, drove their stolen motorcycle at maximum speed into a passing police vehicle. They died on the spot. (...)

Yesterday night, in a second consecutive night of violence, youths attacked police officers and firemen in Villiers-le-Bel and in nearby Sarcelles and Garges-les-Gonesses. In last night’s riots 77 officers got wounded, five of them seriously, including one officer whose shoulder was pierced by a bullet from a shotgun. In addition, 63 cars, a public library, two schools, a bank and a supermarket were torched.

The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, on a state visit in China, has called for calm. Mr. Sarkozy had better stayed at home, however, because October-November is the season of the Annual Intifada Festival in Paris. This tradition began in November 2005, continued in October 2006, and has become a regular event on the French calendar. >>>

Updated: 27th Nov. 2007
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Gallia Watch: "Eruptions Of Violence"

There has been an outbreak of violence in the 95th department of France, Val d'Oise, an area located north and northwest of Paris. Yahoo reports:Two persons on a motorcycle were killed after colliding with a police car on Sunday late in the afternoon in Villiers-le-Bel (Val d'Oise), triggering an eruption of incidents, notably trash can fires and meetings of youths, a police source reported. (...)

France is still marked by the three weeks of rioting that broke out after the deaths of two youths during a police chase in 2005.

Another update: The socialist mayor of Villiers-le-Bel, Didier Vaillant, called for calm on Monday, insisting that "all the facts must be uncovered" on the deaths of two adolescents riding a mini-motor-bike, which struck a police car. (...) >>>

Updated: 26th Nov. 2007
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Gallia Watch: "Police Resistance"

Three websites had this item this morning: LIMES, Occidentalis and Google Group Via-Resistancia. Note that LIMES refers to Seine-Saint-Denis as the future French Kosovo. This poster was placed in mailboxes in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis, in an effort to remind the residents that unless they support their police, there will be civil war >>>

27th March 2007

The Controversial Dossier: Charles, Divine Right and the warm-mongers

Another one is bearing out the thesis ... Charles the Luddite is a true Rousseauian if there ever was one ...

National Review: "Gaia’s Right - Environmentalism seeks to return us to the age of kings", by Mark Steyn

(...) As the British newspaper the Independent reported: "Capitalism and consumerism have brought the world to the brink of economic and environmental collapse, the Prince of Wales has warned. . . . And in a searing indictment on capitalist society, Charles said we can no longer afford consumerism and that the ‘age of convenience’ was over." He then got in his limo and was driven to his other palace.

It takes a prince, heir to the thrones of Britain and Canada and Australia, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, and a bunch of other places, to tell it like it is: You pampered consumerists are ruining the joint. In the old days, we didn’t have these kinds of problems. But then Mr. and Mrs. Peasant start remodeling the hovel, adding a rec room and indoor plumbing, replacing the emaciated old nag with a Honda Civic and driving to the mall in it, and next thing you know, instead of just having an extra yard of mead every Boxing Day at the local tavern and adding a couple more pustules to the escutcheon with the local trollop, they begin taking vacations in Florida. When it was just medieval dukes swanking about like that, the planet worked fine: That was “sustainable” consumerism. But now the masses want in. And, once you do that, there goes the global neighborhood.

By contrast, as an example of an exemplary environmentalist, the prince hailed his forebear, King Henry VIII. True, he had a lot of wives, but he did dramatically reduce Anne Boleyn’s carbon footprint.

I always enjoy it when the masks slip and the warm-mongers explicitly demand we adopt a massive Poverty Expansion Program to save the planet. (...) >>>

July 11, 2009
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Townhall: "Revealed: Conservatives Have Escape Plan for When They Destroy the Earth," by David Strom

Well, the secret is out. Conservatives' willingness to destroy Mother Earth in pursuit of financial gain now makes sense. The missing fact that helps explain the seemingly inexplicable willingness of Conservatives to destroy the planet was revealed last week by former astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell. You may or may not remember Mitchell as the astronaut who holds the record for the longest moonwalk. Dr. Mitchell has broken a long-standing wall of silence and revealed that our government-and governments around the world-have been in secret contact with alien beings from another planet. (...) The details don't matter as much as this one fact: we now know why conservatives have felt free to destroy the Earth. They have negotiated passage to a new, better, and cleaner world elsewhere in the Universe! (...) "The Earth has a fever," we are told, and anybody who questions that fact is a "denier" in the mold of holocaust deniers. (...) conservatives will have a whole new planet to escape to once they finish destroying our home planet. See, once all the facts are out, the seemingly feverish conspiracy theories of the left suddenly make sense. (...) >>>

Updated: 31st July 2008
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The People's Cube: "Drill ANBR (the Algore Numbskull Baldspot Refuge)"

THE KG3 IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE A NEW CAMPAIGN WITH A SOLUTION TO THE NATIONAL ENERGY CRISIS:

We urge the congress to shut up and open ANBR (the Algore Numbskull Baldspot Refuge)

DRILL HERE. DRILL NOW. DRILL AL.*

Satellite imagery reveals that despite protests by Greenazi groups (...) >>>

Updated: 12th July 2008
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The Progress Report: "Global Boiling"

The evidence for the consequences of global warming is appearing with alarming frequency. This morning's headlines are filled with tales of deadly weather: "At least four people were killed and about 40 injured when a tornado tore through a Boy Scout camp in western Iowa on Wednesday night"; "two people are dead in northern Kans.... >>>

Updated: 16th June 2008
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- Caption: "In the News July,20 2135," by The People's Cube -

Politeia Video Collection: "I don't believe in Glowball Waming" - Hat Tip "De Klimatosoof"

Sing along everyone ...

Update: 15th Mar 2008
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Politeia: "Economic Light Bulbs? Danger Alert!", by JackDM1294

The Dutch environmental organization "Nederlands Instituut Milieu Centraal" has shocking news for us all: economic, fluorescent light bulbs put your health at risk! (...) Do you use these bulbs and did you know they actually contain ... MERCURY? That's one of the worst pollutants on the face of earth! There's another problem. ... >>>

Updated: 14th Jan. 2008
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Jerusalem Post: "'Green Hanukkia' campaign sparks ire"

In a campaign that has spread like wildfire across the Internet, a group of Israeli environmentalists is encouraging Jews around the world to light at least one less candle this Hanukka to help the environment. The founders of the Green Hanukkia campaign found that every candle that burns completely produces 15 grams of carbon dioxide. If an estimated one million Israeli households light for eight days, they said, it would do significant damage to the atmosphere. "The campaign calls for Jews around the world to save the last candle and save the planet, so we won't need another miracle" >>>

(Updated: 4th Dec. 2007
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American Thinker: "Everything is Caused by Global Warming (600+ links)"

Dr. John Brignell, a British engineering professor, runs a website called numberwatch. He has compiled ... >>>

Updated: 29th Nov. 2007
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Fox News: "Woman Aborts Child To Help 'Save' the Planet"

A British woman who had an abortion 10 years ago (...) did so because she believes pregnancy is bad for the environment ... >>>

(Updated: 27th Nov. 2007)

For completeness, here a link to the Zombie file and here's one on All Things Environmental.

The Unspeakable File: objectively evil

The Washington Times: "EXCLUSIVE: Taliban buying children for suicide bombers"

Pakistan's top Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, is buying children as young as 7 to serve as suicide bombers in the growing spate of attacks against Pakistani, Afghan and U.S. targets, U.S. Defense Department and Pakistani officials say. Pakistani official, who spoke on the condition that he not be named because of the sensitive nature of the topic, said the going price for child bombers was $7,000 to $14,000 - huge sums in Pakistan, where per-capita income is about $2,600 a year. "[Mehsud] has turned suicide bombing into a production output, not unlike [the way] Toyota outputs cars," a U.S. Defense Department official told reporters recently. He spoke on the condition that he not be named because of ongoing intelligence efforts to catch Mehsud, a prime target for a U.S. and Pakistani anti-Taliban campaign. (...) >>>

July 3, 2009
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WSJ - James Taranto's Column: "Acid Trip"

In 2004, an Iranian man named Majid developed feelings for a woman named Ameneh Bahrami. She did not reciprocate his interest, and he took the rejection poorly: He splashed acid on her face, causing her to go blind.

The Associated Press reports that an Iranian court has passed sentence in the case, ruling that Majid "should also be blinded with acid based on the Islamic law system of 'qisas,' or eye-for-an-eye retribution." But there's a catch:

Bahrami, who moved to Spain after the attack to get medical treatment, said Wednesday that under Iranian law, she is entitled to blind him in only one eye, unless she pays €20,000 ($25,110), because in Iran women are not considered equal to men.

"They have told us that my two eyes are equal to one of his because in my country each man is worth two women. They are not the same," she told Cadena SER.

Even if one is attracted to vivid methods of punishment, the idea that Majid is being treated with relative leniency because his victim is a woman is barbaric--an affront to both equality and chivalry. >>>

Mar 5, 2009
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Oh and incidentally, this decapper was the founder and CEO of Bridges TV, a so-called moderate ... (aren't you kind of curious what fanatics do to their wayward wives?) ...

PJM: "Beheaded in Buffalo: The Honor Killing of Asiya Z. Hassan", by Phyllis Chesler

On February 13, 2009, in Orchard Park, a suburb of Buffalo, 44 year-old Muzzamil Hassan, a prominent Muslim businessman was arrested for having be-headed his wife, 37 year-old Aasiya Z. Hassan. Yes, he beheaded her. Aasiya’s crime? She dared to obtain an order of protection which forced her violent husband out of their home. We are now sadly familiar with some high profile Islamic beheadings of infidels in Muslim lands; Daniel Pearl, Nicholas Berg, immediately come to mind. Sadly, we are also familiar with the practice of beheading, dismembering, burying alive, and stoning Muslim (and sometimes Christian) women to death in Muslim lands. But this took place in a suburb of Buffalo, New York, in America, Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. What can this mean? Why behead a wife who wanted a divorce and who wanted to live free of daily violence? Why didn’t Hassan just agree to a divorce? Because this foul murder is very probably an honor killing (...) >>>

Feb 15, 2009
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Facebook: "RIP Piotr Stanczak"

As Poles reeled in shock after the beheading of a Polish engineer by militants in Pakistan, their government vowed to hunt down his murderers and bring them to justice. "Now we can no longer save our compatriot, we are going to try to punish his killers," Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said today after confirming that a videotape of Piotr Stanczak's execution was authentic.

"A crime was committed, so there must be an investigation, a search for the guilty parties, and if possible, they must be brought before a court and served due punishment." Mr Sikorski said the Polish justice ministry was in the process of getting an international arrest issued for Stanczak's suspected killers. A group linked to Afghanistan's Taliban insurgency released a video of the execution of Stanczak yesterday.

Polish broadcasters showed only a still image from the video. Stanczak, 42, was working as a geologist in Pakistan for a Polish oil and natural gas exploration company when he was seized in the volatile northwest of the country on September 28. His abductors killed his driver and his bodyguard. The gruesome beheading of Stanczak - the first of a Pole by Islamic militants - caused widespread shock and revulsion in Poland. "Never in Poland have we had such a situation," said Jacek Cichocki, security adviser to Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

"We see films about citizens from other countries - Americans, British - but not Poles." Mr Cichocki said the kidnappers had originally demanded the release of 60 Islamist fighters held in Pakistan but eventually watered down their demands to just four.

Other Polish officials said the killer of US journalist Daniel Pearl, slain after he was kidnapped in 2002 in Pakistan, was among those whose release had been sought. Stanczak's captors also wanted Poland to pull out the 1600 troops it has deployed in Afghanistan as part of the UN-mandated and NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). His killing was front page news in Poland's national newspapers today, with several printing a static image from his execution video showing him flanked by two masked and armed men. Behind the headlines, commentaries questioned if Mr Tusk's liberal government had done enough to try and free Stanczak. "The Polish government, did it do everything?" asked the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper. >>>

Feb 9, 2009
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This case is also connected to the entry dated Febr 4, 2008 in reference to the Down syndrome bombers ... also the work of "the Mother of all Believers" ...

Newscom.au: "Iraqi woman had 80 women raped then recruited as suicide bombers"

A woman suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has confessed to organising their rapes so she could later convince them that martyrdom was the only way to escape the shame. Samira Jassam, 51, was arrested by Iraqi police and confessed to recruiting the women and orchestrating dozens of attacks. (...) >>>

Feb 6, 2009
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Daily News: "Journalist Sean Langan tells of life in terror camp, escape from Taliban"

For a harrowing three months as a Taliban prisoner in a Pakistani terror camp, journalist Sean Langan lived face to face with sociopaths threatening to behead him as they plotted against the West. Langan, 44, miraculously walked out of the lawless tribal belt near Afghanistan in June - an area thick with armed Arab fighters - having absorbed an encyclopedic knowledge of jihadi tactics, resources and intent. (...) "If another 9/11 happens, it'll be by the same perpetrators of the greatest attack in history," he said. "It's a race against time." The threat posed by the extremists there is not surprising. What shocked him, however, was the total indifference to human life shown by his captors. Their own children were as expendable as bullets in an AK-47. (...) >>>

Dec 13, 2008
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Yahoo!News: "Women bombers show shifting insurgent tactics in Iraq"

A girl strapped with explosives approaches an Iraqi army captain, who dies in the suicide blast. A woman posing as a mother-to-be to disguise a bulging bomb belt strikes a wedding procession as part of a coordinated attack that kills nearly three dozen people. The attacks last month were among the latest blows by female suicide bombers- and further evidence of shifting insurgent tactics amid an overall drop in bloodshed around Iraq. (...) >>>

6th June 2008
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BBC: "Saudi Maid Verdict 'Outrageous'

Human Rights Watch has called on Saudi judges to overturn a decision to drop charges against a Saudi couple accused of severely abusing an Indonesian maid. A judge in Riyadh awarded $670 damages to the maid, Nour Miyati, but dropped all charges against her employers. The female employer, who admitted the abuse and was originally sentenced to 35 lashes, had her sentence overturned. Human Rights Watch said the ruling on Monday was "outrageous", and sent "a dangerous message" to Saudi employers. Ms Miyati, 25, contracted gangrene after allegedly being tied up for a month and left without food in 2005. She had to have several fingers and toes amputated. (...) >>>

23rd May 2008
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Muslims Against Sharia: "Facebook group celebrates Jerusalem massacre"

Online networking giant Facebook is hosting an Arabic-language group celebrating as a "hero" the terrorist who gunned down eight yeshiva students studying in a Jerusalem seminary last week. Fifty-seven Facebook users are currently registered on the invitation-only group, which is entitled, "R.I.P. Abu Ala'a Dheim." Dheim is the 25-year old eastern Jerusalem resident who has been identified as the terrorist gunman who infiltrated the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, located near the entrance to Jerusalem. He fired hundreds of rounds of bullets at students studying in the building's main library. >>>

Mar 14, 2008
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See entry dated Feb 6, 2009 for the outcome of this one ...

Pajamas Media: "The Down Syndrome Bombers: Terrorism Sinks to a New Low"

Just when suicide attacks stopped shocking the world, came the news that Baghdad bombings were committed by two Down Syndrome women wired to explode. Aaron Hanscom wonders if there could be any act more depraved than turning a mentally disabled person into a human bomb. The most horrific part: it’s becoming a trend. (...) >>>

4th Febr. 2008