I may praise Russia and point to the fact that this century belongs to Asia. Canada may be committed to perversion and be the home of many socialists (at least one of whom is our friend). Nevertheless, Canada is the likely destination for US Christian conservatives who decide to emigrate. This is for the following reasons:
1. Proximity.
2. Most of them speak English.
3. It isn’t crowded like Hong Kong or Singapore.
4. Although they practice socialism (medicine, for instance), it is similar to rational Scandinavian socialism, not the insane socialism of US Medicare and Medicaid or the U.S. plan that almost ruined the world’s economy so everyone could buy a house and Wall Street could make billions.
5. They lack a large, feral, criminal underclass that makes cities uninhabitable and turns public schools into “day prisons”.
For all those reasons and the fact that I refuse to read or hear about the egomaniacal demogogue Trump, I enjoyed this article:
They are a problem. Like I said, Canada is committed to perversion. However, the U.S. shares that commitment. If you are a teacher, a corporate executive, a college student, a fire chief, or virtually anyone else in America, you can not publicly state the Biblical position on homosexuality without dire consequences.
So why move from one perverted nation to another? Productive young people in the US face the prospect of carrying too many freeloaders on their backs while trying to protect themselves and their families from a growing criminal class.
We loved NZ and, as usual, investigated what it would take to emigrate there. As military folks, we always check out the possibilities of living somewhere new.
12 years ago, you had to be under 45 or have $1 million to invest in NZ plus a steady income.
We thought that really interesting. And of course, couldn’t afford to move.
Thoughts on this piece looking at the Trump phenomenon? Brit Hume tweeted the link with this comment: “I don’t agree with all of this, but it’s as thoughtful as anything I’ve read on the Trump phenomenon”
“…. For those who believe Barack Obama has ruled like an Emperor, Trump offers them their own replacement who has the appeal of a traitor to his class, dispensing entirely with the politeness of the politically correct elites and telling it always and forever like it is. If the president is to be an autocrat, let him be our kind of autocrat, these supporters say. It’s our turn now, and we want a golden-headed billionaire with the restraint of the bar fly and the tastes of Caligula, gliding his helicopter down to the Iowa cornfields like a boss. He’ll show Putin what for….”
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Rational socialism — thanks. The man responsible for the introduction of universal health care was a Baptist minister Tommy Douglas who refused to have his province go in debt because he didnt want to have to listen to bankers. Since then Canada’s social democratic party the NDP has had a better fiscal managment record than the other two parties.
As for an underclass; every society has one even canada.
Of the “white” commonwealth countries, new zealand probably has the most restrictive immigration. They are quite content to share with the Maori, not let anymore in, and live quietly at the end of the world.
“The leaked Ashley Madison data on thousands of government and military workers are likely to create troubling cybersecurity and national security concerns for Washington, security experts said Wednesday.
Foreign intelligence services and digital crime rings are probably “digging through” the mammoth database of the more than 36 million people who registered for the extramarital dating site Ashley Madison, said Tom Kellermann, chief cybersecurity officer at security firm Trend Micro.
The information in these profiles could lead to extortion and highly targeted cyberattacks, security specialists explained. For government and military workers, that might put sensitive projects at risk, expose mid-level officials to blackmail and help foreign adversaries flesh out intelligence reports.
“How much does that jeopardize their work, mission, national security?” Kellermann wondered.
According to researchers and reports, roughly 10,000 of the exposed emails seem to be genuine government and military accounts, ending in “.gov” or “.mil.””
“This afternoon, while abortion supporters protested outside the Governor’s mansion in Baton Rouge, Jindal set up a huge movie screen and speakers and played on a continuous loop all of the videos released in recent weeks showing the brutality of Planned Parenthood’s baby-parts business.
One of the problems faced by the Center for Medical Progress is that many people are refusing the watch the grisly undercover videos where Planned Parenthood personnel discuss dissecting aborted babies in order to sell their eyes, lungs, livers, hearts, and even brains.
Among the handful of states that have either started investigations or defunded Planned Parenthood altogether is Jindal’s Louisiana. Supporters of Planned Parenthood are protesting Jindal’s moves against Planned Parenthood funding. Earlier this month, Jindal ended the state’s Medicaid contract with Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood’s Louisiana state director Melissa Flournoy said today, “Governor Jindal isn’t even in Louisiana today, but he’s made sure to prove that he’s always ready to put politics before Louisianan’s health.” She called his screening of the videos “a stunt”, which is certainly is, and certainly one to get under the skin of the protesters.”
“A Los Angeles judge has refused to block the release of an anti-abortion group’s secretly recorded videos of discussions with a company that provides fetal tissue for research.
But how soon the videos might be released is unclear. The company, StemExpress of Placerville, California, has said it will seek a stay from an appeals court.
Superior Court Judge Joanne O’Donnell on Friday finalized a ruling vacating an earlier temporary restraining order and denying a permanent injunction sought by StemExpress.”
But the judge said the may still win on their privacy violation claims.
“BREAKING NEWS: Unarmed US Marines foil suspected terrorist attack onboard high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris after they take down Kalashnikov-wielding Moroccan gunman known to intelligence services
A gunman opened fire on board a high speed train in northern France
Eyewitnesses said three U.S. Marines on the train disarmed the gunman
The man was armed with a deadly a Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle
Three people were wounded and the gunman is currently in police custody”
“”We had been hearing for months about raping in our province, not just in Afghanistan,” said Daniel Quinn, a West Point graduate and the team leader of the detachment sent to Kunduz.
One day in early September 2011 at their remote outpost, a young Afghan boy and his Afghan-Uzbek mother showed up at camp. The 12-year-old showed the Green Berets where his hands had been tied. A medic took him to a back room for an examination with an interpreter, who told them the boy had been raped by another commander by the name of Abdul Rahman.
After learning of the meeting, Rahman allegedly beat the boy’s mother for reporting the crime. It was at this point, the Green Berets had had enough. Quinn and Martland went to confront Rahman.
“He confessed to the crime and laughed about it, and said it wasn’t a big deal. Even when we patiently explained how serious the charge was, he kept laughing,” Quinn said.
According to reports of the incident, Quinn and Martland shoved Abdul Rahman to the ground. It was the only way to get their point across, according to Quinn. “As a man, as a father of a young boy myself at the time, I felt obliged to step in to prevent further repeat occurrences,” Quinn said.
Rahman walked away bruised from getting shoved and thrown to the ground, but otherwise okay, according to teammates. But Rahman quickly reported the incident to another Army unit in a nearby village. The next day a U.S. Army helicopter landed and took Quinn and Martland away, ending their work in Kunduz Province.
For the next few weeks, both soldiers remained in Afghanistan but were not allowed to continue their mission. They were given temporary jobs in Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan and later in Herat. Pending the outcome of the investigation, both men were relieved from their positions and sent home. Their war was over. ”
Very sorry about the second story, but am remembering another story told me by a Navy SEAL. He and his men had just flown to LA from some mission or another, and rented a minivan to return to San Diego.
Dressed in civilian clothing, they stowed their gear and had climbed in when two young men showed up to carjack them.
The commander, sitting in the far back, laughed and told his men to “have at em.”
The two would-be carjackers soon learned that despite their guns, they had tried to get the wrong car.
I can’t remember now if the SEAL told me they dropped the men off at the closest police station after ensuring they would not be carjacking anyone else soon, but . . . maybe not.
As I have said before, any logical person who figures out that “born that way” is a lie also understands that there is no cap to the percentage of young people who can be drawn into the destructive homosexual lifestyle.
Every movement ideology etc., often wonders why what they view as important isnt the lead story. Prolife proponents have been scratching their heads with the lack of attention on their videos. I partially blame capitalism and its dumbing down of the media. The media has raised generations on pablum so that it has become more important to keep up with Kardashians then with moral and ethical issues.
Prolife should take consolation in the fact that the US abortion is now at pre Roe vs wade levels. Credit better birth control or pro life message or etc but its been downward since the 90s.
However its still the highest in the western world. Since the rest of the world has similar regulations to the US (except Canada), the US should look at the other ways they succeed in lowering abortions. The first and easiest thing to notice is child birth is free elsewhere. In the US its cheaper to have an abortion than give birth — switch the finiancial incentive around. Once the child is born continue with the finiancial incentives. However it would be interesting to see what would happen to the abortion rate if child birth (or birth control) was free. Maybe that would put planned parenthood out of businesss. If free child birth isnt good enough then maybe a 3-400$ a month until theyre seven might work. If standard capitalist theory is correct, people should respond to finiancial incentives.
Canada is an exception in that there are no laws concerning abortion and its paid for by the state. Yet its abortion rate is average and it too has been declining since the 90s which is when all rules on abortion were removed. Clearly state coercion or lack thereof has no effect. We’re back to price incentives.
Finally, the most frequent position i hear from female friends is both pro life and pro choice. That is, i would never have an abortion but i want the choice and i wouldnt want to tell others to do. Very liberatarian. One can see both pro life and pro choice messages have been successful as contradictory as that sounds.
A friend of mine once worked with an afghan who told him about child rape in afghanistan. Apparently homosexuality and pre-marital sex is bad and punishable by deathbut sex with a prepubescent child is not real sex. Village headmen and warlords then would take poor children from the villages.
It’s a recurring theme. Sadly. We had a local from Pakistan who molested some boys and tried that defense. It didn’t work. It’s rampant in some muslim areas, Afghanistan being one, yet they don’t consider it homosexuality. It’s twisted.
Here’s another I posted on the 18th. A serial child rapist propped up by US money and influence. Whistle blower gets prosecuted, he walks free.
“Meanwhile, a decorated Marine officer who has deployed four times faces being discharged from the corps he loves because he used his personal email to send a single classified report as an urgent warning when lives were at stake.
The stateside message from Marine Reserves Major Jason Brezler to Forward Operating Base Delhi in Now Zad, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, went unheeded. Three young Marines were shot to death as they worked out in a gym by an Afghan teen brought on the base by the same corrupt and double-dealing pedophile police chief whom Brezler had declared to be an immediate threat.
Yet the only person to be investigated in connection with the killings is Brezler, the Marine who sought to prevent them.”
“Jan had been a district police chief of the very worst sort. Brezler and Terrell had determined that Jan was involved in narcotics and arms trafficking, as well as facilitating attacks by the Taliban, even selling Afghan police uniforms to the enemy.
Jan also was alleged to be what Brezler’s lawyer would later call “a systematic child rapist” who allegedly ran a child kidnapping ring and acquired “chai boys” with the help of U.S. taxpayer job development money.”
Wandering Views 
I may praise Russia and point to the fact that this century belongs to Asia. Canada may be committed to perversion and be the home of many socialists (at least one of whom is our friend). Nevertheless, Canada is the likely destination for US Christian conservatives who decide to emigrate. This is for the following reasons:
1. Proximity.
2. Most of them speak English.
3. It isn’t crowded like Hong Kong or Singapore.
4. Although they practice socialism (medicine, for instance), it is similar to rational Scandinavian socialism, not the insane socialism of US Medicare and Medicaid or the U.S. plan that almost ruined the world’s economy so everyone could buy a house and Wall Street could make billions.
5. They lack a large, feral, criminal underclass that makes cities uninhabitable and turns public schools into “day prisons”.
For all those reasons and the fact that I refuse to read or hear about the egomaniacal demogogue Trump, I enjoyed this article:
http://www.nationaljournal.com/2016-elections/why-political-reporters-should-be-covering-the-canadian-election-instead-20150821
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Ricky, what the hate speech laws?
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They are a problem. Like I said, Canada is committed to perversion. However, the U.S. shares that commitment. If you are a teacher, a corporate executive, a college student, a fire chief, or virtually anyone else in America, you can not publicly state the Biblical position on homosexuality without dire consequences.
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So why move from one perverted nation to another? Productive young people in the US face the prospect of carrying too many freeloaders on their backs while trying to protect themselves and their families from a growing criminal class.
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When I was working, some of my colleagues talked of moving to Australia.
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With New Zealand as an alternative.
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Good, cheap golf in those places.
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Oh my. One piece of advice was taken down. “Don’t discuss politics with the locals”.
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2015/08/5_things_to_know_about_ladd-pe.html
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We loved NZ and, as usual, investigated what it would take to emigrate there. As military folks, we always check out the possibilities of living somewhere new.
12 years ago, you had to be under 45 or have $1 million to invest in NZ plus a steady income.
We thought that really interesting. And of course, couldn’t afford to move.
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Thoughts on this piece looking at the Trump phenomenon? Brit Hume tweeted the link with this comment: “I don’t agree with all of this, but it’s as thoughtful as anything I’ve read on the Trump phenomenon”
http://thefederalist.com/2015/08/21/are-republicans-for-freedom-or-white-identity-politics/
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“…. For those who believe Barack Obama has ruled like an Emperor, Trump offers them their own replacement who has the appeal of a traitor to his class, dispensing entirely with the politeness of the politically correct elites and telling it always and forever like it is. If the president is to be an autocrat, let him be our kind of autocrat, these supporters say. It’s our turn now, and we want a golden-headed billionaire with the restraint of the bar fly and the tastes of Caligula, gliding his helicopter down to the Iowa cornfields like a boss. He’ll show Putin what for….”
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Rational socialism — thanks. The man responsible for the introduction of universal health care was a Baptist minister Tommy Douglas who refused to have his province go in debt because he didnt want to have to listen to bankers. Since then Canada’s social democratic party the NDP has had a better fiscal managment record than the other two parties.
As for an underclass; every society has one even canada.
Of the “white” commonwealth countries, new zealand probably has the most restrictive immigration. They are quite content to share with the Maori, not let anymore in, and live quietly at the end of the world.
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Thanks Donna,
Now I just pictured Trump bare-chested on horseback like the Putin pic. 😯
Except Trump was on a unicorn….. 🙂
Both are images I would prefer to not have conjured up in my head.
You can’t un-see stuff like that ya’ know! 🙄
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As I said yesterday, this is bad. This is exactly what I was talking about.
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/251517-cyber-foes-likely-digging-through-ashley-madison-data
“The leaked Ashley Madison data on thousands of government and military workers are likely to create troubling cybersecurity and national security concerns for Washington, security experts said Wednesday.
Foreign intelligence services and digital crime rings are probably “digging through” the mammoth database of the more than 36 million people who registered for the extramarital dating site Ashley Madison, said Tom Kellermann, chief cybersecurity officer at security firm Trend Micro.
The information in these profiles could lead to extortion and highly targeted cyberattacks, security specialists explained. For government and military workers, that might put sensitive projects at risk, expose mid-level officials to blackmail and help foreign adversaries flesh out intelligence reports.
“How much does that jeopardize their work, mission, national security?” Kellermann wondered.
According to researchers and reports, roughly 10,000 of the exposed emails seem to be genuine government and military accounts, ending in “.gov” or “.mil.””
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Can you say “compromised national security?”
I knew ya’ could… 😉
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As a Canadian i must apologize for Ashley Madison. Yes its a canadian company.
Excellent federalist article.
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Friday news dump time…
Don’t worry, it’s not really bad news, that comes later in the day.
First up
Game. Set. Match. 😆
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/20/bobby-jindal-plays-planned-parenthood-videos-on-massive-screen-outside-governors-mansion/
“This afternoon, while abortion supporters protested outside the Governor’s mansion in Baton Rouge, Jindal set up a huge movie screen and speakers and played on a continuous loop all of the videos released in recent weeks showing the brutality of Planned Parenthood’s baby-parts business.
One of the problems faced by the Center for Medical Progress is that many people are refusing the watch the grisly undercover videos where Planned Parenthood personnel discuss dissecting aborted babies in order to sell their eyes, lungs, livers, hearts, and even brains.
Among the handful of states that have either started investigations or defunded Planned Parenthood altogether is Jindal’s Louisiana. Supporters of Planned Parenthood are protesting Jindal’s moves against Planned Parenthood funding. Earlier this month, Jindal ended the state’s Medicaid contract with Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood’s Louisiana state director Melissa Flournoy said today, “Governor Jindal isn’t even in Louisiana today, but he’s made sure to prove that he’s always ready to put politics before Louisianan’s health.” She called his screening of the videos “a stunt”, which is certainly is, and certainly one to get under the skin of the protesters.”
Loooove it! 🙂
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On a related note…
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/science/article/Anti-abortion-group-to-ask-judge-to-release-new-6457113.php
“A Los Angeles judge has refused to block the release of an anti-abortion group’s secretly recorded videos of discussions with a company that provides fetal tissue for research.
But how soon the videos might be released is unclear. The company, StemExpress of Placerville, California, has said it will seek a stay from an appeals court.
Superior Court Judge Joanne O’Donnell on Friday finalized a ruling vacating an earlier temporary restraining order and denying a permanent injunction sought by StemExpress.”
But the judge said the may still win on their privacy violation claims.
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Once again, US Marines are saving the French. 🙂
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3206426/U-S-Marines-armed-gunman-onboard-high-speed-train-Amsterdam-Paris.html
“BREAKING NEWS: Unarmed US Marines foil suspected terrorist attack onboard high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris after they take down Kalashnikov-wielding Moroccan gunman known to intelligence services
A gunman opened fire on board a high speed train in northern France
Eyewitnesses said three U.S. Marines on the train disarmed the gunman
The man was armed with a deadly a Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle
Three people were wounded and the gunman is currently in police custody”
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This one however appears to be a serious miscarriage of justice…
Keep in mind the man has a Bronze Star with Valor.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/21/army-kicking-out-decorated-green-beret-who-stood-up-for-afghan-rape-victim/?intcmp=hplnws
“”We had been hearing for months about raping in our province, not just in Afghanistan,” said Daniel Quinn, a West Point graduate and the team leader of the detachment sent to Kunduz.
One day in early September 2011 at their remote outpost, a young Afghan boy and his Afghan-Uzbek mother showed up at camp. The 12-year-old showed the Green Berets where his hands had been tied. A medic took him to a back room for an examination with an interpreter, who told them the boy had been raped by another commander by the name of Abdul Rahman.
After learning of the meeting, Rahman allegedly beat the boy’s mother for reporting the crime. It was at this point, the Green Berets had had enough. Quinn and Martland went to confront Rahman.
“He confessed to the crime and laughed about it, and said it wasn’t a big deal. Even when we patiently explained how serious the charge was, he kept laughing,” Quinn said.
According to reports of the incident, Quinn and Martland shoved Abdul Rahman to the ground. It was the only way to get their point across, according to Quinn. “As a man, as a father of a young boy myself at the time, I felt obliged to step in to prevent further repeat occurrences,” Quinn said.
Rahman walked away bruised from getting shoved and thrown to the ground, but otherwise okay, according to teammates. But Rahman quickly reported the incident to another Army unit in a nearby village. The next day a U.S. Army helicopter landed and took Quinn and Martland away, ending their work in Kunduz Province.
For the next few weeks, both soldiers remained in Afghanistan but were not allowed to continue their mission. They were given temporary jobs in Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan and later in Herat. Pending the outcome of the investigation, both men were relieved from their positions and sent home. Their war was over. ”
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And so was their careers….
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Very sorry about the second story, but am remembering another story told me by a Navy SEAL. He and his men had just flown to LA from some mission or another, and rented a minivan to return to San Diego.
Dressed in civilian clothing, they stowed their gear and had climbed in when two young men showed up to carjack them.
The commander, sitting in the far back, laughed and told his men to “have at em.”
The two would-be carjackers soon learned that despite their guns, they had tried to get the wrong car.
I can’t remember now if the SEAL told me they dropped the men off at the closest police station after ensuring they would not be carjacking anyone else soon, but . . . maybe not.
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When I was a kid my father expressed the desire to move to Canada, Alaska or Australia. He believed he should have been born in the pioneer days.
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Michelle, can you imagine a couple of guys trying to assault the two women who just finished Ranger school”
😆
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Political prognostication on the election:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/democratic-blues-121561.html#.Vde62Xu9KK0
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As I have said before, any logical person who figures out that “born that way” is a lie also understands that there is no cap to the percentage of young people who can be drawn into the destructive homosexual lifestyle.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11807740/half-young-people-heterosexual-lgbt-homosexual-yougov.html
The West is committing suicide while Russia (and other traditional countries) try to protect their young people.
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Every movement ideology etc., often wonders why what they view as important isnt the lead story. Prolife proponents have been scratching their heads with the lack of attention on their videos. I partially blame capitalism and its dumbing down of the media. The media has raised generations on pablum so that it has become more important to keep up with Kardashians then with moral and ethical issues.
Prolife should take consolation in the fact that the US abortion is now at pre Roe vs wade levels. Credit better birth control or pro life message or etc but its been downward since the 90s.
However its still the highest in the western world. Since the rest of the world has similar regulations to the US (except Canada), the US should look at the other ways they succeed in lowering abortions. The first and easiest thing to notice is child birth is free elsewhere. In the US its cheaper to have an abortion than give birth — switch the finiancial incentive around. Once the child is born continue with the finiancial incentives. However it would be interesting to see what would happen to the abortion rate if child birth (or birth control) was free. Maybe that would put planned parenthood out of businesss. If free child birth isnt good enough then maybe a 3-400$ a month until theyre seven might work. If standard capitalist theory is correct, people should respond to finiancial incentives.
Canada is an exception in that there are no laws concerning abortion and its paid for by the state. Yet its abortion rate is average and it too has been declining since the 90s which is when all rules on abortion were removed. Clearly state coercion or lack thereof has no effect. We’re back to price incentives.
Finally, the most frequent position i hear from female friends is both pro life and pro choice. That is, i would never have an abortion but i want the choice and i wouldnt want to tell others to do. Very liberatarian. One can see both pro life and pro choice messages have been successful as contradictory as that sounds.
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A friend of mine once worked with an afghan who told him about child rape in afghanistan. Apparently homosexuality and pre-marital sex is bad and punishable by deathbut sex with a prepubescent child is not real sex. Village headmen and warlords then would take poor children from the villages.
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HRW,
It’s a recurring theme. Sadly. We had a local from Pakistan who molested some boys and tried that defense. It didn’t work. It’s rampant in some muslim areas, Afghanistan being one, yet they don’t consider it homosexuality. It’s twisted.
Here’s another I posted on the 18th. A serial child rapist propped up by US money and influence. Whistle blower gets prosecuted, he walks free.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/14/hero-marine-nailed-for-sending-classified-report-from-personal-email.html
“Meanwhile, a decorated Marine officer who has deployed four times faces being discharged from the corps he loves because he used his personal email to send a single classified report as an urgent warning when lives were at stake.
The stateside message from Marine Reserves Major Jason Brezler to Forward Operating Base Delhi in Now Zad, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, went unheeded. Three young Marines were shot to death as they worked out in a gym by an Afghan teen brought on the base by the same corrupt and double-dealing pedophile police chief whom Brezler had declared to be an immediate threat.
Yet the only person to be investigated in connection with the killings is Brezler, the Marine who sought to prevent them.”
“Jan had been a district police chief of the very worst sort. Brezler and Terrell had determined that Jan was involved in narcotics and arms trafficking, as well as facilitating attacks by the Taliban, even selling Afghan police uniforms to the enemy.
Jan also was alleged to be what Brezler’s lawyer would later call “a systematic child rapist” who allegedly ran a child kidnapping ring and acquired “chai boys” with the help of U.S. taxpayer job development money.”
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I’d go to Alaska
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