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having an opinion isn't a crime and last time I looked sarcasm wasn't either...
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Then let's approve spending another handful of million quid on letting security forces spy on us, purportedly to protect us from the one nutter every few years with a knife, who's labelled as a ter'r'rist.
Months (or even weeks) if you're in Europe.
Regardless of how we/everyone/the media/governments try to play it all down it does seem to be on the increase. How long will it be before it's one of our friends or family members injured or killed in a future attack (that we're told by our elites that "we have to learn to live with")?
What I don't understand is why people who disagree/dislike our way of life don't just move somewhere more amenable rather than staying here, getting angry with everything and then attacking innocent bystanders?
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: don't just move somewhere more amenable rather than staying here, getting angry with everything and then attacking innocent bystanders
You got that wrong, methinks : They are terrorists. They come here on purpose to hit us, because they are not satisfied with the fact the we "interfere" with their lives in Middle-East.
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Rage wrote: They come here on purpose to hit us
I'm afraid that most "terrorists" were actually born here - many in long-established communities that bear little or no resemblance to the country they're actually in.
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
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Rage wrote: They come here on purpose
The Westminster attacker was British-born and known to the police and intelligence services, the prime minister has revealed.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Brent Jenkins wrote: What I don't understand is why people who disagree/dislike our way of life don't just move somewhere more amenable rather than staying here, getting angry with everything and then attacking innocent bystanders?
Because it is there wish that everyone's way of life become their way of life.
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Christianity's spent most of its two millennia doing just that to "heathens" throughout the world. Now, Islam's taking a turn at it - just switch "heathen" and "infidel". WTF's the difference when it's really only a buzz-word for maiming, torturing, and killing anyone who disagrees with their divine insight?
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They won't leave because it's you they want to leave. Now do you get it?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: WTF's the difference
To be fair (and I speak as an atheist here) Christianity generally worked to improve the levels of education, health and civil behaviour.
W∴ Balboos wrote: They won't leave because it's you they want to leave. Now do you get it?
I got it long ago. Just waiting for others to catch up 
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: Christianity generally worked to improve the levels of education, health and civil behavior.
That's christianity's narrative. In fact, the church had a strong policy that the worshipers don't need to read - the clergy will do it for them - doing their part to keep Europe in the Dark Ages. Civil behavior? How many Jews they tortured, burned, raped, murdered . . . with teaching the church got underway in the 4th century. Or the church's OK for the Lord of the Manner to f*ck each maiden on her wedding night before the groom gets a taste? The Inquisition (a money/property grab). Health? You're ill because you sinned . . . Actually, just look through western history and you'll see the church taking it's $$ cut from essentially all the hell this planet's surface has endured.
The above-mentioned faith, calling it's champion the "Prince of Peace" - sounds an awful lot like the current drama of misery - where they call themselves "The Religion of Peace".
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W∴ Balboos wrote: OK for the Lord of the Manner to f*ck each maiden on her wedding night before the groom gets a taste
Think you've been watching too much Braveheart.. you know, that Scottish "true life" movie written by an Iowa farmer who believes he's related to William Wallace but has never been to the UK 
Do you really think people would put up with that kind of behaviour here in the UK?
Civil behaviour? Yes, compare Europe (and nations colonised by Brits especially) with most other parts of the world.
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
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II. The jus primae noctis as a power display in the late Middle Ages
We have quite a few examples showing how the popular belief in a former jus primae noctis influenced social relations between lords and peasants in Switzerland, France and Catalonia in the 15th and 16th centuries. One of these stems from a Swiss village in the vicinity of Zurich. In a customal from about 1400 A.D., the rights of the inhabitants of Maur were itemised by the local "Meier", a representative of the lord of Maur, which at that time was the convent of Zurich. "Item, who wants to enter the holy state of marriage in the village and court of Maur, whoever he may be, shall hand over the woman to Us for the first night or he may buy her out, as it is custom and tradition and written in the old customals. If he doesn't do so, he must pay a fine of 30 pennies." (STAZ [Staatsarchiv des Kantons Zürich]. Urkunden Stadt und Land Nr. 2563; copy of the 15th century, cf. Wettlaufer 1999: 251). One hundred and fifty years later, the text had been slightly altered: in the 1543 version, written by a successor of the first editor, one reads "... and when the wedding starts, the bridegroom shall allow the sergeant to lie with his bride for the first night, or he shall buy her off with 5 pounds and 4 pennies." (STAZ C. I 2562, [1543 AD] cf. Wettlaufer 1999: 255).
And do recall, this was church sanctioned.
I'll take it a step further in that the Church did its utmost to cover up what they should have condemned - but didn't. A habit they brought into the 21st Century.
Oh - yes - did I mention Castrati ?
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1) I live in Britain, so I'll guess that none of this applied here.
2) Have you any ideas about the logistics of organising such an event? I mean, getting every single bride and lining them up for a handful of landowners..? Most landowners would have more important things to be doing with their time. It'd be impossible to implement in reality and was probably only used very rarely by a minority of an already very small minority.
3) You're living in the US. You have free speech, democracy, education, rule of law - all of these are founded upon our (and again I speak as an atheist) Christian heritage.
It seems fashionable these days to find every fault with Western/European culture while ignoring every problem originating from other places. Even getting back to the original topic, it's only taken a couple of days for our own media to turn the killer into the victim ("us nasty racist white people made him do it").
How London attacker Khalid Masood snapped because of racism in his village - then went to jail and became radicalised
Personally, I'm sick to death of it.
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: 3) You're living in the US. You have free speech, democracy, education, rule of law - all of these are founded upon our (and again I speak as an atheist) Christian heritage.
These principals - and all the equality that goes with them, are derived from Masonic principals. A good half the "founding fathers" were Freemasons.
And NOTABLY absent from your list - but NOT from our Bill of Rights: Freedom of Religion.
In fact - recognition of "all good men of faith" as worthy brothers in their ranks - is why, to this very day, thy are vilified by so many religious teachings. England? They can join in common principals with Spain: having banned the Jews (Shakespeare, whilst writing Merchant of Venice, may never have met a Jew). The church certainly didn't cry out to prevent these events, or, certainly in the case of Spain, profit from them.
That omission from your list, freedom of religion - that alone - disproves your imaginings that christian teachings had anything really to do with these principals. The thing is you were educated in a country with a national religion! I wonder how that effects the view of history?
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Well, like it or not our culture is founded on white European Christianity. Everything we have achieved, how we think and behave, all stems from that heritage.
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
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Great. We've gone full circle! And so:Brent Jenkins wrote: Everything we have achieved, how we think and behave, all stems from that heritage.
includes most of two millennium involved in a series of genocides. Opposition to any thinking that may contradict the dogma in their (open to interpretation!) rule book, their appended version of the bible.
Just like where I started out: The Jihadi's have quite a ways to go to catch up to the horrors brought on us by christendom. They're working hard on catch-up.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: protect us from the one nutter every few years
Of course you're forgetting the foiled attempts. 12 last year in the UK. Which would bring it closer to a nutter a month. with varying degrees of casualties and probably result in more restrictions than you currently put up with. Airports closed for days, enormous queues at any public attraction. Being searched when you enter any public place etc.
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Marvelously absurd!
Nothing's happened to you (yet?) so all the efforts spent on stopping that were a waste?
Like vaccinations: OK - everyone gets vaccinated. You didn't catch that disease so you whine the vaccination was a waste. And - if it didn't take on one-in-a-million then you consider it all a waste because it didn't meet your view of perfection.
Better to just whine that the government's trying to keep tabs on these should-have-been-still-born filth.
So - after a paragraph of attempting to ridicule a sad reality you complain the money spent stopping those that didn't occur (and thus, didn't make big news headlines) is all a waste.
Sounds to me like you'd like to open the field wide for your buddies-with-the-knives, and hope there is only one nutter every few years. Rectal Orifice.
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If you don't know the difference between an accident involving a car and intentional murder using a car as a weapon hen you are a bigger idiot than you appear.
Oh, and as for surveillance, it has foiled many terrorist attacks over the years. If you don't know how hen you really are ignorant.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: I am a troll
Really?
We'd never have guessed.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Media tells us he is working alone; seven arrests made and six properties raided. Media won't disclose any information about attacker but raids are in Birmingham where there are huge enclaves of Muslim communities. Apologists already out in force to plead that not all Muslims are terrorists. When the media can no longer withhold information that the attacker is a Muslim already known to the police we'll be told they have a mental illness. Then next month the attacks will be coming to a town near you.
What a tedious treadmill we all find ourselves on.....
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: we'll be told they have a mental illness
Fanatism should be recognized as such.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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A tedious treadmill of gutter press miss-information being passed off as valid comment we find ourselves having to listen to you mean?
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No, that's not what I meant but thanks for taking part 
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: Apologists already out in force to plead that not all Muslims are terrorists.
Yeah, same as the "apologists" who "plead" that not all Christians are paedophiles. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Don't recall seeing much of that at all. In fact probably the exact opposite.
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My point still stands: the vast majority of Christians aren't paedophiles, just as the vast majority of Muslims aren't terrorists.
Unfortunately, we live in a world where it's necessary to regularly point that out to the crowds of rabid morons who think that the entire group is responsible for the actions of a tiny minority. It won't stop the hard-core wuckfits from blaming every member of the group, but it might help the borderline imbeciles stop and think before they launch an attack on innocent members.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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