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The Fires of August
SteynonLine ^ | August 6, 2024 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 08/06/2024 5:53:13 AM PDT by Twotone

~It is just a week since the famously Welsh boyo Axel Rudakubana used what English law calls a "bladed article" to kill three little girls - aged nine, seven and six - and attempt to kill another ten. My old Telegraph colleague Allison Pearson writes:

The failure to discuss the terror suffered by Elsie, Alice and Bebe, three little girls knifed to death by a devil, and the pain of five other critically ill children and their dance teacher is deafening. Families must be shocked, raging and grief stricken, but they are not... — Allison Pearson (@AllisonPearson) August 4, 2024

When my own children were born, I suddenly found myself - as a hitherto hard-hearted chap - unable to handle movies or TV shows in which infants were menaced with violence. Just the usual Hollywood rubbish - all very antiseptic and generic - but I would grow almost instantly moist-eyed and avert my gaze from the screen. Nothing in those formulaic confections was as horrible as what citizens of Britain and Europe are being asked to accept as a permanent feature of life - that, every once in a while, at a kindergarten in Dublin or a children's park in Annecy, a man will show up with a "bladed article" and randomly plunge it into your kid. And sometimes they will survive, albeit bearing the scars until the day they die. And sometimes, as at that dance class in Southport, they will not - and the final moments of their foreshortened lives will be, as Miss Pearson says, of bewildered, uncomprehending, slashing "terror".

(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britain; riots

1 posted on 08/06/2024 5:53:13 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Wow, this really really upset me.

This is what will happen if that awful woman gets cheated in.

https://twitter.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1820466209533342044?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1820466209533342044%7Ctwgr%5E1339de7049d0af2d1c358433549550a18f109594%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.steynonline.com%2F14526%2Fthe-fires-of-august


2 posted on 08/06/2024 6:05:57 AM PDT by dforest
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To: All
Son of Rwandan immigrants to UK, Welsh boyo Axel Rudakubana used a "bladed article" to kill three innocent little girls - aged nine, seven and six - and attempted to kill another ten, and the teacher at their dance class.

17 y/o killer Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, son of Rwandan immigrants to UK.

Now citizens of Britain and Europe are being asked to accept as a permanent feature of life - "a slashing terror" that, every once in a while, at a kindergarten in Dublin or a children's park in Annecy, a man will show up with a "bladed article" and randomly plunge it into your kid.

3 posted on 08/06/2024 6:09:15 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray : Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: Liz
are being asked to accept as a permanent feature of life

Everyone should have their detector on for this lie trotting the globe of late. The "new normal" is meant to destroy.

4 posted on 08/06/2024 6:15:57 AM PDT by aspasia
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One of the normalizing lies is that the conditions required for human life are the same as the conditions required for life in general. “Scientists say we should look for three key ingredients that make life possible: liquid water, chemistry, and energy.” Any child knows better. We need love (what is love?) and protection from evil.


5 posted on 08/06/2024 6:21:44 AM PDT by aspasia
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To: aspasia

Right-—a global idiocy.


6 posted on 08/06/2024 6:26:32 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray : Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: Twotone
Yep - he's being called a "British man, born in Wales" by the lefty media -they are also posting photos of him as an "innocent child" - leaving out the details of his horrific murder of three little girls - with several more fighting for their lives in the hospital:

Photos from the Daily Mail:

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7 posted on 08/06/2024 7:28:03 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Twotone

Full article is well worth the time to read it. Thanks for posting.


8 posted on 08/06/2024 7:53:45 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Liz
No offense, but I wish people would not use that childhood picture (again! - I guess current photos are not available; the UK does not do mugshots) of a monster. That is not the Rudakubana who murdered and maimed those innocent children.

While this is only a court sketch, it is much closer to the truth:

rudakubana

9 posted on 08/06/2024 1:17:01 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Moltke

Amazing there could be two people with such an odd name.....w/ the same parentage.

Been conjectured his disheveled looks drastically changed
b/c he was in a BBC tv show and had to be well-groomed.


10 posted on 08/06/2024 1:25:11 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray : Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: Twotone
Very good column - thank you for posting.

Two-Tier Keir -even if not coined by Steyn- Zing! Ouch, that one will be hard to shake.

11 posted on 08/06/2024 1:46:52 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Twotone
In Dublin as in Belfast as in Paris as in Brussels, they don't care whether you're Prod or Papist or just another post-Christian Euro-pudding: they're going to screw you either way. Because in Britain and Europe, in the EU or out, the ruling class is agreed: you're the problem.
12 posted on 08/09/2024 5:07:38 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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