Maybe, that thug and his friends do.
Posted on 07/05/2015 11:40:02 AM PDT by Mount Athos
A lunatic in Charleston, South Carolina, tried to start a race war a few weeks ago. He entered a black church, sat and watched for an hour as the congregation welcomed him into their worship and then murdered as many as he could. As nine laid dead or dying, he fled like vermin.
The nation was stunned. The police apprehended the killer. The killer confessed. The people of Charleston wept.
The killer’s diary revealed that he had no friends and no allies. He bemoaned the fact that even with the Internet, he could not find anyone — not a single person — to join him.
This lone loser failed to provoke that race war. He didn’t even provoke riots. Not even protests.
What he provoked was love. Strangers of different races held hands and hugged as they sang gospel hymns to honor the dead and embrace the living.
Just days later at the arraignment hearing, the murderer was forgiven by the sons, daughters, mothers and fathers of those he murdered. One said, “You hurt me. You hurt a lot of people. May God forgive you. And I forgive you.”
Another said, “I forgive you and my family forgives you, but we would like you to take this opportunity to repent, ... confess, give your life to the one who matters the most, Christ, so that he can change it.”
And so it went. If this is what they learned at that church — this power to defeat death and to transcend hate — then I see why they attend. These people don’t just sing “Amazing Grace”; they exude it.
The reaction up north was different.
Hillary Clinton declared in her political campaign that such abominations are perhaps caused by people listening to Donald Trump.
Other liberals said it is from watching their all-purpose boogieman, Fox News.
Then there’s the president, whose former chief of staff once advised, “Never let a crisis go to waste.” The president didn’t.
Within 24 hours, he was using the crisis to lobby for his pet project of gun control. Never mind that none of his proposed gun controls would have kept guns out of the hands of this killer.
Warming to the moment, he claimed that mass murders don’t happen in other developed countries. He believes that America is exceptional, you see, but not in a good way.
He’s wrong. Senseless murders happen everywhere. In Norway, 69 children were slain at a summer camp in 2011. In Germany, 17 teachers, students and a policeman were mass murdered in 2013. In Scotland, 17 teachers and students were mass murdered in 1996. In China, 29 people were killed and 143 injured in a rampage at a railway station in 2014. In France in the winter, 11 were murdered (but that one might have slipped Obama’s mind since, after all, he failed to join the other world leaders in Paris to honor the dead).
Then, the president, who promised to be “a uniter, not divider,” appeared for an interview on a comedy show. There he uttered an ugly racial epithet that had been relegated to rap music lyrics. His purpose was to tell Americans that they are still racists even if they don’t use that word and even if they don’t know that they are.
In a eulogy to the dead in Charleston, he again used their deaths to lobby for gun controls that would not have prevented their deaths.
And the guy who for decades attended a church where the pastor screamed “God damn America,” said that God opposes the Confederate flag. (For the record, I also oppose flying the Confederate flag, but the Creator of the Universe has not revealed to me his opinion on the issue, as he apparently has to Obama.)
He wound up using, er, I mean singing, “Amazing Grace” — while exhibiting nothing of the sort.
Let’s recap. While America condemned a killer, the president condemned America. While America grieved, the president exploited their grief to promote a pet political cause, to smear America’s culture and to inform us that God is on his side in political debates.
To top it off, he stoked the fires of racial resentment, fires that have blazed ever hotter under his presidency. On a comedy show, he spat an incendiary word that the rest of us would rather not hear — at least not until the tears are dry, the blood is mopped and the bodies are buried.
Maybe that demonic lunatic in South Carolina, who hoped to provoke a race war by killing nine as they worshiped, has friends and allies after all. He just never guessed that they were in such high places.
In the aftermath of Obama’s rhetoric, two racist groups that were practically extinct when he took office — the Black Panthers and the Ku Klux Klan — are planning dueling rallies this month in South Carolina.
Watch the president pour gas on their fires of hate.
Not going to participate in what Satan wants. God will handle this. Let Him do it.
Thoughts on racial hatred...
Touches on the KKK briefly, and Blacks...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3307981/posts?page=57#57
Love this local Aspen author and really love this article.
Worth sharing.
A lot of people on both sides.
Yes, excellent article!
Who wants a race war?
Trick question.
Our very own duly elected politicos..
To cover up their failings and fatten their own ladders.
Larders.. Not ladders Ugghh dang spillchunker
So, what happens now.. 5 round maximum capacity for handgun magazines? Yes, I know one can reload but you catch my drift..
9 dead. How convenient for the gun-grabbers. I'm not saying 9 didn't really die, but how we got there could involve shadowy recruiters via the Internet.
By the way, regarding Twin Peaks do we know how many of the dead were shot by police and snipers? Hmmmmm.. WHY don't we know? Don't answer that..
Maybe, that thug and his friends do.
Roof has failed in his twisted “mission”, and Satan has lost big time in Charleston. When the congregation asked Roof “Will you repent?” (he would still have to pay his earthly penalty), the Devil was smacked down big time. The good people of this congregation know where the real battle lies, and I would bet that they have read the end of the Book as well.
Glory to God.
I have to wonder if these particular thugs performing these acts of violence realize that there may come a time when they pick the wrong person and they get shot and killed for their stupidity...
Of course if it is in a state or city that doesn’t allow its law abiding citizens to carry the means to protect themselves...
Oh well...
Who took the picture of the little Manichean in the cemetery.
Didn't look like a selfie to me...
And he had one friend - a black kid that came to his defense after the killing.
If our press wasn't so busy being thrilled about finally getting a 'white male'... they might make an attempt to cover this story.
Maybe Glenn K. Beaton could look into it.
The Democrat not only want a race war, they need a race war. 2016 isn’t looking good for them. So they must at all costs create, nurture ands promote a massive race war, bring back the 1960’s, and blame this all on other people who had nothing to do with it. A massive deception.
Don’t get sucked in, is all I can say
Who wants a race war?
The only 3 person I know is:
. Charles Manson
. Eric Carmen
. Obama
IIRC, he reloaded 3 times. Forgive me if I'm wrong.
has this POS been captured yet?
Obama. Yep, if his serves his political purposes, and the media will happily help him to do it.
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