Posted on 07/26/2016 3:00:46 PM PDT by Kaslin
The terrorist who slit the throat of 85-year-old priest Fr. Jacques Hamel today in Normandy, France had previously been arrested on terrorism charges and was was sentenced to house arrest with an electronic monitor. He spent a year in prison after being arrested in Turkey attempting to reach Syria and join the Islamic State. He was granted unsupervised release periods from his parent's house between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. The attack occurred during the church's 9 a.m. Mass.
The church attacked on Tuesday morning was reportedly on an ISIS list of potential targets discovered in April 2015. The suspect in today's attack lived near the church.
Security sources said one of the murderers was a convicted terrorist who was being monitored with an electronic tag and should have been living with his parents.
He was allowed out unsupervised between 8.30am and 12.30pm. The mass[sic] at Saint Etiennce's church started at 9am.
The same source said the church was one of a number of Catholic places of worship on a hitlist, discovered on an ISIS suspect in April 2015 - raising serious questions about France's intelligence agencies.
It's not exactly rocket science that giving a convicted terrorist periods of unsupervised release may not exactly be the best idea. A person can commit acts of terror around the clock, and clearly the terrorist in question didn't care about violating house arrest rules as he was willing to take a church hostage and slit the throat of an elderly priest.
Let's hope that this unspeakable act of depraved violence causes French authorities to wake up to how insane their criminal justice laws are. Convicted terrorists should not be walking around unsupervised.
This post has been updated to correct Fr. Hamel's age
I agree but for police use I think they are suitable.
For real battles, well no.
I wouldn’t want to go up against scum with fully-automatic rifles with any kind of semi-automatic weapon.
I would, if I had to, but I’d rather be at least equally armed.
Goes to show the “let’s let them in and watch them mentality” doesn’t work. The entire west should stand up and say no more muslim immigrants.
The destruction of Europe inflicted by the Allies in order to destroy the Nazis was nothing compared to the destruction that will result when it becomes necessary to defeat the islamoterrorists.
And this time there will be no Marshall Plan to rebuilt the wasteland.
Catch, try, convict, everyone executed as minimum mandatory sentence.
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“It’s not exactly rocket science that giving a convicted terrorist periods of unsupervised release may not exactly be the best idea.”
Die and learn.
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Unfort., it’s not the elite (judge) that pay for their own stupidity.
When THAT starts happening, there’s *little* chance of turning the tide.
IOt will be a while, but French citizens will be allowed to carry personal arms.
There are just not enough policemen to fight the jihadists.The people will insist on being able to defend themselves.
God created men, but Sam Colt made them equal.
This is what can happen when murderers who should be promptly executed are allowed to go free. And it will continue to happen until these vermin, when captured, are convicted and immediately exterminated.
Yes he did.
Now, every human being has the ability to shoot and kill someone. Murder HAS been around since Cain killed Abel. Cain had no .44 but he still murdered. Bombs have the greatest potential for killing. You can ask the Japanese about that.
Before guns, people sometimes used fire to kill. Ow.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/8177409/101-Ways-to-Kill-People
What those young thieves did was wrong and they knew it. They will have to face a reckoning one day. It won't be pretty. They won't be laughing for a l-o-n-g, l-o-n-g, l-o-n-g, l-o-n-g time.
Weren't you taught to HATE the sin but LOVE the sinner?
That is a Christian idea, isn't it?
That is what Jesus wants us to do...even to the "vermin" who should be "exterminated."
My hope is in the French justice system. Those killers are dead men. Perhaps they will get the guillotine.
"Convicted murderer Hamida Djandoubi became the last person to meet his end by the “National Razor” after he was executed by the guillotine in 1977. Still, the machine's 189-year reign only officially came to an end in September 1981, when France abolished capital punishment for good."
THIS might be the straw that breaks the camel's back...and the French might start hectoring their leaders to "bring back the blade." I wouldn't blame them.
The Germans didn't colonize but then, they weren't a country until 1860..and the groups of principalities and duchies simply didn't have the wherewithal to fund any conquests.
At 85, he undoubtedly lived through Nazi occupation. But not Muslim occupation.
Not sure I get your point in this context. Can you elaborate please?
State Department played up the “gay victims of hate” aspect of the Orlando attack, but this is “just” terrorism, no need to speak out of global genocide of Christians around the globe. No need to project a cross on government buildings in solidarity...
People have lost the basic ability to protect themselves. These incidents make the case for the right to bear arms. The Knights of Columus need to arm up and become actual Defenders of the Faith, not just a social club. Government cannot protect individual targets so people have to protect themselves.
The story doesn’t seem to mention it, but IIRC, he also beheaded the priest.
You are absolutely right. People who go to mass on a weekday morning are not the type who can defend themselves.
I pray you are right.
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