Follow the chain, and out them all

This is the picture that should cost the Lightbringer his job

I want folk to follow the decision chain, from the very top to the deputies who “just followed orders” and arrested this man, and call them all to account. This is not America. At the risk of invoking Godwin’s Law, this is Nazi Germany. They hung a few folk for their behavior then; perhaps it’s time we did the same- pour encourager les autres.

via Glenn

https://twitter.com/rsmccain/status/247167200954302464

Winston Churchill on Islam

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!
Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.  The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.  A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.  The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belongto some man as his absolute property—either as a child, a wife, or a concubine—must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.  Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities.  Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die.  But the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it.  No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.  Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proseltyzing faith.  It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science—the science against which it had vainly struggled—the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
via @rsmccain via VA Viper