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Neal Rovick

St Anthony, MN
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Posted on 04/22/13 at 03:31 pm in response to Boston bombings: Understanding Tsarnaev brothers and their intended audience

Read about when they took the elementary school in Beslan.

By the way, I don't regard the IRA as "brave lads". But if you want to play who was worse, the IRA was responsible for 600-700 non-combatants (the rest of the 1800 dead were either IRA or Brits). The majority of killings were one by one.

380 were dead at Beslan at the hands of Chechens.. Almost 300 were killed in a series of blasts in Russian apartment blocks. More killed in bombings at airports, police stations,...

Posted on 04/22/13 at 04:14 pm in response to Boston bombings: Understanding Tsarnaev brothers and their intended audience

I omitted that part because the post was long enough anyway, and I was talking about Chechens, not the Russians. The Russians have a horrible record. But their terrible record certainly doesn't excuse Chechens for their killings of civilians.

What IS your point? That Chechens are blameless, model world citizens? That Russians are evil and everyone they fight are good?

By the way, here is an article on the Chechens in Syria and their radicalization...

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Posted on 04/22/13 at 04:38 pm in response to Boston bombings: Understanding Tsarnaev brothers and their intended audience

Don't be naiive.

Radicalization is occurring throughout the Islamic world. The famously secular countries of Egypt, Iraq and Libya are more fundamentalist than they ever were. Most Islamic countries are likewise. Government and civil society has failed in these areas to safeguard the health, rights and safety of the people. It's occurring in Chechnya,as it is elsewhere. Obviously if people were living happy, satisfied lives with fulfilling, meaningful work in a world of justice...

Posted on 04/23/13 at 07:28 am in response to Boston bombings: Understanding Tsarnaev brothers and their intended audience

Hmmmm, weren't the mujahadin our buddies in Afghanistan when they were kicking Russia's butt?

How did that turn out when the Russians departed?

Didn't they become our dear allies? I don't remember....

It's all that cold war thinking...

Posted on 04/23/13 at 11:46 am in response to Boston bombings: Understanding Tsarnaev brothers and their intended audience

Man, you just don't do "subtlety", do you?

My entire point-- followers of radical Islam in Chechnya have killed MANY innocent people in horrific ways.

That doesn't excuse the Russian crimes. And the fact that radical Islamic Chechens did unarguably bad things doesn't make all Muslims or all Chechen or all Chechen Muslims bad.

It should make you think at least twice about radicalized Islamic Chechens and their tactics and impact, though.

Got that?

I gotta...

Posted on 04/22/13 at 12:42 pm in response to Catholic Church ramps up opposition to Minnesota anti-bullying bill

It's one of Jesus's lesser know sayings, "Bless the bully, because they enforce societal norms."

Posted on 04/22/13 at 08:16 am in response to Examining the boundaries of the Second Amendment

Ignoring the first half of the one sentence amendment. as it relates to the "prefatory" language about militia is absolutely disrespectful of the Constitution.

The full sentence:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The process by which this wording was arrived at:

The original body of the Constitution was found wanting by the states that were to ratify the...

Posted on 04/22/13 at 11:58 am in response to Examining the boundaries of the Second Amendment

Especially in the days when random people were identified wrongly via the Internet.

What happens when old-age senile dementia sets in with a segment of the people steeped in media-sponsored fear, "black helicopters" and "safety through guns"?

Now THAT will be interesting.

Posted on 04/19/13 at 11:54 am in response to Thoughts on the Boston bombing developments

In the "black helicopter" world, this is either a "false flag" operation by the nefarious feds with a "staged" robbery, murder and battle last night, all in the service of tyranny, or a Russian attempt to force US solidarity with Russia vs Chechen.

Or maybe both.

Socialism.

New world order.

Need we say more?

The tin-foil shortage continues.

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Posted on 04/18/13 at 10:06 am in response to Trouble ahead: Justices’ rulings on gun rights raise thorny questions

Scalia, the "originalist" reminds me of Humpty Dumpty:

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"I don't know what you mean by 'glory,' " Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't—till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!' "

"But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'," Alice objected.

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor...