https://www.courtwatch.news/p/131-planning-a-terror-attack-on-roblox
A Texas man was indicted this week for allegedly threatening an ISIS-inspired attack against a Christian music concert. The FBI says eighteen-year-old James Wesley Burger made the threats while playing the popular online multiplayer game Roblox, leading investigators to uncover more ominous online activity about his desire to commit an ISIS-inspired terror attack.
Siri, play Springsteenâs Livinâ in the FutureâŚ
âI would dare Mr. Kirk to ask the parents and family of a gun violence victim if they believe their childâs life was worth an extremist view of the Second Amendment that allows anyone, anywhere to own and carry a weapon of war,â Brown said. âThat is the reality too many American families face every day, when they get that phone call and are told they will never see their child alive again because of this countryâs lax gun laws.â
That said, gun violence like this is one of the things I donât miss from living in the US.
Iâve seen a few people falling all over themselves to claim that Kirkâs quote on gun deaths is being âtaking out of context,â not that they provide any context. Thatâs a lot of what greeted on me on the Facebook cesspool yesterday, as I have a number of conservative friends. Iâm a little conflicted. I certainly donât believe the man deserved to be shot, and I feel awful for his wife and kids who lost their husband and father, a fate I wouldnât wish on anyone. But the friends wailing about this supposed tragedy ⌠I find it hard to care.
I might have some concern for them if theyâd shown any sort of concern over yesterdayâs school shooting in Colorado, or the Minnesota lawmaker shootings in June, or any number of other violent events we could pick from. I might care if they actually followed the Christian teachings they espouse and loved all their neighbors, not just the ones who look like them. And I might have some empathy for them if theyâd shown any empathy last week, when the college campus I work on was locked down for a few hours while police responded to reports of a man with a gun near one of the dorms. He turned out to be a teenager with an airsoft gun, but nobody who saw him or the video of him that day could tell the difference at first. Instead, what I saw was a number of people laughing about how the situation proved Massachusettsâ gun laws donât work.
So I struggle to have empathy for those people. But I suppose thatâs ok. I hear empathy is just a made up, new-age term that does a lot of damage, anyway.
You have my permission to die laughing.
Wow, it seems like this interviewer really prepared for this talk with this author. He studied up on racist things Friedrich Hayek said, and some things Ronald Reagan said and did. The author had to explain each time how this or that conservative person was imperfect.
And at the end the author was like, âWell, Henry Kissinger liked my book about Star Wars, so it doesnât matter what heâs done, I just like him.â
âWhat are you doing, Dave? Nah, just kidding, I already know what you are doing, Daveâ*
âWhat if our Pre-Crime Division was shit?â
