Peter Brown's summary of one of the recently-discovered letters of Augustine: "we find Augustine, at the age of seventy-three (only three years before his death), interviewing a terrified country girl who described how her farm had been raided by slave traders. The poor child could not even speak Latin - only Punic. Her older brother translated for her. This was part of a dogged attempt by Augustine and his congregation to break a ring of slave-traders who operated (with the full protection of local bigwigs), out of the port of Hippo."
Today we learned more details about the attack on three young children outside a creche in Dublin.
We already know that the Algerian Muslim responsible packed his belongings, grabbed his passports, and brought it all to a mosque on Talbot Street where they agreed to look after it.
Then he started hunting children.
Today it was revealed he initially planned on targeting another group of kids, but changed his mind because they were older and physically stronger than the kids he eventually attacked.
He waited, and instead attacked five and six year olds, the most vulnerable targets be could find.
When their teacher intervened, he stabbed her too, then went back to trying to kill the kids.
Why did he do this?
He said he was angry because he was denied a welfare payment.
ALL THREE ON THE ONE PAGE. PLUS the one in the comments...
From the same regional paper. I have to limit what I say as my account is being severely attacked in the past 48 hours. But they're all new to the parish.
The birth rate collapsed in Ireland from 77,000 children in 2009 to 54,000 children in 2024.
The lack of housing, the cost of living, and the cost of child care are hammering families.
What's Sinn Féin's solution?
More abortion.
I've always been of the opinion that since it was the Irish and Celtic monks who saved the Church and the West following the fall of the Roman Empire, Satan has a special hatred for their descendants, and has tried to destroy them ever since as a kind of spiritual retribution.
NB: As Ireland is a democracy, no other country or organisation should consider any future Irish government bound by the terms of this migration pact. It is the policy of this current Irish government, those politicians that voted for it in spite of the opt-out that Irish voters had won for Ireland during the Lisbon Treaty referendums. Whether or not Ireland remains bound by the migration pact will be the policy of the next Irish government, will be up to Irish voters.
I'd like to say a few things about the current state of affairs in Ireland.
But I'm a legal immigrant. I speak the language, pay my taxes, and respect the culture, so of course anything I say will be dismissed as some kind of "ism."
I'll say this, though: I made my home here almost ten years ago, and in that time I've watched a beautiful country turn ugly.
The Third World is not a place, it's what happens when governments fail to serve the best interests of their own people.
https://t.co/j58CYkil13
Man attempts to behead another man in the street.
"No evidence of terror at this stage, say police"
If that isn’t terror, what is? How much more terrifying does it need to be to qualify as terror?
Just one video of an African migrant cutting the head off of a native citizen would be enough reason to shut down all third world migration forever. But as it happens, that video is just one reason of a billion others.
It’s being reported that the Belfast attacker is not Somali but Sudanese.
Both countries are 97-99% Muslim.
Both countries have a history of beheading Christians on the basis of their faith.
I'm hearing things are going to 'kick off' in Belfast tonight, not really surprising. The political system that was supposed to get ahead of the cause has completely blown it and it's true for the whole island of Ireland and for Great Britain. The only policy that is going to have a chance of working is one of deportation of all welfare dependent, non-working, non-EU immigrants. A secure holding facility for all asylum seeker cases (I have proposed such a repurposing of Spike Island), a rapid processing and default deportation for any but the most serious cases. This will come across as harsh and not merciful. I will counter that if we do not do this, society in general will end up taking harsher measures that will affect innocent people and families. Governments don't yet seem to be fully cognisant of how much of a powder keg they have put under their own societies. Very few people voted for this.
TIMELINE OF AN INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION SCANDAL
2018 - Leo Varadkar tells EuroParl we want to be part of EU approaches to mass migration - ‘We can’t do it alone’.
We received just 3-4k asylum applications. No crisis.
2020 - Leo Varadkar appoints former Minister for European Affairs, Helen McEntee to Justice Minister.
McEntee posts to Twitter support for EU Migration Pact, while receiving just 1,500 applicants that year.
2021 - McEntee’s dept slashes average asylum rejection rates from ~50-70% to just 5.5%
Roderic O’Gorman tweets in the language of safe countries where we previously rejected 97% of their asylum claims, showcasing a luxury asylum program.
2022- 2023 - Predictable surge of asylum demand from safe countries. ~15,000 applicants per year.
This is 10x from the year when McEntee first showed support for the EU Migration Pact, mandating a minimum of 30k.
2024 - Helen McEntee says ‘we can’t do it alone’, pointing to the crisis created in 2021-2022, by her own department, to push for the EU Migration Pact she supported back in 2020.
Looks like one of the biggest scandals in the history of the state.
And exposing it could end the International Protection racket in Ireland.
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⚡🇨🇵 Marine Le Pen erupts into French Parliament:
“I don’t understand why foreigners who break the law are allowed to stay here.
What compels us to keep them?”