First of that is so horribly editted, and notn just the leaving out te interviewers questions way. Second, I see nothing he said that actually goes against the constitution. You may not agree with what he said, but he said nothing that is constitutionally inviable.
Well the US Constitution created a separation of church and state, so although he is right that it was founded on Christian principles, these were not contained within the constitution. (At least I think so, my US political knowledge is not so hot)
Technically, we have a separation of church and state, but that is very loosely enforced. We're supposedly all civilized, but we still shit ourselves whenever people talk about evolution in school.
I'm not sure. I mean, everyone knows we didn't come from monkeys. Monkeys are another evolutionary branch that split off from our common primate ancestors millions of years ago. Saying that we evolved from apes would be a bit better, but still not entirely accurate since it implies that we aren't apes anymore, which isn't true.
Incidentally, I would argue that the US was 'founded' as a type of Christian nation -- the state run by Puritans in the North persecuting the Quakers and Unitarians, the Anglicans in the South persecuting the Baptists and Anabaptists. Hell, 11 of the 13 states had State Churches at the time the Constitution was ratified (maybe only 10, Rhode Island is hard to determine), and legally only the National government by virtue of the Bill of Rights was forbidden from establishing a state religion. The First Amendment was a Jeffersonian hope that eventually the country would move away from state religions, from the top down. So, while the individual states could still forbid Jews, Catholics and other undesirables from holding office or voting, over time those laws and statues went to the wayside, especially in the period before the Civil War. So, historically revisionist fundamentalist Christians are somewhat right in saying that this country was founded as a 'Christian' nation, but forget that it was only a specific type of Christianity at the detriment of not only other religions but other Christian groups, and the guiding politicians and philosophers of the Revolution hoped that we would move beyond it by implementing religious freedom. And now we're swinging back towards it, it seems.
No Night Lord, you're still wrong. See, the great prophet L. Ron Hubbard covered that too, all religion was a part of Xenu's brain washing theaters he used on the dead alien spirits that floated away after he nuked them off the coasts of Hawaii.
Seven people died and 10 others were injured after a man hit pedestrians with a truck and then stabbed passersby Sunday in broad daylight on a street in Tokyo's busy Akihabara district.
People attempt to help a traffic police officer injured during a stabbing spree in Tokyo's Akihabara district today
People attempt to help a traffic police officer injured during a stabbing spree in Tokyo's Akihabara district today. Seven people died and 11 were injured after a 25-year-old man from Shizuoka Prefecture began indistriminately stabbing people around 12:30 p.m. KYODO PHOTO
Police arrested the man, Tomohiro Kato from Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture, on the street and seized a survival knife he was carrying. The 25-year-old temp staffer at an auto component factory in the prefecture admitted to stabbing people with the knife, which had a 13-cm blade, from around 12:30 p.m., the police said.
"I came to Akihabara to kill people," investigative sources quoted Kato as telling the police. "I am tired of the world. Anyone was OK. I came alone."
According to the police and hospital officials, six of the seven who died were males and aged from 19 to 74. The other was a 21-year-old female.
In addition to the seven, 11 people were taken to hospital after the stabbing rampage. Of these, eight were male, including a 53-year-old traffic police officer who was stabbed in the back while helping people hit by the truck, and two women. The remaining male had sustained no injuries but had blood on his clothing.
Of the seven, at least six had been stabbed and two had been hit by the truck, which was rented in Shizuoka Prefecture.
According to eyewitnesses, a police officer at a nearby police box who noticed the incident hurried to the scene and found Kato wielding the knife.
The officer initially failed to get hold of the suspect after hitting him with a baton a few times. But Kato put the knife down after the officer drew a handgun and issued a warning, leading to his arrest, the eyewitnesses said.
The Akihabara area was crowded with shoppers as Chuo-dori was vehicle-free for pedestrians. The scene was near the intersection of Chuo-dori and Kanda Myojin-dori streets, only a stone's throw from JR Akihabara Station.
A 19-year-old man from Tokyo's Ota Ward said, "The man (Kato) jumped on top of a man he had hit with his vehicle and stabbed him with a knife many times. Walking toward Akihabara Station, he slashed nearby people at random."
Shunichi Jingu, a 26-year-old self-employed man from Gunma Prefecture, who witnessed the incident, said, "It seemed that a traffic accident had happened. Then a man got out of a vehicle and began to brandish a knife."
Akihabara is a district of Tokyo known for its electronics shops and as a center of modern culture, including manga and animations, and attracts many visitors from both Japan and abroad.
There were similar street stabbing rampages earlier this year.
In January, a 16-year-old boy attacked five people and injured two of them with kitchen knives on a shopping street in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. A man wanted by police on suspicion of murder stabbed passersby with a knife at an entrance to a shopping mall in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, in March, leaving eight people injured, one of whom died later in hospital.
The Akihabara rampage also occurred on the seventh anniversary of a stabbing spree by a man at Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka Prefecture on June 8, 2001.
The attacker, Mamoru Takuma, was executed for killing eight children and injuring 15 others in that case.
PHOENIX -- A collision sparked a road rage shooting that left a grandmother dead and her young granddaughter wounded Sunday afternoon, Phoenix police said.
A 70-year-old woman who was a passenger in the front seat of vehicle carrying four other people suffered gunshot wounds to the upper part of her body and was rushed to the hospital in very critical condition, police said. She later died.
Her 4-year-old granddaughter who was in the back seat suffered a gunshot wound to the right arm, according to officers.
Phoenix police said the incident began near 19th Avenue and Bethany Home Road with a minor collision between the Dodge Durango the five people were riding in and a White Ford Escort.
The two drivers got out and a verbal altercation ensued, police said.
The 21-year-old driver of the Escort then followed the Durango to 21st Avenue and Ocotillo Road, where the 26-year-old passenger in the Escort fired several shots into the SUV, police investigators said.
It wasn't immediately clear how police knew the ages of the people in the Escort.
The SUV ended up near 21st and Glendale avenues, where Michael Johnson said he stopped to help.
"We got out and I called 911 and I put my shirt over the little girl's arm," Johnson said.
Two other children, a 2-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy, were inside the Durango but neither of them was injured
One neighbor told CBS 5 News what the driver told her.
"She said that they pulled in front of them, they cut them off, and the people in the other car got mad," said Desiree Graham.
Police said they are looking for an older-model white Ford Escort.
People with information about the occupants of the Escort are urged to call Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS.
Graham said the incident has left her shaken.
"When I'm driving and I even tell my kids, 'Don't even look at people around you because you don't know if somebody might think you're giving them a dirty look or something and pull out a gun and start shooting you,'" Graham said.
The officer initially failed to get hold of the suspect after hitting him with a baton a few times. But Kato put the knife down after the officer drew a handgun and issued a warning, leading to his arrest, the eyewitnesses said.
I'm surprised he even tried to use a minimum amount of violence in the first place; I'm more used to hearing stories of people getting killed after a cop starts shooting when the person fails to follow instructions given to them.
Good ol' Dallas. The road rage here sucks too, although I've never heard of a story quite so bad as the Californian situation.
TARBORO, North Carolina (AP) -- A couple accused of killing their 13-year-old son by tying him to a tree for two nights for punishment appeared in a North Carolina courtroom Monday to face charges of murder and felony child abuse.
Attorneys appeared Monday with Brice Brian McMillan, 41, and his wife Sandra Elizabeth McMillan, 36, of Macclesfield.
"It's a sad case," defense attorney Allen Powell, who rerepresents Brice McMillian, said after the hearing. He declined any further comment, and the two did not enter a plea.
The county sheriff's office has said Brice McMillan told a deputy the teen was being disobedient and was forced to sleep outside last Tuesday while tied to a tree.
The teen was released Wednesday morning, but again tied up that night for bad behavior.
Sheriff James Knight has said the boy was left tied to the tree until the following afternoon, when his stepmother found him unresponsive.
Authorities believe the boy was bound to the tree with plastic ties and possibly other kinds of material.
Arrest warrants for both McMillans said the child sustained "bruising to the wrist, cuts to entire body, missing flesh from buttocks, results from being tied to a tree for approximately 18 hours resulting in death."
The warrants didn't reveal a specific cause of death. An autopsy is pending at the state's chief medical examiner's office in Chapel Hill.
Two other children living in the McMillans in the home, ages 7 and 9, have been placed in the custody of the Department of Social Services, authorities said.
TURLOCK, California (AP) -- Police killed a 27-year-old man as he kicked, punched and stomped a toddler to death despite other people's attempts to stop him on a dark, country road, authorities said.
Investigators on Sunday were trying to establish the relationship between the suspect and the child they say he killed Saturday night. The Stanislaus County coroner said the boy appeared to be between 1 and 2 years old based on his size, according to county sheriff's deputy Royjindar Singh.
"It's been a long night of wondering, 'Why?' -- not only for the officers and the passers-by who stopped and tried to help out, but for anyone. Why would somebody do this?" Singh said.
Singh said the coroner does not plan to confirm the identities of the suspect and victim until Monday. Because his injuries were so severe, the child will have to be identified through a blood or DNA test, he said. Watch why beating stunned police »
The suspect had a child's car seat in the back of his four-door pickup truck. The truck caught the attention of an elderly couple at 10:13 p.m. Saturday because it was stopped in the two-lane road facing the wrong direction, Singh said.
As they got closer, the couple saw the man beating the toddler behind his truck and throwing the child on the ground, according to Singh. Two or three other cars stopped, an unusual number to be passing through the remote area surrounded by a dairy, a cow pasture, a cornfield and a farmhouse, he said.
"What we got from witnesses is he was punching, slapping, kicking, stomping, shaking," Singh said. "They tried to intervene and get involved, but their efforts really didn't have an effect. The suspect was engaged in what he was doing. He just pushed them off and went back to it."
A sheriff's helicopter responding to emergency calls from the area landed in a cow pasture at 10:19 p.m. carrying a Modesto police officer who shot the man to death after he refused an order to stop beating the child, Singh said.
Paramedics tried to resuscitate the toddler, who was not breathing when they arrived. The boy was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
No children within the dead boy's age range have been reported kidnapped or missing in Stanislaus County, Singh said.
The killing happened on Bradbury Road about 10 miles west of Turlock, a city about halfway between Sacramento and Fresno.
He probably suffocated. If he was propped up and he couldn't stand anymore, as he fell or slid a little, the bindings would put pressure on his chest. Then, every time he exhaled, he'd slip a little more and have less room to inhale.
Clinton County - Police say a toddler was abandoned at a Frankfort Wal-Mart store Friday.
Frankfort Police say the boy, named Martin, was found wandering the aisles of the Wal-Mart fabric section early Friday afternoon. A note in his backpack, apparently written by his mother, explained that she could no longer care for the two-year-old and that she hoped someone would provide a home for him. The note alluded to financial problems.
"We would like to reunite this kid with his family. It's got to be very tragic for him, he is only two years old and in a strage place. He doesn't recognize anyone," said Frankfort Police Detective Jeff Ward.
Also in the backpack with the note was a bottle and diapers. In the note, which was written in Spanish, the mother says that the father had left her, according to Frankfort police.
"She said she had no means to feed the child. Had no place for him to live," said Randy Emery, deputy police chief in Frankfort, about 20 miles southeast of Lafayette.
While the note said the boy's name was Martin, the foster parents told police he doesn't answer to that name.
"There has to be someone out there, other than who dropped him off, that is related to this boy and we would like to find out who they are and make contact with us and find out what is going on here," said Det. Ward.
Store employees brought the boy into their security office after they found him wandering around Friday afternoon. Several attempts to locate his mother over the loudspeaker were unsuccessful.
"When they were looking for the mother, you could hear on the PA system they had the child in the customer service area," said Dr. Sam Powers.
Child Protection Services is caring for the boy, and police are trying to find the mother. Officers are watching surveillance camera recordings and looking for witnesses who saw the woman at the store.
"Who ever found the child, that they were not capable of caring for the child and they couldn't care for the child any longer and they were afraid the child was going to starve," Det. Ward said.
Emery said police would like to offer help if she comes forward.
"I know this was probably a very hard decision to leave this child," he said.
Police believe the parents of the boy are from Guatemala and moved to Frankfort a year ago. They say they may now be on the road again.
"You know, these are hard times in Frankfort and our Hispanic populations moves around quite a bit," said Dr. Powers.
Anyone who may recognize the boy or know his parents is being asked to call Frankfort Police.
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All of these discussions are the result of body thetans.
The Qur'an, as the direct word of Allah (Natch), says that Allah simply said "Be" and it became.
Ok I've got nothing remotely sane to back this up.
Oh well:
The tacos decree it so. End of story.
7 killed, 10 injured in Akihabara stabbing spree
Nope, I've got nothing. That's pretty tragic.
Grandmother Killed in Road Rage
Good ol' Dallas. The road rage here sucks too, although I've never heard of a story quite so bad as the Californian situation.
Police shoot man as he beats toddler