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| “You’re familiar with the command to the ancients, ‘Do not murder.’ I’m telling you that anyone who is so much as angry with a brother or sister is guilty of murder. Carelessly call a brother ‘idiot!’ and you just might find yourself hauled into court. Thoughtlessly yell ‘stupid!’ at a sister and you are on the brink of hellfire. The simple moral fact is that words kill." Matthew 5:21-22 The Message |
Our President:
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"
“That’s where I disagreed with Charlie (Kirk). I hate my opponent(s) and I don’t want the best for them.”
“I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”
"Restoring the name 'Department of War' will sharpen the focus of this department on our national interests and signal to adversaries America's readiness to wage war to secure its interests."
“I’m not going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war, I think we’re just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. Okay? We’re going to kill them, you know, they’re going to be like, dead.”
Our Secretary of Defense:
"We changed the name after World War II from the Department of War to the Department of Defense and … we haven't won a major war since...You kill people and break things for a living. You are not politically correct and don’t necessarily belong always in polite society.”
Note: Some believe renaming the Pentagon as a Department of War is at least calling it what it is, but author Tim O'Brien goes further, urging that "war" be eliminated from our vocabulary, and replaced with "killing people, including children."
Our Democratic candidate for Attorney General (expressing his hatred for former House Speaker Todd Gilbert in a private 2022 email):
“Three people, two bullets, Gilbert, Hitler, and Pol Pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.... put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time." In a later phone call he added, “It would take Gilbert’s wife holding their dying children in her arms for him to act on gun safety legislation."
Note: The candidate did recently made the following public statement: “I want to issue my deepest apology to Speaker Gilbert and his family. Reading back those words made me sick to my stomach. I am embarrassed, ashamed, and sorry.”
Examples of recent headlines:
"Gaza ceasefire (?) resumes after airstrikes kill 104"
"U.S. has killed nearly 60 people in strikes on boats."
A counter statement by a Republican senator from Kentucky:
"The Constitution says that when you go to war, Congress has to vote on it... we’ve got no information. I’ve been invited to no briefing...In war there are often lower rules for engagement, and people do sometimes get killed without due process... But the drug war, or the crime war has typically been something we do through law enforcement. And so far, they have alleged that these people are drug dealers. No one said their name. No one said what evidence. No one said whether they’re armed. And we’ve had no evidence presented... So, at this point, I would call them extrajudicial killings. And this is akin to what China does, to what Iran does with drug dealers. They summarily execute people without presenting evidence to the public. So, it’s wrong.”
Some other counter statements:
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