US justice: 60 days for sport killing

An American soldier charged with killing Afghan civilians and mutilating their corpses has been sentenced to 60 days hard labor. 

 

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Bryan Fischer: a Christian Warmonger on Steroids

Laurence M. Vance quotes Bryan Fischer and refutes him:

"The Scriptures certainly know nothing of squeamishness." Take the example of King David, a man who had slain "his ten thousands" (1 Samuel 18:7), "fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter" (1 Samuel 23:5), smote the Amalekites "from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled" (1 Samuel 30:17), "smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer" (2 Samuel 5:25), and warred against the Philistines, Moab, Zobah, Syria, and Edom (2 Samuel 8:1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 13, 14). And remember, says Fischer, that David was a man after God’s own heart (1 Samuel 13:14).

But it is wrong to invoke the Jewish wars of the Old Testament against the heathen as a justification for the actions of the U.S. military. Although God sponsored these wars, and used the Jewish nation to conduct them, it does not follow that God sponsors American wars or that America is God’s chosen nation. The U.S. president is not King David, America is not the nation of Israel, the U.S. military is not the Lord’s army, and God never commanded any Christian to war on his behalf. The fact that King David did what he did under divine sanction has absolutely no bearing on anything the U.S. military does.

And please read the whole story of King David:

Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building: But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood. (1 Chronicles 28:2-3)

King David of the Bible is not a good example after all.

Congratulations, Egypt

Mubarak gone so congratulations, but it is only the first step.

Live Egypt Feb 11, 2011 - alJazeera English

crackdown continues in Egypt

Wael Ghonim and Ayman Mohyldin are free again, but others are still missing. Among them Blogger Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman Amer, and independent film maker Samir Esh.

and many whose names we do not know.

6:47pm  There are reports of continuing crackdowns in Wadi al-Jadid.

Attributing the information to Egyptian security officials, Reuters reports that several protesters suffered gunshot wounds and one was killed when 3,000 protesters took to the streets.

AFP news agency reportes three dead and 100 are wounded in the clashes that have been going on for two days. The protesters, said the report, retaliated:

The furious mob responded by burning seven official buildings, including two police stations and a police barracks, a court house and the local headquarters of President Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party.

Iran's PressTV, meanwhile, reoirts that three protesters have been killed and hundreds have been wounded.

pressure the Egyptian government to release them.