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I have now read the Rape Gang Inquiry Report in full.
I've been following this story quite closely for something like a decade so I'm not exactly surprised by its contents, but three elements stand out to me amongst the horror.
The first is that a large majority of the victims who provided testimony describe some kind of troubled or disrupted home life. Some were molested by family members before the rape gangs ever got ahold of them. Others faced physical abuse, neglect, drug addicted parents, housing instability, and so on.
Their testimony often describes a kind of "screening" process where a girl's particular vulnerability was evaluated with more moderate boundary pushing before escalation to full on rape and abuse.
This isn't necessarily surprising given the nefarious intentions the gangs had for these girls, but their willingness to explicitly target the absolute most vulnerable children who were already struggling sickens me. These girls, more than anyone, needed some kind of adult guidance in their lives, and this vulnerability was cynically exploited to initiate them into an even more egregious Hell.
Which brings me to the second detail, which is the extreme violence these girls were subjected to. "Grooming Gang" is an unacceptable euphemism that may accurately describe common initiatory tactics employed against these girls, but which criminally downplays the behavior of their abusers once initiated.
These girls were not "merely" groomed into sex. They were not "merely" raped. They were not "merely" trafficked. They were subjected to a program of overtly racialized sexual torture and humiliation designed to maximally degrade them and kill them in their souls. And this was "acceptable" because they were White and not Muslims.
This detail fundamentally alters the character of these crimes. This was not horny men out of control or even cross-cultural understanding gaps around the age of consent. This was a targeted program of ritualized torture and subjugation as a means of ethnic domination. In other words, these gangs are conducting war against the White British using serial child rape and torture as a form of conquest.
These are not crimes in the conventional sense. These are war crimes being conducted by one civilization against another, and they need to be treated as such.
And finally, the third point (encapsulated in the excerpt below) is that every single level of the state utterly failed these girls in the most egregious and unfathomable ways imaginable.
It's one thing when you have no physical evidence and are confronted with a "he said / she said" situation with respect to a rape allegation. It's another thing entirely when you have a pre-teen frequent flier at the NHS back again for her Nth sexually transmitted disease treatment, a 13 year old with broken glass shards embedded in her vagina, or a pregnant 13 year old.
These are cases with obvious alarming physical evidence that no one addressed in any meaningful way.
Politicians (Labour in particular) covered it up and suppressed action into investigations in order to maintain the Islamic bloc vote.
Police suppressed investigations, dismissed accusations and evidence, intimidated victims into silence, arrested victims for the crimes of their abusers, dismissed proven cases of rape with impotent warning letters, and in some cases directly raped the girls themselves.
Care homes disregarded obvious signs of abuse (including outright confessions), and enabled their abusers to maintain consistent access to the girls, in some cases acting more like pimps than caregivers.
Social workers addressed victims' needs so incompetently they recommended victims audition for a TV show role about being a child prostitute because it was "relatable" and even attended a victim's coerced sham marriage to her abuser.
NHS staff consistently failed to do anything in the face of overt medical evidence of obvious, undeniable sex crimes against these girls, treating the acute problem and sending them on their way with no protection whatsoever.
And teachers, much like the social workers, routinely delivered their students into the predatory arms of their abusers as they waited outside the schools, and utterly failed to appropriately address signs or confessions of abuse.
Virtually every arm of the state is directly complicit in exacerbating the abuse. Not one single institution at any level reliably offered protection or recourse to these girls.
As far as I am concerned I Restore government would be entirely justified in firing every single person in the employ of the state. If they are not a documented whistleblower they are complicit and thus compromised, and none of them have any business retaining their roles or their pensions. On the contrary large numbers of state officials deserve severe penalties for criminal negligence or outright complicity in these crimes.
Justice for these crimes will necessarily take place at a scale that will shock the pacified sensibilities of the over-socialized Liberal West, but nothing short of a biblical level reckoning will be sufficient to qualify as justice in this case.
@RupertLowe10 is not wrong to draw comparisons to the Holocaust. It is the only appropriate frame of reference in the popular zeitgeist that articulates the actual magnitude of what was allowed to take place under successive British governments. Nor is he wrong to propose the reinstatement of the death penalty as the appropriate restitution for these crimes.
The rapists and state officials who enabled this atrocity both deserve to hang. And I pray that the British public will entrust Rupert with the power to deliver justice long overdo.
In any case I am deeply appreciative of his efforts to bring this to light. He is the hero Britain needs right now.
Vote Restore. Deliver these girls justice.
The ancient Britons burned down London after the Romans raped two women. Today's Brits will do nothing. Not because they are more enlightened, not because they are more moral. But because they are less.
Withhold all NATO funding until we have Nuremberg style trials for all involved in the UK Grooming Gang Scandal.
America can and should flex its muscle on this. The rape of 250,000 innocent young White girls is more of a justification than any war in the last 100 years.
The reality is many will probably never even hear about this because it is too politicized to talk about.
So grateful for X and the open channels of comms
I just wanted to give some context to the rape gangs because not enough people fully understand the scale of what has happened.
Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gang Inquiry report estimates at least 250,000 young White British girls have been subjected to repeated rapes, trafficking &
@thedulab Tbh I think this is why Trad climbing is so appealing to me. Scared out of my mind much of the time while above gear. But then you feel unbeatable after successfully navigating the route.
Looking back to when I was really suffering from depression it’s interesting that my therapist never once recommended fitness and exercise. At the time I had no clue of the benefit it can have to your mental health.
As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I applied for my HAM radio license in 2021 (WH6GNA). I did this to support my local ward’s emergency preparedness efforts. A group of us would get on the net once a week to test out our radios, local repeaters, and keep our skills sharp.
Before I got my license I didn’t really think about all the things that have to happen in the background for effective radio communications. I just assumed you could turn the radio on, hit the push-to-talk button, and broadcast. Super simple. I quickly found out my assumption was wrong.
To successfully operate, you need to take lots of things into consideration; transmit and receive frequencies, frequency offset, distance, weather, terrain, repeater type, power input/output, radio type, encryption, proper use of language, line of sight, antenna configurations, sources of signal interference, the list goes on.
And then, only when everything lines up, can you successfully translate your voice into 1’s and 0’s, translate those 1’s and 0’s into particle wave forms, send them to the correct recipient wirelessly, and have the intended recipient receive your message and then respond. All done at close to the speed of light.
This process taught me a lot about prayer and communicating with God. We expect God to answer our prayers. And sometimes we assume that it’s as simple as speaking the words into existence and waiting for a response.
Sometimes it is that simple. And sometimes, we need to look at all the background processes to ensure we’re effectively broadcasting. Are we tuned into the right frequency? Do we have good line of sight? Are we experiencing interference from other sources? Are we broadcasting on the right repeaters? Are we listening or only broadcasting? Do we have enough power output to overcome interference?
God hears and answers prayers. He’s out there, listening to us as we communicate with Him. And sometimes we receive a response, crystal clear and direct. Other times, we’ve got to adjust our setup in order to receive those responses clear and reliably. Because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ we can make those necessary adjustments, and continue to receive clear communication with our Father in Heaven.
The best possible dating advice is to kill your arrogant pride as soon as possible so you don't defend your bad habits when the relationship gets more serious.
Love has a strange way of forcing you to confront yourself.
The longer you're with someone, the harder it becomes to maintain the illusion that all of your problems exist outside of you.
Eventually, your pride and insecurities enter the relationship. The habits you've spent
@BeReasonable01@JonathanShedler That's been my feeling as well. The level of effort required to build the therapeutic alliance over telehealth is much higher than the in person exertion.
Sorry for not having many hot takes on the latest round of Married Sex Discourse. I get tired of it, because the root is so obviously a fundamental lack of goodwill and charity. Do you even LIKE the person you're sharing your life with, nevermind love or be horny for?
There was a video going around today of a guy stopping some people from cutting in line at an amusement park and somebody can be heard on the video saying, “this guy is acting like he’s an authority” and it’s just like, yeah, exactly. That’s the thing. That’s the big thing. That’s the big difference. It’s 100 million people all acting like they’re the authority, because they are the authority. Because they know the rules and they’re going to make sure that you follow them. No free riders.
The motto in every shitty neighborhood in the country, on the other hand, is that it ain’t your business. Mind your own business. Don’t you worry about me.
You hate the Karen’s to the detriment of your society. Of course they’re annoying, sometimes. But every nice place on earth is full of people who don’t mind their own damn business, who are absolutely committed to the idea that you’re going to follow the rules, people who make that their business.
The thing is, almost no one except Protestant Christian and Japanese Males actually believe in “the rules must be followed impartially for society to work”
There’s a huge category of people who know the rules, and how to apply them, but will drop them for their own benefit
Social media is often watching people get obsessed & emotionally invested in whatever the topic of the day is...
And never move the needle in their own life.
That energy could move mountains for their own lives and families.
so theres this theological concept called “middle knowledge” that was pioneered by a jesuit in the 1500s named luis de molina that is basically about if god has perfect knowledge of counterfactuals - meaning, does god have perfect knowledge of things that never happened and never
A lot of unmarried people look at the happiest marriages and think “how can I find someone who is so worth committing to?”
You can’t, and it’s not even the right question to ask. The right question is “how can I be someone worth committing to?” and then just do that every day.
I recommend coin flips to rumminators who cant make decisions
Why?
1)50/50 questions torture most
2)If there were clear right answer answer they'd know it
3)Deciding usually works better than ruminating
Exceptions: People contemplate self-destructive & impulsive acts.
I can not post this enough: if your "spiritual wisdom" has the flavor of "stay a child forever," it's not wisdom, it's postmodern psychological solvent and it's a near enemy
"Become childlike again, with all the faculties and responsibilities of an adult" is the worthy endeavor
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