Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
Maine Kid Who Tried to Kill Cops With Machete Is Sentenced, Elephant in Room Still Ignored
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
PJ Media : When Trevor Bickford was 19 years old, on Dec. 31, 2022, he ventured
down from his home in Wells, Maine, to Times Square. But he was not
planning to join with multitudes of New Year’s Eve revelers.
Instead, he
attacked three NYPD officers with a machete. On Thursday, he was
sentenced to 27 years in prison, and so even if he is on his very best
behavior for the next few years, we likely won’t be hearing about him
for a while. But his case reveals a massive problem that the whole world
seems determined to ignore.
NBC New York reported
Thursday that Bickford was sentenced “after pleading guilty to several
terror-related charges.” The report noted that Bickford also “previously
told the judge he was under psychiatric treatment for schizoaffective
disorder.” So did he attack the cops because he was nuts? Not
necessarily: Bickford “said he carried out the attack to wage jihad,
with the goal of killing military-aged men so he could become a martyr.”
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said that Bickford was "inspired by
radical Islamic extremism.”
In Jan. 2024, the Associated Press
stated that Bickford “shouted ‘Allahu akbar’ — the Arabic phrase for
God is great — before striking the officers in the head with the machete
and trying to grab an officer’s gun.” This explanation was inaccurate
and misleading. “Allahu akbar” doesn’t mean “God is great”; it actually
means “Allah is greater.” That is, the god of Islam is superior to
anything that non-Muslims worship or hold dear. This declaration of
superiority frequently accompanies acts that are designed to enforce the
subjugation and submission of the infidel.
That wasn’t all. When Bickford was arrested, he had a handwritten note
in his backpack, asking his family to “please repent to Allah and
accept Islam.” To his mother, Bickford wrote: “I fear greatly that you
will not repent to Allah. And therefore I hold hope in my heart that a
piece of you believes so that you may be taken out to [sic] the
hellfire.” To his brother, he likewise wrote: “Please repent to Allah
and accept Islam. I fear for you.”
To another brother in the Marines, he
added: “You have joined the ranks Faced with all this evidence, authorities had to admit that this was a
jihad attack, something they were extremely reluctant to do. Thomas
Galati, the NYPD’s chief of intelligence and counterterrorism,
epitomized that reluctance in a Jan. 2023 statement that he could barely
get out amid all his discomfort with what he had to admit:
“Um, y’know, during the attack he did yell out ‘Allah akbar,’ um, you
know, and, um, you know, I – I believe he thought that this would be,
um, you know, k–, suicide by cop, uh, basically, at the end of this
attack. This is a distorted, uh, you know, um, uh, uh, version of him
being radicalized and thinking that what he’s doing is right, um, you
know, just, uh, want to make sure that that’s clear, he’s not
representing, you know, uh, the Islamic religion, but rather, you know, a
very, very small percentage of people that get radicalized.”of my enemy. And for that I can give
you no kind words – return to Allah.”
