There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
They say a picture of destructive progressive policies is worth 1,000 pounds words. And today the world saw that picture.
Outspoken Trump administration critic and generally useless liberal bureaucrat Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is facing backlash after proudly posing with a so-called “Peacekeeper” who days later was arrested for murder during a Louis Vuitton robbery. Because, of course.
The man, 35-year-old Keller McMillan, was one of seven charged with murder, burglary, and retail theft after a brazen smash-and-grab at the luxury retailer, according to the Daily Mail. Or, “mostly peaceful”, as Democrats would likely label it.
Prosecutors say the crew used stolen vehicles to ram the store before fleeing at high speed. McMillan and his accomplices allegedly caused the crash that killed 40-year-old father Mark Arceta, who was on his way to his last day of work before paternity leave. His partner gave birth to their son the following day.
Shockingly, McMillan was working as a state-funded “Peacekeeper” — a program Pritzker promotes as a solution to violent crime.
McMillan even sat at a roundtable with the governor earlier this month, where Pritzker praised him and others as examples of “community violence prevention.” A smiling photo of the two was circulated in a press release but quickly scrubbed from Pritzker’s website after McMillan’s arrest.
The Daily Mail writes that McMillan’s criminal past was no secret. His rap sheet stretches back a decade with charges including domestic battery, gang activity, and multiple fugitive warrants — the most recent issued just last October. Critics are now asking how such a figure was ever placed in a taxpayer-backed program supposedly aimed at reducing violence.
Former Riverside police chief Tom Weitzel blasted the governor’s office as “incompetent,” arguing that allowing McMillan into the program and posing with him revealed a “total lack of due diligence.” He called the Peacekeepers little more than a “feel-good” scheme that enlists violent felons instead of keeping neighborhoods safe.
Pritzker, meanwhile, has defended the initiative, claiming these programs make communities safer. But the reality is clear: under his watch, a so-called “peacekeeper” turned out to be a violent criminal, and an innocent father is dead.
Or as Pritzker calls it, your tax dollars at work…
A society that coddles criminals, winks at crime, and ignores the victims, is a society that cannot long last. Labor in Australia and the Dems in America have a lot to answer for in this regard. In North Carolina Iryna would still be alive today if the politicians and courts and the magistrates and the judges and the police had been doing their jobs properly. But too many were NOT.
This was a fully preventable crime had the powers that be actually done their jobs. The weak-on-crime mindset of the left is the cause of so many of these horrific murders, rapes, assaults and kidnappings. These folks have so much blood on their hands. Simply consider the role of the Democratic Mayor of Charlotte Vi Lyles in all this.
After the savage attack she put out a statement expressing her concern about the lack of government services available to the murderer: “I want to be clear that I am not villainizing those who struggle with their mental health or those who are unhoused. The unhoused are more often victims of crimes and not the perpetrators. … We, as a community, must do better for those members of our community who need help and have no place to go.”
Good grief – not a word about this poor girl. It really is amazing how she turns a vicious murderer into the victim here. This is the Democrat mindset in action: Let’s make every excuse in the book for the perpetrators of crime, and remain tight-lipped about the victims.
Thankfully many have been speaking out about all this insanity. Gad Saad tweeted this: “A society that burns neighbourhoods and calls for the defunding of the police for the guy on the left [George Floyd] and largely ignores the public butchering of the woman on the right is one that is drowning in the infinity pool of Suicidal Empathy.”
And a few more tweets. Elon Musk was quite right to say this: “Let’s change the law. Between now and then, name and shame the DAs and judges who enable murder, rape and robbery. But especially shame those who funded the campaigns of the DAs and judges. That will make the biggest difference.”
Allie Beth Stuckey posted this: “America failed this girl. We protect criminals. We glorify degenerates. We have no will to restrain evil, no courage to punish wickedness. We sacrifice the weak on the altar of social justice and pat our backs in the process. The cowards on this train who did nothing to help her are representative of what our society has become. I’m so sad for her and sad for all of us.:
And Xaviaer DuRousseau tweeted: “So let me get this straight… A bartender can go to prison for serving drinks to a drunk person if they drive and murder someone … but judges aren’t accountable after letting a 14 TIME REPEAT OFFENDER murder a young woman?”
Said Charlie Kirk: “Right now, millions of people are finding out you can become a magistrate judge in many states WITHOUT being a licensed lawyer — Teresa Stokes [of Charlotte] never passed the bar exam — fully empowered to let repeat criminal offenders roam the streets to murder innocents.”
Another Kirk post: “Telling how so many pastors were mad that George Floyd overdosed but don’t care a white woman was brutally murdered by a 14 count repeat offender.”
Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said this:
Many of the journalists in this room spilled PLENTY of ink trying to SMEAR Daniel Penny for defending a subway car from a deranged lunatic in New York City, but none of those same reporters lift a finger to write stories about an actual murderer. Here are the facts that many outlets have SHAMELESSLY and intentionally failed to report until President Trump drew attention to it. This beautiful innocent 23-year-old young woman was a Ukrainian refugee, who had recently fled her country for a chance at a safer life in a promising new beginning here in the United States of America. But tragically, a public transportation system in a major American city was more dangerous than the active war zone she left.
And President Trump put out this statement:
I have seen the horrific video of a beautiful, young Ukrainian refugee, who came to America to escape the vicious War in Ukraine, and was innocently riding the Metro in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she was brutally ambushed by a mentally deranged lunatic. The perpetrator was a well known career criminal, who had been previously arrested and released on CASHLESS BAIL in January, a total of 14 TIMES. What the hell was he doing riding the train, and walking the streets? Criminals like this need to be LOCKED UP. The blood of this innocent woman can literally be seen dripping from the killer’s knife, and now her blood is on the hands of the Democrats who refuse to put bad people in jail, including Former Disgraced Governor and “Wannabe Senator” Roy Cooper. North Carolina, and every State, needs LAW AND ORDER, and only Republicans will deliver it! Additionally, where is the outrage from the Mainstream Media on this horrible tragedy?
We must not forget
One Christian on the social media said we should not post pics of the attack on Iryna. I disagree. If I had a daughter horrifically murdered while simply coming home from work on a train, I would want the whole world to know about this evil – especially since Iryna had NO second chance, while this thug had 14 chances. We are sick to death of the leftist justice system that coddles criminals and ignores the victims. If highlighting such acts of evil results in less of these attacks taking place, then that would be one good outcome of sounding the alarm.
This believer had said we do not honour her by showing these pics. I disagree even more. We dishonour her by turning a blind eye to what happened to her. Pretending these terrible crimes are not happening will not make them go away. They will only get worse and we will have more of them.
We honour her by standing up for her, championing her, speaking up for her, and doing all we can to ensure that fewer such attacks take place in the future. We honour her by insisting that our leaders and lawmakers start seriously addressing the runaway crime problems in so many American cities.
We honour her when we demand that justice prevails. Scripture speaks so much about the importance of justice. Just a few of many relevant passages come to mind here:
Psalm 28:3-5 Do not drag me off with the wicked, with the workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors while evil is in their hearts. Give to them according to their work and according to the evil of their deeds; give to them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward. Because they do not regard the works of the Lord or the work of his hands, he will tear them down and build them up no more.
Proverbs 18:5 It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice.”
Proverbs 19:28 A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
Ecclesiastes 8:11 Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.
Amos 5:24 But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Iryna did not find such justice. Please keep the family of Iryna in your prayers. The US government had offered to fly her body back home to Ukraine but her parents said no. They said this: “She loved America. We’re going to bury her here.”
We need to see many fewer acts of senseless crime like this. A no-crime community might be impossible to achieve, but a low-crime one is possible. If we stop siding with criminals and making cheap excuses for crime, and start doing what we are meant to do as communities – protecting the innocent and keeping people safe – we can see a lot less such demonic attacks as poor Iryna had to go through.
There are other stories like that of Iryna Zarutska:
I happen to live in what can only be called the murder capital of Australia, if not much of the West. Melbourne has become a bloody crimescape wherein roving gangs of teen punks armed with machetes (often Sudanese) are terrorising the entire city.
Most recently we had two children slaughtered by these gangs – a 12 and a 15 year old. The fools who run this state are doing nothing about this crime spree that is overtaking us like a tsunami. Instead, they waste zillions of taxpayer dollars on useless and expensive “machete bins” found outside of police stations. As if any lowlife crim is going to waltz up to a well-lit cop shop with surveillance cameras and dispose of his weapons of choice.
Allan and Co are useless wonders who care nothing about the safety and protection of Victorians, but care everything about mutli culti madness and protecting migrant gang members. And the story is always the same: a gross crime is committed, an arrest is made, and they are easily bailed out in a matter of hours. Repeat and repeat and repeat. But our eggheads and ‘experts’ claim we cannot turn these teens into career criminals. Hey, wakey, wakey: the already ARE career criminals!
And one recent study found that Sweden has the highest per capita rape rate in Europe. It notes that a majority of 2000-2020 rape convictions were by people of immigrant origin (who are a quarter of the population). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08862605241311611
Iryna Zarutska
Things are just as bad in America – especially in its Democratic-controlled states and cities. President Trump is doing all that he can to make American cities safer, but the demonised Dems are fighting this tooth and nail. That tells you all you need to know about this psychopathic party. The most recent horror case comes out of Charlotte, North Carolina.
Iryna was a young gal from Ukraine who fled her war-torn nation to find a better life in America. But the US has plenty of warzones as well with repeat offenders who commit crime after crime after crime running free and running wild. They delight in doing what they do best; mayhem and murder. So a crim with 14 prior police arrests decided he would stab to death this poor young woman while on a train heading home after work.
London-based columnist Lauren Smith wrote this about the offender:
Then there was the fact that Brown was known to the authorities—that dreaded phrase we see come up time and again in cases like these. Brown, who is currently homeless, has spent most of his life in and out of prison, having appeared in court no fewer than 14 times. He previously served a five-year sentence for armed robbery, and was arrested again for assaulting his sister, just months after being released in 2020. He also has a history of mental-health issues and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Earlier this year, he was charged with abusing the 911 emergency number, when he called to complain that he had “man-made” material inside his body, which he believed was controlling his movements.
Why was this man, who had consistently proved to be a danger to himself and others, allowed to walk the streets freely? I am reminded of a similar case here in the UK, also involving a dangerous, severely mentally ill man who the authorities failed to properly treat and restrain. In 2023, Valdo Calocane randomly began attacking passersby in central Nottingham, killing three people—two 19-year-old students, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, and 65-year-old school caretaker Ian Coates. Like Brown, Calocane was known to the authorities and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. He was supposed to be in the care of the NHS, but kept refusing treatment, because he was afraid of needles. Nobody involved seemed all that concerned with ensuring that Calocane actually received the antipsychotic medication he needed. The cost of this carelessness and apathy was three people’s lives.
In another, eerily similar case from Germany last month, 16-year-old Liana K.—also a refugee from Ukraine—was killed when she was randomly pushed in front of a moving train. The suspect is believed to be a failed Iraqi asylum seeker, who was supposed to have been deported years ago. Once again, the suspect was also suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. Like Zarutska, Liana and her family had fled to Germany, believing they would be safe there. Instead, the authorities’ failure to enforce the law resulted in a 16-year-old’s death.
This is apparently how we deal with criminals and the violently mentally ill in the West now—by ignoring them and hoping the problem will solve itself. In many ways, this is an over-correction for the asylums of the 20th century, where the disturbed and vulnerable were locked away and treated with little compassion or understanding. Today, the cultural memory of barbaric practices like force-feeding, electro-shock therapy, and lobotomies seems to prevent Western societies from taking any steps at all to detain and treat the mentally unwell.
But she is a white victim, and he is a Black attacker. So the mainstream media is not interested in covering this story – it does not suit their narrative. Smith closes her piece with these words:
The reason for this silence on the Left should be fairly obvious. As Mary Harrington points out in UnHerd, “there is simply no obvious way to make [Zarutska’s] murder intelligible within American race politics in a way that does not serve Right-wing narratives.” No wonder progressives would rather pretend this never happened—it goes against their fundamental belief that certain sections of the population are perpetual victims and therefore can never do any wrong. By the logic of identity politics, Brown should be near the very top of the victim hierarchy. He is black, homeless and mentally ill. There is no room in the identitarian worldview for him to be anything other than a victim—of white supremacy, of capitalism, of police brutality, of systemic racism in the justice system, or whatever else it might be. The idea that someone like him might savagely attack and kill another person without provocation is beyond comprehension. It doesn’t fit the narrative.
As much as the Left would like to believe otherwise, ignoring crime does not make it go away. Letting severely mentally ill people with multiple criminal convictions roam the streets is not the kind or caring option for anyone. It is especially reckless to make excuses or set low expectations for violent criminals because they come from ‘victim’ groups—whatever that means. Far too often, lives could have been saved if only the authorities had fulfilled their duty to uphold public safety. Real compassion starts with protecting the innocent.
Or as Ken Blackwell said in part about this horrific story:
Here is the most chilling part of all: the silence. Where are the headlines? Where is the outrage? The same media that saturated the airwaves with endless coverage of George Floyd and Daniel Penny has not written a word about Iryna Zarutska. Not the New York Times. Not CNN. Not the Washington Post. Not NPR. Not USA Today. Not ABC. Not MSNBC. Not PBS. They decided her life was not worth telling. Why? Because she does not fit their story. If Iryna had been Black and her killer White, the coverage would be endless. It would be on every television channel and splashed across every front page. Protestors would be marching in the streets. Politicians would be rushing to the microphones to offer speeches. Instead, because she was White, her story does not serve the approved narrative. And so the media chooses to erase her. That is not just bias. That is deliberate. It is coordinated. It is evil. Iryna came here believing America was different from the country she fled. She thought she had found safety. Instead she was butchered on a train by a repeat offender who should never have been free. And the institutions that claim to care about justice and equality have looked away. Her death is not just the result of one man’s knife. It is the result of a system that values ideology over safety. It is the result of prosecutors who keep letting violent criminals out. It is the result of a media machine that decides which lives count and which lives can be erased. Iryna Zarutska deserved better. She deserved safety. She deserved protection. She deserved to be remembered. Do not let them bury her memory. Say her name. Tell her story. Demand justice. Remember Iryna Zarutska.
And of course it needs to be said that many of these murderous thugs roaming our streets are NOT mentally ill. They are simply evil, and they need to be locked up for a very long time – or deported. But our lax criminal justice system in the West, full of leftist judges and magistrates who tend to care more for criminals’ rights than victims’ rights will ensure that getting tough on crime will continue to be resisted.
All the more reason for Trump to keep going after Democrat crime zones like Chicago, LA and elsewhere and keep standing up for ordinary law-abiding citizens. And all the more reason to consider cloning the President and send them to England, Europe and here down under.
In one of the most aggressive and successful anti-child exploitation crackdowns in U.S. history, President Trump’s Justice Department has revealed the results of Operation Grayskull, a sweeping, international strike that dismantled four high-traffic dark web platforms trafficking violent child sexual abuse materials, exposing a digital cesspool that included over 120,000 registered users and millions of illicit files.
To date, 18 individuals have been convicted in federal court, receiving a combined 300+ years in prison.
The Justice Department detailed how Thomas Peter Katsampes, 52, of Minnesota, became a staff member on one of these despicable sites, personally distributing CSAM, guiding others on how to do so, and helping manage operations. He was sentenced to over 20 years in prison, lifetime supervision, and forced to pay restitution to his victims.
But he was only one of many.
Among the 18 convicted predators:
William Michael Spearman of Alabama was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a child exploitation enterprise.
Joseph Addison Martin of Washington got 42 years.
Keith David McIntosh of Michigan was sentenced to a staggering 55 years, with a prior conviction on record.
Selwyn David Rosenstein of Florida was handed 28 years and a six-figure restitution order for his crimes.
Each of these individuals was found guilty of actively operating or contributing to some of the darkest, most vile content imaginable, and doing so in a highly coordinated and secretive online network.
“Today’s announcement sends a clear warning to those who exploit and abuse children: you will not find safe haven, even on the dark web,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
“These offenders thought that they could act without consequences, but they were wrong. Thanks to the relentless determination of our prosecutors and law enforcement partners we have exposed these perpetrators for who they are, eliminated their websites and brought justice to countless victims.”
“This operation represents one of the most significant strikes ever made against online child exploitation networks,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. “We’ve not only dismantled dangerous platforms on the dark web, but we’ve also brought key perpetrators to justice and delivered a powerful message: you cannot hide behind anonymity to harm children.”
“Yesterday’s sentencing reaffirms our steadfast commitment to protecting our children, the most vulnerable among us, from those who exploit and harm them through the despicable trade in child sexual abuse material,” said U.S. Attorney Hayden P. O’Byrne for the Southern District of Florida.
“Thomas Peter Katsampes and his co-conspirators ran some of the darkweb’s most heinous networks, enabling horrific crimes against innocent victims, but Operation Grayskull has shut these sites down and delivered justice. We applaud the FBI and our international partners for their tireless work, and let this be a clear warning: we will relentlessly pursue and prosecute anyone engaged in such atrocities, no matter how they attempt to cover their tracks.”
The operation also led to arrests in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Estonia, Belgium, and South Africa.
Just days before Christmas, in his waning days of power, Joe Biden (or whoever is actually currently running the government) has commuted the death sentences of 37 of the 40 men on federal death row.
The violent, murderous bunch includes child killers and mass murderers.
Among those who will no longer face the death penalty:
Thomas Sanders: In 2010, Thomas kidnapped and shot 12-year-Lexis Roberts four times before cutting her throat. Lexis has already watched Thomas murder her mother while the two were on a road trip.
Anthony Battle: Battle attacked and murdered an Atlanta prison guard with a hammer in 1994. Battle was in prison for raping and murdering his wife.
Jorge Avila-Torrez: In 2005, Avila-Torrez sexually assaulted two little girls, Laura Hobbs, 8, and Krystal Tobias, 9 before stabbing them both to death. Avila-Torrez also strangled naval officer Amanda Snell, 20, to death inside her barracks in Virginia.
Iouri Mikhel: Mikhel murdered five Russian and Georgian immigrants after kidnapping them for ransom.
Kaboni Savage: Savage, a drug dealer, committed or ordered the deaths of 12 people including four children.
James Roane, Jr.: Roane is implicated in the murder of 11 people.
Biden said in a statement announcing the generous Christmas president for perpetrators of evil, “Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss.”
“But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.”
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