tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post7778408462804231180..comments2024-03-29T09:39:50.604+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Tribalism and XenophobiaFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-3558926584398830582020-09-02T18:48:42.198+01:002020-09-02T18:48:42.198+01:00Dear Terry. If you were/are a member of The Cathol...Dear Terry. If you were/are a member of The Catholic Evidence Guild, ABS is very impressed as he has read all about that excellent apologetics program.<br /><br />There are quotes lifted from Wilfrid Shed's memoirs but also information from Sheed and Ward Family Papers in the Archives of U Notre Dame, in Indiana in Wemhoff's book.<br /><br />The lawyer, David A. Wemhoff who devoted sevenMick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-1822872659901590032020-09-02T09:58:01.605+01:002020-09-02T09:58:01.605+01:00Thank you, 'Amateur Brain Surgeon', for th...Thank you, 'Amateur Brain Surgeon', for the further information about Frank Sheed. How fascinating! I would like to read "John Courtney Murray, Time/Life and the American Proposition. How the CIA's Doctrinal Warfare Program Changed the Catholic Church", but unfortunately the only way I could get a copy of this book here in the UK would seem to be to buy it from the USA for Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17551041799064065025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-29696192128964015442020-08-31T15:17:43.925+01:002020-08-31T15:17:43.925+01:00Another video of the Blake incident. The cops init...Another video of the Blake incident. The cops initially had him in control on the ground.<br /><br />https://www.outkick.com/whitlock-lebron-james-is-a-bigot/<br /><br />Mr. Whitlock is the best sports writer in AmericaMick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-26944014856823587902020-08-30T16:45:33.743+01:002020-08-30T16:45:33.743+01:00To anyone who thinks it's the job of a police ...To anyone who thinks it's the job of a police officer to "tackle" a deranged criminal with a violent history who is armed with a knife, I say: You first! There are few things more dangerous than trying to bare-handedly "tackle" a violent person who has a knife. Fr H would know this if he spent more time reading about the epidemic of knife crime in Merrye Olde England and mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12847411975641738898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-11694881807478689052020-08-30T10:53:40.994+01:002020-08-30T10:53:40.994+01:00Well, that was a really interesting Blog FrJohn.
...Well, that was a really interesting Blog FrJohn.<br /><br />I attended Church this morning where the Priest--on in years and in Wisdom-- said Holy Mass in English, said the Our Father in Irish and gave the Final Blessing in Latin. <br />It was a kind of portal to a more cultured time-- certainly, a safer one and one in which the UK was widely regarded as "fair", the US as "Ray Kinsellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01879823795290628502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-33720906648004995182020-08-29T17:55:34.416+01:002020-08-29T17:55:34.416+01:00Dear Father, I read your blog daily and appreciate...Dear Father, I read your blog daily and appreciate your depth of liturgical and historical knowledge!<br /><br />Two things to know about American policing and American firearms: 1. Police officer culture in the US is about the highest sort of virtues (such as respect, duty, loyalty, honesty). Men and women attracted to policing in the US are people who hold these virtues in the highest regard David O'Donnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17622717831717268683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-26011405445814005812020-08-29T17:45:10.448+01:002020-08-29T17:45:10.448+01:00Please watch this video of a man resisting arrest ...Please watch this video of a man resisting arrest in Pennsylvania a few years ago who despite being “tackled” and handcuffed, got away, retrieved a firearm from his vehicle, and shot and severely injured one of the arresting PA state troopers. This is the scenario the officer in Kenosha envisioned, and which he acted on his training to prevent: https://youtu.be/F7W6PQ3V3y8David O'Donnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17622717831717268683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-56182653690531970522020-08-29T16:24:56.126+01:002020-08-29T16:24:56.126+01:00Dear Chrysologus. Yes, the problem lies solely wit...Dear Chrysologus. Yes, the problem lies solely with the cops and not with the perp who resisted arrest, who was Tasered and pulled out the Tasers leads, who had a knife in his hand and who went running for his car, reaching under the car seat, for what? Perhaps a gun?<br /><br />There is a problem with policing in America and one of those problems is the Israelisation of the police profession.<Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-1070791084085858732020-08-29T16:07:07.680+01:002020-08-29T16:07:07.680+01:00Dear Terry. Yes, Mr. Frank Sheed was a MI-5 agent ...Dear Terry. Yes, Mr. Frank Sheed was a MI-5 agent according to son Wilfred and he was sent to America to do something about the Radio Priest, Father Coughlin. Wilfred also described Caryll Houselander as a "witch."<br /><br />ABS also identified CIA agents, Felix Morlion O.P. who founded Pro-Deo university in Rome and Fr. Robert Leiber S.J. Pope Pius XII's personal secretary, as Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-41951668874940211352020-08-29T15:31:14.876+01:002020-08-29T15:31:14.876+01:00Are we talking about Jacob Blake, the guy who sexu...Are we talking about Jacob Blake, the guy who sexually assaulted a minor female, invaded her home on that day with a knife, and then ignored the police to head for his car, where he had another big knife and another minor?<br /><br />Well, I can't imagine why you think black minors are not worthy of protection from black predators, but ignoring police orders and turning your back to evade theBansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-3446798641358057332020-08-28T19:26:49.844+01:002020-08-28T19:26:49.844+01:00To 'Unknown':
The 'proper conduct of s...To 'Unknown':<br />The 'proper conduct of self defence' does not encompass shooting a man several times in the back when there was opportunity to tackle him to the ground in the distance between house and car.Chrysologoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00624964206160523196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-19018980897698227102020-08-28T17:38:39.527+01:002020-08-28T17:38:39.527+01:00I am sure you will agree, 'Amateur Brain Surge...I am sure you will agree, 'Amateur Brain Surgeon' that irony sometimes lies so thick on the ground in the comment threads on Father Hunwicke's blog that it can be difficult to know what should and should not be taken at face value. So I must ask: are you really saying that Frank Sheed was associated with MI5 and the CIA? If so, can you provide a reference to the evidence for this (at Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17551041799064065025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-84257472277465641812020-08-28T15:30:50.214+01:002020-08-28T15:30:50.214+01:00If everybody else has guns, or other useful and de...If everybody else has guns, or other useful and deadly tools like cars, why should the police be the only civilian people without guns?<br /><br />Of course, if the people are almost or entirely disarmed, or (as was once the case in your country) if they are armed but shooting someone unjustly is a hanging offense, then it becomes less fair for the police to be armed for shooting people, and thusBansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-36463066248410568812020-08-28T14:40:02.440+01:002020-08-28T14:40:02.440+01:00Dear Father Edwards. Yes, Yankees have always been...Dear Father Edwards. Yes, Yankees have always been a problem in America but as David Hackett Fischer documented in "Albion's Seed, Four British Folkways in America, " not all Americans were doomed to become Yankees.Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-77441511285028559692020-08-28T14:35:21.769+01:002020-08-28T14:35:21.769+01:00Dear Father. You and your readers may find this sh...Dear Father. You and your readers may find this short piece helpful in dispelling the media's propaganda.<br /><br />https://www.manhattan-institute.org/white-cops-dont-commit-more-shootingsMick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-54251706048574935362020-08-28T13:50:53.753+01:002020-08-28T13:50:53.753+01:00If your first paragraph is seriously designed to c...<i>If your first paragraph is seriously designed to convince me that those events never actually happened, I can only say that the US seems even more bizarre a place than I had imagined.</i><br /><br />Dear Father. ABS did not say the guy was not shot, he did say the packaging of that event is propaganda intended to illicit the response you delivered. <br /><br />ABS grew up in the hills of Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-38572321424519764642020-08-28T06:07:24.075+01:002020-08-28T06:07:24.075+01:00Fr. Hunwicke, you betray your lack of knowledge ab...Fr. Hunwicke, you betray your lack of knowledge about the proper conduct of self defense. Policing is not Gene Autry western where weapons get shot out of the hands of the bad guy by the good guy.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03068103230344667301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-72639177079088324162020-08-28T04:42:40.005+01:002020-08-28T04:42:40.005+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.stephen cooperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17277962223155674985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-20885116058158384632020-08-28T04:33:12.713+01:002020-08-28T04:33:12.713+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.stephen cooperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17277962223155674985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-19257790558592628372020-08-27T21:28:14.405+01:002020-08-27T21:28:14.405+01:00On my frequent visits to see my family in America,...On my frequent visits to see my family in America, I have always been struck by the contrasting feelings that there are to the British bobby and the American cop. This is perhaps to do with the visibility of the British policeman, walking down the street, and the American law enforcement officer driving his car. <br /><br />Every British child was taught, I think, that you could always go to a Fr Edwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10747558367805466619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-86596365753402823472020-08-27T20:01:34.396+01:002020-08-27T20:01:34.396+01:00Dear ABS
If your first paragraph is seriously des...Dear ABS<br /><br />If your first paragraph is seriously designed to convince me that those events never actually happened, I can only say that the US seems even more bizarre a place than I had imagined.<br /><br />Of course malign forces use things that do happen for their malign propaganda. The smart response to this would be for such things not to happen. Or are your police all Russian agents?Fr John Hunwickehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-61838984525304225512020-08-27T18:23:53.466+01:002020-08-27T18:23:53.466+01:00Dear Father. There are many of us in America who u...Dear Father. There are many of us in America who understand that the "news" is propaganda, not a <i>who, what, where, why</i>objective presentation of the latest happenings around the world. Your response is what the propagandists intended.<br /><br />William Paley of CBS was cooperating with the CIA as early as the 1950s - as were many Catholics, including JC Murray, Felix Morlion atMick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-9544874648650455792020-08-27T17:00:14.367+01:002020-08-27T17:00:14.367+01:00Welcome to Norway, dear Father Hunwicke! I’m pleas...Welcome to Norway, dear Father Hunwicke! I’m pleased to say we’re one of the very few remaining free countries in the world by your father’s very perceptive definition.The Flying Dutchmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10057552757013226176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-21835982287557478212020-08-27T16:29:43.222+01:002020-08-27T16:29:43.222+01:00Your father was right about police with sidearms b...Your father was right about police with sidearms being a sign of an un-free society. But the lack of freedom is rooted not in the act of arming the police, but in the increasingly widespread and escalating antisocial behavior to which the arming of police is a reaction. Too many people are enslaved to their passions, and their inner disorder spills over into their public conduct. Worse, we Anita Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11305092097247290243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-26138364104769096422020-08-27T15:17:41.230+01:002020-08-27T15:17:41.230+01:00There is no such thing as personal freedom. Tribal...There is no such thing as personal freedom. Tribal cultures clash as to what is acceptable in civil society & what isn’t. We were all barbarians in the past, some still are & do not value the imposition of certain rules governing their daily lives. For a great many owning a gun is vital for their security while others feel threatened by anyone possessing one. Despots rule with Ana Milanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13614286775064340959noreply@blogger.com