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In a closed room, even a stadium, with guns going off there is no telling who heard what at one end of the room compared to the other.
Today's moderate could be tomorrow's suicide bomber. When is it ok to err on the side of caution?
That letter has been debunked plenty of times, William Guy Carr who first wrote about the letter admits he never saw it, and the museum it was supposed to be at didn't have it/never had a record for it. There have been multiple threads about the subject on here.
Carr states that he learned about the letter from the anti-Mason, Cardinal José María Caro Rodríguez of Santiago, Chile, author of The Mystery of Freemasonry Unveiled (Hawthorne, California, Christian Book Club of America, 1971). However, Carr's later book, Satan, Prince of This World (written in 1959), includes the following footnote: "The Keeper of manuscripts recently informed the author that this letter is NOT cataloged in the British Museum Library. It seems strange that a man of Cardinal Rodriguez's knowledge should have said that it WAS in 1925."[21] More recently, the British Museum confirmed in writing to researcher Michael Haupt[22] that such a document has never been in their possession.
en.wikipedia.org...
Albert Pike received a vision,
originally posted by: Realtruth
In my sad humble opinion this will be the start of a war in Europe.
I really hope I'm wrong, but this will not and cannot be over-looked.
originally posted by: Kentuckymama
a reply to: randyvs
Are you saying you don't believe there were any people killed tonight? Sorry, just trying to understand your comment.
originally posted by: Tiamat384
Not trying to jump the gun here, but Europe should have expected more dissent after giving permission for the "refugees" to enter the borders and with so little control over who exactly comes through the gates. This is only the beginning, and I say that because why would they stop. In World War 2 Japan woke the dragon, the USA. Since about the 1980s the West has funded what would become a terrorist organization and now, not only has the West woken the beast, much of the West welcomes it into West. This is horrible, this is tragic. But this very likely could have been prevented. Close the borders, close the gates. If the EU tells you to take these people, but are they, then tell them to piss off and if anything paying with paper is better than paying with the loss of culture and lives.
originally posted by: Sremmos80
a reply to: Vroomfondel
Your point does render both sides equally unreliable, if you want to claim that people hear things differently then that means the person hearing the shouting could have misheard it or not at all.
In a closed room, even a stadium, with guns going off there is no telling who heard what at one end of the room compared to the other.
Your words.
It does look like it was extremist that did this, and yes we should not blame any one but them. They are the ones that did this not millions of other people that had zero to do with it.
Today's moderate could be tomorrow's suicide bomber. When is it ok to err on the side of caution?
God I bet you would lose your mind if I said today's gun collector is tomorrows mass shooter.
But that is different right?
originally posted by: Sremmos80
a reply to: Vroomfondel
I'm not sorry, if blaming the many for the few shouldn't be done there then it shouldn't be done here.
I am not equating it with terrorism, just with your idea that we need to blame everyone for the actions of the small amount.
And your BS they were all moderates is nothing but BS, no way you could prove that. That is your OPINION.
And what ten people have said they heard the shouting?
No extremist started off beyond extreme and toned it down to be on the level of extremist. Every extremist passed through moderate on the way to being extreme. No one is born an extremist, with the possible exception of brain dead liberals...which some suspect is a medical deformity...
There is a difference between terrorists who act with purposeful intent and a nut job who shoots a handful of people when he misses his meds.
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
originally posted by: symphonyofblase
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
originally posted by: symphonyofblase
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
originally posted by: symphonyofblase
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
originally posted by: symphonyofblase
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
originally posted by: symphonyofblase
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
The very first news report I heard said witnesses heard the shooters shouting "alla akbar". I have not heard that since the very first report. Did anyone else hear that and if so, have you heard it since the first report?
I haven't read anything like that, what location was this supposedly at?
The attackers at the Bataclan Theatre said nothing.
www.abc.net.au...
Julian Pierce, a journalist from Europe 1 radio, was inside the Bataclan theatre in eastern Paris on Friday night when shooting began.
We heard so many gunshots and the terrorists were very calm, very determined and they reloaded three or four times their weapons and they didn't shout anything. They didn't say anything
Asked if he could hear what language they were speaking, he replied, "Nothing. I heard nothing, just the yelling and screaming of the people. They didn't shout anything. They didn't say anything. They said nothing. They just shot. They just shoot. They were just shooting at people.
I was watching the news, either nbc or abc.
The quotes you cited, especially the one, seem very strange. Why would anyone go out of their way to say the shooters did not shout anything and said nothing? If I was talking to the news or the police, I would talk about what they DID do, not what they didnt... I find that questionable at best.
Your comment and reasoning make no sense at all.
The guy is a journalist, how did he go out of his way to make a statement?
He did mention what they did do, and that was shooting silently at people.
Your logic is flawed. If he is a journalist, he is reporting what he was told by witnesses, unless he saw it himself. And I did a quick search and found numerous versions of what happened, including several saying the shooters shouted allahu akbar.
There is a thing called the rashamon effect where people who witness an event often come up with very different versions of what happened.
Dont be so quick to condemn anything different from what you first heard. Due diligence is a necessity in life.
No, YOUR logic is flawed.
He. Was. There. When. It. Happened.
Well. Good. For. Him. And. Good. For. You.
Now, if we are finished with the Captain Kirk impersonations, how do you explain all the opposing versions of the same event? Also from people who were there...
People freak out in intense situations and some completely lose their **** altogether.
They imagine things that didn't even happen. This is common knowledge, I don't even know why I have to explain this.
So I'm going to side with the guy who's been reporting news since 2009, and has probably been trained not to freak out in these situations.
I find it amusing that you can say "people freak out in intense situations and some completely lose their **** altogether. They imagine things that didn't even happen." Yet you also believe that this one reporter has somehow been "trained" to not freak out. He must be some kind of superman...who was also a reporter... lmao
There are more news agencies now reporting that the shooters did shout allahu akbar. One persons perspective is not the whole picture. And who knows, maybe your reporter is the one who freaked out, lost his **** and reported something that never even happened...
I find it amusing that, if we use the logic you just applied, it merely renders both sides of the story not credible.
Yet you have already chosen a side before anything has been confirmed.
You obviously made your choice in what you are going to believe. You cite a reference and choose to believe it while fabricating fantasy about how other people's sources cant be trusted. You choose to ignore the numerous sources now reporting what happened and can not acknowledge that perhaps not everyone heard/saw the same thing. If it doesn't fit your personal view it simply cant be real. I leave you to your fabricated world. I prefer to live in the real one, even with atrocious acts of savagery like this...
I am flipping through the channels and I am disturbed by the number of people I see telling the world to be careful not to blame all of islam for the acts of a few extremists, "IF" that is who did this. That bothers me. No one starts out on the far side of extreme and tones it down to the level of an extremist. Every extremist passed through the stage of moderate on the way to becoming extreme. Today's moderate could be tomorrow's suicide bomber. When is it ok to err on the side of caution?
originally posted by: Kentuckymama
a reply to: randyvs
I said "sorry" because I wasn't meaning to sound confrontational. I was just expressing my sympathy for the victims tonight. No, I didn't actually see anyone murdered, but I have no doubt it did happen. What are your reasons for believing otherwise?
originally posted by: Sremmos80
a reply to: symphonyofblase
Or these pillars of society.
en.wikipedia.org...
Do you also persecute christians because of the actions of a few? How do you feel about the crusades?
You accuse me of ignoring "facts" because they do not fit my "personal agenda". Yet you say you are disturbed by the number of people who are smart enough not to let their views on religion be tarnished by the extremist minority. Do you hate all religions equally, or is it just Islam you have a problem with?