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Common Dreams reports
In a much-hailed, if modestly problematic, act of righteous revenge, [on Thursday August 4,] an African-American inmate allegedly sucker-punched [...] Dylann Roof--an act that sparked much online praise for the "vigilante hero", a fundraiser for donations to his commissary account, and, finally, the posting of his $100,000 bond by a supporter.
Roof is in protective custody at the Charleston County Detention Center for killing nine African-American churchgoers in South Carolina in 2015. He was in the shower when Dwayne Stafford, a 26-year-old inmate reportedly doing time for either weed violations or strong arm burglary, allegedly got out of his cell, reached Roof, and landed a couple of punches to his face. The sheriff said Roof was attacked "for no reason", which many would argue was less than accurate.
Roof suffered only minor injuries, and his lawyer declined to press charges.
[...] The next day, 18 months after he'd originally been arrested, an anonymous supporter posted [Stafford's] bond, and on Friday he was reportedly freed.
I find that heavy.com typically has the facts quickly on violent crimes.
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday August 10 2016, @06:15PM
On the other hand there's Mt. 5:17-20, which, try as apologists might to "interpret" it away, specifically says the Old Testament laws still apply. This is especially interesting because it reflects an embryonic schism in the young religion (Matthew is agreed on by scholars to have been written no earlier than 60-70AD, possibly as late as 90AD): between, one might say, an older and more Judaic branch and some new, more Greek innovative branches.
People forget that Jesus was a Jew, and a very learned one, if the account of him impressing his elders at 12 is accurate. He knew the Law, all 613 mitzvot of it. He seems to have deliberately broken some of them when they were clearly going against the spirit of the Law (such as helping ill people on the Sabbath, which idea was NOT original to him...), as for example "is it not what goeth into a man's mouth which defileth him but what cometh out."
Besides which, he and everyone else thought the End of the World was Coming Real Soon Now (TM), evidenced by passages such as Paul's "what I mean, bretheren, is that the time is short" and "the living shall by no means prevent [go before] the dead."
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...