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London Mayor Sadiq Khan is cracking down on the carrying of knives in response to a spate of stabbings that pushed the city's murder rate past New York's for the "first time in modern history."
Khan deployed an additional 300 Metropolitan Police officers over the weekend to work exclusively against knife crime, urging them to be more "confident" in their authority to stop anyone suspected of carrying a weapon.
"What you will see over the course of the next few weeks and months — is what we have seen over the last few weeks and months — which is stop-and-search based on suspicion of carrying an offensive weapon going up, more arrests as a consequence of this intelligence-led stop-and-search going up and hopefully our city becoming safer," the mayor said Saturday, according to The Telegraph.
Khan also issued a warning to would-be knife carriers, saying they should think twice before bringing one out in public — whatever the reason.
"No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife," Khan said on Twitter. "Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law."
Source: http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/08/london-murder-rate-knives/
(Score: 3, Informative) by Bot on Monday April 09 2018, @07:59AM (5 children)
The right is nationalist, the left is mondialist. Modern nations are result of masonic activity, so in the end they are faces of the same medal. They each get parts of the real agenda and implement them. Gun control is in the agenda obviously. The other things they implement (social justice, economic freedom) get reversed as soon as the other side rises to power. Two dogs, one bunch of sheep.
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday April 09 2018, @09:34PM (4 children)
I don't know how you figure that. The United States was definitely founded by Masons on masonic principles, but then most people reckon freedom of speech, press, etc. and democracy to be good things. There have also been famous masons at work in other countries, like Simon de Bolivar and Garibaldi. But they are far from the driving force in "modern nations."
There is no "agenda," either, because Masons truly come from all walks of life, religions, races, and creeds. In fact you are expressly forbidden from discussing religion or politics of any kind with other Masons because those subjects are inherently divisive; nothing can get you drummed out of the fraternity faster than talking about those things in lodge. So, even if Masons did talk about religion or politics they would never fashion an agenda because they'd never agree on what the agenda should be.
(That is something I like about Freemasons, though, is that they are all iconoclasts, free thinkers. Group think is anathema to them. That's refreshing in an era filled with dull, hackneyed political tropes.)
I've been a mason for about 20 years and have been Master of my lodge in NYC, which is one of the two wealthiest and strongest lodges in New York; I know all the secrets and have travelled pretty widely, so I say that with confidence. If Masons were in control of world affairs the way you suppose, I would know.
Further, I've been shooting with my brothers, so I can also firmly refute your claim that Masons want to ban guns.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday April 09 2018, @11:32PM (3 children)
> phoenix666
> phoenix
> 666
> rebirth of strict humanism (giving the 666 the most favorable meaning ofc)
> a mason
Holy Apron, Batman, I am surprised.
> Garibaldi
He too, but what about Carboneria and the much revered "outsider" Mazzini? And the upside down star of Casa Savoia, those guys who unify Italy absorbing the public debt of annexed territories (they knew who the real master is, already)?.
> There is no agenda.
If no one else ranks above you, I can believe you no probs.
> Further, I've been shooting with my brothers, so I can also firmly refute your claim that Masons want to ban guns.
What if the brothers are more equal than the others?
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday April 10 2018, @12:33AM (2 children)
Numerology is popular with some masons. I don't care too much, myself. The phoenix is the symbol of my alma mater. The 666 i don't remember why i chose it, because it was my /. Handle and i created that long, long ago.
Nobody ranks above me in the Craft. Once you're a Master Mason you're equal to every other Master Mason. There are other appendant bodies like the York Rite, Scottish Rite, and Royal Arch, but those radiate out horizontally from Master Mason. A Master Mason is entitled to all the secrets in the Craft.
As such there's no concept of "more equal than others." We have heads of state visit our lodge (Gabon, Cameroon, and one other i forget) and they come in like regular Brothers and meet on the level. We only learned they were heads of state much later by happenstance when members of our lodge were travelling in those places and looked them up.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday April 10 2018, @08:34AM (1 child)
So the club is frequented by politicians, yet you don't organize punitive expeditions on them when they fuck up (twice a day on average). You are a strange kind.
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday April 10 2018, @10:59AM
The Master of the lodge two years after me was an escalator repairman. The guy after him was a photographer. My lodge has Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, a Baha'i, a Druze from Lebanon, and even a couple Pagans from one sort of witchcraft or other in it. They really come from all walks of life and backgrounds and i would never have met them otherwise. The politicians were infrequent, but the notable part was that through masonry they were all on the level (equal) and none of the worldly title or position mattered. In fact when the guy from Gabon visited the Master of the lodge at the time was a retired NYC detective.
Washington DC delenda est.