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Earlier this week, Merlin Lu admitted to NBC 5 that he set up the burning cross on June 9. He is now in police custody.
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“... I never grew up with religion, never really surrounded myself with people with it. My childhood friend’s they, I remember them going to, like, confirmation and stuff like that, but um…” he said.

Lu graduated from Neuqua Valley High School in the wealthy Naperville suburb of Chicago.

The student, who may one day stand trial for an arson charge, said he wants the president put on trial.

“I put a red hat to signify the MAGA hat, the Make America Great Again hat,” he said. “So that was, yeah, that’s what I tied on top.”

Lu denied that he was calling for a violent end for Trump, although he said he didn’t “want to wait until his term ends” in a separate video he sent NBC.

The scope and breadth of rape gangs and sex-trafficking rings in the United Kingdom go much farther than first feared. They also go back in history much longer than people knew – aided and abetted by government and police more concerned about political correctness than protecting Britons from sexual predation.

Why? As MP Rupert Lowe shows in his comprehensive report, the perpetrators overwhelmingly came from immigrant communities, specifically Pakistanis and Muslims in general. Rather than deal sharply with them to end rapes and sex trafficking, British authorities worried more about being called racists than the rapes and trafficking of British girls (via Twitchy):
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The executive summary is absolutely sickening:

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The Rape Gang Inquiry examined the systematic targeting of vulnerable girls, overwhelmingly White British, by predominantly Muslim Pakistani gangs across towns and cities throughout the United Kingdom. The evidence put to the Inquiry confirms that this scandal constitutes one of the most horrendous failures in the history of the country. Organised networks of perpetrators built coordinated operations that transported victims between locations, supplied them with drugs and alcohol, recorded abuse for distribution and blackmail, and passed girls between multiple adult men. These crimes have been committed for decades, since the 1950s by Pakistanis in particular, and have affected every region of our nation.

The scale of the crimes committed is staggering. It has been previously established that, at the very least, 250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma. 1 The true number is probably higher. The perpetrators bear primary responsibility, yet the institutional failures that enabled them for decades must also be confronted. In court records and official inquiries, around 87% of those convicted in these group-based child sexual exploitation (‘CSE’) cases bore distinctively Muslim names. 2 The vast majority of men involved in these gangs were not convicted. Dr. Taj Hargey, an imam with the Oxford Islamic Congregation, believes the true proportion of gang members who are Muslims to be around 95%. 3 This figure far exceeds the Muslim share of the overall United Kingdom population. The overwhelming majority of the rape gang networks consisted entirely of men from Muslim backgrounds – predominantly of Pakistani heritage, although smaller groups from Somali, Iranian, Syrian, Turkish, and other Muslim origins were also involved.

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The demographic and cultural drivers are clear. Perpetrators from Pakistani Muslim and other Muslim backgrounds operated under an honour- and shame-based clan code that treated non-Muslim girls, especially white working class girls, as property available for sexual use. This pattern was reinforced by eight theological and legal aspects of Islam. These include the doctrine of Muslim superiority drawn from Quranic verses that position Muslims at the top with a duty to correct non-believers. The gang members’ justification for their crimes can be found in the Islamic principles of loyalty and disavowal known as al-walā' wa-l-barā'. It demands enmity towards non-Muslims, the superiority of men over women, forced marriage combined with the absence of any fixed minimum age of consent, the perception of female sexuality as inherently dangerous, a system of sex slavery that authorises sexual relations with non-Muslim captives, and a religiously sanctioned social hierarchy that subjugates conquered non-Muslims. These  elements, filtered through clannish immigrant sub-cultures, provided religious justification that enabled the systematic rape and even slaughter of White British girls.

How did this happen for eight decades without intervention from British police and prosecutors, not to mention mutiple governments of all political parties? The Lowe Report puts the majority of the blame on the Labour Party, which controlled the local councils where these rings primarily operated. It also puts blame on the UK's National Health System (NHS), which covered up evidence of massive rapes and abuse, again likely under pressure from Labour. However, Lowe also slams the Tories and Scottish parties for being too gutless to challenge the status quo:

underpants (197,646 posts)

Le Miserable ☹️ Trump at the G7.

NJCher (43,750 posts)
1. I don't like you
". . .then you suck the juice out,
then you throw the skin away. . ."

tblue37 (68,472 posts)
17. During his first term we saw pictures of him similarly ignored and isolated among other world leaders.

Johonny (26,800 posts)
6. He looks awful these days
Fat, shrunken, unhappy... LOL

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221310114

Child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein tried to dig up dirt on President Trump in a desperate bid for leniency in the days leading up to his suicide, but was unable to deliver anything of substance, according to a report.

Epstein became fixated on the president after he was arrested in 2019, as his lawyers tried to hammer out a deal with prosecutors if the disgraced financier could provide helpful information about other defendants, according to the New York Times.

During his many marathon meetings with his parade of lawyers while he was locked up in a federal jail in Lower Manhattan, Epstein often had his nose buried in a legal pad scrawling disjointed one-liners about the commander-in-chief, such as “Trump is a total con artist — smoke & mirrors” and “Never had money.”

The deranged scribblings suggest that Epstein had nothing on Trump, who was serving his first term in office at the time.

His scribblings also included grousing about the difficulties he endured as a wealthy “Pedophile in jail,” which he claimed included being denied phone calls and visits, according to the outlet.