De Blasio’s New York: Jesus Statue Smashed, American Flag Torched at Catholic Church

A statue depicting Jesus Christ was toppled and an American flag burned outside a Catholic church in Brooklyn, prompting the New York City Police Department to launch a hate crime investigation.

The incident occurred around 10 p.m. Thursday when an unknown person hopped the fence at St. Athanasius Church on Bay Parkway at 61st Street in Bensonhurst, police said. The vandal pushed over a statue of Jesus’s crucifixion, breaking it into pieces, and torched an American flag hanging outside the rectory, according to cops.

“This was truly an act of hatred, and today is the saddest day of my twenty years here at this parish,” Cassato said in a statement obtained by the Post.

“I went over and spoke to the students in the school about what happened, telling them that hate never wins,” he added. “We are, and must be, a community that continues to share the message of Easter, that which is of love, hope, and forgiveness.”

There have been so many attacks on churches especially involving vandalism that future attacks might be predictable, or even ‘stimulated’. That could provide a great opportunity for some “Catholic Ninjas” to carry out some justice on the vandals.

And give them a good thrashing. Given their condition after, they might get a big spritz of indelible bank dye pack on their face, which always attracts cops. If they’re unconscious, apply sandpaper to their buttocks so they get two big chunks of “beef jerky” on their ass.

All kinds of good mischief to encourage them to regret their bad behavior.

Napoleon Hill: Everything you do to or for another person goes around in the universe and comes back to you but magnified.

I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately. And Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Compensation. Everything we do, good or bad, balances out.

And, of course Ye have sown the wind and ye will reap the whirlwind. Hosea 8:7.

Dems are in trouble.

If this were some Muslim dump where this happened, every honky in NY would be rounded up

This point cannot be brought up enough. Right after 9/11, in the Park Slope area of NY, I asked this very question of a Muslim store keeper. If the Americans had bombed and destroyed a significant building in Mecca or Medina, what would have happened to the American in Saudi Arabi or the Mideast. He looked me straight in the face and said we would have killed every single one of you.

The amazing thing was what came next. I asked him why the difference, and explained to him that American, because of Christianity, don't hunt down groups for the evil of one or two people. It gave him something to think about.

For those who are unfamiliar with the area, St. Athanasius Church on Bay Parkway at 61st Street is in Bensonhurst,

Bensonhurst was once a wall to wall Italian village. Literally so much so that if you did not come from Bensonhurst you were referred to as an American,

Now all those Italians are gone. They moved to Staten Island, New Jersey or Florida.

Who lives there now?

Muslims and they are doing what Muslims do when they get emboldened by there numbers.

I like to point out a few things about law enforcement.

1) The public *are* law enforcement. Police are just a convenient way to have professionals do a *limited* number of time consuming or complicated things on their behalf. Using them beyond that capacity results in lower efficiency.

2) Police are “agents of the courts”, unable to ‘protect and defend’ the public except in very limited ways. Thus they are much better “doggedly pursuing” offenders than they are of stopping them in the first place.

3) Police are under severe legal constraints, unlike the public who have much greater authority to act unilaterally. This is why an armed public is so essential to crime control, even though in the overwhelming number of cases just the presence of legal guns deters crime.

4) When the government, the courts, and the police no longer take the side of the public against the criminal element; or worse, when they take the side of the criminal element *against* the public, vigilantism results.

From its beginnings in an area governed by ineffectual or corrupt authorities, vigilante organizations strive to be law abiding and to use the system to correct the problem. In stage after stage of their growth, if at any time the situation improves, the organization disbands. Only if it is repeatedly thwarted in its efforts does it get more determined.

Corrupt government quickly sees vigilantism as a far greater threat to *it* than are the criminals they cooperate with. So it tries to turn the public against the vigilantes, arresting or attacking its officers, and joining with the criminals to beat the vigilantes down.

Finally, after never ending abuse, the vigilantes have had enough, they still seek just to drive the criminals out of town with minimal force. And only if the criminals and the corrupt government then try to use force, do the vigilantes turn violent.

By the time greater government responds to the situation, it has mostly been resolved and there is little that needs to be done to restore order other than arrange for a new “reform” government, including courts and police.

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