1,500 police officers in Cologne during this upcoming New Year's Eve

[gotsnowgotslush]

Police in Cologne will hold a series of press conferences to present new technologies and strategies meant to prevent further sex mob attacks in public places following last year's mass-scale New Year's Eve assaults.

"We will have more than 1,500 police officers in Cologne during this upcoming New Year's Eve and over 100 teams of three officers each in the area of the central station alone," Christoph Schulte, a spokesman for Cologne's police department, told DW. "They will be recognizable by special vests and available at the scene for any possible complaint."

"We will present heavy-duty vehicles, which will partly be in use during this New Year's Eve, as well as video observation systems, service dogs and other means of control," the police stated in a recent press release.

http://www.dw.com/en/cologne-on-edge-ahead-of-new-years-eve-celebrations/a-36728584


On Saturday, Express reported that calls to report sexual offenses began as early as 10:30 p.m. on December 31, 2015, more than two hours earlier than previously claimed by police. Analyzing more than 1,200 emergency calls, the newspaper claims that police were dismissive of the early calls. In response to the criticism, police look likely to go all out this year.

http://www.dw.com/en/cologne-police...-year-to-prevent-sex-attacks-theft/a-36735806

Cologne police to deploy 1,500 on New Year to prevent sex attacks, theft

Cologne police wearing reflective vests that make them highly recognizable will be present with 1,500 officers on duty on December 31, city police chief Jürgen Mathies said on Monday at a presentation of the city's security plan for New Year's Eve.

This year, an additional 300 federal police officers and about 600 city security officials will patrol the center of Cologne that night, while trained specialists will be ready to help women and girls in cases of harassment, intimidation, assault or rape.

Video surveillance cameras will be in place in front of the main train station, the site of many assaults last year. These areas will also be more brightly lit than usual And not simply better lit: an internationally renowned light artist has been hired to illuminate the area around the cathedral, the adjacent square and several buildings with bright colors, overlapping shapes and words.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Hopefully, the cops will also be armed with truncheons and will bust some Islamic, the religion of peace's, heads.

 

[DooleyDarter]

Cmon if you don't let the muzzies rape and pillage, you are just a racist.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Cmon if you don't let the muzzies rape and pillage, you are just a racist.

Some Liberals actually believe that - or something very close to it.

 

[EllieTalbot]

Police in Cologne will hold a series of press conferences to present new technologies and strategies meant to prevent further sex mob attacks in public places following last year's mass-scale New Year's Eve assaults.

"We will have more than 1,500 police officers in Cologne during this upcoming New Year's Eve and over 100 teams of three officers each in the area of the central station alone," Christoph Schulte, a spokesman for Cologne's police department, told DW. "They will be recognizable by special vests and available at the scene for any possible complaint."

"We will present heavy-duty vehicles, which will partly be in use during this New Year's Eve, as well as video observation systems, service dogs and other means of control," the police stated in a recent press release.

http://www.dw.com/en/cologne-on-edge-ahead-of-new-years-eve-celebrations/a-36728584


On Saturday, Express reported that calls to report sexual offenses began as early as 10:30 p.m. on December 31, 2015, more than two hours earlier than previously claimed by police. Analyzing more than 1,200 emergency calls, the newspaper claims that police were dismissive of the early calls. In response to the criticism, police look likely to go all out this year.

http://www.dw.com/en/cologne-police...-year-to-prevent-sex-attacks-theft/a-36735806

Cologne police to deploy 1,500 on New Year to prevent sex attacks, theft

Cologne police wearing reflective vests that make them highly recognizable will be present with 1,500 officers on duty on December 31, city police chief Jürgen Mathies said on Monday at a presentation of the city's security plan for New Year's Eve.

This year, an additional 300 federal police officers and about 600 city security officials will patrol the center of Cologne that night, while trained specialists will be ready to help women and girls in cases of harassment, intimidation, assault or rape.

Video surveillance cameras will be in place in front of the main train station, the site of many assaults last year. These areas will also be more brightly lit than usual And not simply better lit: an internationally renowned light artist has been hired to illuminate the area around the cathedral, the adjacent square and several buildings with bright colors, overlapping shapes and words.

What about the rest of the country?

And what about dealing with those who perpetrated the crimes? I think fewer than 20, if I recall from the last pertinent article I read, were actually prosecuted for sexual assault, and there were more than 1200 complaints.

Those 20 guys were really busy! And they must've been on some seriously high-grade Viagra.

But not to worry. Anyone thinking about mimicking their crimes will surely be put off by the prospect of being lit up in bright colors with overlapping shapes and words. Well, at least the ones in Cologne.

Hm, I wonder what the words will be... "Bring out the Gimp," perhaps?

Oh, well. I see there will be therapists at the ready, and that's all that counts.

Bitter in Berlin,
Ellie

 

[Chris_Michael]

Will the Religion of Peace truck make a visit? How about the Suicide Bomb Vest of Freedom?

Where will Islam hit next? And how many strikes will it take for regressive left retards to admit that Islam is the most dangerous threat to the world right now? Also, more people will be upset that I said "retard" than will be upset by any terrorist attack in the future, whether it's on New Years or just a random day.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

The attack in France, and the tragedy in Germany awakened awareness of risk.
America takes steps against a repeat performance.

It could be one of America's lone wolves of Wingnut fantasy.
It could be an American that has listened to the wrong people.
It could be an American that has lost their way.

Dozens of garbage trucks around Times Square this New Year’s Eve won’t be collecting leftover confetti.

Sixty-five strategically placed sanitation vehicles will instead augment the law enforcement presence in the Crossroads of the World this weekend, officials announced at a Thursday news conference.

The sand-filled 16-ton trucks will serve as bomb barriers to prevent access to the streets around the massive Midtown celebration and its anticipated 2 million revelers.


http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...uare-thwart-new-year-terror-article-1.2927859


Hundreds of blocking vehicles

Explosive sniffing dogs

Rules for New Year's Eve in Times Square


Items now not permitted in Times Square: Alcohol (huh?), duffle bags, any backpacks, and umbrellas.

The NYPD announced that it is expecting more than 2 million people in Times Square on Saturday, with over 7,000 officers on duty to provide security. In addition to the police, the city will be rolling out 65 sand and Sanitation trucks to surround Times Square, to prevent any trucks being used as a weapon, similar to recent terror attacks.


http://www.villagevoice.com/news/ny...squares-two-million-nye-ball-droppers-9514769

http://gothamist.com/2016/12/29/party_time_dump_trucks.php


There will be about 7,000 police officers in the area, including counter-terrorism squads, additional long gun teams, and undercover officers—about a thousand more than last year. Bomb-sniffing dogs will also be deployed in the square and throughout the subway; hundreds of surveillance cameras will cover the area. There will also be harbor and helicopter patrols.

The NYPD said that the estimated NYPD security cost for New Year's Eve is $5.2 million. For context, Trump Tower security has been estimated to cost about $1 million per day.

 

[phrodeau]

A terrorist attacks a nightclub in Istanbul on New Years Eve. But people around the world are going out to celebrate anyways.

Maybe they've finally started to realize that terrorism just isn't that big a threat.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

http://www.dw.com/en/relief-in-germany-as-new-year-passes-without-incident/a-36965236


The Festmeile (party mile) which leads to the city's famous Brandenburg Gate, which was packed with revelers, was ringed by concrete barriers in an attempt to prevent similar rampage incidents. In the late afternoon twilight revelers across Berlin lit fireworks, with a massive display around midnight continuing into the early hours of Sunday.

Berlin police said apart from two cases of sexual harassment, the evening passed off peacefully.


Elsewhere in Europe, additional security measures put in place following the Berlin attack, helped put revelers minds at ease.


Across France, an extra 90,000 police and army were deployed to watch over New Year celebrations.


"...London, where party-goers gathered on the banks of the River Thames for a 12-minute fireworks show put to music by many artists who had died in 2016, including David Bowie, Prince and George Michael."

"Spain's New Year tradition of the 12 grapes, where revelers eat a grape during each of the 12 bells at midnight of the clock tower at Madrid's Puerta del Sol, was also as popular as ever."

 

[srgreene]

Why any nation would willingly accept the immigration of millions of people from a culture very hostile to their own- one which advertises its supremacist intent- is utterly beyond me. The best explanation I can come up with is a sort of collective death wish. And to sure, there are many people who believe that Western Civilization is an evil contrivance of the "white man". For all Western Civ's limitations, if you believe that, you are without a clue. Let Islam dominate, you can expect to see such things as honor killings (permitted by the Koran), female genital mutilation, constraints on (non-Moslem) freedom to worship, and a legally enforced inequality between men and women become "accepted" in our society.

One of the reasons I voted for Trump, despite my dislike for him, was I thought he had at least some awareness of that threat. Hillary, on the other hand, found Mrs. Merkel to be the national leader she most respected. Well Merkel has allowed the savages to run wild in Germany.

Please don't raise the faux concern that "many Moslems are fine people". I realize that- not all Moslems embrace the savagery of their ideology. But where the ideology exists, savagery lurks, at best barely disguised.

 

[phrodeau]

(edited)

Why any nation would willingly accept the immigration of millions of people from a culture very hostile to their own- one which advertises its supremacist intent- is utterly beyond me.

True, but the Catholics came to America anyway.

 

[srgreene]

True, but the Catholics came to America anyway.

More of your idiocy.

Catholics did not come to the USA to dominate- in fact, in a fair number of cases, they came to escape religious persecution. Nor is there anything in Catholic dogma that claims Catholics must reign supreme and that others, if they are tolerated, must exist as second class citizens without having equal rights. Accordingly, is nothing in the Christian Bible to compare with the supremacist Koran which states, "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day ... until the pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued." Nor do Catholics claim that a pedophile slave-driving mass murderer like Mohammad was "a role model for all men".

My own touchstone of the difference between Islam and Christianity relates to the treatment of the "immoral woman" by Jesus and Mohammad, respectively. When Jesus encountered a crowd seeking to stone the adulterous woman, he proclaimed, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone". Mohammad, on the other hand, waited until the baby was weaned, they had her stoned to death.

While Catholics historically have, on occasion, acted in the most un-Christian manner, nothing in the sacred texts of Christianity or Catholic doctrine requires the faithful to kill the apostate (or kill anyone, for that matter). However, a reliable hadith- part of the canon of Islam- quotes Mohammad as saying, "Whoever changed his (Islamic) religion, then kill him.", (Bukhari, book 88, no. 6922: https://sunnah.com/bukhari/88 ).

For all the many historical injustices committed by the Catholic Church (as well as other Christian churches) there is nothing in Christian theology to compare with the murderous, supremacist injunctions of Islam. As usual, your commentary consists of empty bloviation that contributes not a scintilla to informed discussion.

 

[Dream_Operator]

True, but the Catholics came to America anyway.

America was a Christian nation (mostly Protestant) when the Catholic Europeans immigrated to America.

What terrorism did the Catholics cause in America? LOL.

You are incredibly ignorant. I feel sorry for you.

 

[phrodeau]

(edited)
Catholics did not come to the USA to dominate- in fact, in a fair number of cases, they came to escape religious persecution.

So have Muslims.

Nor is there anything in Catholic dogma that claims Catholics must reign supreme and that others, if they are tolerated, must exist as second class citizens without having equal rights.

Have you read the Bible?

 

[srgreene]

So have Muslims.Have you read the Bible?

You certainly continue your unblemished record of totally unsubstantiated banalities.

It's absurd to claim that Moslems coming to this country do so to escape religious persecution: they come from nations where they form the clear majority. While some are trying to escape a war zone, the majority could be more reasonably classified as economic migrants.

In either case, they come as cultural invaders intent on imposing their religion and way of life on America, as CAIR, in internal communication, admitted. One wonders if you are so clueless as to be unaware of the Holy Land Foundation inquiry in which CAIR got off as an "unindicted co-conspirator".

Yes, I have read the Bible, rather more, I suspect, than you have.

As is your habit, you provided nothing of substance to challenge my contention that is there nothing in Catholic dogma that claims Catholics must reign supreme and that others, if they are tolerated, must exist as second class citizens without having equal rights. Just endless, vacuous posturing on your part.

How about you learn something before you bare you ignorance to the world, even if it is through a pseudonym?

 

[Hard_Rom]

Dirty smelly foreigners with their strange religion!
http://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/assets/4640051/invasion_gif.gif

 

[phrodeau]

You certainly continue your unblemished record of totally unsubstantiated banalities.

It's absurd to claim that Moslems coming to this country do so to escape religious persecution: they come from nations where they form the clear majority. While some are trying to escape a war zone, the majority could be more reasonably classified as economic migrants.

In either case, they come as cultural invaders intent on imposing their religion and way of life on America, as CAIR, in internal communication, admitted. One wonders if you are so clueless as to be unaware of the Holy Land Foundation inquiry in which CAIR got off as an "unindicted co-conspirator".

Yes, I have read the Bible, rather more, I suspect, than you have.

As is your habit, you provided nothing of substance to challenge my contention that is there nothing in Catholic dogma that claims Catholics must reign supreme and that others, if they are tolerated, must exist as second class citizens without having equal rights. Just endless, vacuous posturing on your part.

How about you learn something before you bare you ignorance to the world, even if it is through a pseudonym?

OK, holy shit. I hope you are aware that there are many sects within Islam, and they don't get along so well with each other. Muslims do indeed persecute other Muslims, and have done for hundreds of years, just as Christians have persecuted other Christians. At least in America, we give lip service to the idea of religious tolerance. We don't allow the church to get power from the state to aid in persecuting others. Some Muslim-majority countries do, and so did Catholic-majority countries like Ireland and Spain.

And if you want to experience firsthand the Catholic attitude towards non-Catholics, try walking into a Catholic church with a camera, or visiting a monastery without putting a special costume on your wife.

 

[Boxlicker101]

America was a Christian nation (mostly Protestant) when the Catholic Europeans immigrated to America.

What terrorism did the Catholics cause in America? LOL.

That's not strictly true. There were Catholics coming to America as early as the 15th and 16th Centuries. They weren't terrorists, but they were invaders and enslavers, and these early immigrants were not fleeing persecution. Hundreds of years later, some of them were, but the first Catholics were persecutors, especially of Jews, rather than victims.

 

[Hard_Rom]

That's not strictly true. There were Catholics coming to America as early as the 15th and 16th Centuries. They weren't terrorists, but they were invaders and enslavers, and these early immigrants were not fleeing persecution. Hundreds of years later, some of them were, but the first Catholics were persecutors, especially of Jews, rather than victims.

English Catholics were fleeing intolerance and some persecution. The Protestant Pilgrims left England because it was too liberal and progressive. The Quakers were somewhere in between.

 

[Hypoxia]

And if you want to experience firsthand the Catholic attitude towards non-Catholics, try walking into a Catholic church with a camera, or visiting a monastery without putting a special costume on your wife.

I can't comment on your neighborhood, or monasteries, but we have had no problems carrying cameras into RC churches in North and Central America and southern Italy. Don't disrupt services, hey? Non-Mayans (especially gringo tourists) are unwelcome in some Mayan churches where the RC veneer is thin. But elsewhere, from Alaska to New York to Honduras, we've seen many visitors and parishioners quietly filming services.

Back to religious factions: all religions have them. All religions tend to fracture over doctrinal and interpretive disputes, or simple power games. My father's Quaker parents were forced from their Meeting due to just such a schism. A Lutheran church school I was sent to broke up over such. Those retaining power tend to make life miserable for heretics, apostates, and similar scum. Every organized religion began as heresy.

Sects, sects, sects -- sky-pilots think of nothing else!

 

[oggbashan]

America was a Christian nation (mostly Protestant) when the Catholic Europeans immigrated to America.

What terrorism did the Catholics cause in America? LOL.

You are incredibly ignorant. I feel sorry for you.

Pot and Kettle?

The Catholic Spanish occupied large parts of what is now America. Their terrorism was almost genocidal in some parts. The Louisiana Purchase and Florida were originally ruled by the Spanish who had taken them from the native populations.

 

[Hard_Rom]

The American conducted genocide against native people pales in comparison to Catholic Spain's genocide conducted across South, Central and North America.

America was hardly off the ground when Catholics arrived in Maryland. First settlement was in 1607 in Jamestown. The Pilgrims arrived in 1620. The first Catholics in 1634.

Fenian terrorists who raided into Canada from 1866 to 1871 were Catholic Irish Republicans. The US government initially did nothing to stop their public meetings and organizing. Through the 1870s and 180s Fenian terrorists agitated for invasion of Western Canada. As Canada became an independent dominion in 1867 there is little argument that they were attacks against Britain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenian_raids

The Fenian raids caused an increased anti-American feeling in Canada and the Maritimes because of the U.S. government's perceived tolerance of the Fenians when they were meeting openly and preparing for the raids. The raids also aroused a martial spirit among Canadians by testing the militia's strength. Because of their poor performance, the militia took efforts to improve themselves. This was achieved without the huge cost of a real war. The greatest impact of the Fenian raids was in the developing a sense of Canadian nationalism and leading the provinces into a Confederation. This was seen as necessary for survival and self-defense; the raids showed Canadians that safety lay in unity and were an important factor in creating the modern nation-state of Canada.

 

[about_average]

OK, holy shit.

That was my thought too.
Well, more of a "WTF!? Is there actually someone on this forum that ignorant?"

 

[Boxlicker101]

English Catholics were fleeing intolerance and some persecution. The Protestant Pilgrims left England because it was too liberal and progressive. The Quakers were somewhere in between.

Why should we limit ourselves to English Catholics? Spain was and is part of Europe also, and people from there, such as Cortez and Pizarro and Junipero Serra, came as conquerors and enslavers and, yes, genocidists.

 

[Hard_Rom]

That's not strictly true. There were Catholics coming to America as early as the 15th and 16th Centuries. They weren't terrorists, but they were invaders and enslavers, and these early immigrants were not fleeing persecution. Hundreds of years later, some of them were, but the first Catholics were persecutors, especially of Jews, rather than victims.

The first Catholics in America certainly were fleeing persecution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_martyrs_of_the_English_Reformation

"The Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation are men and women executed under treason legislation in the English Reformation, between 1534 and 1680, and recognised as martyrs by the Catholic Church.

On 25 February 1570, Pope Pius V's "Regnans in Excelsis" bull excommunicated both the English Queen Elizabeth I and any who obeyed her. This papal bull also required all Catholics to rebel against the English Crown as a matter of faith. In response, in 1571 legislation was enacted making it treasonable to be under the authority of the Pope, including being a Jesuit, being Catholic or harbouring a Catholic priest. The standard penalty for all those convicted of treason at the time was execution by being hanged, drawn and quartered."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Catholicism_in_the_United_Kingdom#17th_and_18th_century_polemics

The Act of Supremacy (which asserted England's independence from papal authority) was repealed in 1554 by Henry's devoutly Catholic daughter Queen Mary I when she reinstituted Catholicism as England's state religion. She burned many Protestants. But Mary was reversed by a new Act of Supremacy passed in 1559 under Elizabeth I, along with an Act of Uniformity which made worship in Church of England compulsory. Anyone who took office in the English church or government was required to take the Oath of Supremacy; penalties for violating it included hanging and quartering. Attendance at Anglican services became obligatory—those who refused to attend Anglican services, whether Roman Catholics or Protestants (Puritans), were fined and physically punished as recusants.

Anti-Catholicism among many of the English was grounded in the fear that the pope sought to reimpose not just religio-spiritual authority over England but also secular power of the country; this was seemingly confirmed by various actions by the Vatican. In 1570, Pope Pius V sought to depose Elizabeth with the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis, which declared her a heretic and purported to dissolve the duty of all Elizabeth's subjects of their allegiance to her. This rendered Elizabeth's subjects who persisted in their allegiance to the Catholic Church politically suspect, and made the position of her Catholic subjects largely untenable if they tried to maintain both allegiances at once.

Later several accusations fueled strong anti-Catholicism in England including the Gunpowder Plot, in which Guy Fawkes and other Catholic conspirators were found guilty of planning to blow up the English Parliament on the day the King was to open it. The Great Fire of London in 1666 was blamed on the Catholics and an inscription ascribing it to 'Popish frenzy' was engraved on the Monument to the Great Fire of London, which marked the location where the fire started (this inscription was only removed in 1831). The "Popish Plot" involving Titus Oates further exacerbated Anglican-Catholic relations.

The beliefs that underlie the sort of strong anti-Catholicism once seen in the United Kingdom were summarized by William Blackstone in his Commentaries on the Laws of England:
As to papists, what has been said of the Protestant dissenters would hold equally strong for a general toleration of them; provided their separation was founded only upon difference of opinion in religion, and their principles did not also extend to a subversion of the civil government. If once they could be brought to renounce the supremacy of the pope, they might quietly enjoy their seven sacraments, their purgatory, and auricular confession; their worship of relics and images; nay even their transubstantiation. But while they acknowledge a foreign power, superior to the sovereignty of the kingdom, they cannot complain if the laws of that kingdom will not treat them upon the footing of good subjects.. — Bl. Comm. IV, c.4 ss. iii.2, p. *54
The gravamen of this charge, then, is that Catholics constitute an imperium in imperio, a sort of fifth column of persons who owe a greater allegiance to the Pope than they do to the civil government, a charge very similar to that repeatedly leveled against Jews. Accordingly, a large body of British laws, such as the Popery Act 1698, collectively known as the Penal Laws, imposed various civil disabilities and legal penalties on recusant Catholics.

Residual anti-Catholicism in England is represented by the burning of an effigy of the Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes at local celebrations on Guy Fawkes Night every 5 November. This celebration has, however, largely lost any sectarian connotation and the allied tradition of burning an effigy of the Pope on this day has been discontinued - except in the town of Lewes, Sussex.

*to this day English monarchs cannot be Catholic and only recently are even allowed to marry one*

As a result of the 1701 Act of Settlement, any member of the British royal family who joins the Catholic Church must renounce the throne. The Succession to the Crown Act 2013 allows members to marry a Roman Catholic without incurring this ban.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobitism

*also look up Scottish history concerning the '15' and the '45'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Catholicism_in_the_United_States

Many of the British colonists, such as the Puritans and Congregationalists, were fleeing religious persecution by the Church of England whose doctrines and modes of worship were firmly rooted in the Roman Church. Because of this, much of early American religious culture exhibited the more extreme anti-Catholic bias of these Protestant denominations. John Tracy Ellis wrote that a "universal anti-Catholic bias was brought to Jamestown in 1607 and vigorously cultivated in all the thirteen colonies from Massachusetts to Georgia."[7] Colonial charters and laws contained specific proscriptions against Roman Catholics having any political power. Ellis noted that a common hatred of the Roman Catholic Church could bring together Anglican and Puritan clergy and laity despite their many other disagreements.

In 1642, the Colony of Virginia enacted a law prohibiting Catholic settlers. Five years later, a similar statute was enacted by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

In 1649 the Act of Toleration was passed, where "blasphemy and the calling of opprobrious religious names" became punishable offenses, but it was repealed in 1654 and thus Catholics were outlawed once again. By 1692, formerly Catholic Maryland overthrew its Government, established the Church of England by law, and forced Catholics to pay heavy taxes towards its support. They were cut off from all participation in politics and additional laws were introduced that outlawed the Mass, the Church's Sacraments, and Catholic schools.

In 1719, Rhode Island imposed civil restrictions on Catholics.

*There has only been one Catholic president, JFK*

When combined with the '15', ''45' and repression of Irish nationalism, Catholic persecution in the UK amounted to religious and cultural genocide.