The psycho homophobe pictured below stabbed a bunch of people at a Jerusalem gay pride parade today:
The photos were taken by an AP reporter. More can be seen here if you’ve got the stomach for it, and it looks like some of the victims are badly injured. Hopefully all will survive the attack, but if they do, it won’t be for lack of murderous intent by the sicko attacker, who was recently released from a 10 year prison stretch for stabbing multiple people at a gay pride event in 2005.
I hope the authorities lock this sorry excuse for a human being up and throw away the key this time. The vile shit-stain is clearly beyond rehabilitation.
[H/T: Valued commenter Keith G]
Kropadope
Well, we now know where he stands on two forms of penetration…too soon?
Howard Beale IV
Meanwhile, the vermin at the House of Dead Andrew Breitbart are cheering in the comments section over this ‘hero’.
Jay C
Wonder how long before old Yishai gets a GoFundMe page up for his defense fund…..?
Or are the Israelis more civilized than that?
Kropadope
@Jay C: Lucky him that GoFundMe works globally.
Cacti
I wonder if they’ll bulldoze the homes of his family members?
MattF
More details in Haaretz. Including the fact that when released from prison, he returned to his hometown and distributed ‘hand-written’ pamphlets
So this couldn’t have been a huge surprise.
BGinCHI
Maybe when he gets to hell Hitler can show him around the place.
Calouste
And another one: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/30/virginia-police-killing-shot-head-kawanza-beaty
Black man shot in the back of the head by a police officer who was involved in a previous shooting. Police claim the victim was carrying a shotgun, which turned out to be unloaded and have no fingerprints or DNA of the victim on it.
Jay C
@MattF:
SRSLY? I have a feeling some Israeli parole-board officials are going to be hastily printing up copies of their resumés. And/or spending a late evening deleting emails…..
redshirt
He needs a Confederate flag tattoo at the least. Also a T-shirt.
Luthe
Weird how in countries with strict gun control assholes like this are reduced to stabbing and wounding people instead of shooting and killing them. /sarcasm
scav
@Calouste: And they seem to have been undercover officers. So, now if one doesn’t drop and instantly obey any random set of guys claiming to be police, apparently one is asking for it and deserve to be dropped (isn’t that the SOP defense? Do everything the officer says, Or Else?) Ohhhh, open carry for the few, the “well-regulated”.
ETA and I’m really enjoying the trick of carrying without leaving a DNA trace.
RaflW
@Howard Beale IV: There’s a straight pride parade in Seattle that needs those scumballs’ help. But we know they wouldn’t have the courage to actually show up, because gay people might taunt them (mostly we’d stay home or go to brunch, but the risk exists that 2 or 3 sissies could give a f*k, show up and say a few names).
Gin & Tonic
The photos by the AP guy have this sicko right before he stabs someone, and while he is stabbing someone. I know news photographers are chroniclers and not participants, but I hope the photographer gets to spend some quality time with the local police explaining what he knew and how he knew it.
Calouste
And those two officers that tried to cover up the murder of Sam DuBose by their colleague?
It turns out that they were involved in the death of another unarmed black man where they “acted with deliberate indifference to the serious medical and security needs of Mr Brinson” in 2010 that resulted in a $638,000 settlement and should have seen them fired.
Robin G.
@Luthe: Ding ding ding. In ‘murica, there’d be 40+ people ridden with bullet holes.
Skippy-san
@Howard Beale IV: You said the name, Breitbart created this lunacy and should still be chastised from beyond the grave. “When you get down to it, Andrew Breitbart was a guy who defamed a lady and trafficked in Congressional cock shots. Those are the things he did what most famous for, and likely the Things That He Was Proudest of. He hardly what a champion of conservatism, as evidenced by the fact that he almost never talked about its virtues. To be sure, he devoted the last years of his life to berating and humiliating liberals but that, in and of itself, is hardly championing anything, let alone a political philosophy. Having said that, Breitbart’s well-documented fascination with Hebrew beef – and he did carry the only known picture of the fully exposed Weiner on his phone to show off to disc jockeys – Displayed on underlying support of Israel. So there is that, I guess. Indeed, his taking the likes of James O’Keefe to his bosom, engaging in highly selective editing to make some kind of a point, and calling Entire popular movements rapists probably hurt conservatism far more than it helped “
singfoom
Another poor sick person twisted by fairy tales of the supernatural into hating people who don’t believe the same fairy tales and therefore have different values. Yes, I know not all people who believe hate or do things of this nature, but I still think religion is a goddamn disease that has and continues to do more bad than good in this world. I hope everyone stabbed makes a speedy recovery.
redshirt
@Gin & Tonic: What about the people at the parade? Why didn’t they stop this nutjob?
A Ghost To Most
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities”
– Voltaire
redshirt
Don’t blame photographers for taking photos and not acting.
Benw
@Robin G.: in America, all the participants of the gay pride parade would have quickly drawn their legally concealed weapons and downed the shooter. Everyone will be safe once we all have guns!
(Sorry, I couldn’t help myself)
Jay C
@Skippy-san:
Dunno if these are your words, or a quote from elsewhere, but a comment like
makes me wonder where the author has been for the past twenty-or-so years….
beltane
@Benw: And then we would be subjected to endless whining about how the gheys were taking over and persecuting righteous monotheists.
Betty Cracker
@Gin & Tonic: The photog should be questioned like any other witness, but I wouldn’t assume any wrongdoing or failure to act on his or her part. The fact that a man in ultra-orthadox garb joined the crowd would be worthy of a snapshot even if the photog didn’t suspect he was about to get violent, and from the sequence of photos at the AP link, it looks like the cops were on the perp in a matter of seconds.
SatanicPanic
Damn, ten years and he’s right back at it? WTF
Villago Delenda Est
Fundie filth. Typical.
Kyle
Jewish fundies = Muslim fundies = Christian fundies.
Shitstain cancers on the human race.
Villago Delenda Est
@Jay C: May not have been on parole. May have served every moment of his time and was released. Clearly, he learned nothing in prison.
JPL
@Kyle: When Keith posted a link in the previous thread, I mentioned not to say to much because the christian fundies will love Israel more.
beltane
@Villago Delenda Est: He learned patience. The odds are good that he spent every day of his sentence looking forward to the day when he was free and able to complete his crime. Hate can be a powerful motivational force.
Gene108
@Luthe:
It’s Un-American!!!
Betty Cracker
@singfoom: Fanatical devotion to any ideology or religion that allows the fanatic to disregard the humanity of his fellow human beings is dangerous as hell. But I suspect that something more than religion twisted this shit-bird.
icedfire
@Benw: As any fellow participant of Twin Cities Pride can tell you, there ain’t a whole lot of concealin’ goin’ on!
*Insert joke about which guns are being talked about*
*Insert joke about where guns could actually be concealed*
*Insert joke about insertion*
*Ah hell*
Robert Sneddon
@Villago Delenda Est: I wondered if he had perhaps found Jesus.
On the evidence, it seems not.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
I’ve said for a long time that fundamentalists are all the same. Religious fundamentalists, secular fundamentalists, they’re all the same. They believe what they believe so absolutely, so unquestioningly, that anything is justified if it furthers whatever end they’ve committed themselves to. Taliban, fundamentalist Jews, Stalin’s bolsheviks, anarchists, fundamentalist Christians… If they could just get beyond the specifics of their beliefs, they’d find that they’re kindred souls.
the Conster
Nothing says “I’m so religious” like a good multiple stabbing.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
An odd thing, too, about fundamentalists, of any stripe, is that they seem to be awfully puritanical about sex. You wouldn’t believe what prudes Stalin and those he surrounded himself with were. Hardcore libertarians are also surprisingly hostile to gays and to women’s rights. You’d think people who are such big fans of “rights” would be so deeply committed to denying women and gays full rights, but then, well, I don’t get these freaks…
Jeffro
OT: Mitt goes after Cruz
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/30/way_over_the_line_mitt_romney_slams_ted_cruzs_for_unhinged_terrorism_charge_against_obama/
Cruz’s response: “I am the truth, the way, and the light”
All offense, all the time, truth or any non-Cruzian considerations be damned.
Gonna be an interesting campaign…
A guy
I guess somebody figured out the only way the Obama administration was gonna support Israel was to bring gays into the equation.
rikyrah
Is it safe to assume that Israel has strict regulations on guns, because a bunch of folks stabbed, while horrible..
well…..
we know what evil people with guns can do.
MomSense
Religion is not supposed to be used as justification for anger, bigotry, and violence. This guy committed this horrible crime because he is violent not because God demanded it.
Villago Delenda Est
@A guy: This is, as is typical of you, a seriously stupid comment that makes no sense.
Villago Delenda Est
@beltane: You’re probably right. Clearly the term in prison did not inspire remorse or regret over what he did.
Which means, this time, you lock him up and throw away the key.
Kropadope
@A guy: Not even sure where to begin with this one. How about with the fact that Obama’s shoveling more money into Israel than ever? Or the fact that the administration’s multi-national deal to prevent Iran getting a nuclear bomb is probably the best thing that has happened for Israeli security in ages.
Villago Delenda Est
@MomSense: The thing is, religion has this really bad history of being used for anger, bigotry, and violence. As if that’s the reason it exists in the first place.
Aimai
@redshirt: they did. He was stopped in seconds.
the Conster
@MomSense:
All religious fundamentalists’ gods hate the exact same things they do. It’s quite a coincidence.
Kropadope
@the Conster: How do you think the fundamentalists came to hate those things?
There’s a tautology there somewhere.
MomSense
@Villago Delenda Est:
Religions are created by people and we are a seriously flawed species.
@the Conster:
Yup.
cokane
If he really believes that tolerating homosexuality threatens god’s wrath, how is it that he’s psychotic? It’s time to call things for what they are.
Mike in NC
@A guy: Israel, a socialist state with free universal healthcare, free childcare, abortion on demand, and very generous welfare benefits if you are willing to live in the illegal Occupied Territories. All courtesy of the American taxpayer. Yet no problems there from conservatives, right asshole?
cokane
@MomSense: Right. That’s why he targeted a gay pride parade…
A guy
A Muslim president is no friend of Israel.
MomSense
@cokane:
He is homophobic and violent.
A guy
Mike in nc- no reason to call people names. Remember what I told mom sense about having something nice to say. Btw I’m leaving for North Carolina tomorrow to work with my baseball team.
shell
Heard Tensing’s lawyer on the news…he maintains “my client feared for his life..DuBose pulled away and my client was caught and dragged….”
Um, you might want to view the videotape first before making any more statements.
Villago Delenda Est
@A guy: We know you’re a fucked up asshole, no need to keep reminding us.
trollhattan
@A guy:
Okay DougJ, lay off the schnapps and watch some baseball while blasting some Clash.
MomSense
@A guy:
Here’s a pretty bug of some sort.
Germy Shoemangler
@trollhattan: I don’t understand. (I still consider myself new here, since this place has been running for a decade.) DougJ is listed as a front pager. Does he troll his own site?
BillinGlendaleCA
@trollhattan: Schnapps and blasting some Clash reminds me of grad school.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Germy Shoemangler: Yes.
Germy Shoemangler
@BillinGlendaleCA: Now I’ve seen everything.
cokane
@MomSense: Got it. Religions have never told anyone to harm gays. Religions can only be good, I forgot, anything else isn’t “true” religion, because religion is by definition only unicorns pooping chocolate candy.
jl
@MomSense: Might be DougJ. Sometimes he injects some amusing slap happy absurdity into his troll spoofs. Maybe he was just off his game yesterday.
trollhattan
@Germy Shoemangler:
We never know quite when it’s him, but it do happen….
Germy Shoemangler
@trollhattan:
This is quite odd. But brilliant. A front pager trolling his own blog. It’s like that horror movie from the ’80s, where the babysitter is told by police that the crank calls are coming from…. inside the house!
Citizen_X
@A guy:
Good point,…
@A guy:
…asshole.
jl
@trollhattan: Some time ago, DougJ was trolling this site and elsewhere so often, some commenters, myself included, started to wonder how much of reality as we think we know it is a DougJ spoof.
Gin & Tonic
@Germy Shoemangler: He was a troll (but a good one) before he was a front-pager. A battlefield promotion, as it were.
Emma
@A guy: No, no, no! Performance art is like a good play. It has rhythm and structure. You don’t use your biggest zinger in the first act!
MomSense
@jl:
Nah, DougJ is a higher quality troll.
trollhattan
@Germy Shoemangler:
He’s done yeoman’s work trolling NYT and WaPo, as he’s mastered their patois. We’re just an occasional warmup.
Germy Shoemangler
Germy Shoemangler
@trollhattan: Under the name DougJ?
I feel like I’m living in a time of giants.
Betty
Don’t understand why people continue to feed the troll.
trollhattan
@jl:
I’m convinced he has a tardis.
MomSense
@cokane:
Religions are created and practiced by people so they are going to be full of horrible behavior. Atheism doesn’t exactly have a perfect record either. You have to super selectively read the Hebrew scriptures to become homophobic. This guy isn’t going around conducting sacrifices to make menstruating females “clean”. Why isn’t he fixated on this part of Leviticus? I
It’s just like the people who focus on the second half of the second amendment of the US Constitution. They are proof texting the piece that justifies their views.
Kropadope
@Betty: It seems hungry. Besides, what else is going on? If I weren’t on my computer I would be folding laundry.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@cokane:
Because atheists have never harmed gays? There are quite a few former residents of Soviet mental hospitals who would like a chat with you.
And whining that, well, fewer atheists throughout history have harmed people is childish. I guess Pol Pot gets a free pass for the Killing Fields because the Inquisition killed people, too, amirite?
satby
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): That’s the premise of Hoffer’s “True Believer” in a nutshell.
trollhattan
@Germy Shoemangler:
Someone with a better memory than I might have links to posts with some of his transcribed conquests. Legendary stuff.
Sophist
@A guy:
Kindly fuck right off, would you?
A guy
Sophist- please instruct me how
Mike E
I’m a guy who likes pie!
Kropadope
@A guy: Well, while I don’t personally mind your being here; if you would like to follow Sophist’s advice, simply click on the X in the tab with the Balloon Juice logo and, voila, you have successfully fucked off.
Liquid
(Aside) — Tweety serves some purpose and damn if he didn’t *almost* put the screws to DWS. I have no doubt there will be 300+ comment Dkos diary shortly.
dogwood
I’ve been reading this site for 12 years or so, and If I remember correctly Doug J was a troll before he became a front pager. And the most amusing troll you’d ever read.
Germy Shoemangler
@dogwood: If anyone has links to his greatest hits, I’d like to see them.
Gravenstone
@Villago Delenda Est: Sure he did. He learned to nurture and embrace his hatred of the other.
Gravenstone
@Germy Shoemangler: Doug J got the front page gig specifically because he was such a consummate troll.
Betty Cracker
@Germy Shoemangler: I wish I had a link to a WaPo live chat with a pundit he trolled once. It was epic and inspiring.
Germy Shoemangler
@dogwood:
“There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown” (Gen. 6:4, KJV).
cokane
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): DEMOCRATS ARE THE REAL RACISTS KKK REMEMBER?!?!!111
this is basically the argument you’re making. Soviets believed in Lysenkoism instead of Darwinian evolution. But the thing is, we can actually say the Soviet were objectively wrong on a number of things. If you admit that religious faith is an unquestioned virtue, no one has any logical ground for criticizing this murderer.
Mandalay
@Calouste:
Speaking of that murder:
– Bail set at $5,000 for Sandra Bland following her failure to signal. She couldn’t raise the 10% bond and died in jail
– Bail set at a million dollar’s for the cop who murdered Sam Dubose’s killer. The killer was free eight hours later.
If you want an example of institutional racism look no further. The rules aren’t written down explicitly, but as a practical matter they are baked in to a system which ensures that a white murderer makes bail and a black traffic offender does not.
Bail means everything or nothing, depending on whether you can come up with the bond.
Sophist
@A guy:
Step 1: Pick anywhere else than here.
Step 2: Go there.
Step 3: Stay there
RandomMonster
Right-wing meme will be: He was a lone crazy person not driven by hateful ideology.
cokane
@RandomMonster: Too late. BJers have already said as much.
Roger Moore
@shell:
He has to stick with his client’s version of events no matter what the video shows, or he’s going to lose even faster. I’m sure he’s searching for a video expert who will show how the video really corroborates his client’s story as we speak.
JPL
@MomSense: It could be John, just saying
RaflW
Y___ S___ (I will not even use his name, he deserves to rot in anonymity) “an ultra-Orthodox Jew, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for that attack and was released from prison three weeks ago.”
Three f*king weeks and he goes and repeats his crime and manages even more victims. I am not one who favors the death penalty, but this man knows no remorse, clearly has not changed, and is probably both mentally ill and criminally uncorrectable.
May he live out his life in prison, forced to watch Queer Eye, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Will & Grace, etc on endless loops every waking hour (he can be TV free during exercise hour, meals and sleep time).
Omnes Omnibus
@JPL: Cole trolls under his own name and often with front page posts.
KithKanan
@Germy Shoemangler: I always liked this one.
SiubhanDuinne
@Citizen_X:
Win.
redshirt
It’s not DougJ, people.
You’ve not seen a true DougJ troll in years and years.
Another Holocene Human
@Jay C: His fellow nutters in whatever homophobic cell following whatever insane rabbi will be running around knocking on doors asking for donations for this erliche yid. Count on it.
Another Holocene Human
@Calouste: FUCK.
Another Holocene Human
@Gin & Tonic: I know you’re really mad, but stabbings happen really fast, faster than most people can react or really get a grasp on what’s going on. A camera with a high shutter speed will catch moments that went by too fast for a human’s eye and brain to process. JMHO.
Another Holocene Human
@Calouste: We need to fire their supervisors.
Another Holocene Human
@MomSense:
Bullshit, if you go straight to the “scriptures” it says a man who lies with another man should be put to death, which is exactly what this nutter was trying to accomplish. (Jewish law is silent on Lesbian sex.)
Liberal religionists basically put stuff in context and don’t follow those sorts of outmoded tribal prescriptions, but to get back to this specific case here, there is serious tension in Israel between Rabbinic authorities, who have control over marriages and divorces in the country, and the constitutional courts. So many couples, not just same sex couples, are forced to get married out of the country because their local Rabbi will not marry them for whatever stupid, and sometimes even illegal reason.
Many people throughout the world follow authoritarian religions. They use all kinds of tricks to perpetuate themselves and get in the heads of followers to get power over them. With a very vulnerable, disturbed, and perhaps low intelligence person this can be a very dangerous combination. There’s a pastor’s body count in the US that is shocking to behold. Of course pastors are never blamed for inciting disturbed persons to commit horrific violent crimes in the name of religion.
Another Holocene Human
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): The difference between psychotic authoritarian ideological movements and violent religious movements is exceedingly subtle.
They occupy so much of the same memespace that they routinely displace each other. So.
Heliopause
I’m no math whiz, but by my calculations the last two things this guy did as a free man was stab people. I sense a pattern.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
@Germy Shoemangler:
I remember Alexander as Dickie Kerr in Eight Men Out from 1989…
It was a great movie, but they got a few things wrong. Kerr was left handed, but Alexander, who played him, is right handed. Also, too, the guy who played Eddie Collins (Collins hit left handed) hit right handed. That’s nit-picky, though. A great movie…
Chris
@Calouste:
Is it now illegal to carry a fucking shotgun in this country? Really?
Chris
@Skippy-san:
The entire history of American conservatism begs to differ. Not that I’m agreeing with them, mind you, but…
Chris
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
I believe homosexuality was viewed badly on both sides of the Iron Curtain for most of the Cold War. On the west side, it was the filthy product of left wing moral relativism and abandonment of all Christian values. On the east side, it was a bourgeois degeneracy and a sign of the excess and decadence of capitalism.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Although it is pretty naive in its depiction of Joe Jackson.
MomSense
@Another Holocene Human:
My point is that Leviticus says all sorts of things that are ignored completely by even the most orthodox of believers. No one expects women to wait seven days after the end of their menstrual cycle, find two turtles or two pigeons, take them to the temple, and offer one for a burnt offering and the other for a regular sacrifice. The bit about the sacrifices for women who are unclean takes up a lot more space in Leviticus than the one sentence about men lying with men. That some fixate on that one sentence while ignoring most of the rest of that same text indicates to me that it is their bigotry that causes the selective adherence. I’m not saying religion is without fault but I think that this person is violent, murderous, hateful, ignorant, cruel and is justifying his behavior by invoking God.
BruceJ
I wonder if the Israeli authorities will now bulldoze his relatives’s homes…
ruemara
@A guy: You need to develop a fatal case of shut the fuck up.
burnspbesq
@SatanicPanic:
The 10-year sentence for the crimes of which he was convicted in 2005 is pretty typical of most industrialized Western countries other than the United States. He probably would have gotten more in most U.S. states, but that’s not an absolute certainty, as he might have managed to plead down from five counts of attempted murder to something like aggravated assault.
burnspbesq
@shell:
What else would you expect him to say?
J R in WV
@Kropadope: Don’t feed the troll.
Villago Delenda Est
@Chris: If you’re blah, it’s questionable for you to operate a motor vehicle even if you’re licensed and insured. Hell, it’s questionable for you to walk down the street.
Firearms are a sure sign you’re up to no good. Unless you’re white, of course.
boatboy_srq
@MattF: So much for corrections as rehabilitation.