P&T Bull**** on Gun Control

[RugerShooter]

Warning some strong language (f-bombs)

[Sombeech]

"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed"

The right of the People, not the Militia. The right of the People to keep and bear arms.

By show of hands, how many know the difference between the PEOPLE and the MILITIA?

[hank moon]

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...080423?sp=true

Penis theft panic hits city
By Joe Bavier

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.

Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.

Rumors of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.

Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.

"You just have to be accused of that, and people come after you. We've had a number of attempted lynchings. ... You see them covered in marks after being beaten," Kinshasa's police chief, Jean-Dieudonne Oleko, told Reuters on Tuesday.

Police arrested the accused sorcerers and their victims in an effort to avoid the sort of bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 suspected penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs. The 27 men have since been released.

"I'm tempted to say it's one huge joke," Oleko said.

"But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it's become tiny or that they've become impotent. To that I tell them, 'How do you know if you haven't gone home and tried it'," he said.

Some Kinshasa residents accuse a separatist sect from nearby Bas-Congo province of being behind the witchcraft in revenge for a recent government crackdown on its members.

"It's real. Just yesterday here, there was a man who was a victim. We saw. What was left was tiny," said 29-year-old Alain Kalala, who sells phone credits near a Kinshasa police station.

(Editing by Nick Tattersall and Mary Gabriel)

[JP]

Hank, go walk Fee-Fee

[blueeyes]

black magic to steal or shrink men's penises

i about spit my salsa on the computer screen

[Sombeech]

Purported victims claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.

So hank, how much cash did they take from you? I'd fight this all the way. Let's help hank get his penis, money, and dignity back. Or at least get some dignity.

[greyhair biker]

Purported victims claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.

So hank, how much cash did they take from you? I'd fight this all the way. Let's help hank get his penis, money, and dignity back. Or at least get some dignity.

I don't know whether to roll my eyes or roll on the floor

[JP]

[KapitanSparrow]

Any immigration papers for west africans just after the questions about being a member of a terrorist organization and communist party should ask "have you ever been involved in penis shrinking or snatching?"

[hank moon]

So hank, how much cash did they take from you? I'd fight this all the way. Let's help hank get his penis, money, and dignity back. Or at least get some dignity.

Dignity? Ya mean like with a cucumber and a wetsuit?

[Last Child]

Dignity? Ya mean like with a cucumber and a wetsuit?

Just remember that the cucumber goes in the front.