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During a routine check around a waterfront condo on Miami's South Beach, a security guard on Sunday found the unexpected: a dead goat and some roosters, all headless.
"I was looking in the water, and I see this blue bag and it looked like a leg of a goat coming out and some feathers," said Karim Mora. "So right there, I knew what it was."
The animals' bodies were found floating near luxury condos on one side of the waterway, with celebrity-filled "Star Island" just across the way.
It was unclear whether the dead animals had anything to do with Santeria, an Afro-Caribbean religion that became popular in Cuba and was brought to Florida with immigrants. Its rituals at times includes animal sacrifices.
But Richard Couto, an animal activist and investigator with the nonprofit Animal Recovery Mission, said that he suspected the animals were religious sacrifices, something he said he sees all the time across South Florida.
The location this time was especially surprising, said Couto, who responded immediately to where the animals' bodies were found Sunday.
"We are getting more calls of animals getting sacrificed in Miami Beach," Couto said. "But I have never found them in the middle of South Beach, just blocks from Ocean Drive."
He said it shows this goes on everywhere in this community, regardless of whether it's in a low- or high-income neighborhood.
The U.S. Constitution protects the humane killing of animals in religious ceremonies.
But Couto said in some cases, the animals are unimaginably tortured. "They are being hog-tied, bagged, at times placed in hot trunks for transport," he said. "They are thrown in garages for days upon days until the ceremony takes place without food, without water. Imagine the fear that went into this animal."
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Sunday's discovery shocked residents who live in nearby buildings, many of them saying they were animal lovers themselves.
"I feel sorry for the animals," said resident Renee Welch. "A lot of people aren't aware that things like this are going on around them."
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Couto said it would be almost impossible to find the person or people responsible for the animal killings.
"Handle the animals properly and dispose of them properly," Couto said. "You cannot throw these animals into the ocean. It's a health issue for the public and, you know, it's just wrong."
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Belief in a higher power is something that each individual finds within themselves. It's expression reflects the quality of the person as they weigh the value of life and their view of the Creator. People who kill in their religious expression worship death and have no respect for life. They are dangerous as their view of "God" requires the suffering and death of a defenseless living creature. They are very likely to move up to human sacrifice if the opportunity presents it's self.
It's what you do that matters, not whose Name you do it in.
I volunteer for an inner-city animal shelter, and one does not have to be an adherent of a specific belief system to cause suffering and death of a defenseless living creature. I see examples all the time--a litter of newborn pit bull puppies locked in a metal safe on a day when temps reached 100 degrees; a dog that had battery acid poured on it and was thrown out of a car in the middle of a highway; a cat doused with gasoline and set on fire; roosters that have been in cockfights, dogs that have been in dogfights, the list goes on.
Those are the ones most likely to move up to killing humans--practically every serial killer in the world started out torturing helpless animals before moving up to humans. I have heard no examples of an animal-sacrifice practitioner becoming a serial killer.
Whether you cause suffering as part of a religious ceremony or for the fun of it, it's still reprehensible. However, I would dispute your assertion that people who kill in their religious expression worship death and have no respect for life. The ancient Jews followed biblical law about sacrificing the firstborn of the herds to God; the ancient Egyptians sacrificed animals to their animal-headed Gods (and mummified bodies afterward.) The ancient Mesoamericans sacrificed animals, and only in times of great hardship would the priests decide that a human had to go intercede for them with their gods directly and sacrifice that human--and it was a great honor to be chosen to go see their god directly.
Name a religion that hasn't endorsed killing at one time or another in its existence.
None of the Abrahamic religions are on that list.
Wallace: Name one Crusader or Conquistador that hasn't killed in religious expression that had NO respect for life. That would be to say that anyone who has ever waged any religious war anywhere at any time automatically had 'no respect for life' - an accusation that is a falsehood. I'm not saying it wasn't brutal at times, but the warriors generally DID respect life.
Your idea that people who sacrifice animals (something the Jews and Christians used to do) will lead to human sacrifice is hilarious at best. Where has that EVER happened? There is no known culture that has done this: it is a (dangerous) figment of your imagination as well as a lousy 'slippery-slope' argument.
Besides, Santeria is a religion accepted by the US Supreme Court many years ago. We may not agree with their rituals, but we are not obligated to follow what they preach.
Wallace: I invite you to read the Old Testament Abel (Gen. 4:4; Heb. 11:4), Noah (Gen. 8:20-21) and Abraham (Gen. 22:12-14). When God gave the nation of Israel a distinct law at Mount Sinai, it contained a great deal of instruction about animal sacrifices (see Exo. 29:38-46; the book of Leviticus).
So, these rituals occur frequently in South Florida....the only reason this one makes the news is because the remains were found in South Beach where all the affluent swells and celebrities hang....The southern most tip of South Florida is fast becoming a Third World Refuge....can't we just do a circumcision of sorts and just float the tip further south into the Caribbean where these barbarians originated from ???....
"Diversity" has run amuck...don't bother going to WalMart or Winn-Dixie or McDonalds down here unless you understand Haitian-Creole or their version of English/Gibberish....forget about getting a job there....Maybe there is a correlation to Florida's higher then the National Unemployment rate to the number of Haitian "refugees" allowed to relocate here.....Ya Mon....Bumbleclod, Yarnheads are featured in most "Whose been arrested" last week mugshot photo-slideshows....Rasta-Thugs taking over.....
They were voodo remains. You have to get rid of the stuff when your done.
and if my kid has a pet goat or chicken, I'm supposed to let a bunch of ignorant throw-backs slaughter it in some kind of superstitious ritual?
...these folks make the Westboro Baptist Church crowd look well-adjusted
Mary Jones-1616541...(#1.6)..."They were voodo remains. You have to get rid of the stuff when your done."
They could have just sold them to the cuban street markets....they bar-b-que anything....Fire-Roasted Goat & Rooster Platters.....win-win....
The "Supreme Court" should change its name.
At one time it was also accepted to sacrifice humans in the name of religion, and the catholic church to this day protects a document that says Native Americans are not human but animals.
I'm waiting for cannibalism to become a protected "religion" here in the US.
I think I cleared that up for you on a previous comment thread after a Nov 28 article about a guy in a prayer group who confessed to killing a woman. At that time you said:
And I was curious and went and did some research.I believe the Papal Bull you're talking about is the Romanus Pontifex of January 1455 (if this is the wrong one please let me know):
...since we had formerly by other letters of ours granted among other things free and ample faculty to the aforesaid King Alfonso -- to invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens and pagans whatsoever, and other enemies of Christ wheresoever placed, and the kingdoms, dukedoms, principalities, dominions, possessions, and all movable and immovable goods whatsoever held and possessed by them and to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery, and to apply and appropriate to himself and his successors the kingdoms, dukedoms, counties, principalities, dominions, possessions, and goods, and to convert them to his and their use and profit -- by having secured the said faculty, the said King Alfonso, or, by his authority, the aforesaid infante, justly and lawfully has acquired and possessed, and doth possess, these islands, lands, harbors, and seas, and they do of right belong and pertain to the said King Alfonso and his successors, nor without special license from King Alfonso and his successors themselves has any other even of the faithful of Christ been entitled hitherto, nor is he by any means now entitled lawfully to meddle therewith.
That WAS revoked by another Papal Bull issued in June 1537 by Pope Paul III called the Sublimus Deus, in which they said that Satan had deceived them into saying that Indians were animals, and that the Catholic Church's position henceforth was that no native or pagan peoples were to be enslaved or had anything taken from them. See the text pasted below:
The enemy of the human race, who opposes all good deeds in order to bring men to destruction, beholding and envying this, invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation to the people: he inspired his satellites who, to please him, have not hesitated to publish abroad that the Indians of the West and the South, and other people of whom We have recent knowledge should be treated as dumb brutes created for our service, pretending that they are incapable of receiving the Catholic Faith. We, who, though unworthy, exercise on earth the power of our Lord and seek with all our might to bring those sheep of His flock who are outside into the fold committed to our charge, consider, however, that the Indians are truly men and that they are not only capable of understanding the Catholic Faith but, according to our information, they desire exceedingly to receive it. Desiring to provide ample remedy for these evils, We define and declare by these Our letters, or by any translation thereof signed by any notary public and sealed with the seal of any ecclesiastical dignitary, to which the same credit shall be given as to the originals, that, notwithstanding whatever may have been or may be said to the contrary, the said Indians and all other people who may later be discovered by Christians, are by no means to be deprived of their liberty or the possession of their property, even though they be outside the faith of Jesus Christ; and that they may and should, freely and legitimately, enjoy their liberty and the possession of their property; nor should they be in any way enslaved; should the contrary happen, it shall be null and have no effect.
There was a sister document to this called the Pastorale Officium that outlined penalties like excommunication for those who enslaved Indians. However, because it mentioned King Charles V by name, it came under scrutiny by said King and he complained against it, after which the Pastorale was rescinded. However, so far as I have been able to discover, the Sublimus Dei has never been revoked.
Mike in Delray barbarians is a term applied to the Anglo, Saxons, Franks, Goths and other Germanic tribes, from where your ancestors were from. So don't go too easy calling other barbarians, your ancestors destroyed, raped and burnt many people at the stake and some currently still think the Earth is only 6000 years old.
Amanda -
Thank you for the information.
If the church had left Native Americans alone it would have been a blessing. The horrors and atrocities committed upon the children of Native Americans through the "schools" they were forced to attend when they were ripped from their families when they turned five and six years old would make even Stephen King have nightmares.
I am puzzled about the papal bull since there was an obscure story a few months ago about a group of nuns who were planning a trip to the vatican to petition the pope to rescind the bull that labeled Native Americans animals. They were willing to be excommunicated in pursuit of it.
romilio ...(#1.11)..."Mike in Delray barbarians is a term applied to the Anglo, Saxons, Franks, Goths and other Germanic tribes, from where your ancestors were from. So don't go too easy calling other barbarians,"
Yeah, but that was 10-15 Centuries ago..... this is the 21st.Century....why so hard for them to keep up ??...
Come to think of it, I can only think of 2 cultures that are still in the 1st and 2nd Centuries...this crowd and Islam...The Renaissance just left them in the dust
Have a nice day.....
Now, there was another papal bull issued in 1493 called the Inter Caetera which has also been a matter of some controversy (various groups representing indigenous peoples of the Americas have organised protests and raised petitions seeking the repeal of the papal bull Inter caetera which led to the subjugation of their peoples) but this one says nothing about Native Americans being animals (in this document, 'you' refers to King Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain.)
...you, with the wish to fulfill your desire, chose our beloved son, Christopher Columbus, a man assuredly worthy and of the highest recommendations and fitted for so great an undertaking, whom you furnished with ships and men equipped for like designs, not without the greatest hardships, dangers, and expenses, to make diligent quest for these remote and unknown mainlands and islands through the sea, where hitherto no one had sailed; and they at length, with divine aid and with the utmost diligence sailing in the ocean sea, discovered certain very remote islands and even mainlands that hitherto had not been discovered by others; wherein dwell very many peoples living in peace, and, as reported, going unclothed, and not eating flesh. Moreover, as your aforesaid envoys are of opinion, these very peoples living in the said islands and countries believe in one God, the Creator in heaven, and seem sufficiently disposed to embrace the Catholic faith and be trained in good morals. And it is hoped that, were they instructed, the name of the Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ, would easily be introduced into the said countries and islands.
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/pope0214a.htm
The basis of the controversy to this was that this Papal Bull was wrongly interpreted by the Spanish monarchs as the Church's permission to subjugate, enslave, and appropriate the persons and belongings of all conquered people for Spain's own. They interpreted it to mean that the indigenous peoples were theirs to do with as they wish, but this is not what the Inter Caetera actually says; it simply issues a religious mandate that Christianity is to be spread into these lands. Hence, in the later Sublimus Dei I pasted above, the Church does not refer to their prior bull, but attribute the sentiment that Native Americans and pagans are inferior beings to Satan. Ferdinand and Isabella later used this bull to initiate the Spanish inquisition, expel Jews and Muslims from Spain (and confiscate all their worldly possessions, goods, money, and property, which many believe to be the real force behind the whole Inquisition mess).
In the older times in Israel culture (In the Bible) priests sacrifice sheeps to God plaeasure (?), but after Jesus is dead, God himself STOP that tradition. But this LOW LEVEL people in primitive stage still made this ugly thing in their ignorance, they are imigrants for shure and we need show RESPECT TO OUR CULTURE IF THEY WAN LIVE HERE, arrest, prsecute them and deported if is necesary, put signs and cameras in specific areas warning them for the consecuens of this disgusting behavior.
Papal bull, papal bullsheet. It's easier to start justified hatred than to stop it.
Romilio, "barbarians" was a Greek term used to qualify any non-Greek civilizations and particularly the Persian civilization ( present day Iran area) trying to invade Greece ( "300" comes to mind). So about 2500+ years ago. Then the Romans initially following the Greek model picked it up against Anglo-Saxons-Franks who gave them quite a hard time in their conquest of Europe, really in BC times, so 2000+ years ago.
I suppose a barbarian to some is a freedom-fighter to others, and certainly anyone not seeing or going my way is a barbarian.
Like my wife, she's a barbarian. That's for sure.
Why blame it on religion?
Could be MAFIA or SATANIC CULT.
Satanism/ Luciferians are actually a religion. You may not like what they preach, but they are. Calling them a cult is a bit overdone. Understandable though, due to the common idea that they should not be an accepted part of society due to their beliefs.
But, given the fact that the vast majority of Christians believe that a socially rebellious preacher/carpenter somehow rose from the dead to save the world from "sin" is cultish in my eyes, yet somehow I still find a way to respect that people would believe in it, despite how I personally feel about that belief structure.
In other words, do not disparage others' beliefs when there are just as many finding yours as ridiculous.
Hey Amanda. What Java script was that pre-Renaissance papal bull written in? Wasn't that before Copernicus and Galileo Galilei when the Catholic church dictated that the earth was the center of the universe? And before Martin Luther who challenged the Catholic church's selling of indulgences where freedom from punishment for sin could be purchased with money in contradiction of the Bible's description of Jesus as the champion of the poor and the opponent of the "money changers" desecration of the temples? Things change. And the Catholic church, although not all bad, is not a paragon of virtue.
Where? I've never seen any such thing in the US Constitution. If you are referring to religious liberty...then how can you avoid performing religious human sacrifice as a constitutionally protected right, as long as it is done "humanely"?
The Constitution preserves the right to practice one's religion as one so chooses. Although one can argue that that law is applied selectively, as certain practitoners of certain religions have certain fredoms curtailed.
That being said, there are no officially recognized religions in the US that allow human sacrifice. Animal sacrifice, yes. Human, no.
Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. Hialeah, 508 U.S. 520 (1993) was the case that declared that ordinances against animal sacrifice by one's religion was considered unconstitutional.
Amanda: Yes, there is one... it is called the Military Industrial Complex, and now even more, since the passing of Citizen United... (insert tons of sarcasm in here)...
ALL religions are BS..........get a grip and think for yourself!
Why is this news?
Because some people don't live in Florida. ??
After removing the head, I prefer to remove the innards, take off the feathers, cut the rooster into pieces, dip in batter, and fry in hot oil until tender and all pink is gone from the flesh. Delicious.
Why waste good meat? After the joo-joo priest has killed the chicken and used the blood for whatever hokey purpose, why throw it in the waterway? Eat the sucker!!
I'm sure this is no longer tolerated in Cuba. God bless America.
Ban religious freedom.
Practically every religion in the world at some time has asked for animal sacrifice. My belief system does as well, and while I have never found myself in the position of having to (it is mandated only as an extreme last measure in certain situations) are very explicit guidelines to follow to make sure our Deity isn't offended by the animal's suffering.
There's no reason to make the animal suffer while you kill it. This goes for everyone who kills an animal, whether in our food-producing industries; to hunters shooting for food or to thin out a too-numerous population of prey animals; to euthanizing animals at overcrowded animal shelters (I volunteer at a high-mortality inner-city animal shelter.) And especially to those who hurt animals for the fun of it (like the person, whoever it was, who poured battery acid on a dog that came into our shelter some years back.) There's no need to cause undue suffering.
Oppan sacrifice style
The point of sacrifice is to give up something of value to the adherent to gain the attention and beneficence of some culturally constructed deity.
Goats and other livestock are sacrifices by those people who require them for subsistence.
I guess no one among the Aztecs thought to wonder whether the corn would grow irrespective of whether or not all those thousands of still beating hearts were ripped out of chests. Goats, chickens, humans, it's all the same stupidity in the end.
The only really worthy sacrifice to a god is self-sacrifice.
"Sacrifice by proxy is unenlightened cowardice deserving of a proper smiting." - So sayeth Mira, God of Reflection.
So.... ?
Sorry, mate, but sacrificing a turkey, pig or other animal at Christmas seems normally enough to me....
and with regard to the Aztecs: without the sacrifice they did not believe the corn would grow. Google it.
Your opinions that the only really worthy sacrifice to a god is self-sacrifice. Depends on the diety, eh?
Pretty much. Mira, The God of Reflection is a harsh mistress. :)
So is Sekhmet - what is your point?
humor
Why not just fire up a pile of currency or a few bearer bonds? That would be a good self-sacrifice. For some people, a meaningful sacrifice would be to permanently delete their porn collection from the hard drive, or smash the satellite dish.
NEVER! hahaha
Put out reward postures for the animal killers. It's against the law. Florida and Miami have to do more to arrest and punish these people. Send them back to Cuba or put them in a boat with no food or water and tow them far out to sea. Where is the ASPCA, what are they doing? They can spend money on TV adds but can't find these people? give me a break.
Not only cubans, also haitians ! is part of their african primitive culture
I certainly don't condone animal sacrifice. But it amuses me that Christians who condemn sacrifice in religion, gather in a building on Sunday and bow down to a man who has been nailed to a board.
I am a American Indian and was brought up respect all life but some humans have no respect for anything, To inflict pain on a living animal or for that matter your own kind shows how sick mankind has become, To those who have done this have you no compassion??? I will pray to Mother Nature that your life will end today, To have no compassion means that you do not deserve any compassion.
Yeah, I'd buy that with the exception about how many Native American tribes treated women in the tribe.
gregorovich What makes you know so much about the Native American tribes? Watching westerns? Hey lets burn a witch. I think religion had something to that. Please tell us how religion treated those women?
The only information you have about how Native Americans treated their women is what you see in the movies.
The Native American women were honored in their tribes. Some of them were great Warriors and rode into battle. That has never been portrayed or known by the White Eyes, and the Europeans certainly didn't want it known among their own women, whom they treated as cattle to be owned.
Native American women were not docile and meek... the worse thing that could happen to a captured enemy was to be given to the women of the village for punishment.
What stupid fools the White Eyes are! In the Indian culture, the women took care of almost everything... the men hunted and fished, trained the horses... then the Europeans came along and messed everything up.
@ silver -
Exactly! What you said!
My comment was directed at Gregorovitch.
scremin: Horses? Spanish horses. (Silver:I agree with your animal post for sure.) Scalping was a French taught technic for counting dead settlers. I didn't know Indians only had clubs, tomahawks and spears when the settlers came. No horses.
tell us the race or culture of this womans, I'm sure look africans americans (all america)
AMISH MAFIA!!!!
The dopey Supreme Court of the United States got it wrong when they ruled on this issue. No religion should be allowed to sacrifice other living creatures. If you want to practice that go back to the barn from where you came.
The unmistakable sign of the bizarre Cuban practice of Santeria and Palo Mayombe. the connection between bizarre religious activity and backward 3rd world behavior is a sign of how we need better screening then allow these heathens into the US.
William The connection between bizarre religious activity and backward 3rd world behavior..........
That bizarre religious behavior goes on here in this country every day. This is nothing new. Just look at the religious leaders already here. Priests playing with alter boys. Mormons and little girls. Mega churches with the preacher wearing high dollar suits asking for more money. Tell me just who are the heathens here? One more thing look at the church welfare they get. Its time churches start paying tax on money received from the flock. Remember the high dollar suits on the high dollar preachers. Is religion real or is it a way man can control other men?
If you want to sacrifice animals for religious purposes, do it at your home or place of worship, not in public. But a religious practice that requires killing of a living creature, is beyond me!
voodoo is alive and well....just pick em up and put em away. dont freak out, they dont freak out when people pretend to drink blood.
Exactly, haitians practice the stupid and bloody voodu
I recently saw an article about some african country, (Niger I believe) where women take their sickly infants to a witch doctor - bypassing the US/UN staffed medical clinics on the way - where this "doctor" performs such "cures" as extracting baby teeth with a screwdriver and loping off the epiglottis in the back of the throat so that the children's appetite will return
....you can't fix stupid, it would seem
What world are we living in?? This is the 21st century. I think we ALL know by now that animal sacrifice is nothing more than animal cruelty. Killing in the name of "religion" is an excuse, at best. You'd think after thousands of years that this realization would come. If your God asked you to sacrifice a child, would you consider that alright? I mean, as long as it's done in private, and the remains aren't thrown into the water, right? It disgusts me to see this. Animals, just like children, are innocent. This article highlights the fact that we are not doing enough to protect the lives of animals.
There are a lot of sick people out there, anybody who abuses an animal, or causes death for something other than the real need to sustain life (eating) (and religion does not sustain life, or make it better.) need to be removed and put back in the cave they came from...
It looks like Notre Dame's last ditch attempt to try and pull out a win against 'Bama.
ooga booga the haitians are here. Lots of money needed for welfare. Reminds me of obozos relatives
You got that right, Max....Obama can't wait to push block Amnesty to all the illegal blood-suckers (pun intended) that are running amok in our neighborhoods...like his uncle, for example
Better lock up your cats and dogs, folks, they could be the next item on the "menu"
Onyango Obama is the step-child of President Obama's grandfather. That makes him an uncle by marriage, not by blood.
He first came to the US in 1967 on a student visa, through an exchange program that allowed students from other countries to study in the US. He filed extensions to stay on that original visa every year he was required to until the 90's, when he sent in paperwork but it was not received by the filing deadline. Because his paperwork missed that deadline, a deportation order was issued in absentia.
He requested permission to file an appeal to that deportation order; since it was a paperwork error and he had no criminal record, USCIS allowed him to file that appeal. And the law states that any deportation order must be suspended until the appeals board has had a chance to review the case and the deportation ruling.
He was still waiting for his case to come up in appeals when he was DUI one evening and hit a cop's car. He was arrested for DUI, went to court in MA, and pled no contest to the charges. Since no lives were lost and only minimal damage was done, the case was suspended for a year and if he attends an alcohol education class, pays a fine and performs community service and stays out of trouble until March 2013, the state will drop the charges.
ICE made the mistake in arresting him after the DUI; they apparently didn't realize his appeals request had been upheld and he was awaiting a court date. This happens quite commonly; while immigrants are waiting for their paperwork to be processed or court cases to come up, they can and have been mistakenly deported even though the law itself says deportations have to be suspended until an immigration court records a ruling--and in some cases, even after a court has ruled that a person is allowed to stay, they are still (wrongly) deported.
When his appeals case comes up in immigration court, the DUI, even if no conviction has been registered in the State of MA, can be factored into their decision to either uphold the deportation order based on the missed paperwork filing deadline, or they can find in favor of his appeal and allow him to re-file the paperwork.
How many of the "religulous" have enough faith to kill themselves to be with their blood thirsty gods. The Aztecs at least ate their enemies beating hearts and killed their young for their gods. ie population control!
"The U.S. Constitution protects the humane killing of animals in religious ceremonies." Really? Just where do I look to see that? It turns out the press CAN find the constitution and look at it?
It's just a couple chickens. The grocery store is full of headless chickens, but we have to blot out the picture of one? To protect whom? And a goat. I don't remember goats or chickens being endangered.
Headless chickens spook you? What a F'd up bunch the press are.
We run into this attitude all the time at the animal shelter I volunteer for.
a few years back a woman brought in a dog that had battery acid thrown over it and was chucked out of a moving car on the highway. She saw he dog thrashing in the road and brought it in, but there was nothing we could do--the acid had eaten into fur skin, and internal tissue and you could see internal organs. We called the local press to come, hoping we could get the public's help in finding out who did it, but when they got there they explained that policy prohibited them from videotaping/photographing things like this--they got calls once from parents who complained that the graphic pictures of animal cruelty in the news upset their children. The reporter asked that we bring another dog from the kennels that was of the same type and color as the injured dog and parade that one in front of the camera.
We think this is why we never found the person who did it, never got any tips, never solved the case. The dog had to be euthanized, there was no hope of saving him.
When I saw "headless rooster" in the title of this story, I was sure it was a story about John Boehner or Eric Cantor.
Really? Obama's family is more in that demographic. Headless rooster is a minority attribute, if they are used socially.
Steve. A kid born in Hawaii that lived in Kansas is in your demographic? What do YOU behead?
I was referring to Cantor and Boehner running around like chickens with their heads cut off these days!
I think they better call in Dexter. He will get to the bottom of it and take care of these folks before things escalate.
Florida. That is all.
the problem we see in mismi has to do w/ witchcraft! not religion. these people are stupid and brought this over here from cuba, haiti and and other 3rd world Islands in the caribian. this can be stopped if the patrols were at night because that is when it happens, early morning hours. this is rediculis, you are only going to kill your tourist population or whats left of it. south beach is out of control anyway w/ all the crazies they are letting near there!
Witchcraft is what has brought Haiti to the place where it is today, Read the history of witchcraft in Haiti, It was how they freed themselves from the french rule. they were 1st Caribean nation to do so only to learn when you give your country over to witchcraft (satin) he slowly destroys your community and nation. look at these country's Cuba, Haiti, Jamacia etc. they all are experiencing civil unrest. the hatitians after learning of the history connected w/ this which brought sickness and diseses w/ it. watch out america, this can be a problem whether u think so or not.
This is not a Religion Folks! It's called Devil Worship, better yet, WITCHCRAFT! which can lead to other things that threaten the civility of that already out of control city.
Devil worship is still a religion.
In case you forget, before Christianity stamped out the majority of belief structures wherever they went, multiple beliefs were rampant and everywhere, and were legitimate religions. Just because they don't worship the same god, the same way you do, doesn't make it any less of a religion. To think otherwise is complete and utter ignorance, and really, honestly that kind of black and white thinking should be eliminated.
But, while we have religions like Christianity in any of its multitude of disagreeing forms, and Islam that has quite a few sects of its own as well, this will not happen.
As far as these religions are concerned, either you believe the way they do, from texts that were written thousands of years, or in some cases hundreds of years ago (by people who didn't even know that the Earth revolved around a giant ball of super heated gas we call a star), or you are completely wrong and due for some eternal punishment that somehow includes a fiery torment by some imaginary angelic figure. I'm sorry, but I will take their beliefs with a grain of salt.