Same as it ever was. Police here in the US knew almost all of the criminals for a long time, some been released multiple times 'because they are no threat'. Then the commit atrocities again, and same poor pitiful me story as there. I just read the other day how a thug wanted an apology and money from the govt for being 'mistreated'.
I think Elon Musk just spoke about this to the Economist’s Zanny Minton Beddoes. It was so refreshing to see the lame stream press utterly destroyed by his comments. Wake up Europe. You have a radical Islamist problem!! And sending known violent offenders to anything but jail is criminal in its own right.
"Illegal immigrant who murdered Michigan woman sues Trump, demands $75M, public apology, US citizenship..."
My counteroffer: a steak dinner, a session with a highly qualified spiritual advisor, and a bullet to the brain.
(Sounds harsh? It's nothing but a faithful recitation of the just deserts our heritage justice system used to dole out with regularity to murderers exactly like this one.)
Hey Grok. Give me your best slop guesstimate at how many state jobs this guy created in his life.
**tl;dr:** Rough guesstimate: 40–80+ German state-linked jobs sustained or activated over his life, mostly in security, courts, probation, and deradicalization. One low-level offender generated work across intelligence, police, judiciary, prisons, and a state-funded “prevention” network.
- **Early classification and monitoring**: Security services flagged him as an Islamist *Gefährder* as a teenager. That alone requires case officers, analysts, and periodic reviews—easily 5–10 people over years.
- **Prior crimes**: Assault and robbery convictions mean police investigators, prosecutors, court staff, and possibly probation. Add another 8–15 roles per case cycle.
- **Syria attempt and return**: Tip-off, detention coordination with Lebanon, extradition/return process, and pretrial detention involved border/intelligence liaisons, prison staff, and legal personnel. Estimate 10–15 more.
- **2026 conviction and release**: Tiergarten Magistrates’ Court trial, sentencing to 1 year 10 months, then conditional release with mandatory deradicalization. Court staff, prosecutors, prison officers, and Violence Prevention Network workers (state-funded) account for another 10–20.
- **Post-release surveillance and failed raid**: Intermittent monitoring plus the toy-gun social-media raid required surveillance teams and SEK officers.
- **Final manhunt**: Multiple SEK raids (apartment, sister’s place, Spandau allotment), manhunt coordination, and the lethal confrontation itself activated dozens of specialized police for a single day.
Over a roughly 5–7 year window of known activity, the cumulative personnel touchpoints—intelligence, police, courts, prisons, probation, and prevention programs—realistically total in the mid-dozens to low hundreds of individual state or state-funded roles, even if many were part-time or shared across cases. One persistent low-level threat keeps an entire bureaucratic ecosystem busy.
If crime were solved (criminals given long prison sentences to take them out of society and deter future criminals), the enormous security industry and criminal justice systems would shrink tremendously, and the excuse for massive surveillance systems (such as cameras) would evaporate! There are some "good" reasons to keep crime going!
May be he should open his home to all these poor, mistreated, underprivileged germans from foreign origin who still do not know how western culture works. this is one of the people, who, even though born in Germany, will never adapt. At least you won't have to pay for the lifelong upkeep.
'He mentioned neither Islam nor mass migration, insisting instead that “intolerance, exclusion, discrimination, rude language and offensive jokes” had a part in Ballout’s violence.'
Well, I don't doubt that intolerance and offensive jokes, etc. may have played a part in fueling this man's obvious anger, but it's silly to deny that mass migration doesn't also play a part. Everybody knows it but no one will (officially) admit it.
It has to be offensive jokes or racist rhetoric fueling this violence, because they cannot say what the real problem is: Islam. The ideology is making itself very clear, they believe they have the right and the duty to take over the world through violence. They will murder all non-Islamics who won't convert and become second-class citizens. The West has to wake up and stop this jihad crap. I see small signs of hope that we are starting to wake up, but far too much of the kowtowing to the poor abused Muslims. Ugh!
"Well, I don't doubt that intolerance and offensive jokes, etc. may have played a part in fueling this man's obvious anger..."
It would seem that if anything, this man's path has been paved with care and concern, accolades and well-wishers throughout German society. I mean, if he had been airdropped into the middle of one of my dinner conversations, perhaps, but barring that it's just not plausible that he was radicalized by bad say.
I did say *a part*. No doubt he perceived some of his treatment as discriminatory and would've used it to help fuel his anger, a lot of which appears to be cultural.
Vortex of insanity sums it up well. We see now the establishment cannot face reality. I suspect these kinds of rationales will become ever more extreme to accommodate the reality of importing people who will never be German, not even if born there.
I suspect we will soon reach a phase where we will view mass immigration as cruel. Ballout was never going to make it.
“He mentioned neither Islam nor mass migration, insisting instead that “intolerance, exclusion, discrimination, rude language and offensive jokes” had a part in Ballout’s violence.”
Merz’s pathological denial of the enemy within, is akin to perpetrating another crime on top of that which just killed and maimed innocent people. It also signals to other would-be perpetrators that, should they too be plotting to kill random Germans, that they, and their ideology, will go unblamed, and any acts of terror committed by them in the future will be summarily brushed under the carpet. And that it is the German people themselves who are to blame and they who must adjust their attitudes to be more tolerant.
I say, how much more can sane Germans tolerate from people like this in their government?
Something MUST be done about automobile violence!! (But only for White native German AfD types). Yeah, some clown named abdul ballout is what comes to mind when I think about Germany…
This alternative universe tragedy version of "Groundhog Day" gets harder to watch each time.
I did wonder yesterday when the news hit the interwebs if our Sylvia was in the process of making a career of being the getaway driver for young Muslim men any normal person would recoil from as if from a nest of rattlesnakes. There may be many Sylvias too.
Though, en passant but a "factoid" of maybe some relevance given the context, the result of a Google search on the thumbs-up emoji:
Gemini: In certain Muslim-majority countries, particularly in parts of the Middle East like Iran and Iraq, the thumbs-up sign is a vulgar insult equivalent to the middle finger ("up yours") or "sit on it".
Kind of like the insult in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which precipitated some intergalactic war ... 😉🙂
Merz. What does it feel like to be a wooden marionette with your mouth attached to a bit of string? If thought could get inside that wooden block, he’d know instantly what he said was nonsense. But he might have a condition that transcends hypocrisy: when you can no longer access the plain truth even as it barrels at you in a white van.
Ahmed al-Sharaa, born Saudi, relocated in Syria, and long-time jihadist fighter, former head of Al-Nusra, is the current president of Syria, put there by the CIA.
Germany was supporting jihadists against the Syrian loyalists through an office in Beirut.
Think of the American support to Ben Laden against the Soviets in Afghanistan and how Brzezinski dismissed there could be any trouble in helping Sunni jihadists here ore there against Russians, this or that.
Within an hour or two after this incident, the Guardian reported on it and in a typically sideways manner, before police released info about the suspect, blamed it on the AfD.
They reported in great detail about how LGBTQ+++ etc are afraid now because of the AfD, with several quotes from “real people” that somehow the reporter was able to obtain within mere minutes after the attack.
The line the Guardian used was that since the rightward “drift” of Germans due to the rise of the AfD, LGBTQ+++ people are afraid. Oh.. and as an aside, Muslims scare them a little too.
This is well practiced method of the legacy media of diverting outrage about a horrendous act of a Muslim migrant towards the AfD. They get it out as quickly as possible, before authorities released info about who was actually responsible. It’s almost as if the authorities wait to release info about the perpetrator(s) until after the legacy media has a chance to blame people they hate but obviously had nothing to do with the violence. They do not apologize or retract their manipulative “reporting” once the facts come out.
This happens throughout the West. I guess there is no way to stop it and also have the benefit of freedom of speech. Hopefully people are wising up to it and looking elsewhere for reliable information.
Exactly like every assassin and mass murder here is immediately reported by the MSM and social media trolls as having been committed by a "far-right MAGA Trump-sucker" (outrageously, actually including the kid who put a hole in Trump's ear), until the collected facts inescapably prove him to be a transsexual, vegan, commie, Bernie-bro. But the trolls don't care because they've already achieved their goal.
The propaganda is so persistent that we had a case where a shooter (Frank Coggins) shot up the offices of the Family Research Council (a Christian evangelical activist think tank) because a left-wing slander factory (our old friend the SPLC) had tagged them as a "hate group."
Yet another miscreant known to the police, free to go about his peaceful business of killing sundry hapless citizens. Where have I heard this before?
Same as it ever was. Police here in the US knew almost all of the criminals for a long time, some been released multiple times 'because they are no threat'. Then the commit atrocities again, and same poor pitiful me story as there. I just read the other day how a thug wanted an apology and money from the govt for being 'mistreated'.
I think Elon Musk just spoke about this to the Economist’s Zanny Minton Beddoes. It was so refreshing to see the lame stream press utterly destroyed by his comments. Wake up Europe. You have a radical Islamist problem!! And sending known violent offenders to anything but jail is criminal in its own right.
Do you mean the Mexican national currently in prison for murder who wants $75M for hurt feelings? Hilarious..
Yes I think that is the one. It was on the news feed earlier this week. Daring little thug isn't he?
Hey, just tell him 'the check is in the mail' 🤣
"Illegal immigrant who murdered Michigan woman sues Trump, demands $75M, public apology, US citizenship..."
My counteroffer: a steak dinner, a session with a highly qualified spiritual advisor, and a bullet to the brain.
(Sounds harsh? It's nothing but a faithful recitation of the just deserts our heritage justice system used to dole out with regularity to murderers exactly like this one.)
They should have let him stay in Syria. Their problem would have been solved by now.
He would have been sorted there, yes.
If someone believes in ISIS why on earth would you keep them here?
Buy them a plane ticket then drone them when they get off the plane.
It staggers the mind!!!!!
Hey Grok. Give me your best slop guesstimate at how many state jobs this guy created in his life.
**tl;dr:** Rough guesstimate: 40–80+ German state-linked jobs sustained or activated over his life, mostly in security, courts, probation, and deradicalization. One low-level offender generated work across intelligence, police, judiciary, prisons, and a state-funded “prevention” network.
- **Early classification and monitoring**: Security services flagged him as an Islamist *Gefährder* as a teenager. That alone requires case officers, analysts, and periodic reviews—easily 5–10 people over years.
- **Prior crimes**: Assault and robbery convictions mean police investigators, prosecutors, court staff, and possibly probation. Add another 8–15 roles per case cycle.
- **Syria attempt and return**: Tip-off, detention coordination with Lebanon, extradition/return process, and pretrial detention involved border/intelligence liaisons, prison staff, and legal personnel. Estimate 10–15 more.
- **2026 conviction and release**: Tiergarten Magistrates’ Court trial, sentencing to 1 year 10 months, then conditional release with mandatory deradicalization. Court staff, prosecutors, prison officers, and Violence Prevention Network workers (state-funded) account for another 10–20.
- **Post-release surveillance and failed raid**: Intermittent monitoring plus the toy-gun social-media raid required surveillance teams and SEK officers.
- **Final manhunt**: Multiple SEK raids (apartment, sister’s place, Spandau allotment), manhunt coordination, and the lethal confrontation itself activated dozens of specialized police for a single day.
Over a roughly 5–7 year window of known activity, the cumulative personnel touchpoints—intelligence, police, courts, prisons, probation, and prevention programs—realistically total in the mid-dozens to low hundreds of individual state or state-funded roles, even if many were part-time or shared across cases. One persistent low-level threat keeps an entire bureaucratic ecosystem busy.
Fascinating.
So it's basically to maintain budget levels and jobs.
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If crime were solved (criminals given long prison sentences to take them out of society and deter future criminals), the enormous security industry and criminal justice systems would shrink tremendously, and the excuse for massive surveillance systems (such as cameras) would evaporate! There are some "good" reasons to keep crime going!
Are you suggesting that bureaucracies prefer to grow (by making the problems more plentiful) rather than actually solve a problem?
Oh wait. [checks notes]. Oh, that’s what every bureaucracy does!
Sorry, but I have little respect for AI essays. However, the general idea presented does not require Grok.
“Sustained” is doing a lot of work here.
Probably, but then, he's unlikely to be the only one.
'Automobile of Peace' wins the Internets, 7-26-2026.
Or perhaps "Automobile of Tolerance".
Religion of Peace
Truck of Peace
Knife of Peace
Grooming for Peace
Aloha Snackbar
This reminds me of a Jew's criticism of the Netanyahu policy to allegedly bring democracy to selected Moslem countries by bombing.
I think Eugyppius posted that expression while commenting on a previous, similar incident. It does deserve a prize, thouth.
May be he should open his home to all these poor, mistreated, underprivileged germans from foreign origin who still do not know how western culture works. this is one of the people, who, even though born in Germany, will never adapt. At least you won't have to pay for the lifelong upkeep.
'He mentioned neither Islam nor mass migration, insisting instead that “intolerance, exclusion, discrimination, rude language and offensive jokes” had a part in Ballout’s violence.'
Well, I don't doubt that intolerance and offensive jokes, etc. may have played a part in fueling this man's obvious anger, but it's silly to deny that mass migration doesn't also play a part. Everybody knows it but no one will (officially) admit it.
What a vortex of insanity.
It has to be offensive jokes or racist rhetoric fueling this violence, because they cannot say what the real problem is: Islam. The ideology is making itself very clear, they believe they have the right and the duty to take over the world through violence. They will murder all non-Islamics who won't convert and become second-class citizens. The West has to wake up and stop this jihad crap. I see small signs of hope that we are starting to wake up, but far too much of the kowtowing to the poor abused Muslims. Ugh!
I'm genuinely curious why you think this:
"Well, I don't doubt that intolerance and offensive jokes, etc. may have played a part in fueling this man's obvious anger..."
It would seem that if anything, this man's path has been paved with care and concern, accolades and well-wishers throughout German society. I mean, if he had been airdropped into the middle of one of my dinner conversations, perhaps, but barring that it's just not plausible that he was radicalized by bad say.
"DARVO is a manipulation tactic where the offender denies wrongdoing, attacks the accuser, and then reverses the roles of victim and offender."
Merz employ DARVO? Every day -- like the neighbor's mutt employs your front lawn.
I did say *a part*. No doubt he perceived some of his treatment as discriminatory and would've used it to help fuel his anger, a lot of which appears to be cultural.
Vortex of insanity sums it up well. We see now the establishment cannot face reality. I suspect these kinds of rationales will become ever more extreme to accommodate the reality of importing people who will never be German, not even if born there.
I suspect we will soon reach a phase where we will view mass immigration as cruel. Ballout was never going to make it.
But the catch to Herr Merz' explanation is that the perp attacked progressives.
“He mentioned neither Islam nor mass migration, insisting instead that “intolerance, exclusion, discrimination, rude language and offensive jokes” had a part in Ballout’s violence.”
Merz’s pathological denial of the enemy within, is akin to perpetrating another crime on top of that which just killed and maimed innocent people. It also signals to other would-be perpetrators that, should they too be plotting to kill random Germans, that they, and their ideology, will go unblamed, and any acts of terror committed by them in the future will be summarily brushed under the carpet. And that it is the German people themselves who are to blame and they who must adjust their attitudes to be more tolerant.
I say, how much more can sane Germans tolerate from people like this in their government?
"Deradicalization".
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
You German make funny.......
Once you go radical, … (?) couldn’t come up with a good rhyme
Well, with the magic of free verse, you don't have to.
OR, "you win a Deutsches sabbatical".
“…you can’t go unradical”
“…you get too theatrical”
“…you might be homicidal”
“…Afghanistan Bananastan”
Regarding the last option, I'm glad you quote from "The Hot Rock", by the late great Donald Westlake.
...your next step is fanatical.
that’s a good one too!
Something MUST be done about automobile violence!! (But only for White native German AfD types). Yeah, some clown named abdul ballout is what comes to mind when I think about Germany…
Don't forget the machete violence 😳
It seems the German criminal justice and deportation systems are working about as badly as the British ones. Equality!
This alternative universe tragedy version of "Groundhog Day" gets harder to watch each time.
I did wonder yesterday when the news hit the interwebs if our Sylvia was in the process of making a career of being the getaway driver for young Muslim men any normal person would recoil from as if from a nest of rattlesnakes. There may be many Sylvias too.
Sylvias? Which one? Ours or theirs? 😉🙂
https://substack.com/@sylviab317156/note/c-302314782
You haven't been reading Eugyppius with proper attention, have you? [not referencing this post]
Other fish to fry. Too many books and Substack posts to read, too little time.
You have a link or you going to be coy or obscure?
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/how-a-suspected-sex-offender-and
Thanks. 👍👌😉🙂
Though, en passant but a "factoid" of maybe some relevance given the context, the result of a Google search on the thumbs-up emoji:
Gemini: In certain Muslim-majority countries, particularly in parts of the Middle East like Iran and Iraq, the thumbs-up sign is a vulgar insult equivalent to the middle finger ("up yours") or "sit on it".
Kind of like the insult in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which precipitated some intergalactic war ... 😉🙂
Merz. What does it feel like to be a wooden marionette with your mouth attached to a bit of string? If thought could get inside that wooden block, he’d know instantly what he said was nonsense. But he might have a condition that transcends hypocrisy: when you can no longer access the plain truth even as it barrels at you in a white van.
I swear, Germans are likely to start swearing like the French.
"What happened?"
"Merz! I nearly got run over by a bus!"
I know that at this point every time *I* read his name, I hear it in my mind like a Frenchman saying "Merde!"
"Merz! I nearly got run over by a bus!"
😆
Closely followed by - as the Germans say - "Anzeige ist raus".
Using the Name of the Majesty in a disrespectful way, §[whatever it is] of the German Criminal Code.
Your chancellor is a hapless evasive creep incapable of adressing the issue.
But what's new?
I personally like “intermittent surveillance”.
Exactly what the hell is THAT?
they seemed to have tapped his phones and kept an eye now and again on his social media accounts. but, not totally clear.
Only on Tuesdays, and the occasional Friday, if they’re not too busy.
Gotta work around those thrilling music video productions!
All the cops wave at his window whenever they drive by.
Ahmed al-Sharaa, born Saudi, relocated in Syria, and long-time jihadist fighter, former head of Al-Nusra, is the current president of Syria, put there by the CIA.
Germany was supporting jihadists against the Syrian loyalists through an office in Beirut.
Think of the American support to Ben Laden against the Soviets in Afghanistan and how Brzezinski dismissed there could be any trouble in helping Sunni jihadists here ore there against Russians, this or that.
Well, there you are.
Never as clever at predicting the way events are likely to evolve.
As evidenced again and again and again.
Then chaos and destruction is the plan maybe?
Within an hour or two after this incident, the Guardian reported on it and in a typically sideways manner, before police released info about the suspect, blamed it on the AfD.
They reported in great detail about how LGBTQ+++ etc are afraid now because of the AfD, with several quotes from “real people” that somehow the reporter was able to obtain within mere minutes after the attack.
The line the Guardian used was that since the rightward “drift” of Germans due to the rise of the AfD, LGBTQ+++ people are afraid. Oh.. and as an aside, Muslims scare them a little too.
This is well practiced method of the legacy media of diverting outrage about a horrendous act of a Muslim migrant towards the AfD. They get it out as quickly as possible, before authorities released info about who was actually responsible. It’s almost as if the authorities wait to release info about the perpetrator(s) until after the legacy media has a chance to blame people they hate but obviously had nothing to do with the violence. They do not apologize or retract their manipulative “reporting” once the facts come out.
This happens throughout the West. I guess there is no way to stop it and also have the benefit of freedom of speech. Hopefully people are wising up to it and looking elsewhere for reliable information.
Isn't the AfD led by a German lesbian, married to a non Western woman? Why on earth would the LGBTQ community fear the AfD under such leadership?
Because they've been told to, one presumes.
The Guardian nor the pigeon retard explained how that could be.
The gurniad nuff said!
Yup.
Exactly like every assassin and mass murder here is immediately reported by the MSM and social media trolls as having been committed by a "far-right MAGA Trump-sucker" (outrageously, actually including the kid who put a hole in Trump's ear), until the collected facts inescapably prove him to be a transsexual, vegan, commie, Bernie-bro. But the trolls don't care because they've already achieved their goal.
The propaganda is so persistent that we had a case where a shooter (Frank Coggins) shot up the offices of the Family Research Council (a Christian evangelical activist think tank) because a left-wing slander factory (our old friend the SPLC) had tagged them as a "hate group."
State and political incompetence has lethal consequences once again