As I checked the news today, I found the top story was a tragedy just 10 miles from our regional office in England. Two illegal immigrants from Afghanistan raped a 15-year-old girl in Leamington Spa—and the courts tried to cover it up.

The victim began recording video in fear as the two young men approached her. She suffered a horrible, criminal experience, but at least she captured the perpetrators and provided the evidence to the authorities. Yet those authorities and Britain’s mainstream media have ensured that no one outside the courtroom has seen it. The Daily Mail had to launch a legal challenge to report the key details of the attack, and even still, the video remains buried.

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Other news outlets conspired to ignore and manipulate the details. The attackers were “two 17-year-old boys from Leamington,” while their victim was a “woman,” according to the report in the local paper. Two local “boys” attacking a “woman” is still tragic, but journalists are intentionally obscuring the reality that two Afghan immigrants raped a 15-year-old girl.

The victim repeatedly called for help, and although other people were walking nearby, no one stepped in.

One of the attackers will be deported. The other pled guilty the day before he turned 17. Under the law, he will continue to live in the UK at taxpayers’ expense.

“The day I was raped changed me as a person,” said the girl. “I’m no longer a happy, carefree teenager. … When I go out, I no longer feel safe, so much so that I have started to avoid it altogether.”

I know Leamington Spa well. I have friends who live and work there. This story about the breakdown in British society at every level hits very close to home. The government and courts have failed the nation in refusing to tackle illegal immigration. The media have failed to sound the alarm. Members of the community failed to help. The girl’s father and family failed: The 15-year-old victim was out drinking vodka in the park with her friends and was drunk at the time of the attack. As Isaiah 1:6 says, “From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.”

Can the U.S. executive fire executive employees? “You’re fired.” Donald Trump was known for that phrase as an executive and reality television personality, but as president, he has faced constitutional legal challenges for firings. The case of his trying to remove, among others, Rebecca Slaughter, commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, has made it all the way to the Supreme Court, which appears ready to hand him another win, further strengthening his presidency, as the Trumpet has forecast based on Bible prophecy.

Trump fired Slaughter in March, four years before her term ended. She sued, and a lower court ruled that Trump had exceeded his presidential authority by ignoring a 90-year-old legal precedent that grants tenure to the heads of independent agencies.

• This precedent, Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, ruled that President Franklin Roosevelt could not fire an ftc member because Congress had granted them “quasi-judicial” or “quasi-legislative” powers. The problem is, the U.S. Constitution does not allow executive agencies like the ftc to exercise “quasi-judicial” or “quasi-legislative” powers.
• In oral arguments, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer said, “Humphrey’s must be overruled. It has become a decaying husk with bold and particularly dangerous pretensions. It was grievously wrong when it was decided. It continues to generate confusion in the lower courts, and it continues to tempt Congress to erect, at the heart of our government, a headless fourth branch, insulated from political accountability and democratic control.”

Overturning Humphrey’s Executor v. United States would move the nation back toward the original constitutional model, where elected representatives in Congress make laws, judges appointed by elected officials determine their application in specific disputes, and the president enforces them, with full control over those who assist him in exerting executive power.

Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry has proved that President Trump is an end-time type of the ancient Israelite King Jeroboam ii. He has written that Amos 7:12-13 prophesy that this man will have support from a secular entity called the “king’s court,” better rendered the “kingdom’s court.” The U.S. Supreme Court has made several important rulings that enabled Donald Trump to return to the presidency and that strengthen the presidency’s power to execute laws passed by Congress.

OnlyFans’ biggest customer: Americans are paying millions of dollars every day for amateur pornography on the website OnlyFans. The independent aggregator OnlyGuider reports that over the first 11 months of the year, Americans spent $2.6 billion on the site, which has become infamous for providing young women a means and a monetary motivation for selling themselves online.

• America’s creation and consumption of pornography is more than just an embarrassing societal issue: It’s a clear and present danger to U.S. national security.

OnlyFans does not publish statistics on its users’ content or location, but independent journalists estimate that roughly 70 to 90 percent or more of posts are pornographic, and more than 1 million users who publish material to the platform are American. The OnlyGuider report states that 15 of the top 20 cities for consuming the site’s content are in the U.S.

• New York City alone consumes more than some small nations.
• Last year, the most active city, Atlanta, spent the equivalent of more than $50 per man, woman and child.

Such cash figures indicate that, since many Americans never visit the site, some must be spending thousands viewing accounts that reportedly cost around $200 per year on average.

The latest news about Americans’ voracious appetite for sexual sin is, to many, a back-page issue compared to more instantly recognizable urgent national security issues involving more elite figures. But the Holy Bible warns that the sins of the average person are direct causes of cultural rot, societal failure, economic vulnerability, malign influence and infiltration, even violent military conquest.

• If the Bible is correct, then lust, fornication, adultery, homosexuality and other perversions of God’s creation of male and female are causes of unseen effects. These are not lifestyle choices, but rather life-and-death choices.

Learn about the reason “God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them” in your free copy of The Missing Dimension in Sex, by Herbert W. Armstrong.

IN OTHER NEWS

China reports $1 trillion trade surplus: Customs data released yesterday by the Chinese Communist Party shows its exports exceeding its imports by $1.08 trillion. The trade surplus for 2024 was $992 billion, suggesting that the first 10 months of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff policy have failed to reduce China’s dominance of the export market.

India, Russia sign Arctic militarization pact: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his “dear friend” Vladimir Putin officially agreed to a “new phase” of naval partnership during Putin’s two-day visit to India last week. It grants India access to ports on Russia’s Northern Sea Route, an increasingly important passageway that shortens voyages between Asia and Northern Europe by nearly 50 percent and bypasses Western nations. Russia will also train Indian sailors and may grant them access to Russian warships. This pact symbolizes Russia’s tightening grip on India despite Western pressure. Watch Asia’s largest powers closely: The Bible prophesies that they will ultimately amass a military of 200 million troops.

Belarussian balloons threaten Lithuania: Meteorological-style balloons from Belarus forced Lithuania to close its main airport multiple times in recent weeks and resulted in a state of emergency yesterday. The balloons are used to smuggle cigarettes into Lithuania and are considered a national security threat due to their potential use in hybrid attacks and the fact that Belarus is a close ally of Russia. During the state of emergency, the government has asked parliament to allow the military to collaborate with the police, border guards and security officials. Aggression tracing back to Russia and Vladimir Putin continues to drive Lithuania and other European nations to militarize and increase cooperation with Germany.

German crime is largely Syrian and Afghan crime: Bild reported today that a German 2024 government report, “Crime in the Context of Immigration,” identified 1,740 suspects of violent crimes for every 100,000 Syrian immigrants. For Afghans, the number was 1,722. For German citizens, the number was 163. The refugee crisis has forever changed Germany, and Germans are beginning to respond.

Paganism rising quickly in the UK: The Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life on Wednesday released the results of a poll that surveyed 2,774 Britons who have recently changed their religious beliefs. Besides atheists and agnostics, the largest group, 11 percent, was comprised of respondents who defined themselves as merely “spiritual.” Just under half of these people identified as pagan, and 7 percent of them identified as Wiccan, a type of modern paganism. Christians in the United Kingdom who forsake their faith are turning to paganism more than any other religion: Census data shows that the number of Britons who identify as pagans has increased by almost 30 percent since 2011. This blatant rejection of the Bible and God was prophesied, as was its consequence to national security.