A Political Thread

[Which Tyler]

With a little more information, sounds like a car mounted the pavement on Westminster Bridge, injuring pedestrians (including French school kids), killing 2, knocking one into the river, since rescued alive.
1 perp runs to Westminster Palace and stabs a copper; there may or may not be a 2nd perp too (BBC, the Met officially don't think so).
Then towards more cops who see him coming and shoot him 3 times.

4 dead, 20 wounded.


Sounds like the sort of rabid lone-wolf, which is impossible to prevent. May be terrorism, may be suicide-by-police.

Terror classification gives the cops extra powers to find out, and find out if he was acting alone or co-ordinated

 

[McTallshort]

So one has been shot? Saw a picture of someone being arrested at Gun point. Could be two of them

 

[McTallshort]

Suspect is alive. Captured after being shot. Looks like a jihadie

 

[Gavin]

And on the same day as the attack in London, US-led coalition jets kill at least 33 civilians at a school near Raqqa

 

[McTallshort]

And on the same day as the attack in London, US-led coalition jets kill at least 33 civilians at a school near Raqqa

Your point being

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

Your point being

idk the timeline, just did short google, but could be a retaliation against western governments and their treatments of muslim world

puts on tin foil hat: london attack was staged to cover up the bombings. takes off tin foil hat

 

[McTallshort]

How about the number of Muslim's that kill other Muslim's?

Or this has nothing to do with that and it's just a psychotic idiot using any excuse he can to do what he wants to which is kill.

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

How about the number of Muslim's that kill other Muslim's?

Or this has nothing to do with that and it's just a psychotic idiot using any excuse he can to do what he wants to which is kill.

Attacker was killed as well I think.

 

[McTallshort]

Attacker was killed as well I think.

Oh dear what a shame

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

How about the number of Muslim's that kill other Muslim's?

Or this has nothing to do with that and it's just a psychotic idiot using any excuse he can to do what he wants to which is kill.

ugh, just because something is a problem doesn't mean that other things that are problem don't exist

of course muslims killing muslims is a problem, but it seems to only be brought up as a convenient excuse to not talk about western bombings of muslim countries. It's the same with black on black crime here, no white person cares about it until and a cop kills a black man, then it's all white people want to talk about.

no one is saying this man should get off because of the air strikes, but the fact that they occurred on the same day is an interesting path to explore

 

[McTallshort]

ugh, just because something is a problem doesn't mean that other things that are problem don't exist

of course muslims killing muslims is a problem, but it seems to only be brought up as a convenient excuse to not talk about western bombings of muslim countries. It's the same with black on black crime here, no white person cares about it until and a cop kills a black man, then it's all white people want to talk about.

no one is saying this man should get off because of the air strikes, but the fact that they occurred on the same day is an interesting path to explore

So the people in London deserve what they got?

 

[McTallshort]

And how many times have bombs hit civilians over the last 15 years?

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

And on the same day as the attack in London, US-led coalition jets kill at least 33 civilians at a school near Raqqa

More likely to do with the Belgium attack a year ago today.

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

So the people in London deserve what they got?

did those children deserve to die?

i said that the guy shouldn't get off because of the airstrikes

it is possible for two bad things to happen in one day, the world is a complex place

since 2014 the US military has admitted to killing 119 civilians in airstrikes in just Syria alone

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33 children die in Syria and three die in london... and you find the one in syria to be the one we dismiss

 

[McTallshort]

Who's dismissed it?

 

[Gavin]

More likely to do with the Belgium attack a year ago today.

I make no link between the attack on London and the bombing of a school near Raqqa, the comment was merely to put it in perspective that civilians being killed is happening everywhere but how it is spoken about it completely different.

Take for example the US-led coalition push to take Mosul, human rights groups claim that more civilians are being displaced and killed than the Syrian push to liberate Aleppo - yet it is not front-page news and I see no flags or hashtags claiming that people stand with the people of Raqqa.

Your point being

See above

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

Who's dismissed it?

when you say "your point being" it sounds a lot like "so what?"

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Mind I'm finding it annoying how butthurt some Americans are over our use of the terms Asian. If they are from the continent of Asia they are Asian in my eyes.

Some Americans seem to think the British press are using it as a PC term or something

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

Mind I'm finding it annoying how butthurt some Americans are over our use of the terms Asian. If they are from the continent of Asia they are Asian in my eyes.

Some Americans seem to think the British press are using it as a PC term or something

that's cause we don't really learn history outside of the united states and europe and we certainly don't learn any type of geography

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and our european history is, they allowed hitler to do bad things and we came in and saved the day... earlier european history is christians saved the barbarian savages

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

that's cause we don't really learn history outside of the united states and europe and we certainly don't learn any type of geography

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and our european history is, they allowed hitler to do bad things and we came in and saved the day... earlier european history is christians saved the barbarian savages

I figured but my god it is so annoying.

"He isn't Asian, why lump them with the Chinese etc it's not fair etc etc" So much facepalm.

I bet a lot of Americans think the Middle East is a continent. (No offense Mole you clearly are on the ball with this kind of stuff).