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Thread: Another major (presumably terrorist) incident. Now in Manchester.

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    As far as arms sales go I'd refer you to the classic episode of 'Yes Minister'. 'If we don't sell them weapons they will only buy them somewhere else.' Added to which munitions producers are generally located in marginal constituencies.

    I never agreed with the so called solution to the IRA issue. Blair essentially reduced (did not solve) the problem by giving them what they wanted. I would have stuck with the shoot to kill policy personally but that's just me.

    In any case this incident has nothing to do with arms sales and everything to do with psychopathic nutters. The only important thing is that we never give into them regardless of how many attacks they make.
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    Totally and utterly heart breaking, spoiled my morning to say the least when I got in to work and was told. Cant even begin to imagine what those parents must be going through

    My daughter was set to go to Fridays concert with her friend, likely it will be cancelled now and even if it isnt ...........

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikeyb View Post
    No doubt be one of those radicalised British Caucasians the Police keep saying we need to be wary of, yeah right.

    Cowardly C****S, hung drawn and quartered would be too good for them.
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    Just named the second victim.... she was 8.
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    Won't bother them one iota. Quite the opposite.
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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    Won't bother them one iota. Quite the opposite.
    I know.

    I feel deeply sad, and sick. I fear by end of day the full horror will be unbearable. I can but imagine, and poorly, what these families are going through or are about to go through.
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    The whole thing has left me very sad indeed, those poor people, my thoughts are with them at this terrible time

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    No, I don't think so. Much more complex a problem. No simple solutions. Possibly no difficult solutions either.
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    I believe that a large number of people in Muslim communities don't highlight bad and extreme attitudes of others in that community, because to do so would be to critisise 'their own'. Clearly you can't defend and not report those planning crimes, whatever community you are in, but my impression is these uk born extremists are people who have probably never done harm to people in their lives, but go on to horrendous crimes, so it's an easy thing for knowledge of their views and beliefs not to be challenged by others in their Muslim communities. They just think they won't go onto commit these crimes.

    Also there are many Muslim people in communities that have attitudes that are far opposed to those of other people and religions. In some respects this lack of social cohesion in a societal way has been created by bigger expanding societies of Muslim people for which a pool of extremists is always going to be more. Clearly there are many moderate muslims, but I wonder how many of these moderates do turn a blind eye to others. I think it's a bigger number than we think, but it's beyond comprehension that nobody knew of this suicides bombers attitudes to extremism.

    I don't know how you deal with it, but it strikes me we need to spend a whole lot more on counter terroism, we need to improve laws that make people in all communities, who ignore extreme attitudes of others and who then go into commit terrorist crimes, to be criminalised. We have also paid the price of these attacks by liberal laws which have taken some time to deal with the scumbag people like choudhary and a number of others who have got away with condoning terrorism. He was even allowed onto the tv - the bloody BBC - to spread his terrorist agenda. There are means and way to design these places with scanners and metal detectors to prevent accumulations of people. You don't let people into such places without being scanned and then being able to let bombs off in enclosed spaces within the building. What the bloody hell were the police doing in letting these people at the arena have licenses but they have no policy to screen people and run them past metal detectors. They could have got in with small concealed automatic weapons.

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    Quote Originally Posted by farflungstar View Post
    Whatever the reasons or culpability of what happened last night today there are families in extreme pain - not because of idiots but because of a bigger political game of which we know very little.
    Spot on. We must always look at the bigger picture and apply some lateral thinking, in the aftermath of these atrocities, especially the corruption angle and how the elite/establishment, who insidiously control the world we live in, are liable to benefit.

    An unpalatable thought, perhaps, but unfortunately a realistic one.

    The fact is, some of the most "psychopathic nutters" of all aren't radicalised muslims, but those who occupy high positions within governments, fuelling hatred, which is ultimately why we're all expendable pawns, in their twisted quest to gain ever more wealth and power - and with it an increasing ability to RULE.

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