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  • Posts: 4,044
    Life makes no sense sometimes.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Damn. Sadly, the second officer succumbed to his wounds and passed away. Tragic.
  • Posts: 5,993
    Not according to the latest news I have (at 22.49, according to the french Home Office). So, only one death so far (well, two if you count the shooter himself, but don't think you should).
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Gerard wrote: »
    Not according to the latest news I have (at 22.49, according to the french Home Office). So, only one death so far (well, two if you count the shooter himself, but don't think you should).

    All the details are fuzzy at this point still, definitely saw it reported that two officers had passed, but now the latest information reads as one passing away, and two being injured. Crazy times we're in.
  • RC7RC7
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    vzok wrote: »
    Life makes no sense sometimes.

    This is where religion gets you by the balls.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    RC7 wrote: »
    vzok wrote: »
    Life makes no sense sometimes.

    This is where religion gets you by the balls.
    So true.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    In unrelated news, the Borussia Dortmund bombing seems to have been inspired by Casino Royale. The following is not a satire but based on today's report in www.spiegel.de.

    Police have arrested one 28-year old Sergej W. from Tübingen who allegedly planted the bombs in order to bring the shares of BVB Borussia Dortmund down, and he had taken out a consumer credit to purchase 15,000 put options for the stock. He stayed at the team's hotel at the time, bought the options via the hotel's IP address and had asked for a room with a view at the place of the detonation, probably to trigger the bombs by remote control when the bus passed.

    The suspect has apparently no connections to Islamic circles but planted the "confession letters" to distract from his real motives.
  • Posts: 19,339
    I think they are turning this into a sport....shoot the people....1 point for a normal person,2 for a policeman,3 if you don't get caught,and a 10 point bonus if the only reaction you get from these countries is the same every single time.

    It's actually getting boring now,its the same reports,reactions,every time.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    In unrelated news, the Borussia Dortmund bombing seems to have been inspired by Casino Royale. .

    Which in turn was inspired by the same thing happening prior to Sep 11 2001.
  • Posts: 4,615
    One of the issues re normalisation is that you start being grateful that its not any worse. When you think what one armed madman can do in the centre of Paris, the falatilies could have been far higher.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Speaking of madmen.

    Russia has just outlawed Jehova s Witnesses, on the grounds that it is an extremist organization that endangers the lives and health of its members.
  • Posts: 19,339
    Speaking of madmen.

    Russia has just outlawed Jehova s Witnesses, on the grounds that it is an extremist organization that endangers the lives and health of its members.

    They are a pain in the arse but no more than that surely ....

  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    They harass former members and will rather let their kids die than give them blood transfusion just to name a couple of issues.
  • Posts: 19,339
    ah point taken then Dr,i didn't know that...
  • Posts: 5,993
    Not to mention that they think that role playing games are the tools of the devil. This (former) roleplayer and gamemaster disagrees.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    It will play straight into their own hype and propaganda though. God s people shall be heavily prosecuted in the last days.
  • edited April 2017 Posts: 11,425
    barryt007 wrote: »
    I think they are turning this into a sport....shoot the people....1 point for a normal person,2 for a policeman,3 if you don't get caught,and a 10 point bonus if the only reaction you get from these countries is the same every single time.

    It's actually getting boring now,its the same reports,reactions,every time.

    Yes in a way this is a good thing - although also very said. The less we react and rise to their provocations the more it drives them crazy. What they want is the most heavy handed reaction they can provoke. This is why when Bush invaded Iraq he walked into the Al Quiada trap in a way Bin Laden could only dream of.

    The response has to be cold and steady. More surveillance, undercover and targeted arrests and (where appropriate) military strikes. It will be a long depressing process but this is how the b******ds will be defeated in the end.

    The hysterical response is exactly what they want. Which is precisely why we mustn't give it to them.
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    A man's been arrested after an incident in Whitehall. A witness says he saw two big knives on the floor.
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    Yep apparently British Intelligence knew of him and his objective and stopped him for a 'random' search,when it all kicked off.

    No casualties and we have ourselves a 'live one' to interrogate,er, I mean question.

    Well done MI5,GCHQ and the police etc ...proud of you today,as every day .
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Agreed well done, I'm certain lives were saved today.
  • Posts: 19,339
    Gotcha :

    Now welcome to hell :

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  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    I don't get why he's still alive?

    The police shouldn't even be risking getting themselves slashed by a knife or let alone blown up by his rucksack while they try to nick him.

    Surely you just empty your clip into him don't you?
  • MrcogginsMrcoggins Following in the footsteps of Quentin Quigley.
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    Come on Wiz dead don't talk do they .
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    Mrcoggins wrote: »
    Come on Wiz dead don't talk do they .

    What vital nuggets of intelligence do you think he's going to cough up?

    'I'm a pathetic loser who watches ISIS videos online and just turned up at Parliament with the delusional notion of topping the Cabinet with a five quid kitchen knife from Morrisons.'

    Let's not kid ourselves ISIS are an organised outfit like SMERSH or even the IRA. They're a ragtag band of rabble cowering in caves as Putin and Assad chip away at their pitiful 'caliphate'. They might try and claim every nutter committing a half baked attack is theirs but the reality is the current trend are not terrorists. They are just pitiful flotsam of society with zero intelligence value.

    I'd sooner have him dead than pay for him to live in prison for 25 years.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    I'm with the wiz on that one.
  • MrcogginsMrcoggins Following in the footsteps of Quentin Quigley.
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    As am I,however firstly anything that we can learn from this piece of excrement is better than nothing secondly keeping people locked up and paying for it is the price you pay for being human and not some sort of animal god forbid that we should ever sink to their level
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    The Wiz is correct.
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    Something strange about this latest attack in that the Police/Security services are taking the line that this guy was under surveilance and the arrest was planned. I'm trying to work out why they would let him get anywhere near Parliament and in an area where there are thousands of tourists etc. In a split second, he could have used the knives at any time against any passer by. Im trying to work out why this decision was taken? Do we really want armed terrorists walking the streets of London whilst being shadowed by Police? and was their intel so good and reliable that they know he did not have a firearm? all very strange IMHO
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    patb wrote: »
    Something strange about this latest attack in that the Police/Security services are taking the line that this guy was under surveilance and the arrest was planned. I'm trying to work out why they would let him get anywhere near Parliament and in an area where there are thousands of tourists etc. In a split second, he could have used the knives at any time against any passer by. Im trying to work out why this decision was taken? Do we really want armed terrorists walking the streets of London whilst being shadowed by Police? and was their intel so good and reliable that they know he did not have a firearm? all very strange IMHO

    Probably with the way the law works in this country he would've walked if they had just raided his house and nicked him so they had to catch him virtually red handed. Although even now some lefty lawyer will take the line 'What did he actually do?'

    Will presumably just get done for posession of some knifes and watching jihadi material.

    A couple of years inside playing PlayStation and getting more radicalised and then back out to no doubt end up killing someone. British justice for you.

    Yanks would've double tapped him job done.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    I'm angered by the tolerance our society is de facto showing towards crimes committed by jihadi and other religious nutjobs. They are arrested and then tried and possibly not even for life! We grant them permission to think on their sins and prepare to one day return to society as better people.

    These are lost cases though. Sex offenders could be saved by some miraculously effective therapy; a drunk killing an innocent while driving too fast could make amends in prison and one day try to rebuild his life; even a bank robber could be 'saved'. But jihadi are beyond saving. They cannot be bargained with; they cannot be reasoned with. The very things that typify a civilised person are absent in these lowlifes.

    So you execute. You remove the threat. I understand that's what they want anyway, to enter a non-existent heaven where a non-existent superbeing will treat them to some non-existent virgins. If they want that promised afterlife so much, I'll happily lead them into it.
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