Terrorist Attacks - WARNING: CONTAINS DISTRESSING IMAGES

[ecuk268]

32 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

I thought they said there was no 'terrorist' link rather than 'political' link...

Isn't violence for political ends terrorism?

[hypochondriac]

2 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

That’s not entirely my impression. Raise the Colours activists got behind suspects online enmasse for attacks like this on a regular basis https://news.sky.com/story/council-pulls-down-large-number-of-flags-after-racist-park-attack-13441679

Plenty of support was found online for these incidents too https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/lamppost-flag-campaign-founder-charged-murder-5HjdZt2_2/ and this person was arrested at the Unite the Kingdom March https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx217901n00o

You could pull up examples of equal shittiness from the person at Aberdeen Uni, and some of the comments on Charlie Kirk at the time.

I find it equally vile and a serious illness on our democracy. The reporting doesn’t help often either in terms of enciting grievance on either side of the extreme margins. 

Let's be honest. If Nigel Farage was killed by some lunatic you wouldn't get anywhere near the reaction that we got for the horrible murder of Jo Cox for example. Many people would be suggesting he deserved it and the media response would be mixed at best. 

[trousers]

1 minute ago, hypochondriac said:

Let's be honest. If Nigel Farage was killed by some lunatic you wouldn't get anywhere near the reaction that we got for the horrible murder of Jo Cox for example. Many people would be suggesting he deserved it and the media response would be mixed at best. 

"He's one of those c***s, innit..."

[aintforever]

1 hour ago, egg said:

I thought they said not politically linked initially, but may be wrong. 

I thought they just said there was no evidence to suggest it was at that stage, or words to that effect. That obviously changes when they find evidence to the contrary and then they call in the anti-terrorism lot. Seems like standard procedure to me.

Edited 1 hour ago by aintforever