BREAKING: New terrorist attack in London

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  1. Tererune

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    In their defense we do have a legal process here in America and trampling on people's rights because someone saw something is still against how we are allowed to act. You do need some probable cause still, at least for a couple more weeks u til trump can eliminate it so he can send Kathy Griffin to the gas chamber on terrorism charges.
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  2. We Are Borg

    We Are Borg Fir Defamsation

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    None of which makes those deaths any more acceptable.

    Accepting "terrorism" as a fact of life is wrong-headed at best.
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  3. We Are Borg

    We Are Borg Fir Defamsation

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    What's with the :baba: @shootER?

    Please explain.
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  4. Ebeneezer Goode

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    1) After the Manchester attack, several Muslim doctors worked their fucking balls off helping people, so no, they're not all animals.

    2) Deport them... Where? Many Muslims are second/third generation, and we have converts as, like with Judaism, there is a blur between race and religion. Where, exactly, would you deport a white Muslim whose family have been here for centuries? We'd need a fucking time machine to deport them to Thuringia and Saxony.

    Muslims do an awful lot of good in the UK, and I'd hate to see it undone because of some nutters. And in this case I'm not on about the stabby and explody nutters.
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  5. Ebeneezer Goode

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    Ummm, no. We don't 'accept' any of those as a fact of life, because if we do they're suddenly normalised. Try stating the following at a women's conference:

    And ask for the keyring they'll quite rightly make out of your balls.

    Shit does indeed happen, but simply accepting it?

    This bit I agree with, the media make it into a big thing which does not help. Just increases the fear and gives the oxygen of publicity.
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  6. matthunter

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    Dinner and Skrain's mindsets are precisely those needed to get in a van and drive it into a crowd of innocent people, because fuck 'em they're all animals, right?
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  7. Rincewiend

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    And according to the Theory of Evolution that would be the African continent...
  8. Bickendan

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    Hey Dinner:
    Fuck you. :)
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  9. We Are Borg

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    BTW, this post wasn't endorsing some sort of mass deportation or the bullshit espoused by Dinner.

    I was lamenting the fact that no one yet seems to have figured out how to deal with these assholes, particularly when it turns out that they were on some sort of watchlist to begin with.

    And, knowing government, it means some sort of overreaction where TERRORISM! is used as a means to curtail rights. Just like the WAR ON DRUGS! was used in a similar fashion. :(
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  10. Ebeneezer Goode

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    With the Manchester one he'd been to Libya for a few weeks, his family were active on social media with extremist views, he'd had a big fucking ISIS flag on his roof and there was plenty of curious CCTV footage.

    Obviously they couldn't have known a thing without the ability to read his WhatsApp messages. There were just no clues whatsoever!

    Governments tend to overreact because the other option would be to realise how dense they are. Maybe we need to put artificial intelligence on the side and see if we cam jimmy up a self-aware government. Now that would be a fucking advance in human development.

    Meanwhile Theresa May has announced "enough is enough." Apparently three attacks in four months is the limit we can digest before having a government review.
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  11. Dan Leach

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  12. shootER

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    Not sure. Must've accidentally hit it when I was on my phone.
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  13. The Original Faceman

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    Why not? We've accepted crime and gun violence. We have prisons full of such criminals. We're ok with the behavior. It's just the religion angle that we don't like.
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  14. Skrain Dukat

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    The problem is when these attacks happen they authorities go ya they were under suspicion and were probably gonna murder but instead if tailing them and finding the terrorist ringleader and their weapons cache and bomb factories, political correctness and kid gloves towards Mohammed's Special Exemptions kept us from stopping a murderous rampage
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  15. Ten Lubak

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    Yeah except it just came to light that England has foiled 5 credible attacks over the last few months.

    The notion that governments use kid gloves when it come to potential terrorists is asinine and untrue. That sort of shit is investigated heavily and frequently.

    Unless you prefer a total suspension of the rights we enjoy in western civilization?
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  16. Dayton Kitchens

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    Visiting London is still a dream of mine and my wife. She wants to see all the major, famous sites. I want to visit as many bookstores as possible. El Chup has said that its the best city in the world for bookstores. I want to take 2 or 3,000 dollars (or equivalent euros) to do nothing but buy books and magazines.

    I bet I could purchase enough reading material to keep me busy for a couple of years.
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  17. Ten Lubak

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    They use pounds not euros. :facepalm:
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  18. The Original Faceman

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    And suitcases to transport thousands of pounds worth of books back home?
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  20. Ebeneezer Goode

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    I'm also curious how @Dinner would stop all Muslims coming in a country, or deport them all.
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  21. Ebeneezer Goode

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    You make it over, let me know, figure I owe you a couple of drinks for being a good sport over the years.
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  22. The Original Faceman

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    Show him London Bridge. Really bury the hatchet.
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    Too soon? :unsure:
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    Further, counterterrorism experts came out and said they wouldn't have stopped those five planned attacks without the cooperation of the Muslim community in identifying extremists, and one explicitly said "no other European nation has as good a community interaction as the UK when it comes to reporting extremists".

    But Dinner wants to say "fuck you" to these people and ship them abroad and nuke any nation that won't take 'em because it's easier.

    Because he's as sick in the head as the cunts that attacked last night, only more of a pussy because he'll never actually fight for his twisted ideology. Thank fuck.
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    Ah, the Flashlight/Soma dumbrep combo. It's like a rosette proclaiming that you're still a halfway decent human being.
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  26. Shirogayne

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    Thank fuck, indeed.

    My area of San Diego has a sizeable Muslim population that is like to see remain intact. :garamet:
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  27. mburtonk

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    Where's Dinner? Sleeping it off?

    Seriously, would be fun to take all of his posts and do some data mining.
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  28. Dan Leach

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    What utter bullshit.
    These guys had a vehicle and then knives. If they had lived in a country with an idiotic armed populace like your own then they wouldn't have arrived with knives, they would have arrived with guns, probably a lot of them.
    Then this would have been a lot worse.
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  29. Dayton Kitchens

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    I figure 1,000 dollars (or equivalent) would get me anywhere from 30-100 books or 50 books and say 100 magazines give or take.

    So many great magazines are published in United Kingdom.
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  30. ed629

    ed629 Morally Inept Banned

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    How would you get them home?