What's your grand plan then?
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What's your grand plan then?
Soldato
In Birmingham the Villa and blues fans got together and trashed every know IRA pub\club. Large gangs of vigilantes walking the city centre at night.
That's why the RIA never bombed Birmingham again. But they did bomb other city's time and time again.
I think we are at a tipping point and no matter how many candles people light, it will kick off sooner or later.
Soldato
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Isn't this part of the problem though? Rather than pointing individual examples of why these people may be wrong, misinformed etc. they are simply shut down and people are told their views are irrelevant. Where are people to go when it's only the outspoken people that are calling things as they see them? It certainly isn't in the other direction where we live in some imagined utopia.
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Ironically this latest terrorist was a cannabis user.
indeed - though if anything views like theirs are only likely to increase in popularity after attacks like these
None of them are shut down, they continue to be able to say whatever they want (more or less, there are libel laws that exist for example) and some are given platforms in widely-circulated newspapers and on talk radio. But just because they know their audience and tailor a message towards it doesn't add any credence to what they are saying. Especially in the case of Piers, who exists just to take up a contrarian view on literally everything so his name is mentioned more often.
There is a VAST difference between the Irish and many from the middle east, the religion is also vastly different
hmm - unfortunately the political figures on the left don't give me too much confidence on the issue of terrorism... perhaps more confidence on increases in benefits etc.. but certainly not security - in fact they've not got a great history re: terrorist groups as it is (though I'm not sure how far down this road we can go as it then turns into a political discussion which belongs in a different thread has been stopped for a bit)
Soldato
it will be which ever units/sub-units that hold the commitment at the time, which will most likely be a broad spectrum from the reg units.
Very heavy one as well which might explain his actions.
It's currently 16 air assault brigade, then it will rotate.
Soldato
I can't see there being any special ROE, it'll be your regular Card Alpha, self defense or immediate threat to life.
Associate
Fair enough. One of my best friends is in the army, he was in 2 Para for quite a few years, moved into Special Forces and now I barely ever hear from him. I remember him saying that when he was in the Paras that they spent a lot of time sitting around on X-Box as they didn't have the budget to do anything else (shooting range, parachuting etc) so figured Army brass might actually get them doing something productive
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Never mind that cannabis (and all narcotics) are religiously forbidden, but this guy was obviously a devout Muslim, right?
So you are advocating United and City fans gather together and trash every Mosque as a solution to this?
Is this what scorza means as well by "rise up and fight" I wonder?
Yeah every time i smoke a spliff I feel like blowing people up in the name of a magic sky wizard
The excuses some people use to try and avoid the issue with ISLAM is hilarious
Soldato
I think you're missing the point, Neil. The IRA bombed Birmingham without my consent, just as this recent nutter bombed the Manchester Arena without the consent of any individual Muslim.
The differences between Islam and Catholicism is completely irrelevant to the point being made.
Careful, dribbling that much on your keyboard can break it.
You do realise don't you that other non-liberal countries, say for example, China has had far more terrorist attacks than Sweden and it's far more a massive problem....?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_Sweden