Finsbury Park Van Attack

[Armageus]

You guys treading the same ground over and over. If you step back and read it it's actually pretty sad.

And going completely off topic despite numerous warnings - unfortunately thread bans are now being issued.

 

[dowie]

"Muslims" (don't you mean terrorists/ISIS here), hoped for retaliation and isolationist policies against Muslims in the west to help draw more people to their "cause".

nope I meant muslims in general - point is the argument was supposed to be absurd just as the argument it highlighted was... it was just flipping the same argument around to highlight it as flawed

can't really discuss further as potentially going off topic

 

[MrMarvelous]

What a shame.

I can see why people call it 'Londonistan' though.

 

[Freakbro]

Classy:

Son of Finsbury Park van hire company owner says: ‘It’s a shame we don’t hire out tanks’
http://metro.co.uk/2017/06/20/son-o...its-a-shame-they-dont-hire-out-tanks-6720775/

What a scumbag, I hope Stobarts have sacked him

 

[StriderX]

What a scumbag, I hope Stobarts have sacked him

Truck drivers and racism? No way.

 

[Schlong&Stable]

What a scumbag, I hope Stobarts have sacked him

The fact he's been arrested is absurd.

 

[IronWarrior]

Classy:

Son of Finsbury Park van hire company owner says: ‘It’s a shame we don’t hire out tanks’
http://metro.co.uk/2017/06/20/son-o...its-a-shame-they-dont-hire-out-tanks-6720775/

How sad that our freedom of speech has been destroyed in this country.

 

[StriderX]

How sad that our freedom of speech has been destroyed in this country.

Really? I wholeheartedly embrace totalitarianism if it targets the racists first, who asked for the police state in the first place.

 

[h4rm0ny]

What a scumbag, I hope Stobarts have sacked him

It's his son who made the statements so no sacking possible, unless you want to hold parents responsible for the stupid things their kids say. Which I suspect anyone who's ever been a parent would be terrified of.

******* horrible thing to say and horrible person, nonetheless.

 

[Roar87]

Truck drivers and racism? No way.

Without a shred of irony he generalises a group consisting of thousands of individual people as racist. Hilarious.

 

[Gerard]

How sad that our freedom of speech has been destroyed in this country.

Yeah, by potentially about a larger vehicle to potentially do more damage and death.

 

[LOAM]

Really? I wholeheartedly embrace totalitarianism if it targets the racists first, who asked for the police state in the first place.

This^

It wouldnt have been long before you were arrested for saying something similar on WhatsApp or via email if May had got her way.

 

[StriderX]

Without a shred of irony he generalises a group consisting of thousands of individual people as racist. Hilarious.

Nah i also have plenty of anecdotal evidence to throw at this, but i wont bother.

 

[Craterloads]

How sad that our freedom of speech has been destroyed in this country.

So condoning terrorists attacks is fine by you then? What a weird comment and quite telling...

 

[IronWarrior]

Really? I wholeheartedly embrace totalitarianism

I guess you would had voted for the Nazi Party back in the 1933 too I guess.

 

[mrk]

It's his son who made the statements so no sacking possible, unless you want to hold parents responsible for the stupid things their kids say. Which I suspect anyone who's ever been a parent would be terrified of.

******* horrible thing to say and horrible person, nonetheless.

I should stress that this "son" isn't just a kid, he's a 27yr old fully grown adult saying such things. Words can become hate crimes too, and rightfully so. What he said is inexcusable, and it's a shame his dad's business will take a big loss from it.

I think some people here need a reality check if they condone any sort of display of hate to the point where they support people who are happy to publicly wish for murder on innocent people. Arrest those people and charge them with hate crimes. Freedom of speech shouldn't apply to such people, and those very people hold society back from progressing as one nation undivided.

 

[StriderX]

I guess you would had voted for the Nazi Party back in the 1933 too I guess.

Strangely i have no idea, because i have no clue what it was like in 1933 Germany (probably ****), but they didnt do much in 1933 to attract much Ire.

 

[Skunkworks]

So condoning terrorists attacks is fine by you then? What a weird comment and quite telling...

Arresting someone who cracked a distasteful joke on the internet is only going to cause more radicalism.

 

[Craterloads]

Arresting someone who cracked a distasteful joke on the internet is only going to cause more radicalism.

Where was the joke?

 

[Arazi]

It's sad that when something like this happens you have certain people saying "look, look, we get terrorist attacks too!" - as if that somehow makes things even? It's ridiculous. It needs to be stamped out - whoever is doing it, not used as some sort of defence (for lack of a better word).

Agree, it is becoming some kind of get out clause, like "terrorism has no religion", I am getting bored with it.