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Are we talking Twitter time (2mins = an age) or normal time?
The emergency services deserve enormous credit for the swiftness of their response. That may very well make a difference.
We need a return to common law, away from cultural sensitivities and Sharia nonsense. That also means everyone is treated equally under the law. Even reprehensible men have certain rights, much as it might stick in the craw. That is, ultimately, the difference between civilisation and barbarity.
[That said, if any perpetrator were to develop kidney stones, I would not necessarily drown in tears].
three hours stuck in the London Eye
poor sods
https://twitter.com/EmmaWasp1/status/844605332445958144
I don't look at twitter too much these days, other than accounts of fairly mainstream journos. That sort of tweet reminds me why.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_shootings_at_Parliament_Hill,_Ottawa
On 21/7 I was there with Mum. I'd noticed that they'd stoped loading new passengers on and then saw the area flooded with armed police and dogs. Never been so fearful as when they let us off and all phone signals were down...
As a true Englishman, I also believe in the rule of law.
20 injured
Twenty injured.
At least 20 people injured.
Thought to be one attacker.
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/844594059679334400
It is far easier to deal with a conspiracy than it is with an individual.
I don't see it happening soon - if at all.
In reply to earlier points:
- The Parliamentary estate is huge, rambling and full of obscure rooms, cupboards, etc. - I don't think I ever saw it all in 13 years. So it's appropriate for the police to want to do a thorough search, and it would be reasonable to suspend proceedings this week while that's carried out, if there is any reason to think that someone might have got in. If they're confident that they didn't, apart from the dead man, then IMO business should resume.
- It ought not to have been possible for the attacker to enter the main hall with a knife and a review of security is needed if that happened. Essentially you need to go through airport-style security unless you actually work there yourself.
I concur with everything that's been said about the swift reactions and about Ellwood's actions - he should be rightly proud of himself and I hope he isn't haunted by the experience. There must be individual officers whose names we don't know who also deserve special praise when the dust has settled. It's very easy for people in apparently routine security jobs to be slow to react, and it's wonderful when they rise to the occasion.
Irish terrorism had a discernible political objective that could be, if not achieved wholly, sought partially through peaceful means. Islamic terrorism seems to have no comparable objective beyond, ultimately, establishing a caliphate and imposing Sharia generally.
Incidentally, I think it's fair enough neither Khan nor May have commented yet, as the situation appears to be ongoing.
Hat off to the guy
ir's quite noticeable that the ladies whose faces you see are mostly over fifty, all the younger ones screen their faces and wear black. This is a community which is de-integrating and sees itself as a group apart.how the hell this is going to change this is beyond me.
https://twitter.com/LaStampa/status/844610940188475392
A known threat if correct.
#WestminsterAttack: Attacker "zigzagged" through street https://t.co/IDjeuEXsB9 https://t.co/mm97TT5VZW
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If it is the same guy, he had a 2 year sentence after a trial in Jan 2016.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/islamic-extremists-jailed-serious-deliberate-7142974
Although I suppose it would have been on Gove's watch?
.... quite an odd feeling. (I know deja vu always is, but still).
I hope there isn't a worse attack in the next few days.
Edited extra bit: whilst I'm being self-indulgent (I hope you don't mind), I once had deja vu solidly for about 30 minutes. It was bloody weird, and I was rather relieved when it stopped.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/20/tesla-model-s-chinese-hack-remote-control-brakes
He would have been out in 12 months, minus time in prison awaiting trial...
Unless someone is under house arrest, they will be allowed a certain amount of freedom of movement around their home city.
How do you propose we see into their minds?