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Westminster attack
Topic Started: Mar 22 2017, 10:57 PM (560 Views)
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I'm sure you've all heard about it now. 5 (including the attacker) people have died after the attacker ran people down in a car and then stabbed a policeman at the Houses of Parliament. 40 people injured in hospital.
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Had a co-worker question why the paramedics were helping the attacker and giving him first aid after what he had done :\

Regardless of that, quite a dark day really :\


Also, it seems like there's a few unpaid paramedics that were on the scene too! Kudos to these people for helping out and not getting paid for it!
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It is a travesty what happened, it really is. Thoughts and prayers do go out to the families of those whose lives who were lost.

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Mar 23 2017, 01:10 AM
Had a co-worker question why the paramedics were helping the attacker and giving him first aid after what he had done :\
To get answers and then punish him afterwards.
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The attacker, as all of us, is just a human being. A sick one as well. So he should be given first aid, then a trial and then most likely spend his life at a psychiatric institution with most likely not successful attempts at rehabilitiation.
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People have seriously asked in work today, why we didn't deport him? Well, it is simple.... he's English. A home-grown terror attack.
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People have seriously asked in work today, why we didn't deport him?
Yeah this one annoys me as well. Deport him (or them in other cases) where?
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Mar 24 2017, 08:40 PM
A home-grown terror attack.
As they usually tend to be.


The obvious, too soon, joke here would also be deport him to Australia.
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Here's the problem. There is no way to win.

ISIS (Or whatever acronym is being used currently), want to create, panic and terror in these so called terror attacks. A lot of the reasons why they are so brash and usually unexpected, is that it is supposed to bring in the public, to make you feel as though the attacks are too much, and to lash out. The main focus of these attacks are to provoke a reaction, and to "make [government] rash decisions that they otherwise would not choose".

Here's the issue. So, to counteract this, we should all go on being British and sit at home like everything is ok. Let the people in charge know we aren't afraid, and all that. But what about those that died? There's only so much brave face you can put on. It seems like, in the Western World, we would have easily enough fire, and man-power to be able to completely irradiate these issues; but then you are also creating a capitalist state, and enforcing your ideology on the world.

So, there's no way to reason with terrorists, they don't want you alive if you don't like their beliefs, and you can't just get rid of the threat, despite it being illegal by the UN, you'd be polarizing the population, and risking making the issues even worse.

But, how long can you last with your countries people's dying? There's going to come a point where this will come to the boil, and I certainly don't want to be caught up in it.
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You know what happens when a group of people are terrorised by something they can't fight for so long they turn desperate and lash out at the weak to hurt the terrorists? In the West we get nazis, right wing populism and massive rasicm because of ISIS. In Iraq they got ISIS thanks to George Bush and Tony Blairs holy war.

What we need to do is to be decent human beings to other human beings. The reason ISIS attack the West is because they want to avert the attention to the fact that they are losing ground in their homeland - you know, where they kill Muslims to every day, they killed a thousand Iraqis in one day last year if I remember correctly. That did not get a thread here. People who want to stop ISIS need to stop making it so fucking easy for them to recruit. Most western attackers are local westerners, but in the Middle-East all ISIS need to do is to say "Look what the US, France and the UK have done to our lands for a thousand years on and off, and for 70 years straight now" and locals will have a hard time listing positives.

And no. ISIS is not about beliefs. It's all about trying to get back into power, as their leaders are former Iraqi generals.
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I think it's very hard to act like human beings, when there are these attacks. It really doesn't matter what either side is bringing to this, as long as there is unjust killing, and no overarching laws to stop these things happening, there will be no civilized agreement sadly.
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The way to civility is to help people out of the terrible situation they are put in. To do that we need to stop invading contries for fun, and instead support sides that doesn't commit genocide or break basic human rights like those barrel bombs Assad uses in Syria, and all the other things he does. ISIS won't stop unless they are given what they want, and that is to control a state in the Levant. But the land is kind of already taken by Kurds, Turks, Syrians and Iraqis.

Unjust killings happen all the time without people giving a damn, so why irrationally panick because a brown guy kills white people and actually belive ISIS when they say they were behind it.
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It's very hard to be on a side and be in the right. Although I'm on the side of not being killed; whichever that one is.
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