Terrorist Attacks 08:51 - Mar 23 with 4930 views | TLA | On Radio 5 Live they just said that yesterday's terrorist attack was the first to slip through the counter-terrorism net since the murder of Lee Rigby. I was a little surprised because I remember an MP being murdered in the street by someone with extreme views. Is the murder of Jo Cox not a considered a terrorist attack (and if not, why not)? | | | | |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:26 - Mar 23 with 713 views | Steve_M |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:25 - Mar 23 by vapour_trail | I rarely catch the news on tv but I'm connected most of the time. I wouldn't say it was widely reported like the Paris incident. Clearly London was a different scale. |
Glassers is critiquing Benters here not the NI one Vapers. | |
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Terrorist Attacks on 09:27 - Mar 23 with 713 views | Swansea_Blue |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:25 - Mar 23 by Steve_M | A quick google shows that the Mail, FT and Times all have. |
That's what google want you to think..... | |
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Terrorist Attacks on 09:28 - Mar 23 with 712 views | factual_blue |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:24 - Mar 23 by Benters | I was talking about on here . |
Do you actually come from Glasgow? | |
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Terrorist Attacks on 09:28 - Mar 23 with 713 views | Steve_M |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:24 - Mar 23 by Benters | I was talking about on here . |
Ah, you're point scoring then. Anything non-football related that happens in the middle of the working day will get more comment on here than something at a weekend. It's a function of the number of people online rather than anything else. | |
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Terrorist Attacks on 09:30 - Mar 23 with 693 views | factual_blue |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:28 - Mar 23 by Steve_M | Ah, you're point scoring then. Anything non-football related that happens in the middle of the working day will get more comment on here than something at a weekend. It's a function of the number of people online rather than anything else. |
It's Benters. He misses points rather than scores them. | |
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Terrorist Attacks on 09:32 - Mar 23 with 684 views | GlasgowBlue |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:26 - Mar 23 by Steve_M | Glassers is critiquing Benters here not the NI one Vapers. |
I'm criquing both. Genders is clearly wrong as Paris was covered extensively but the NI bomb revived coverage from all the media outlets. | |
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Terrorist Attacks on 09:36 - Mar 23 with 656 views | dryas |
Terrorist Attacks on 08:59 - Mar 23 by factual_blue | I think we all know why. |
Indeed. | | | | Login to get fewer ads
Terrorist Attacks on 09:37 - Mar 23 with 647 views | GlasgowBlue |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:36 - Mar 23 by dryas | Indeed. |
I thought the BBC was the finest most reliable and impartial news outlet in the world? | |
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Terrorist Attacks on 09:39 - Mar 23 with 644 views | dryas |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:06 - Mar 23 by factual_blue | The dissident republican attacks in N Ireland are deliberately being ignored/played down. This has the possible consequence of causing the perpetrators to launch an attack in England. |
Was there not always an approach like that during the Troubles? Certainly compared to the hysteria over attacks like yesterday although clearly there are significant differences in the nature of the attacks employed and the modern media landscape reporting the news. | | | |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:41 - Mar 23 with 639 views | factual_blue |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:36 - Mar 23 by dryas | Indeed. |
Quite | |
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Terrorist Attacks on 09:42 - Mar 23 with 644 views | Guthrum |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:05 - Mar 23 by Bluefish | I constantly have the debate with my family that It is safer from terror attacks than it has been in the past 40 years. They voted leave and I am sure it is because they feel the country is dangerous due to IS and immigration. I showed then the statistics on terror attacks in the UK for each decade which proves it but they still don't agree. 7/7 was nearly 12 years ago and while they doesn't make it ok you will always have nutters that attack people. |
One of the worst periods for terrorism was the 1970s. You had the Weather Underground and other groups in the USA (now largely forgotten), the IRA, INLA and Unionist groups in the UK, various Palestinian organisations, the Red Brigades and some right-wing groups in Italy, Red Army Faction/Baader-Meinhof in Germany, the Japanese Red Army and many others, including anti-communist and separatist groups - all of them very active with bombings and murders (tho the WU tended to go for property damage rather than killings). Barely a year would go by without at least one terrorist aircraft hijacking. [Post edited 23 Mar 2017 9:44]
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Terrorist Attacks on 09:48 - Mar 23 with 616 views | No9 |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:25 - Mar 23 by Steve_M | A quick google shows that the Mail, FT and Times all have. |
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Terrorist Attacks on 09:50 - Mar 23 with 616 views | No9 |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:42 - Mar 23 by Guthrum | One of the worst periods for terrorism was the 1970s. You had the Weather Underground and other groups in the USA (now largely forgotten), the IRA, INLA and Unionist groups in the UK, various Palestinian organisations, the Red Brigades and some right-wing groups in Italy, Red Army Faction/Baader-Meinhof in Germany, the Japanese Red Army and many others, including anti-communist and separatist groups - all of them very active with bombings and murders (tho the WU tended to go for property damage rather than killings). Barely a year would go by without at least one terrorist aircraft hijacking. [Post edited 23 Mar 2017 9:44]
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Yes, that has all been forgotten | | | |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:52 - Mar 23 with 609 views | GlasgowBlue |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:50 - Mar 23 by No9 | Yes, that has all been forgotten |
Forgotten by whom? | |
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Terrorist Attacks on 09:54 - Mar 23 with 601 views | usm |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:52 - Mar 23 by GlasgowBlue | Forgotten by whom? |
Whats been forgotten ? | |
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Terrorist Attacks on 09:54 - Mar 23 with 593 views | Benters |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:28 - Mar 23 by factual_blue | Do you actually come from Glasgow? |
No why ? | |
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Terrorist Attacks on 09:55 - Mar 23 with 590 views | Swansea_Blue |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:52 - Mar 23 by GlasgowBlue | Forgotten by whom? |
Probably the massive chunk of the population who weren't even born then, for starters. | |
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Terrorist Attacks on 09:56 - Mar 23 with 590 views | GlasgowBlue |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:54 - Mar 23 by usm | Whats been forgotten ? |
Apparently we have forgotten that the worst period for terrorist attacks was the 1970's. Not for those of us who are old enough to remember it. [Post edited 23 Mar 2017 9:57]
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Terrorist Attacks on 09:56 - Mar 23 with 586 views | No9 |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:52 - Mar 23 by GlasgowBlue | Forgotten by whom? |
Obviously by a lot of people who were not born or were very young at the time. For those of us with young families we lived with TV screens full of violence almost daily weary that a trip to London may end in disaster And those who travelled by air will recall having to leve the aircraft away from the terminal being met by the military and having to select our luggage at the aircraft before boarding a bus to the terminal - that was how security mined Europe was then | | | |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:57 - Mar 23 with 584 views | GlasgowBlue |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:55 - Mar 23 by Swansea_Blue | Probably the massive chunk of the population who weren't even born then, for starters. |
Well obviously. It's not a case of forgetting it if you weren't alive during that period. | |
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Terrorist Attacks on 09:57 - Mar 23 with 584 views | Guthrum |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:52 - Mar 23 by GlasgowBlue | Forgotten by whom? |
Specifically (in my post) the Weather Underground and similar groups However, a lot of the rest is downplayed by those who want to portray things as progressively getting worse. | |
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Terrorist Attacks on 09:59 - Mar 23 with 578 views | Swansea_Blue |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:57 - Mar 23 by GlasgowBlue | Well obviously. It's not a case of forgetting it if you weren't alive during that period. |
Increasingly forgotten by society as a whole. I shouldn't need to explain - we 'remember' the First World War, even though I'm assuming none on here were alive then*. *ignoring the obvious joke | |
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Terrorist Attacks on 10:00 - Mar 23 with 575 views | GlasgowBlue |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:57 - Mar 23 by Guthrum | Specifically (in my post) the Weather Underground and similar groups However, a lot of the rest is downplayed by those who want to portray things as progressively getting worse. |
I don't think people who lived through those days have forgotten them and are trying to portray the period we live in as more dangerous. To a younger generation though it must seem that the world has gone tits up since 2001. Some people were lucky enough to have lived in a period of relative calm leading up to that date. | |
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Terrorist Attacks on 10:01 - Mar 23 with 559 views | Guthrum |
Terrorist Attacks on 09:56 - Mar 23 by GlasgowBlue | Apparently we have forgotten that the worst period for terrorist attacks was the 1970's. Not for those of us who are old enough to remember it. [Post edited 23 Mar 2017 9:57]
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On into the '80s as well. Remember seeing damage from the Harrods bombing. | |
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