Off-Kilter
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I just watched an eyewitness claim there were three attackers, two of which fled and currently at large.
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Terrorist attack: Driver runs over Muslim pedestrians leaving Mosque in London
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Does the KKK or Brexit have a twitter or...?
GHG
Gold Member
I'm shocked.
The press will bend over backwards to give the guys involved an out.
"They were drunk"
"It was unplanned"
"They were mentally unstable"
"They had a hard life"
"His goldfish died yesterday"
It's disgusting. Call a spade a spade you cowards.
wanderingprostheyltite
Member
Wrong thread
I mean, kind of...
It's not that much of stretch to say that voices like Tommy Robinson or Katie Hopkins have the same effect on Right-Wing violent groups and it's members as someone like Anjem Choudary had on violent Muslims.
BlastProcessing
Member
That is fucking vile.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
An eye for an eye will make the world go blind.
Rest in Peace to the victims that have been affected by all these recent terror attacks.
Rest in Peace to the victims that have been affected by all these recent terror attacks.
Simply Sami
Member
Eww can we not post Tommy Robinson or Kate Hopkin tweets. Both are vile dogs that don't deserve any attention.
Police statement confirming one person is dead. Pronounced at the scene. 8 injured and taken to hospitals. No sign of knife injury.
Members of counter terrorism Command are at the scene.
Sky now saying "Police investigating suspected terror attack" since the police statement came out.
Police statement
Members of counter terrorism Command are at the scene.
Sky now saying "Police investigating suspected terror attack" since the police statement came out.
Police statement
RIP
ripUsually, I'd be against posting that shit but to me this is a clear source of Right-Wing radicalisation. It's highly likely that the perpetrator(s) consumed some form of British Nationalistic propaganda; with Tommy Robinson being the loudest voice in that cesspool.
This stuff needs to be recognised because it makes me ashamed of being British.
vonStirlitz
Unconfirmed Member
At what point do you open your eyes to realise your entire society is fucked up, when assholes from either spectrum think its okay to drive vehicles through crowds of innocents, based on their uncontrolled hate and resentment, and where the national press feeds hatred against foreigners, judges, or whomever, and where the government feeds hatred, whether by rejecting its membership of international cooperative bodies, or by bombing the shit out of poor nations.
The hate sink in the UK runs really deep sometimes. Societally, it is really fucked up.
Someone needs to take out tge whipping stick against any preachers of hate, whether they are fundamentalist preachers, right wing fucknuts, or toxic newspaper editors.
The hate sink in the UK runs really deep sometimes. Societally, it is really fucked up.
Someone needs to take out tge whipping stick against any preachers of hate, whether they are fundamentalist preachers, right wing fucknuts, or toxic newspaper editors.
RIP. Hopefully the injured are able to recover.
Yeah, that's an influential right wing figure (EDL) saying that they had it coming.
We need to be ashamed of these people.
No additional suspects have been reported yet. Don't know where that person from earlier in the thread got that info from.
However, investigations are still ongoing (obviously).
Several people being interviewed mentioned it on sky. Though most just heard it from others and 1 guy said he saw them
Ah, ok. Well hopefully they were mistaken, but I guess we'll find out soon enough.
Yea the same happened on Sky news in a live interview. Good on them for saying it out loud
Can we get the title edited to reflect the injured and death number
They've been mentioned by at least one witness to the scene.
Any reason they're not taking them seriously (at least publicly) you think?
Like maybe to stop news of a manhunt for 2 other terrorists making the cycle, perhaps?
It's just messed up.
Domestic "terrorists", in the bridge attack, people paint a whole religion and say shit about how we need to ban people who go to such countries... What genius idea do they have for an attack like this?
It should be scarier, because there's no (obvious), ignorant solution. It's just "gee, that dude is crazy, but what can we do? There's nothing special about this dude, discriminating against him is discriminating against ourselves."
I am expecting my boss to talk about "white English people" today or perhaps not even mention it at all. I don't expect him to talk about and equivalent that we should keep an eye on people whose parents are from Syria or shit.
The problem is how media as a whole is a fucking gas lights ignorant hate in all kinds of people and feeds these insane people these bullshit reasons to be angry enough to do something.
But no, now this news is just going to become "can white people be terrorists" and that's it.
As far as I can tell, it was just the one person who said there were three individuals. There were also reports of a stabbing but the police have stated that "there are no reports of any persons having suffered any knife injuries".
One of the witnesses who apprehended the van driver made no mention of anyone else.
Edit: At least two witnesses stating there were three individuals.
Bruce Springsteen
Member
It's sad and pathetic
It must be called what it is, the PC game isn't helping a damn thing
Air Zombie Meat
Member
Yes that's the real tragedy here, an extra hour and a half to reach the same page count.
It's 5:30 am, can we at least wait until people are up before we rage about the coverage.
I always thought that we were above terrorism selectiveness because of the troubles, but now I wonder if we only care about the skin colour of the victim rather than that of the perpetrator.
I hope I'm proved wrong and that this gets properly covered.
Bruce Springsteen
Member
terrorist attacks are not random
Bitch Pudding
Member
Daily Mail - of all tabloids - calls it a terrorist attack.
http://www.*****************/news/a...rested-van-ploughs-people-outside-mosque.html
They also released a video clip showing the arrest of the suspect, screaming "I'm gonna kill all Muslims".
http://www.*****************/news/article-4616728/I-m-proud-ve-kill-kill-me.html
http://www.*****************/news/a...rested-van-ploughs-people-outside-mosque.html
They also released a video clip showing the arrest of the suspect, screaming "I'm gonna kill all Muslims".
http://www.*****************/news/article-4616728/I-m-proud-ve-kill-kill-me.html
Wasn't one being treated as a live rolling attack with armed police scouring London for attackers and information not being released regarding the perpetrators being stopped until many hours later?
This attack was a one and done where the perpetrator was identified as being stopped almost as soon as the attack had been reported on here (post came within 3 minutes of thread opening).
I think that might help explain why the threads have moved at different paces, as well as other things.
Kite
Member
In the sense that the victims are more random. You set off a bomb in the middle of a crowded street you dunno who you might kill, but driving into a group of people leaving a mosque you pretty much know who is getting hit. You are targeting a specific religion.
I think with Muslim terrorists, there is an us and them. But with white nationalism, with the exception of some media platforms, most seem to be like, wait, er.. white nationalism is a serious problem... er...
The empathy is second rate.
This is a major incident, so they'll cover it, but they seem unable to know how to cover it except with a detached professionalism, as if they were not talking about Britons but about some foreign country that we sympathise only on humanitarian grounds.
excelsiorlef
Member
A targeted attack on a group of people for religious and political reasons... that's just straight up terrorism. Obviously there's some assumptions there, but to assume that it's not terrorism seems ignorant of what terrorism actually is.
Perhaps, or maybe what people say to a camera and what people report to the police don't coincide. I can't imagine the police would keep such info under their hats, but you never know, you may be right.
what the fuck are you?
This was indiscriminate in the same way that Islamic terror is; it was aimed at civilians. Jihadi attacks are targeted at the 'white, christian west', this is just the inverse.
If you target innocent civilians with the intent of causing fear, that's terrorism.
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