Attacks in Paris

Paul Lake's Left Knee said:
George was trying to deflect attention away from a fucked up attack in the name of a religion, seems he has had the result he wanted.
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The whole "Do violent video games alter your perception?" question is for another thread. In a kid, I have to believe there can be a real problem.. Saturated in shooting/blood/bombs hour after hour every day? - it does nothing to a young mind? Of course it must.. but you could argue it's only facilitating our own innate human psychology. Somehow it's human psychology for a catastrophe (such as last night) to 'want more deaths... more ridiculous drama.. like the news presenters sometimes seem to indicate.. (as long as it doesn't involve you) - this is entirely a fucked up human thing I would think because of lots of reasons. Human minds are truly fucked.
 
foxy said:
Well how would you describe it Mr Sensitive?

Again, I attack ideas, you don't, that's the difference.
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Strewth, massive irony calling him Mr Sensitive.

Thought I'd share this from David Mcalmont on FB,


“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” Plato

At least one hundred and twenty people were killed in Paris last night. It is awful news, a very bad situation. Does it bode ill for all our futures and freedoms? I don't know. Perhaps. It is a savage, concentrated tragedy- more newsworthy here than similar tragedies that occur elsewhere in the world daily. Nonetheless, it is Paris, it is the EU, it is our nearest continental neighbour; fair enough.

I do not pretend to grasp last night's events. I do not believe that the hundreds of voices in our Facebook news feeds fully grasp them either. For the most part our posts are informed by the same news reports, circulated blogs, hash tag feeds, newspapers, editorials, the likes of Rupert Murdoch, and opinionated egos.

There are a lot of tin pot theories and concepts doing the rounds already: “effing” ex Prime Ministers and Presidents; retaliations for drone strikes against notorious jihadis- even though what happened in Paris required evident planning; letting "them" in; Trojan Horse migrant conspiracies; coddling religion; political correctness gone mad; insufficiently fascist ideals; naive lefties etc.

The politically self-righteous will slam the presumed bigoted; the presumed bigoted will mock the politically self-righteous; the politically astute will probably take the weekend off.

The absence of editors between misguided ideas and the publication of knee jerk posts, which will inflame our social networking experience this weekend, means that there will be a stinking load of crap flying around, a surfeit of guff regurgitated; none of it verified, none of it ascertained, much of it inappropriate. Erroneous views will be compounded by commentators who see the pronouncement of shit as a licence to pronounce more.

One hundred and twenty dead means that a greater number of persons are in pain today. Last night I sat tearful and motionless at the horrific mortality count that emerged from the Bataclan Theatre; palpable helplessness- like hopelessness- sucks.

The friends and families of the survivors deserve sympathy, respect and support today; not a load of I told you sos, ignorant forecasts and wagging fingers. Simple RIPs should suffice; prayers for world peace will continue unanswered; fear will do nobody any favours.

RIP
 
lloydie said:
Strewth, massive irony calling him Mr Sensitive.

Thought I'd share this from David Mcalmont on FB,


“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” Plato

At least one hundred and twenty people were killed in Paris last night. It is awful news, a very bad situation. Does it bode ill for all our futures and freedoms? I don't know. Perhaps. It is a savage, concentrated tragedy- more newsworthy here than similar tragedies that occur elsewhere in the world daily. Nonetheless, it is Paris, it is the EU, it is our nearest continental neighbour; fair enough.

I do not pretend to grasp last night's events. I do not believe that the hundreds of voices in our Facebook news feeds fully grasp them either. For the most part our posts are informed by the same news reports, circulated blogs, hash tag feeds, newspapers, editorials, the likes of Rupert Murdoch, and opinionated egos.

There are a lot of tin pot theories and concepts doing the rounds already: “effing” ex Prime Ministers and Presidents; retaliations for drone strikes against notorious jihadis- even though what happened in Paris required evident planning; letting "them" in; Trojan Horse migrant conspiracies; coddling religion; political correctness gone mad; insufficiently fascist ideals; naive lefties etc.

The politically self-righteous will slam the presumed bigoted; the presumed bigoted will mock the politically self-righteous; the politically astute will probably take the weekend off.

The absence of editors between misguided ideas and the publication of knee jerk posts, which will inflame our social networking experience this weekend, means that there will be a stinking load of crap flying around, a surfeit of guff regurgitated; none of it verified, none of it ascertained, much of it inappropriate. Erroneous views will be compounded by commentators who see the pronouncement of shit as a licence to pronounce more.

One hundred and twenty dead means that a greater number of persons are in pain today. Last night I sat tearful and motionless at the horrific mortality count that emerged from the Bataclan Theatre; palpable helplessness- like hopelessness- sucks.

The friends and families of the survivors deserve sympathy, respect and support today; not a load of I told you sos, ignorant forecasts and wagging fingers. Simple RIPs should suffice; prayers for world peace will continue unanswered; fear will do nobody any favours.

RIP
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That is a brilliant critically thought out post.
 
lloydie said:
Strewth, massive irony calling him Mr Sensitive.

Thought I'd share this from David Mcalmont on FB,


“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” Plato

At least one hundred and twenty people were killed in Paris last night. It is awful news, a very bad situation. Does it bode ill for all our futures and freedoms? I don't know. Perhaps. It is a savage, concentrated tragedy- more newsworthy here than similar tragedies that occur elsewhere in the world daily. Nonetheless, it is Paris, it is the EU, it is our nearest continental neighbour; fair enough.

I do not pretend to grasp last night's events. I do not believe that the hundreds of voices in our Facebook news feeds fully grasp them either. For the most part our posts are informed by the same news reports, circulated blogs, hash tag feeds, newspapers, editorials, the likes of Rupert Murdoch, and opinionated egos.

There are a lot of tin pot theories and concepts doing the rounds already: “effing” ex Prime Ministers and Presidents; retaliations for drone strikes against notorious jihadis- even though what happened in Paris required evident planning; letting "them" in; Trojan Horse migrant conspiracies; coddling religion; political correctness gone mad; insufficiently fascist ideals; naive lefties etc.

The politically self-righteous will slam the presumed bigoted; the presumed bigoted will mock the politically self-righteous; the politically astute will probably take the weekend off.

The absence of editors between misguided ideas and the publication of knee jerk posts, which will inflame our social networking experience this weekend, means that there will be a stinking load of crap flying around, a surfeit of guff regurgitated; none of it verified, none of it ascertained, much of it inappropriate. Erroneous views will be compounded by commentators who see the pronouncement of shit as a licence to pronounce more.

One hundred and twenty dead means that a greater number of persons are in pain today. Last night I sat tearful and motionless at the horrific mortality count that emerged from the Bataclan Theatre; palpable helplessness- like hopelessness- sucks.

The friends and families of the survivors deserve sympathy, respect and support today; not a load of I told you sos, ignorant forecasts and wagging fingers. Simple RIPs should suffice; prayers for world peace will continue unanswered; fear will do nobody any favours.

RIP
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Read my earlier post rather than being selective...
 
BimboBob said:
I had the feeling he was trying to defend religion and provoke discussion about a possible link between a 15 year old bomber and video games but that's just me.
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Exactly, a feeble attempt at shifting the blame, to something he had no idea if it had any part in the reason for the attack, from the most likely cause given that IS have laid claim to the atrocity. May as well asked if the lad played football and say football violence is the reason for the attack, or that he was abused as a child and that caused it, there could be a thousand reasons why this happened, the most likely is that he was indoctrinated and brainwashed by religious zealots.
 
Just hit me this afternoon that tonight with hundreds of other people I will be attending a concert that I have been looking forward to for ages, This time yesterday 80+ people in France were doing exactly the same and never came home.

Its a terrible situation and i have no idea how a peace will be found.
 
One of the bombers, a Syrian refugee passed through Greece in October. We are letting them in.
 
One of the dead gunmen came through the Greek island of Leros and landed on one of its beaches in a boat claiming to be a ''refugee'' just been confirmed by the Greek government
Arrest Merkel, Hollande, Tusk and Junkr now, they have blood on their hands
 
TCIB said:
Then he was not a refugee but a terrorist infiltrating his target area using the flood of refugees as a tool to gain that access.
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he missed the full statement from the greek authorities that ended with

Syrian passports are known to be valuable currency amongst those trying to enter Europe, and it is not confirmed yet whether the holder of the passport is indeed the perpetrator.
 
Three Paris attackers 'from Brussels neighbourhood'
Three of the eight attackers who killed 127 people in Paris last night are believed to have come from the Brussels neighbourhood raided by police this afternoon.

French media reports that three attackers were from the Molenbeek neighbourhood, where police are currently carrying out raids.

RTL reports the country’s federal prosecutor will make a statement this evening.
 
A Blue said:
Know your enemy they say ? I tried to read the Koran (sp) which is the english way of saying it I believe. As everyone in Islam believes that unless you can read it in Arabic then its not true. So point one ,their God can only speak Arabic.
2. Mohammed was a prophet who never prophesied anything.
3. Mohammed couldn,t do miracles like other prophets, apart from splitting the moon in two and riding a flying donkey to Mecca.
4.Mohammed can have as many wives as he wants his followers are only allowed 4.
5.Mohammed says slavery is ok.
6.Mohammed drank alcohol (wine ) his followers can't. (unless they get to paradise where there are rivers of wine )
7. Mohammed married a 6 year old girl.
8. Mohammed had sex with her when she was 9 years old. She took her toys into the bedroom with her, but its ok as she had reached puberty. (mmm)
9. Mohammed took his adopted sons wife off him for his own.
10. Mohammed liked to fondle little girls and boys.
11. Mohammed says the earth is flat and the mountains are there to stop it from splitting apart.
12. Mohammed said Allah does not regard outward forms. (So why the hijab ?)

Apostasy,cutting peoples hands and feet off, throwing people of tall buildings, beheading people.

Now, unless anyone can get Muslims to see reason for any of this then there is no end in sight.
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Ignoring the rest of your post, the bit in bold doesn't work, as miracles go they are pretty cool!
 
TCIB said:
Then he was not a refugee but a terrorist infiltrating his target area using the flood of refugees as a tool to gain that access.
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Didn't take long for it to happen did it? They said they would flood Europe with terrorists, granted 1 person & attack isn't a flood but you can be sure there are plenty more that used the guise of refugee to get into Europe. The problem is its relatively easy to monitor and gain intelligence on British citizens, but we now have to deal with thousands who refuse to give their identities to the authorities and are basically John Doe's.

You can be sure that the war on terrorism has got a whole lot harder, the reality is there is no quick solution.
 
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