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For the first time in 10 years, the Prime Minister said the terror threat had been raised to the highest possible level, from severe to critical, meaning an attack is "expected imminently".
[...] Mrs May also announced that troops would replace police officers at set-piece events including sports venues and concerts.
It will be the first time since 2003 – when the Government reacted to a plot to bring down an airliner – that troops are deployed on the streets.
[...] It is the first time Britain has been on maximum terrorist alert since 2007, when a blazing car loaded with gas canisters was driven into Glasgow Airport.
Source: The Telegraph
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by AthanasiusKircher on Wednesday May 24 2017, @05:09PM (1 child)
I agree that you can't just ignore these things. BUT I do think we also need to seriously consider media culpability in encouraging terrorist events. For example, we've seen a number of "terrorist" incidents in the past few years that seem to fall under the "depressed loner" category, e.g., Muslim guy who hasn't really been practicing religion for years and previously didn't seem to care much about Islam at all suddenly goes out and shoots a bunch of people or runs over them with a truck or whatever.
Why? Of COURSE ISIS/ISIL is going to claim credit for all such things, but in a number of cases only flimsy evidence has been uncovered to connect a lot of the origin of attacks back to some evil centralized network. Given the high media profile we give to terrorist events, I think we run a real chance of giving suicidal loners a chance to "give their death meaning" rather than simply offing themselves with a gun in their apartment. If you're already depressed enough and hate the world, why not "go out with a bang" and become a "martyr" for something? Studies show that lone wolf [pbs.org] attacks are on the rise and becoming worse -- these are people who may claim a political motivation, but they're also more likely to have personal grievances and a history of mental illness.
But that doesn't fit the political fear narrative. We don't want to have to contemplate a world with random deranged depressed people killing crowds. So it's easier to attribute the attack to some larger evil identifiable motive or organization... which then paradoxically feeds into the "martyr" rhetoric that could motivate the next depressed loner to suddenly "find religion" rather than just shooting himself in the head.
I don't know what the solution is to this. But I do think there's a potentially dangerous feedback loop.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday May 25 2017, @05:35AM
Wanna slow them down? Make 'em take a pay cut [indiatimes.com].
Like so many things, it really is strictly business. That trail is far more intriguing than all this religious mumbo-jumbo.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..