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London Mayor Sadiq Khan is cracking down on the carrying of knives in response to a spate of stabbings that pushed the city's murder rate past New York's for the "first time in modern history."
Khan deployed an additional 300 Metropolitan Police officers over the weekend to work exclusively against knife crime, urging them to be more "confident" in their authority to stop anyone suspected of carrying a weapon.
"What you will see over the course of the next few weeks and months — is what we have seen over the last few weeks and months — which is stop-and-search based on suspicion of carrying an offensive weapon going up, more arrests as a consequence of this intelligence-led stop-and-search going up and hopefully our city becoming safer," the mayor said Saturday, according to The Telegraph.
Khan also issued a warning to would-be knife carriers, saying they should think twice before bringing one out in public — whatever the reason.
"No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife," Khan said on Twitter. "Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law."
Source: http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/08/london-murder-rate-knives/
(Score: 5, Funny) by c0lo on Monday April 09 2018, @06:40AM (18 children)
Only by name.
Believing this would very very like believing you can fly only because you call yourself a buzzard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 09 2018, @06:49AM (6 children)
What exactly are you comparing them to that leads you to think they are anything but the left? Certainly not the modern left. They're less than twenty years from putting on actual jackboots of their own. Not even the left of the WWII adjacent decades because the left then was chock full of other "socialist" dictators.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Monday April 09 2018, @08:40AM
You made the claim that they were left.
If you didn't made the claim based on the name they assumed for themselves (that was my assumption), then please provide the evidence for your claim.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 5, Informative) by TheRaven on Monday April 09 2018, @09:12AM (4 children)
How about the fact that they declared communists to be their enemies? The fact that they were in favour of private ownership of the means of production? The fact that they believed that some people were sub-human based on their ethnicity or sexuality?
Or do you also think that the Democratic Republic of Congo is democratic?
sudo mod me up
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 09 2018, @01:40PM (3 children)
They declared everyone and their dog to be their enemies. Communists were not special in this.
<sarcasm>Yes, you can tell this by how they never nationalized anything. Good little capitalists, they were.</sarcasm>
So do modern leftists. They're in fact the vast majority of people who care about ethnicity or sexuality at all. They're currently just hating on anyone who's white, male, or heterosexual which is perfectly okay by their logic just as hating Jews and such was perfectly okay by Nazi logic.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Monday April 09 2018, @08:18PM (2 children)
Methinks that left-right has very little to do with prejudice (other than what group is being pre-judged). Prejudice is inherently human behavior that comes directly from our reptilian brains. Some people are just less adept at suppressing that impulse. Plenty of those on both sides of left-right.
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @09:32PM
It sounds like you are admitting to being a reptilian who psychically induces prejudice in humans, but are deflecting any blame or responsibility by saying it is only taking advantage of an innate ability. Ie you aren't making any humans do anything, just giving them an impulse. This is where conspiracies come from.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 09 2018, @09:50PM
Normally I'd agree with you but the left has been cultivating prejudice as a political weapon for several decades now. The right is happy to take advantage of naturally occurring prejudice but it doesn't really put any effort into creating it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @06:51AM (5 children)
>Mandate sane work hour
>Construct Autobahn to ensure workers can take their off days on vacations
>Ensure that Corps benefit the Volk first
>Control prices of food so farmers can work sustainably
>Loaning money to start families and then forgiving them
>not socialist at all
K.
(Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Monday April 09 2018, @08:47AM (2 children)
But excluding the "Untermensch", right?
How this makes them "left" (which doesn't discriminate when it comes to welfare) and not just "extreme nationalistic, kill the others and redistribute to yours"?
Or... do you think that they redistributed the wealth of Krupp or of the IG Farben conglomerate?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @12:19AM (1 child)
The left did it with purging traitors and installing party functionaries, what is your point?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday April 10 2018, @01:17AM
My point, you ask? How does this defines "left wing"?
Because the right wing did the same in:
- Musollini's Italy
- Greece by Ioannis Metaxas regime [wikipedia.org]
- Franco's Spain [wikipedia.org]
- Antonescu's Romania [wikipedia.org]
- Croatia under Ustashe [wikipedia.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @03:55PM (1 child)
The true reason for the Autobahn was to enable efficient transport of military equipment towards the border, in preparation of the war they were already planning. Of course that wasn't what they told the people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @12:16AM
Did you know industrialization also allows production of military hardware?
(Score: 4, Informative) by FatPhil on Monday April 09 2018, @11:54AM (4 children)
Hitler did, however use the single word "socialism" many times to describe himself, but it's clear that this was art of a more populist rhetoric "we must overthrow the elite ruling class, smash the system". This rhetoric, whilst recognisably having a lot in common with socialist rhetoric, is actually the identical rhetoric used by all the downtrodden no matter the politics of the ruling class or what they want to replace it with. SUch statementas actually carry almost no real information. Most revealing is that when giving an explanation of "socialism" Hitler basically described simply nationalism, having nothing in common with anything Marxist. "Whoever is prepared to make the national cause his own to such an extent that he knows no higher ideal than the welfare of the nation; whoever has understood our great national anthem, “Deutschland ueber Alles,” to mean that nothing in the wide world surpasses in his eyes this Germany, people and land — that man is a Socialist." Erm, sorry Addy, nope. So the waters on this matter were already muddied beyond clarification by the early 20s.
So people who call the Nazi's socialist are just doing what Hitler did.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @03:08PM (1 child)
Whaaat? TMB is a hypictite who secretly wants to be Hitler? I'm shocked! Appalled!!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 09 2018, @04:31PM
A) His mustache sucked. I stomp the shit out of him when it comes to awesome facial hair.
B) I don't really even want to pull admin duties on SN; being boss of the world is right the hell out.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by quacking duck on Monday April 09 2018, @03:14PM (1 child)
Good analysis. If America's alt-right think Hitler and the Nazis were at all socialist in practice, then they in fact voted in a dirty socialist in 2016.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday April 09 2018, @09:46PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves