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London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives

posted by Fnord666 on Monday April 09 2018, @05:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the what's-next? dept.

MrPlow writes:

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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/

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Monday April 09 2018, @09:28AM (4 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 09 2018, @09:28AM (#664317) Journal

    For me the approach to socialism of the nazis where a pragmatic one while the communist is a idealist one.

    Are you sure that's what it is for you? If positive, you aren't very discerning.
    Killing the untermensch and paying the military industry (Krupp, IG Carbon, Messerschmitt, Topf & Söhne [wikipedia.org], etc) qualify as 'pragmatic socialism' to you?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @01:38PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @01:38PM (#664397)

    It was IG Farben [wikipedia.org] not IG Carbon (maybe you confused it with Union Carbide).

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday April 09 2018, @02:03PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 09 2018, @02:03PM (#664417) Journal

      Yes. I blame the shitty auto-correct on my mobile (good pastime on the train commute, shit like this can happen though).

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  • (Score: 1) by GDX on Monday April 09 2018, @02:03PM (1 child)

    by GDX (1950) on Monday April 09 2018, @02:03PM (#664415)

    But the minorities where also killed by the Russia communists, the Chinese communist under the cultural revolution, the Khmer Rouge... and about paying the military industry, the communist also did it but in a different way after all under the Nazi ideology is that the private companies where under the will and interest of the country (party to be more exact), basically even if your company was private if the government told you to make firearms you had the obligation to do it and can't oppose that decision.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday April 09 2018, @02:21PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 09 2018, @02:21PM (#664435) Journal

      But the minorities where also killed by the Russia communists, the Chinese communist under the cultural revolution, the Khmer Rouge...

      And the fact that the Nazi and the communist and Mussolini did the same, make a left from all of them?
      Walk a bit down this line and you'll end in making Richard I a leftist because he taxed hard his nobility to support his crusades, was anti-semitics [wikipedia.org] and killed arabs during the crusades.

      Rather than regarding his kingdom as a responsibility requiring his presence as ruler, he has been perceived as preferring to use it merely as a source of revenue to support his armies
      ...
      When a rumour spread that Richard had ordered all Jews to be killed, the people of London attacked the Jewish population.[54] Many Jewish homes were burned down, and several Jews were forcibly baptised.

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      Watch out, you may finish in making even Trump a leftie: after all he promised infrastructure spending (to be paid from tax-pyers pocket) and a beautiful big wall to be paid by others... if this is not socialism by the TMB's definition, I don't know what else is
      (large grin)

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