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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: 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