The Sky Has Not Fallen 830


The shocking death of Lee Rigby quite naturally appals us all. The intention of the crazed little group who conceived this killing was to make it as horrible as possible in order to scare people.

Horrible, sociopathic violence happens to people from time to time. They have done since Cain killed Abel, metaphorically or literally as you choose. Here is another headline today, just as horrific:

A British soldier has been jailed for stabbing a 10-year-old boy after getting drunk on vodka while serving in Afghanistan.

Both that obscene attack and Michael Adebolajo’s appalling actions are borne out of the same conflict. But it is reasonable to suppose that both these incidents involved people with, for whatever reason, a pre-disposition to murderous violence.

Such people have always been with us and will always be with us, but fortunately they are very, very few. In a nation of 60 million, involvement in violent crime is very low. If you are the victim of criminal violence, the odds over the last decade are about one in twenty thousand that the violence inflicted on you will have any linkage to political or terrorist causation. And the odds that you will suffer any kind of violent attack are thankfully pretty remote.

We should not panic from theatrical violence, just deplore and take sober stock. Sadly if a lunatic on the bus decides to strangle you tomorrow, there are no pre-emptive laws that can stop that. We should stop pretending that the state can always prevent.


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  • Ben Franklin -Machine Gun Preacher (unleaded version)

    I’ve seen them, Fedup. I can’t imagine what it’s like.

  • Ben Franklin -Machine Gun Preacher (unleaded version)

    BTW; Is that your only takeaway?

  • technicolour

    Sorry, Jemand, it ‘doubled’ from an extremely small percentage to a very small percentage. And so? What were the results? Try harder.

  • fedup

    Is that your only takeaway?

    Some of Anders Breivik friends/mentors/guides have been busy posting on this thread pretty much the Manifesto and its projection of the growth of Muslim populations in UK.

    Judging by the ongoing ritual of two minutes hate, obviously the killings and maiming of the brown skinned “Man Fridays” is not over yet, because the same bunch that pick up a guy from the BBC studios; cuz he talked too much, are letting the racist fuckwits (someone in German and co) to pour their bile and hatred pretty much freely.

  • nevermind

    Fed up, can you reserve and scale back your portioning of blame to ‘German elements’ please, until you have any proof that this person is actually German, which I doubt.

    I recognise what is said about our resident troll, Lwtc 247, that is it.
    Why should one continually be forced to fan off bad odour? might opening of a window not be a better solution?, its an old European tradition.

  • tony0pmoc

    This probably won’t appear, and if it doesn’t, I ain’t going to post it again…

    Though I have already talked about it down the pub…

    http://www.chrisspivey.co.uk/?p=12084

    “WATCH THIS NOW BODY GETS UP AND WALKS”

    “This will get me murdered.”

    Spivey,

    What’s going on here???

    If someone uploads a video to youtube – and gives you the nod…

    Download it to your computer and copy it to your mates…

    There is loads of Free Software that can do that…

    You ain’t thick.

    What’s going on???

    I don’t know, but you can’t write that, unless you have the original to prove it…

    I missed it . I was at a gig, where the police and the heroes turned up…like they do…

    They are our mates.

    I have enormous respect for you…

    But there is nothing in the video except the camera shake – when the shots get fired which is completely understandable….

    It is O.K. to make mistakes – but I reckon you are a good guy, trying to expose evil and corruption at the highest levels…

    I hope you are O.K.

    Thanks Mate,

    You Have Balls of Steel, But Don’t Try Too Hard…

    Or They Will Take You Out.

    There are Some Real Evil Fucking Bastards Out There…

    But We are On Your Side

    You Shine a Light

    Tony

  • tony0pmoc

    You would think an apprentice 17 year old boy hairdresser might not have a clue….

    But my wife got a cheap deal….

    To be honest when she came back I was rather busy – rehanging doors on the shower downstairs – and asked can you help me love…

    But today she was completely Lovely to Everyone….

    With Her Way…Its Just The Way She Is – so welcoming and friendly…

    And I thought Wow – I really fancy that girl – she looks like my dream girl

    She shouted at me “Wake Up Tony”

    Of course I always Realised…

    But She Just Looked So Beautiful…

    And Part of It Was How The Boy Did Her Hair…

    I’ll have to get a Girl To Do Mine.

    Tony

  • Mark Golding - Children of Conflict

    Man charged in connection with social media comments about Drummer Lee Rigby
    A 19-year-old man has been charged in connection with comments placed on a social media website following the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich.

    Mohammed Mazar, of Balmoral Drive, Woking, has been charged with an offence of improper use of public electronic communications network under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003.

    He has been released on bail to appear at South West Surrey Magistrates Court on 11 June.

    Neighbourhood Superintendent Matt Goodridge said: “Surrey Police will not tolerate language used in a public place, including on social media websites, which causes harassment, alarm or distress.

  • Mark Golding - Children of Conflict

    ++A strange story appeared in the Indy(1) Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
    ‘Work for us or we will say you are a terrorist’
    after MI5 involvement with the Woolwich murderer was exposed by a whistle-blower(2):

    (1) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/exclusive-how-mi5-blackmails-british-muslims-1688618.html

    (2) http://www.prisonplanet.com/man-who-blew-whistle-on-mi5-approaching-woolwich-terrorist-before-attack-arrested-by-police.html

    The Indy story is of course untrue. [Bollocks] Sensibly and ‘suggested’ from a reliable source, there exists within the intelligence services a secret regimen of aggressive, combatant radicalization.

    The tone of that instilled militancy can be also be drawn from the unabridged political statement and delivery from murderer [by proxy?] Michael Adebolajo who also invokes a passage from the Bible.

    I was shocked at the suggestion that the root of this provocation is a Muslim community worship leader.

    Then I thought of ‘terrorist’ Anwar al-Awlaki who was murdered by a drone strike:

    http://www.ibtimes.com/us-formally-admits-killing-anwar-al-awlaki-3-other-citizens-drone-strikes-full-text-1275805#

    He refused to keep quiet and may have blown a soft whistle before he was ‘taken out.’

  • brianFujisan

    ” Yo Brian You have Pulled Tonight, She cant take her eyes off you ” Fujisan WTF you talking aboot ”
    Eventually caught eye contact with this bitch – ” excusssssmeee, Are you seeking attetion ” – Fujisan – ” NO ” – ” WEll Have you got Cancer ” Fujisan ” No ”
    … ” My husband just kicked fuck out a guy kos he was wearing what your wearing ”

    Fujisan – BLANK ..WTF….

    ” if you leave here About 20 guys will jump you ”

    So..This is the tale… me n 2 pals are at a wee Rock fest..In Guorock…The Goths are oot in number, Bikers, Metal Dudes n chicks.
    But Fujisan is the only one..wearing a desert scarf on his head..with tails riding doon my back
    So my pal Shaun gets her attention… ” He is a 3rd dan jui jitsu expert “… Never seen cowards disaper so fast

    But this is a True story from only Months ago

    P.s Was with same pals Tonight…I kinda hate GLEE…But Boris Thinking he would get touch of that trophy..

  • April Showers

    Anti-Iran propaganda from Jeremy Bowen filmed in Israel.

    Will Israel bomb Iran because of nuclear threat?
    21 May 2013

    Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen explores what might happen if Iran continues with its nuclear programme.

    Iran insists it does not want nuclear weapons but Israel and the United States – both of which have nuclear armouries – refuse to believe its denials.

    Our correspondent visits Israel and finds a widespread fear and distrust of Iran.

    Could it be that Israel and the US will launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran, possibly launching a wider Middle East conflict? ‘

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22551996

    The locations in this + 6 mins film include the Holocaust Museum (“Israel cannot afford a second holocaust” he states), and the Kibbutz Nahal-Oz on the border with Gaza (“So you can feel here the support, the extra support that Iran has been giving to Hamas?” he says to the Israeli lady in the heavily fortified house in the kibbutz).

    He continues to the Centre for Air Defences in the Negev to have a look at the Iron Dome, which the Israelis designed and the US paid for, to speak to the Commander of the Iron Dome Battery. (“If there was a real emergency, how long would it take you to set this thing up and fire it?”). Then on to speak to the ex-head of Mossad in some secret looking chamber.

    The message from Bowen was that Israel is less likely to attack Iran on its own and that America would be forced to join in.

    Unless a deal with Iran is sealed by Obama, “war becomes more likely”. Those were Bowen’s final words.

    Nice work Jeremy. Job done.

    ~~~
    The Nahal settlement movement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahal

  • April Showers

    The rounding up continues.

    Woolwich murder probe: Three more arrests

    Three further arrests have been made in connection with the murder of off-duty soldier Lee Rigby, police have said.

    The Met said counter terrorism officers arrested three men, aged 21, 24 and 28, on Saturday evening on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder – a Taser was used on two of them.

    /..

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22670375

  • lwtc247

    Jemand
    Do you disagree with the
    a) Christianisation of the formerly pagan UK
    b) Zionification of Palestine
    c) The Buddhidifcation of Japan
    d) The Christianisation of the USA
    e) and the beer-fart-belchisation of Australia?

  • April Showers

    Murdoch is on Cameron’s case. You can see Mrs Brooks is no longer i/c at Canary Wharf to stick up for her horse riding pal.

    Crisis? I’m off to Ibiza
    Britain on terror alert, cops raid suspects, but PM jets out for hols

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4942755/PM-jets-off-on-hols-to-Ibiza-despite-biggest-UK-terror-crisis-since-77.html

    ~~~

    Anyone at home? No. The HoC last met on 21st May for the third reading of the Same Sex Marriages Bill. They reassemble on Monday 3rd June at 2.30pm. A nice leisurely start there.

  • Suhayl Saadi

    Ben, Villager – sorry, I can’t recall the times of the posts, etc.! – excellent points made and quotes given. N_, it’d be worth looking more into that British-Uzbek Society dynamic. Maybe for the ‘Gulnara’ thread?

  • Jemand

    I am always amazed by fools who descend further into the abyss of stupidity by resorting to time-tested tactics of ad hominen, guilt by false association, invalid comparisons, smug condescension and cavalier dismissal of pertinent evidence. Arguments are very thin on intelligent analysis, the preference clearly being for an emotionally satisfying conclusion. But I suppose this is to be expected from uneducated people who have never produced analytical works in the form of essays, reports or theses. Dunning-Kruger at play, perhaps.

    I have a close friend whose major was political science and his current position with the govt gives him access to intelligence resources. In fact, he produces risk assessments related to potential Islamic violence. His course thesis was on a particular Islamist organisation that is associated with violent incidents and protests around the world. Most people are clueless about the existence and activities of this organisation in the same way that so many Americans were about the rise of organised crime in the US during the first half of the 20th century. Little did Americans know that FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover, was obstructing development of counter measures to organised crime because he claimed it didn’t exist. Subsequent to his death in the 70s, long circulated rumours became public and these suggested that he was compromised into this position by a nocturnal habit of donning a gown and having sex with juvenile boys supplied by the mafia.

    Whatever the truth of this rumour, Hoover ignored internal reports that confirmed the existence and infiltration of organised crime into the judiciary and police, and its corporate-like development of large-scale criminal activities until his stubborn inaction became an embarrassment to the FBI. For over twenty long years he openly denied its existence and worked against efforts to reign it in.

    This demonstration of wilful ignorance, denial and obstructionism is evident not only in social and criminal matters. We have seen, in the last 50 odd years, the same ignorant refusal to acknowledge and respond to globally significant developments in the areas of resource depletion and atmospheric pollution – ie Peak Oil & Gas and Anthropogenic Climate Change. It is only when the evidence is so blindingly obvious to your average zombie voter, that the truth is openly acknowledged. Unfortunately, it is often too late as we see great animals become extinct and whole lands conquered by political movements such as Zionism and Communism.

    All I can do is research, analyse and present convincing arguments despite sleazy attempts to accuse me of having a sinister agenda. But, judging by the reponses here on this blog, I have failed.

  • John

    When we butcher their soldiers it’s War. When they butcher a single one of ours it’s Terrorism.

    Qualitatively the act is not different to acts carried out regularly by British Army in Afghanistan. Quantitavely there is no comparison.

  • April Showers

    Nick Robinson is giving the terrorist theme full welly on the Marr Show on BBC1 now in a big build up for his upcoming ‘major’ interview with Theresa May. He is hosting the programme today. He was the one who used the phrase ‘of Muslim appearance’ on Wednesday and, following much criticism, said that he had been told that by No 10.

    They are reviewing the papers at the moment, ‘they’ being the Indian actress Meera Syal and from the Evening Standard, the editor Sarah Sands. Enough said.

  • Jesuit Atheist

    There are at least five CCTV cameras covering the area where the incident took place. No doubt we will soon be seeing some of this appear, showing the car driving towards Rigsby on the pavement, along with all the additional footage taken by the many onlookers holding camera phones, right?

    Using Google steet view it is possible to see that if you wanted to avoid as many of the CCTV cameras as possible the best spot available is under the tree by the railings, coincidentally where Rigsby was reportedly murdered before his body was dragged into the middle of the road.

    Now the scene is open to the public the street sign can be clearly examined. Why has the car suffered such catastrophic damage by driving into a street sign which shows no damage at all – no blue paint marks, no scuffs and no dents? The caved in windscreen suggests an impact with a pedestrian, but at more than the speed one would have thought possible on a busy London street. The amount of damage suggests a double impact (first a pedestrian and the a street sign) which should have caused a lot of noise and drawn the attention of many witnesses.

    Why are there no witnesses that state something like “a blue car came swerving across the road and onto the pavement at about 30 mph, it then hit a pedestrian before colliding with a street sign” – no one has even reported hearing a car crash let alone seeing it, all eyewitness accounts begin with people saying that they *thought* or *it appeared* that an accident “had just happened” and then seeing the two men hacking at the victim, no one says “I saw the car mount the pavement…”, or “I heard a loud crash and turned to see…” etc.

    If this was a planned attack then why choose such a potentially unpredictable first attack method of driving straight at the victim? Why did they not just calmly walk up to him? How could they identify the victim from a car at a suitable distance that would have allowed them to have driven at him with such speed that he was not able to take evasive action?

    I am not promoting any theory, I am simply asking people to look at what they are being presented with by the media and use critical thinking and common sense to withhold conclusions they draw based purely on such a limited and restrictive narrative.

  • Jesuit Atheist

    The drivers airbag was deployed, but there was no airbag on the passenger side which suggests he was wearing a seatbelt otherwise he would have gone through the windscreen, or at least have suffered sever facial injuries. He also had to decamp the vehicle using the drivers door, an awkward manoeuvre which would have delayed him further.

    But we are we also to believe that after the impact they were straight out of the car, wielding their weapons, and hacking at Rigsby so quickly that no one actually saw them get out of the car and approach the victim? Even after hearing the the crash of the impact? And no one started filming until after they had finished killing Rigsby and dragged his body into the middle of the road?

  • Samenleving

    Mainstream media is raving – and, of course, not responsible (because insane), for the consequences – fear among Muslims all over Britain.

    Of course, too, the politicians aren’t responsible. Plus, they’re terrified of the media.

    Does anyone still remember, let alone turn to, Tariq Jahan – whose quiet dignity touched everyone in Britain less than two years ago?

    But, no. The media prefer to go and intimidate other spokesmen for British Muslims – people who have already been comprehensively demonised, or any of the myriad plastic Muslims the media and politicians have been creating – so that polarisation will increase.

    Nor has mainstream media – what Barry Long, in 1985, called “the new ruling emotional authority of the world” – seriously investigated the strange phenomenon of pro-zionist, anti-muslim, extremist groups across Europe, which exist solely for purposes of provocation and content-provision for the media itself (news and, more significantly, commentary).

    May I recommend the book “Empire of Secrets” by Calder Walton, for a description of the origin of MI5’s system for terrorising Muslims by first having them arrested in former colonies, like Kenya? And http://www.cageprisoners.com for its more consistent focus on reality than any of mainstream media’s “exclusive” reports.

  • fedup

    can you reserve and scale back your portioning of blame to ‘German elements’ please, until you have any proof that this person is actually German, which I doubt.

    Mein Deutsch ist rostig
    Sie müssen Someone ins Deutsche Sprache zu übersetzen.

    ie. jemand

  • Jesuit Atheist

    Why did the police not treat the vehicle as a potential booby trap and why did they leave it unsecured, even after the shooting of the suspects? The car boot was opened before the police secured the scene, by whom and why? Clearly no concern about ricin, anthrax or bombs being in the car, why?

    In fact why was the whole crime scene was not secured once they had the attackers in custody? In one video a copper is apparently calling on a crowd of people to “move back, move back” even as we can see ‘civilians’ milling around Rigsby’s corpse in the background – beyond bizarre behaviour from the Police.

  • April Showers

    There is much talk in the media today, following the Woolwich event, for a Communications data Bill to be introduced. Clegg and co are being painted as the bad guys for refusing to back it.

    viz http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/23/woolwich-nick-clegg-communications-bill-risk

    Alan Johnson ex nu Labour Home Secretary said on Marr that May should resign if she doesn’t get it, a sort of gun to her head.

    Lord Carlisle is also demanding it. He has just been on a satellite link to Sky News.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2331011/Why-Drummer-Rigby-s-slaughter-haunt-Clegg–Lib-Dem-Lord-Carlile.html

    Note the Mail has renamed Lee Rigby as ‘Drummer Rigby’. We keep seeing photos of him in that uniform worthy of Ruritania.

    The Woolwich pavements are looking just like Kensington Gardens in front of Kensington Palance following Princess Diana’s death.

  • Suhayl Saadi

    “Sensibly and ‘suggested’ from a reliable source, there exists within the intelligence services a secret regimen of aggressive, combatant radicalization.” Mark, 4:13am, today.

    Mark, this is very interesting – could you please tell us more? Thanks.

  • fedup

    April Showers,

    St Theresa of May, in the same interview with the Baldy stated that since 20something there has been 500,000 to 700,000 items removed from internet. Further, she stated; there are organisations, and public access systems, to inform us about unsuitable material on the internet.

    Can you recollect what was the date she was talking about?

    Also this point gives rise to the following;

    Which organisations?
    What sort of public access methods?
    What sort of material?

    Talking about censorship in passing is taken as “security measures”. When they do it over there, it is “totalitarian regimes’ impositions on liberty and freedom” the same thing done over here; is done all in best possible taste and it is called “security measures”.

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