You wouldn't need a gun, sweety
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Ah, well I can get more into the distinction between the lone nutter and the organised group. We just have to apply the terms consistently. So if Mr Stabby from Bloomsbury is a terrorist, then Mr Nazi Memorabilia is too. Or if one is instead mentally ill, then the other is too.
What's interesting, though, is how quick the authorities were to rule out mental illness in the case of Thomas Mair and how quick they are to rule it in in the case of Mr Al-Stabby.
For me, no-one can have cupboards containing only ketchup, beans, evaporated milk, biscuits and salt and be sane.
The authorities have to play up the "lone wolf mentally ill" angle when muslims commit acts of violence, otherwise it will stoke Islamophobia and lead to innocent muslims being stigmatised and abused
Whereas, of course, playing up white, non-muslim violent acts as politically motivated has absolutely no consequences and doesn’t at all feed into the Islamo-fascist persecution narrative.
That was sarcasm, by the way.
Dan Hodges on Twitter earlier: "Thomas Mair. Anders Breivik. David Copeland. Timothy McVeigh. Is it becoming rational to fear white, right-wing men?" This as part of his ongoing campaign to assert that any fear of Islam is racism.
It is hard to believe how an educated adult cannot see how monumentally fùcking stupid that assertion is, but there it is. :shakehead:
His main schtick was being an exiled Blairite who took to writing bitterly in The Telegraph about how Ed Miliband was totally fùcking useless and would never be Prime Minister - a role he is continuing about Corbyn. This stating of the obvious apart, yes, he has been wrong about virtually everything else.
He's also Glenda Jackson's son, so has to live with the fact that everyone's seen his mum's hairy growler. :-(
And he has one eye.