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- Captain Haddock
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20 June 2020 21:12363514After another 'mostly peaceful' BLM protest in the local park seems to have gone all stabby. Just saying."The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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21 June 2020 05:153635153 dead, 3 serious lnjurys. 1 person arested.Jan Higgins likes this - 21 June 2020 07:40363516Captain Haddock wrote:After another 'mostly peaceful' BLM protest in the local park seems to have gone all stabby. Just saying.
Suggestions that it was linked to a Black Lives Matter protest that took place in the park earlier on Saturday have been dismissed by police. Organisers said the peaceful protest ended nearly two hours before the incident at 7pm. Crowds who attended had dispersed without any trouble, a spokeswoman said.
Always best to fact check before posting crap that fits your preconceptions. Just saying. - 21 June 2020 07:44363517RH, that rather begs the question of where they ‘dispersed’ to.
- Captain Haddock
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21 June 2020 08:45363519Ray. As worded by BBC / Sky.
Would now appear he is merely a Libyan asylum seeker who arrived by dinghy from Calais."The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - 21 June 2020 14:16363524Captain Haddock wrote:Ray. As worded by BBC / Sky.
Would now appear he is merely a Libyan asylum seeker who arrived by dinghy from Calais.
The first report linking the attack to the BLM protest seems to be the Daily Mail's. Entirely predictable. Then the BBC followed the same tack.
Nowadays dear old Auntie Beeb is so afraid of its political masters that it is quite happy to show a 3 year old clip of laughing boy laying a wreath rather than the actual footage where he was almost too pissed to stand. Or, indeed, to allow the wonderful Laura Kuenssberg to report false accounts of a Tory staffer being punched by a labour activist. So we can hardly be surprised that they might treat this incident with a similar disregard of the facts.
But at 21.12 yesterday, Cap'n, you obviously had to be quick off the mark. Despite your recently avowed intention to flounce off this forum for a well deserved break, you immediately donned your warpaint and grabbed your keyboard for a bit of cheap point scoring. Come the hour, cometh the man eh?
- 21 June 2020 14:47363527Interesting that “politics” was the forum of choice for this thread. Not really a political issue.
- Captain Haddock
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21 June 2020 23:49363532From the ex chief of Border Force
?s=19"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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22 June 2020 08:58363534Neil Moors wrote:Interesting that “politics” was the forum of choice for this thread. Not really a political issue.
Disagree. Yes, when the OP created the thread it was too early to say, so it was simply a desperate smear propping up the tired old 'race war' narrative. Now it seems there's a destructive ideology at work, and that makes it political. For the same reason the 'Corona virus' thread should be in the political section, as a destructive ideology's at work there too.
But anyone looking closely at the picture of Saadallah on the Telegraph's front page will notice an element common to many jihadist attacks and knife attacks generally, but hardly ever commented on.'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus - Captain Haddock
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22 June 2020 11:49363536Shocked (not)!
?s=19"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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