Major General Chip Chapman discussing security on Prime Time with David McCullough now.
My memoryâs a bit hazy mate, remind me where we were again that day?
Civil servants who think they are diplomats
The worst sort of a cunt
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You were in a haberdashery shop in clonmel, I was doing an inspection in thereâŚ
Ring any bells ?
The bomb in the metro went off a full hour after the airport attack. Why the fuck didnât the Belgian authorities shut the whole city down? Surely they would have been thinking there could be a further attack. The Belgians seem clueless, there is apparently no coordination between the various parts of their security apparatus. I heard one commentator on the BBC last night saying that the Belgian Police were finding out what their own intelligence agencies were doing through the French Police.
It doesnât mate, probably because I was living in Sydney in 2001.
The aptly named Robert Shortt is only up to Miriamâs waist here. Heâs like a little child leaning up and talking into her microphone.
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Is she standing on a box?
Seems she is deliberately trying to diminish poor Robert, who drove them all the way from Luxenbourg
_well at least we all know the form by now. This morning islamist suicide-bombers struck one of the few european capitals they havenât previously hit in a mass-casualty terrorist attack.
The standard response now goes as follows. First the body parts of innocent people are flung across airport check-ins or underground trains. Briefly there is some shock. On social media the sentimentalists await the arrival of this atrocityâs cutesy hashtag or motif and hope it will tide them over until the piano man arrives at the scene of the attack to sing âimagine thereâs no countriesâ. Meantime someone will hopefully have said something which a lot of people can condemn as âinappropriateâ. I see that the telegraph columnist allison pearson was this morningâs twitter miscreant, foolish enough to say in the wake of the brussels attack that the eu might not make us very safe. One may agree or disagree with this sentiment, but ms pearson should have known that the only acceptable thing to do after a suicide bomber detonates beside the european commission is to acclaim the commission as one of the few entities able to keep us safe.
We will shortly move to the next phase, which is to find a good news story amid the rubble. Anything will do, but best of all is a muslim good news story. After paris it was swiftly reported that one of the suicide bombers at stade de france had been turned away by a brave muslim security guard. The story whizzed around the world before anyone could check whether it was true. It wasnât. But people needed it to be. Not because muslims donât do good deeds, but because in the wake of any islamist terrorist attack people need people opposed to the bombers to be muslim and the bombers themselves not to be muslim. Then the good muslim can represent islam while the bad muslims can be said to have nothing to do with it.
Soon we will move to the next phase, during which broadcast media will ask questions that address no major points. So in the uk the governmentâs communications data bill will get quite a lot of mentions. We will probably also have another round of the old discussion about control orders versus tpims. This will most likely be first raised by a labour politician hoping to look tough. Everywhere on the media people will start to talk of âradicalisationâ as though it is something you can get from the water, and experts will claim insight into the âpaths to extremismâ. Nicky morgan will announce that the prevent agenda should be extended to encompass pre-kindergarten. A year later she will close some quaker-run nursery.
We will shortly move to the next phase, which is to find a good news story amid the rubble. Anything will do, but best of all is a muslim good news story. After paris it was swiftly reported that one of the suicide bombers at stade de france had been turned away by a brave muslim security guard. The story whizzed around the world before anyone could check whether it was true. It wasnât. But people needed it to be. Not because muslims donât do good deeds, but because in the wake of any islamist terrorist attack people need people opposed to the bombers to be muslim and the bombers themselves not to be muslim. Then the good muslim can represent islam while the bad muslims can be said to have nothing to do with it.
Soon we will move to the next phase, during which broadcast media will ask questions that address no major points. So in the uk the governmentâs communications data bill will get quite a lot of mentions. We will probably also have another round of the old discussion about control orders versus tpims. This will most likely be first raised by a labour politician hoping to look tough. Everywhere on the media people will start to talk of âradicalisationâ as though it is something you can get from the water, and experts will claim insight into the âpaths to extremismâ. Nicky morgan will announce that the prevent agenda should be extended to encompass pre-kindergarten. A year later she will close some quaker-run nursery.
Meanwhile other people will change the subject over to the question of belgiumâs unacceptably interventionist foreign policy. Others will get onto israel-palestine. At around the same time the corbynite-wing of the labour party will get onto their favourite subject which is not dead bodies in airports but people who have been looked at meanly on a bus while wearing a headscarf. By at least tomorrow the story of a savage âbacklashâ (consisting mainly of stares and horrible things written on social media) will be being talked-up by all mainstream muslim leaders. By thursday no one will be talking about the victims.
Meanwhile twitter will reprise some version of the post-sydney âiâll ride with youâ meme (based on a fib) or the âyou ainât no muslim, bruvâ which was shouted during decemberâs leytonstone attack by a non-muslim and briefly acclaimed by everyone from the prime minister down as one of the finest expressions ever of the english spirit and language.
This is how it goes in europe now. Everything barely worth saying will be said endlessly. And the only things that are worth saying wonât be said. What are those things? Among other things the fact that we are living with the consequences of an immigration and âintegrationâ fantasy which should have been abandoned years ago. Instead our governments have kept pretending that the weakening of europeâs external borders and the erosion of its internal borders happening at the same time as one of the largest population replacement exercises in history could have no tangible effects on our continentâs future. They pretend that britain will always be britain, france will always be france, sweden will always be sweden and belgium will always be belgium.
But perhaps we do learn some things. Albeit silently. A decade ago, after every attack, the pundits used to point to places where mass immigration, integration and open borders were meant to have worked. After london people said âwhat can we learn from franceâ. After paris they said âwhat can we learn from the swedish model.â nobody cites sweden anymore. In fact nobody looks to anyone elseâs model anymore. Because all of the âmodelsâ failed. So here we are â stuck with a problem our politicians have given us and to which they have no answers. Perhaps all this pointless chatter is just what people do to distract themselves before they have to face up to that fact.emphasized text_
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/03/a-terrorist-attack-has-happened-in-europe-let-the-standard-response-begin/
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The discussion today has shifted to âwe need closer co-operation between intelligence services of the 28 statesâ
They want to use this attack as an excuse to grow the EU project even larger.
Canât wait till we are out of this bloody thing in a few months
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Cameron is getting the French to temporarily take the Calais jungle out of sight and out of mind.
Hopefully the British voters have all the facts when they vote on the referendum, regardless of which way they vote
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Rentokil Iâd guess soâŚ
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great to be alive today, we can never let them win, I am going to get a tube today just to show that
#jesuisbrussels
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Talk of Euro 2016 being played behind closed doors. Anyone thinking of going to France for it, needs their head examined.
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Out out out
I see some 19 year old kid called Mason Wells was caught up in yesterdays bombings. Some âminor damageâ included severed achilles, schrapnel injuries, severe burns and head injuries. Heâll survive.
Which is what he did after he was also caught up in the Boston Bombings 3 years ago as he watched his mom complete the marathon.
Mason was in Brussels through his work as a Mormon Missionary. AND he was also in Paris at the time of the bombings there 
Luckiest unlucky person ever? Or best ISIS terrorist cover EVER?!