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Originally Posted by The Batlord
The people who actually want to do something about it are the same people voting for Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump. Count your ****ing blessings that so many people aren't doing anything.
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Yeah, obviously I don't mean a "final solution" sort of thing like those people advocate, and let's hope they never get into pow ... oh. Well, anyway...
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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey
Yes. Pointless.
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Right? It's almost like people standing up to bullies when they know they're going to get their arses handed to them. Completely empty gesture, even if made in the right spirit.
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It's only a matter of time. An attempt was made on the Stade de France if you remember but that one failed.
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Oh yeah, I forgot that one. I kind of meant a successful (from the terrorists' point of view) one. But yeah.
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There are things you can do but it's difficult. Do you have any ideas TH?
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It's easy to sit here on the sidelines and preach. Luckily nothing has yet happened in Ireland, but it may only be a matter of time. I'm hoping we're too small to bother with: we can do nothing on our own, but then, as part of a group force maybe we're legitimate targets.
Hard to know where to draw the line between personal freedom/civil rights and security. You can't screen everyone going into a concert or a football match, but perhaps there could be some sort of detection system like they have in airports? Would people be prepared, do you think, to be delayed getting into a venue in order to be able to exit it alive? Deeper security checks but for ****'s sake when someone is on the radar DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. How many of these attackers were "being watched by the police"? What help is that? I'm sure that for every attack that carries through there are ten foiled, but that doesn't help the parents of those kids, or anyone else bereaved by one of these attacks.
Deportation for political views? I don't know: if you've been proven to be linked with terror organisations or hate speech, maybe there's a case for that. Not easy to take someone's home away. But there must be something that can be done, other than just holding up banners after the dead have been buried.