ISIS (2 Viewers)

[hydromancer]

ISIS child soldiers play horrifying ‘Hide and seek’ game

 

[David Kronenbourg]

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Brussels Zaventem airport blasts cause casualties - BBC News

Fuck this. 11 dead according to one report.

 

[rettucs]

Its unlikely to stop there.

How are they getting away with this? It seems like the least surprising thing ever these pricks would try something after what happened last week. I thought they were meant to be on 'high alert'?

Whoever is in charge of security over there had better explain themselves.

Obvious that an attack would happen. Obvious targets. What the actual fuck?

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Explosions at the Metro too.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Latest death toll is 26. In Schengen Europe it must be all but impossible to prevent shit like this happening if there are individuals/groups with inclination and means.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Even without Schengen it would be nigh on impossible to stop all attacks, particularly so when they're carried out by European citizens.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Even without Schengen it would be nigh on impossible to stop all attacks, particularly so when they're carried out by European citizens.

True, and I didn't mean to imply I was anti-Schengen. I just think of the shit that criminals and paramilitaries in Ireland get up to when it is relatively closed and I wonder how a country at the heart of the European metroplex could ever hope to prevent all such attacks.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Isn't that the nature of terrorism though, it will always seek to exploit the weakness in any society. No matter what security measures are taken, someone will think of a way of unleashing horror and pain on their target. You can't prevent it, you can only cut off possible modes of attack.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

And then there's the whole, how much money to spend on a

Isn't that the nature of terrorism though, it will always seek to exploit the weakness in any society. No matter what security measures are taken, someone will think of a way of unleashing horror and pain on their target. You can't prevent it, you can only cut off possible modes of attack.

Northern Ireland in the 1980s is a case in point. Place was largely on lock down but it didn't totally prevent terrorist attacks occurring, although it presumably curtailed it somewhat.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

True, and I didn't mean to imply I was anti-Schengen. I just think of the shit that criminals and paramilitaries in Ireland get up to when it is relatively closed and I wonder how a country at the heart of the European metroplex could ever hope to prevent all such attacks.

I guess the best we can hope for is to minimise the number of attacks, and the death toll of attacks that do occur. Well, that's assuming we can never resolve the underlying issues.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I guess the best we can hope for is to minimise the number of attacks, and the death toll of attacks that do occur. Well, that's assuming we can never resolve the underlying issues.

Stopping destroying countries in MENA might help stem the tide, but who knows.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Stopping destroying countries in MENA might help stem the tide, but who knows.

Beyond that though, marginalisation and poverty (for some of our homegrown terrorists at least) seem to be big issues.
It's gonna be a long, ugly process any way we face it.

 

[nooleen]

Stopping destroying countries in MENA might help stem the tide, but who knows.

welllllllllllll we could do that, or we could just keep stepping up the antagonism instead

 

[hydromancer]

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

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Maine residents confused by ISIS display with peeing Santa

 

[David Kronenbourg]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/world/europe/isis-attacks-paris-brussels.html?_r=0

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Some new person in work said yesterday apropos of the Rising commemorations, "If they can hit Brussels, nowhere's safe!" I don't know if this was a faux concerned something to say or something they actually believe and worry about but it is pretty silly to me. Not because Dublin could never be the subject of such an attack, just that unless something drastically changes it is far less likely than plenty of other terrible things happening, at least on a personal basis.

 

[nooleen]

would it not be like, if they can hit antarctica or somewhere nowhere's safe

brussels is pretty easy to get to

 

[Scientician 0.8]

would it not be like, if they can hit antarctica or somewhere nowhere's safe

brussels is pretty easy to get to

If Rockall falls, we know we're doomed.