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Threat Level
After reading the article about the UK attack I’m left wondering how long has there been a threat level? What exactly is the threat level based on? Intel? If you have intel that warrants a “severe threat level” why not take "severe" steps to stop it? Is this the future of western culture now, constantly under threat?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_Security_Advisory_System
OTOH, it's not like people actually were paying attention after Bush's re-election.
Well they don't really serve any purpose. I mean look at what's happening despite elevated threat levels.
And exactly what is happening?
Nothing, nothing's happening at all. LOL
Hands held high, making hearts to the heavens. Showing the slaughtered they were not forgotten. Reminding themselves they were here with love. Looking to show humanity wins. That love conquers all.
They lay in the center of London, face down where they fell. Stabbed by a knife, rammed with a car, flung, broken, into the Thames, life bleeding out on the curb.
And the news came thick and fast.
As the last life-blood of a police officer ran out across the cobbles, the attacker was being stretchered away in an attempt to save his life.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4340290/Truth-t-like-says-KATIE-HOPKINS.html
I’m not arguing that it would. I’m saying the threat level is just a feel good measure. My point is, if there is intel, or whatever they use to determine that there is a severe threat (UK was, and still is under a severe threat level) then why aren’t they taking severe steps to stop it? Because, enough people haven’t died yet? If this continues, the people will get sick of cleaning up innocent blood from their streets. If that day ever comes, I fear it won't be one of humanity’s finer moments. I don't think enough is being done to prevent these attacks. Political correctness is going to lead us down a nasty road.
Throw somebody in jail because they MIGHT carry out an attack, or because they sympathize with a terror group? That's a slippery slope.
Not to mention that's the kind of stuff that they feed off of, and could even result in more converts to extremism. I'm a believer that every time a drone strike kills a couple of ISIS fighters, it turns on a few cousins and brothers and friends or internet tough guys to extremism. Multiply that every time a drone strike kills a kid or strikes a school/hospital/church...
That said, I have no idea how to curb it.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Suspect-in-Midtown-Stabbing-Came-to-NYC-to-Attack-Black-People-NYPD-416845073.html
Mike
What do you want, martial law? Throw all the Arabs (because you never can tell) into a ghetto?
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sooooo this would have stopped this most recent brittish born attacker how?
I've got the one thing I want the most. The right to bear arms. UK, not so much.
Can you tell me how many times there have been mass (gun related) shootings in England similar to ours? Just curious.
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Mike
define "severe."
Is it an existential threat? Will it destroy our economy, our culture, our institutions? Of course not.
How about this: Western countries are resilient societies with well-developed legal, political, economic and cultural norms that will easily thwart the objectives of any attack. The threat level is severe because we choose to see it as severe, and for no other reason. Britain lost 50,000 citizens during the battle of Britain. So. . . you really think this latest go-round is gonna be Britain's undoing?
I'm not seeking to make light of the casualties from yesterday, as their lives were precious and worthy of protection. Its actually to our credit that a few dead can provoke this response. It means we value the lives of our citizens and don't take their safety lightly. All that means is that these minor attacks generate an outsized response. It doesn't mean the threat is actually severe.
I agree Cuddy. I am one of those people who would take the first step of preventing people from those areas from entering the country. That seemed like a pretty simple solution to reduce the odds a little, but boy did the left raise hell over that one. I don't have the answers either. I'm just making an observation that threat levels, making heart signs toward the sky, and lighting candles, aren't having much effect either.
Mike
LOL
If we can throw health care in there as well, it'll be the trifecta of internet arguments.
So then it is about religion.
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An Allahu Snack Bar blows up a bus stop. ..... Can't ban Muslims.
Oh, wait...
It's also a severe threat when it's YOUR wife, child, mother, dying. It's one thing when our youth are dying on the front fighting for western values. Its a totally different when they are being mowed down in the street, and our only response is lighting a candle and raising the threat level,
I'm guessing that they wouldn't have allowed a German living in Britain the same freedoms that the latest attacker had during the battle either.