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2017-06-06 Britain

[LI] British PM Theresa May, in an address to the nation, stated that it wasn’t possible to have "predicted" or "envisaged" the latest terrorist attacks in Manchester and London.

Here’s her statement, as broadcast on CNN this morning:

"We could never have predicted the tragic turn which events would take. We could never have imagined the appalling depravity which led a cowardly and callous killer to target innocent men, women, and children, in the way that we saw in Manchester two weeks ago. Nor could we have envisaged the brutal attack that was carried out on the streets of London Saturday evening."

Seriously? Why couldn’t she "envisage" the London Bridge attack, given that a very similar attack--in which a vehicle was used as a weapon of mass murder--took place on Westminster Bridge less than three months ago?

As for Manchester outrage, there were echoes of it in the attack on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris. In any case, how can anyone possibly be surprised, or find it hard to "envisage," Islamic terrorist brutality in any form?

"Appalling depravity" hard for May to have predicted? Despite the history of mass beheadings, drownings, and burning in cages?

Posted by Besoeker 2017-06-06 04:37|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Only if you're unwilling to give up your PC delusions. The rest of us expected terror attacks - lots of them.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-06-06 04:49|| 2017-06-06 04:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Mustn't have read any Israeli news for the last 10 years.

Posted by phil_b 2017-06-06 04:55|| 2017-06-06 04:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Unprepared, ignorant. A reflection of the society that put her in power. They think they know it all, until terror strikes and then the survivors are in shock. And if they are truly outnumbered, they must submit.

Posted by Black Bart the Imposter1231 2017-06-06 04:59|| 2017-06-06 04:59|| Front Page Top

#4 This idiocy could well lose her the election to the odious Corbyn. What was she thinking? People aren't fools.

Posted by phil_b 2017-06-06 05:14|| 2017-06-06 05:14|| Front Page Top

#5 People aren't fools.
Posted by phil_b

Perhaps not in the UK anyway.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-06-06 05:17|| 2017-06-06 05:17|| Front Page Top

#6 People aren't fools.

If people aren't fools, how do you explain the state of the "West" nowadays?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-06-06 05:23|| 2017-06-06 05:23|| Front Page Top

#7 OK, enough people aren't fools, especially on her side of politics.

Posted by phil_b 2017-06-06 05:25|| 2017-06-06 05:25|| Front Page Top

#8 If they're not fools they won't vote Labor no mater what - because Labor = the same ROP bullsh*t + EU + business destroying taxes.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-06-06 05:37|| 2017-06-06 05:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Maybe they are not fools, maybe they are. Seems like their choice is something like Romney or Obama.

Posted by jvalentour 2017-06-06 07:14|| 2017-06-06 07:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Jvalentour, I say Obama or Sanders.

Romney would be a right wing extremist in UK.

This is truly disgusting.

Posted by AlanC 2017-06-06 07:26|| 2017-06-06 07:26|| Front Page Top

#11 Under Natural Law, a lack of imagination (especially if it is for political reasons) provides no protection against enemies that have an imagination (as limited as it may be ..).

Posted by Beau 2017-06-06 08:25|| 2017-06-06 08:25|| Front Page Top

#12 it wasn’t possible to have "predicted" or "envisaged"

"unless if we were doing our 'JOB'"

Posted by Frank G 2017-06-06 08:46|| 2017-06-06 08:46|| Front Page Top

#13 Gee... these attacks have been going on in Europe for weeks and a few in your backyard and you can't "Predict" or "envisioned" them happening?

Either you are the dumbest fuck that ever walked the planet, or you are a lying fuck weasel. Which one is it, bitch?

Posted by DarthVader 2017-06-06 09:11|| 2017-06-06 09:11|| Front Page Top

#14 Embrace the power of "and", Darth.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-06-06 09:55|| 2017-06-06 09:55|| Front Page Top

#15 Sorry. Was giving a useless meatsack the benefit of the doubt again, wasn't I?

Posted by DarthVader 2017-06-06 10:12|| 2017-06-06 10:12|| Front Page Top

#16 To be candid, I just wanted to beat P2k to it.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-06-06 10:25|| 2017-06-06 10:25|| Front Page Top

#17 I think they imagined it, but this is the sort of platitudes politicians mouth after tragedies. The underlying sentiment is that from this point on we will imagine and stop this sort of thing.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-06-06 15:20|| 2017-06-06 15:20|| Front Page Top

#18 'I'm Millwall': Brave football fan, 47, reveals how he was stabbed eight times as he fought the London Bridge terrorists with his bare hands (and how his mates have sent him a Learn To Run handbook)

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-06-06 16:46|| 2017-06-06 16:46|| Front Page Top

#19 Embrace the power of "and", Darth.

"And" is a subset of "or", just not "xor".

Posted by Chesney Wittlesbach8478 2017-06-06 18:30|| 2017-06-06 18:30|| Front Page Top

#20 Poland did! They stopped it. Its called being proactive...

Posted by 49 Pan 2017-06-06 18:48|| 2017-06-06 18:48|| Front Page Top

#21 Were these terrorists not known? Immigration could have been restricted.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-06-06 19:08|| 2017-06-06 19:08|| Front Page Top

#22 If it refuses to see the evil arrayed against it, how does the West survive?

Posted by newc 2017-06-06 20:42|| 2017-06-06 20:42|| Front Page Top

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