To the shock and surprise of absolutely nobody, the Manchester synagogue attacker, Jihad Al-Shamie, was known to the police, and his father is an out-and-proud Hamas supporter.
Great piece Pete. We Jews and Zionists in the US are horrified but not shocked by what happened in Manchester, and we are worried about you and all our UK friends. While the US is far from perfect, I do think the current administration is less likely than the previous to look the other way while terrorists and their useful idiot rioter friends destroy the country. Stay strong friend and keep writing!
Well said Pete. It’s easier to sit behind a screen and monitor X and Facebook than go out in the cold and rain and get up close and personal with potential murderers ready to pull a knife on you, isn’t it? And when many policemen are actually women, short men, fat and unfit or wear glasses you have to ask whether they’re fit for purpose. Whatever that purpose is?
Well done Pete on your stoicism, don't let the bastards grind you down.
It is absolutely frightening how the policing infrastructure has dissolved and how they have been allowed to effectively give up on protecting the public for easy click-arrests and non arrests.
Frighteningly prophetic for 2014. Sad that at 67 years of age I have little or no respect for the police as a whole. 20 years ago I lived next door to fairly senior officer. He once told me that the UK police can only function with the consent and support of the public. I believe that support is fading fast. How long before they’re armed?
It was a False Flag to whip up Islamophobia and antisemitism !!
The powers that be want and need this division “ problem reaction solution” the solution can only be digital ID. I am not denying that people may have been killed, do the government care ?
Were crisis actors used
What ever the government states or is in the MSN is a lie
The quality of policing seems to go in a never-ending cycle. Standards gradually drop, often due to poor leadership, underfunding and lax recruitment standards. Good people don’t join up. A major scandal occurs. So the police are given greater resources and a structural reorganisation. The police regain some public respect, good people join up and everybody goes away and thinks about something else. Politicians, eager to make savings, salami slice police budgets and the whole depressing cycle restarts.
The country is in a febrile state at present and the police force is the only thing between us and serious public disorder. There never was a more important time to stop the cycle of decline.
Hope they will drop all charges, Pete. Going back to 2023 is pointless. If detecting angry memes has any point at all, it is to prevent incitement. Who reads stuff from 2 years ago!
I also feel, as I suspect you do, that the Manchester schul attack will be a bit of a watershed . They can no longer viably blame the imaginary “Far Right thugs” or the Jews for being terrorists. It is clear who the main problem really are.
They also have blood on their hands for carelessly shooting one of the Jewish defenders. They are not really coming out of this in glory.
Just as a footnote, your article encourages me to join the FSU. It sounds so sensible.
I joined the FSU recently Kat. I hope I don’t get a knock on the door from Plod but if you’re over 65 (I’m 66) it’s only £30 or so I think. You get a badge as well!!!
I hope you’re right about Manchester being a watershed but doubt it. Salman Abedi killed 23 in Manchester in 2017 and predictably despite warm words from (the useless) Theresa May and the King of the North that was one of five attacks that year alone. I wasn’t surprised when I heard about this attack and won’t be surprised at the next one.
Great piece Pete. We Jews and Zionists in the US are horrified but not shocked by what happened in Manchester, and we are worried about you and all our UK friends. While the US is far from perfect, I do think the current administration is less likely than the previous to look the other way while terrorists and their useful idiot rioter friends destroy the country. Stay strong friend and keep writing!
Well said Pete. It’s easier to sit behind a screen and monitor X and Facebook than go out in the cold and rain and get up close and personal with potential murderers ready to pull a knife on you, isn’t it? And when many policemen are actually women, short men, fat and unfit or wear glasses you have to ask whether they’re fit for purpose. Whatever that purpose is?
Well done Pete on your stoicism, don't let the bastards grind you down.
It is absolutely frightening how the policing infrastructure has dissolved and how they have been allowed to effectively give up on protecting the public for easy click-arrests and non arrests.
Bang on Pete. Take this from an ashamed former senior police officer.
Frighteningly prophetic for 2014. Sad that at 67 years of age I have little or no respect for the police as a whole. 20 years ago I lived next door to fairly senior officer. He once told me that the UK police can only function with the consent and support of the public. I believe that support is fading fast. How long before they’re armed?
God almighty, what a trainwreck the U.K. has become, and it's nowhere near done crashing.
It was a False Flag to whip up Islamophobia and antisemitism !!
The powers that be want and need this division “ problem reaction solution” the solution can only be digital ID. I am not denying that people may have been killed, do the government care ?
Were crisis actors used
What ever the government states or is in the MSN is a lie
The show must go on. Bring on the clowns, oh, that's us...
The quality of policing seems to go in a never-ending cycle. Standards gradually drop, often due to poor leadership, underfunding and lax recruitment standards. Good people don’t join up. A major scandal occurs. So the police are given greater resources and a structural reorganisation. The police regain some public respect, good people join up and everybody goes away and thinks about something else. Politicians, eager to make savings, salami slice police budgets and the whole depressing cycle restarts.
The country is in a febrile state at present and the police force is the only thing between us and serious public disorder. There never was a more important time to stop the cycle of decline.
Hope they will drop all charges, Pete. Going back to 2023 is pointless. If detecting angry memes has any point at all, it is to prevent incitement. Who reads stuff from 2 years ago!
I also feel, as I suspect you do, that the Manchester schul attack will be a bit of a watershed . They can no longer viably blame the imaginary “Far Right thugs” or the Jews for being terrorists. It is clear who the main problem really are.
They also have blood on their hands for carelessly shooting one of the Jewish defenders. They are not really coming out of this in glory.
Just as a footnote, your article encourages me to join the FSU. It sounds so sensible.
I joined the FSU recently Kat. I hope I don’t get a knock on the door from Plod but if you’re over 65 (I’m 66) it’s only £30 or so I think. You get a badge as well!!!
I hope you’re right about Manchester being a watershed but doubt it. Salman Abedi killed 23 in Manchester in 2017 and predictably despite warm words from (the useless) Theresa May and the King of the North that was one of five attacks that year alone. I wasn’t surprised when I heard about this attack and won’t be surprised at the next one.