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So I did hear correctly that it took 30 min for the police to arrive at the London attack.Bizarre!!!Bill2.1.1
Just another machette attack/stabbing …finish smoko first. Oh no, wait a minute! Some guy high on fuck knows what mentioned the Quran. Call Cobra!Colonial Viper2.1.2
News reports yesterday said 20 minutes. They also said that the nearest police station was about 3 miles away.prism2.1.2.2
I thought Boris Johnson was supposed to have brought in traffic reducing measures in his manor. So it can’t have been traffic hold-up, probably the police staff have been reduced by budget cuts and replaced by computers. Bloody lazy computers, always sitting at desks in cosy offices, never getting down and dirty where the action is.
ianmac2.1.3
Correction. 9 minutes for police to get there. Another 4 minutes for armed police to get there.Te Reo Putake2.1.3.1
That’s terribly poor form from you, ianmac. Please apologise to Moz immediately for getting your actual facts in the way of his fevered ranting.Clockie2.1.3.1.1
Sounds as though “actual facts” are in short supply and as usual the media are making it up and interviewing themselves and each other to get their information. Most of the early reporting had it that the cops took half an hour or so to get there.ghostrider8882.1.3.1.1.1
left you a link to a book on Indigenous Response to Globalization on yesterday’s OM Clockie if interested.- Thanks Ghost. I’ll check it out.
Morrissey2.1.3.1.2
I would trust the people who were there on the scene. The London Police are notorious for their untruthfulness.You know that, of course.By the way, what in my original post was in any way equivalent to “fevered ranting”? I simply reported the vacuous words of a vacuous politician. That’s “fevered ranting” in your book?Sir, I do not believe you know what those words mean.- “The London Police”Who they?In the real world, the timeline (armed response in under 15 minutes) seems pretty reasonable to me. And, given the number of witnesses, it’s hard to see how the “London Police” could get away with lying about it. Which leaves Moz looking a bit douchey, and not just because he just invented a new branch of the Sweeney.
- “The London Police”Who they?The Metropolitan Police. The Met. The Filth. The Old Bill. The Sweeney Todd. You know: the heroes who bravely hunted down and shot Jean Charles de Menezes on 22 July 2005, and lied about it afterwards.In the real world, the timeline (armed response in under 15 minutes) seems pretty reasonable to me.Of course it does. You have a well established track record of believing everything the officials tell you—even when it has been established they were lying. For a bright guy, you have a disturbing habit of trusting the thugs who have installed themselves in authority; just yesterday you described Matthew Parris, of all people, as “respected”.Which leaves Moz looking a bit douchey, and not just because he just invented a new branch of the Sweeney.Did I get it wrong? Was it the Manchester police who were so tardy in getting their asses over to Woolwich?
- In the real world, the timeline (armed response in under 15 minutes) seems pretty reasonable to me.Many of the coppers at Woolwich Crown Court (a major London court building) which was 4000m away are armed.Interestingly, I thought that there would have been MPs at the military base where the attack occurred.
- Are MP’s allowed to intervene in an incident involving civilians?
- they cannot usually be involved in civilian law enforcement duties, but in situations like this where military personnel are involved you do what is required first then ask the Generals on the military board of inquiry to sort out the paperwork afterwards.
- Makes sense.
- from an English academic specialising in modern terrorism (RNZ interview);
“seeing a rise in ‘leaderless jihad’ ” (facilitated in no small measure by the internet)…”where followers develop their own interpretations of scripture”…”a violent radicalization occurring”.
Tuesday, 9 January 2018
LIARS OF OUR TIME No. 10: Lord Mayor Boris Johnson (May 24, 2013)
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No. 10: Boris Johnson
No. 9: NewstalkZB PR dept: “News you NEED! Fast, fair, accurate!”
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-21052013/#comment-635850
No. 8: Simon Bridges: “I don’t mean to duck the question.”
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-20052013/#comment-635343
No. 7: Nigel Morrison: “Quite frankly, they’ve been VERY tough.”
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-15052013/#comment-633295
No. 6: NZ Herald PR dept: “Congratulations—you’re reading New Zealand’s best newspaper.” http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-13052013/#comment-632598
No. 5: Rawdon Christie: “…a FORMIDABLE replacement, it seems, is Claudette Hauiti.” http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-13052013/#comment-632594
No. 4: Willie and J.T.: “The X-Factor. Nah, nah, there’s some GREAT talent there!” http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-06052013/#comment-628803
No. 3: John Key: “Yeah we hold MPs to a higher standard.”
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-06052013/#comment-628703
No. 2: Colin Craig: “Oh, I have a GREAT sense of humour.” (TV3 News, 24 April 2013)http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-25042013/#comment-624381
No. 1: Barack Obama: “Margaret Thatcher was one of the great champions of freedom and liberty.”
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