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> The vast majority of terrorists are clowns. Perhaps if you're referring to home grown Islamic terrorists. However Britain does have a problem with an experi
by sonthonax 9y ago
> The vast majority of terrorists are clowns.
Perhaps if you're referring to home grown Islamic terrorists. However Britain does have a problem with an experienced group of rather professional terrorists called the IRA.
- discombobulate 9y agoWhen was the last IRA attack, Manchester 1996?
- EliRivers 9y agoIf we fuck up Brexit badly enough, maybe we'll see them back in action.
- ascorbic 9y agoA republican bomb maker was convicted literally yesterday. This isn't ancient history.
- discombobulate 9y agoThat's interesting. Looks like he was a member of the Continuity IRA[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity_Irish_Republican_Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity_Irish_Republican_Ar...
- ascorbic 9y agoI don't know how much of this you know, but there are several "dissident" republican and loyalist terror groups that have remained active since the Good Friday Agreements. The Omagh bombing, with the biggest loss of life of any attack in the Troubles, was carried out by dissident republicans after the agreement. The last republican bombings on British soil (not in Northern Ireland) were by the Real IRA in 2001, but they've continued in Northern Ireland, including in the past few years.
- discombobulate 9y agoI know about the IRA in general from the news & living in the UK. I hadn't realised splinter groups were still at it. I don't tend to read the news -- so haven't heard much about Sinn Fein[0] recently, for example. Looking up SF, I've just learned they are left-wing. I'd assumed they were right-wing nationalists. Guess the answer to how much I know about this subject is, a wee bit. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in
- DanBC 9y agohere are the sentencing remarks: https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/judgments/sentencing-remarks-of-mr-justice-sweeney-r-v-ciaran-maxwell/ https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/judgments/sentencing-remarks-of...
- discombobulate 9y agoThe research & library creation is illegal. That's a bit much: 'Research resulting in the creation of a library of documents providing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism — specifically information regarding the manufacture of explosive substances, the construction of explosive devices, and tactics used by terrorist organisations.'
- timthorn 9y agoYou missed a critical bit: "...with the intention of assisting another to commit acts of terrorism..."
- discombobulate 9y agoMy quote was the entirety of Count 1. I believe a count is a distinct offence[0]. [0]http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/count http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/count
- timthorn 9y agoAll the numbered paragraphs are subject to the rider "As the Particulars of that offence make clear, with the intention of assisting another to commit acts of terrorism, you engaged in conduct in preparation for giving effect to that intention namely:" The relevant legislation is here: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/11/section/5 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/11/section/5
- discombobulate 9y ago
- EvilGrin 9y ago27 March 2017. http://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2017/03/27/news/strabane-explosion-claimed-by-ira--978028/ http://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2017/03/27...
- pjc50 9y agoAnd the lesson people keep refusing to learn is that the conflict in NI was ended not by military or legal action but by political action, including the establishment of human rights in law there as insurance against arbitrary state actions. The IRA are and were very different from the Islamic terrorists, who are much less organised and more resemble isolated self-radicalised far right extremists.