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Sir David Amess, Conservative MP, Assassinated at Constituency Meeting in UK
- torstenvl 5y ago@dang: original title without editorialization is "Sir David Amess: Conservative MP stabbed to death" It's easy to imagine this was an assassination, and it might very well be — counter-terrorism specialists are investigating the murder in order to find out whether it was — but there's no evidence of that as of now.
- tailspin2019 5y agoYep title definitely needs an update
- robbedpeter 5y agoWhere and how it occurred provides a bit of context, as far right extremist attacks have happened in the area before. Given who and where, it's not unreasonable from a bayesian perspective to be highly certain this was a politically motivated murder. That region has had neo-nazi problems for many years
- spzb 5y agoThe Daily Telegraph disagrees with this analysis (you may have opinions on why this is the case)
- robbedpeter 5y agoThe venn diagrams for terrorist and assassination definitely overlap, and even more so with the loosened definition of terrorism these days. I may be wrong in assuming the politics of the attacker, but the event doesn't seem to be random - the mp was targeted at a scheduled event, so that ticks all the boxes in my mind - someone specifically targeted and murdered for political reasons was assassinated. Have a link for the daily telegraph article in question? Or at least, some more detail?
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- spzb 5y agoThe Telegraph, along with the bbc now, are saying the arrested man is British of Somalian heritage. So unlikely to be a neo-Nazi.
- robbedpeter 5y agoBarring a Clayton Bigsby parody irl, I'd have to agree that neo-nazi probably isn't his affiliation.
- GaryTang 5y ago>That region has had neo-nazi problems for many years. I would wager inhouse power dynamics or foreign influences as a more likely motive.
- blowski 5y ago> That region has had neo-nazi problems for many years Source? I lived there for nearly 40 years, and can’t say I ever experienced such problems any worse than other places.
- feer392529 5y agoMuh far right extremism. He was stabbed by some somali nigger.
- Nasrudith 5y agoReally aren't most public and targetted killings of a politician considered assassination attempts by default regardless of the motivation? At least connotationally. John Hinkley shot Ronald Reagan not out of some statement against his policies but because of a deranged Jodie Foster obsession and bizzare belief that it would get her attention. Granted Hinkley himself also referred to it as an assassination.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoAssassination means murder of a prominent person.
- musicale 5y agomerriam-webster.com largely agrees with you. Definition of assassination 1 : murder by sudden or secret attack often for political reasons : the act or an instance of assassinating someone (such as a prominent political leader)
- arthurcolle 5y ago> She was killed outside a library in Birstall, West Yorkshire, where she was due to hold a constituency surgery. What is constituency surgery...?
- _-david-_ 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgery_(politics) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgery_(politics)
- colinb 5y agoA scheduled meeting with constituents i.e people from the district the MP represents.
- dandotway 5y agoIn British English, a physician's or dentist's office is called a surgery. Thus, for Britons, going to the surgery just means visiting the doc; it does not have the same connotations of going under a knife that it has for Americans.
- selfhoster11 5y agoThis is not related to the medial meaning of the term. In this case, it's closer to "office hours", a specific time when constituents can come and ask questions.