Comments on: Dramatic Exeter http://hurryupharry.org/2008/05/23/dramatic-exeter/ Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:56:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jon d http://hurryupharry.org/2008/05/23/dramatic-exeter/comment-page-3/#comment-178780 Jon d Sat, 24 May 2008 15:44:11 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/05/23/dramatic-exeter/#comment-178780 You really don't understand why your muddling mental illness and mental handicap and leaping to conclusions about the capabilities of people with either (or indeed both) has wound people up do you? Afaict no one's said rielly *had* to be working alone You really don’t understand why your muddling mental illness and mental handicap and leaping to conclusions about the capabilities of people with either (or indeed both) has wound people up do you?
Afaict no one’s said rielly *had* to be working alone

]]> By: Colin http://hurryupharry.org/2008/05/23/dramatic-exeter/comment-page-3/#comment-178752 Colin Sat, 24 May 2008 10:51:23 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/05/23/dramatic-exeter/#comment-178752 Just to set the balance right and please sensitive types like 'F**k all of you', does anyone have any heart-warming stories iof the "Muslim taxi driver hero saves Stradivarus violin" variety? Better still if more of the "Muslim hero saves Stradivarus tot" type. Just to set the balance right and please sensitive types like ‘F**k all of you’, does anyone have any heart-warming stories iof the “Muslim taxi driver hero saves Stradivarus violin” variety? Better still if more of the “Muslim hero saves Stradivarus tot” type.

]]> By: thomas k http://hurryupharry.org/2008/05/23/dramatic-exeter/comment-page-3/#comment-178744 thomas k Sat, 24 May 2008 09:52:29 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/05/23/dramatic-exeter/#comment-178744 "Detectives believe Mr Reilly planned to commit suicide and allegedly had help in constructing three "rudimentary but viable" bombs..."(from todays Telegraph) “Detectives believe Mr Reilly planned to commit suicide and allegedly had help in constructing three “rudimentary but viable” bombs…”(from todays Telegraph)

]]> By: Brett http://hurryupharry.org/2008/05/23/dramatic-exeter/comment-page-3/#comment-178725 Brett Sat, 24 May 2008 07:41:53 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/05/23/dramatic-exeter/#comment-178725 <i>"Naturally far be it from me to gloat…</i> It's only gloatable if it implies he acted alone as some sort of loner psychopath who hatched the plot on his own. The rest of the story strongly suggests that this wasn't the case. Nor was it the case with a similar incident last month with almost identical circumstances. If the plan to detonate a bomb was hatched with others, and the instructions on building a bomb were obtained with the help of others, and encouragement to go through with the action came from others, this is sufficient to suggest a new trend of recruiting the mentally vulnerable for suicide bombing missions. And this is something to be worried about. What would be reassuring news would be to learn that he was a lone psychopath and that the earlier case with almost identical circumstances - and also in Exeter - was pure coincidence. “Naturally far be it from me to gloat…

It’s only gloatable if it implies he acted alone as some sort of loner psychopath who hatched the plot on his own. The rest of the story strongly suggests that this wasn’t the case. Nor was it the case with a similar incident last month with almost identical circumstances.

If the plan to detonate a bomb was hatched with others, and the instructions on building a bomb were obtained with the help of others, and encouragement to go through with the action came from others, this is sufficient to suggest a new trend of recruiting the mentally vulnerable for suicide bombing missions. And this is something to be worried about.

What would be reassuring news would be to learn that he was a lone psychopath and that the earlier case with almost identical circumstances – and also in Exeter – was pure coincidence.

]]> By: Jon d http://hurryupharry.org/2008/05/23/dramatic-exeter/comment-page-3/#comment-178721 Jon d Sat, 24 May 2008 06:39:36 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/05/23/dramatic-exeter/#comment-178721 Naturally far be it from me to gloat... But From today's guardian: Reilly bungled assembling the bomb which he is believed to have built himself. Naturally far be it from me to gloat…
But From today’s guardian:
Reilly bungled assembling the bomb which he is believed to have built himself.

]]> By: Jon d http://hurryupharry.org/2008/05/23/dramatic-exeter/comment-page-3/#comment-178676 Jon d Sat, 24 May 2008 00:41:41 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/05/23/dramatic-exeter/#comment-178676 Well whether or not riley was radicalised by care workers it'll still be something new to add to the enhanced CRB checks for people applying to work with vulnerable persons. What interesting times we get to live in. Well whether or not riley was radicalised by care workers it’ll still be something new to add to the enhanced CRB checks for people applying to work with vulnerable persons. What interesting times we get to live in.

]]> By: virgil xenophon http://hurryupharry.org/2008/05/23/dramatic-exeter/comment-page-3/#comment-178665 virgil xenophon Fri, 23 May 2008 22:42:01 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/05/23/dramatic-exeter/#comment-178665 More on the Elephant: Several people today are quoting Sen Joe Lieberman's recent speech in which he quoted former US Sec. of State Dean Acheson (I don't know whether its from his memoirs "Present at the Creation" or not, I'm not at home or near a library--so can't consult a copy) as saying: "No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedoms by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies." More on the Elephant:

Several people today are quoting Sen Joe Lieberman’s recent speech in which he quoted former US Sec. of State Dean Acheson (I don’t know whether its from his memoirs “Present at the Creation” or not, I’m not at home or near a library–so can’t consult a copy) as saying: “No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedoms by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.”

]]> By: Brett http://hurryupharry.org/2008/05/23/dramatic-exeter/comment-page-3/#comment-178622 Brett Fri, 23 May 2008 18:44:23 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/05/23/dramatic-exeter/#comment-178622 I see two more people have now been arrested. I see two more people have now been arrested.

]]> By: virgil xenophon http://hurryupharry.org/2008/05/23/dramatic-exeter/comment-page-3/#comment-178611 virgil xenophon Fri, 23 May 2008 18:05:49 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/05/23/dramatic-exeter/#comment-178611 Walter Boswell@23/05/08, 6:04pm Exactly! The phrase "whistling past the graveyard" also comes to mind. Walter Boswell@23/05/08, 6:04pm

Exactly! The phrase “whistling past the graveyard” also comes to mind.

]]> By: Maven http://hurryupharry.org/2008/05/23/dramatic-exeter/comment-page-2/#comment-178607 Maven Fri, 23 May 2008 17:57:51 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/05/23/dramatic-exeter/#comment-178607 Its difficult to imagine why Exeter? What's wrong with staying in Plymouth, Surely an outrage in Plymouth is worth the same as one in Exeter. Maybe there IS something about the Giraffe chain that stimulates Islamic Terrorism. Maybe its Exeter which should really be called Sexeter, a place of neo-con imperialism at the heart of Zionism where excess cream teas become the stimulus for Western decadent sex orgies. Or maybe not! But why Exeter? Why travel 40 miles on a bus with maybe three explosive devices? Its difficult to imagine why Exeter? What’s wrong with staying in Plymouth, Surely an outrage in Plymouth is worth the same as one in Exeter. Maybe there IS something about the Giraffe chain that stimulates Islamic Terrorism.

Maybe its Exeter which should really be called Sexeter, a place of neo-con imperialism at the heart of Zionism where excess cream teas become the stimulus for Western decadent sex orgies. Or maybe not!

But why Exeter? Why travel 40 miles on a bus with maybe three explosive devices?

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