There's just been an explosion at a concert in the greater Manchester area, 19 are dead, there could be more deaths, more details to come. 

 

RIP to all the victims. 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 23, 20178 yr by TheSandwichStealer

Death Count raised to 22 and 59 injured and being treated in hospitals.

There's a lot of mispers too. 

It breaks my heart to see this. I just think its really sad. You should be able to go out, explore and have fun without the threat of terrorism. There were a lot of teens at that concert. It's sickening.  People are destroying there own future. :-(.

Threat level has been increased to 'CRITICAL' - highest it's been in a decade. 

Soldiers are being deployed to help protect key locations/events & will be placed under police command as part of what is being called 'Operation Temperer'.

Edited May 23, 20178 yr by Constable Lego

My condolences are with the victims of this horrible tragedy, and it's a shame that innocent lives were lost in this cowardice and senseless attack.

 

That's just how cowardly these terrorists are. They target those that can't defend themselves, innocent young girls that are out enjoying music from pop artists. A lot of those girls probably don't even understand what's going on, that's how young a lot of them appeared to be. I can't even imagine how it must feel, as a parent, sitting at home not knowing where your children are. The children probably don't know where they are either, it's really an awful situation. 

 

They continue to target the innocent and defenseless because they know that the armed forces of allied countries altogether would fuck them up in a heartbeat, it's pathetic.

Troops arriving in Westminster

Manchester attack protocol:

1) Islam has nothing to do with terrorism.

2) The man was a lonewolf.

3) If you claim otherwise #1 and #2, you're a racist bigot freak.

4) Post a profile pic on Facebook using the flag of the country where the attack happened as filter.

5) Hold a march with candles and flowers around the streets with the Muslims living in your city.

6) Wait for the next attack.

7) Repeat.

Edited May 24, 20178 yr by badass22

3 hours ago, badass22 said:

Manchester attack protocol:

1) Islam has nothing to do with terrorism.

2) The man was a lonewolf.

3) If you claim otherwise #1 and #2, you're a racist bigot freak.

4) Post a profile pic on Facebook using the flag of the country where the attack happened as filter.

5) Hold a march with candles and flowers around the streets with the Muslims living in your city.

6) Wait for the next attack.

7) Repeat.

 

Don't be a removed.

Oh come on guys, do we really have to insult each other now?

@Constable Lego It always goes on like this. Same for the Parliament attack in London, the Berlin market attack, Nice, Paris, and the list goes on and on.

 

What did it change?

2 hours ago, badass22 said:

@Constable Lego It always goes on like this. Same for the Parliament attack in London, the Berlin market attack, Nice, Paris, and the list goes on and on.

 

What did it change?

 

Again, don't be a removed. 

Using the deaths of 22 people ~ 2 days after an attack to push a political agenda is abhorrent. 

 

I presume you can read? Members of the armed forces have been placed under police command. That's what we're doing. 

 

I'm not going to bother engaging with you anymore. 

Anyway, I hope things will get better.

Wrong time of the year too - exam time. Supposed to be a reprive to some - in the end, it only hurt them more, some physically.

 

It rather did hit me hard, as it is in a critical part of my life. For the whole of yesterday, there was this weird feeling in my stomach - a feeling of sorrow, maybe, a feeling that I just couldn't do anything. And once again, the school frankly doesn't care.

31 minutes ago, Hullian111 said:

Wrong time of the year too - exam time. Supposed to be a reprive to some - in the end, it only hurt them more, some physically.

 

It rather did hit me hard, as it is in a critical part of my life. For the whole of yesterday, there was this weird feeling in my stomach - a feeling of sorrow, maybe, a feeling that I just couldn't do anything. And once again, the school frankly doesn't care.

Were you at the concert last night?

Killing inoccent people. An act i still don't understand, even after my 4 year career as a police officer. 

 

I pray for the victims.

33 minutes ago, badass22 said:

Were you at the concert last night?

Nope, don't go to concerts, but it was quite a punch in the gut, almost literally.

 

I was listening to Viking 2 on the way to school, just after I had taken out my headphones, and the presenter's kid asked the presenter that morning via text "Daddy, what's going on? I'm scared."

 

I think that ruined the whole day for me.

There's an unsettling feeling around Manchester, you don't truly realise how horrific acts like these affect a community, a city. Until they happen in the place were you live. When you see attacks on the news it feels so far away in France, Germany and Belguim and the threat doesn't feel truly real.

 

As more news comes out about the attack it gets even more unsettling. I know people who were there, my friends, family of colleagues. Even I could have been right outside that night if I had met my friend after they finished work.  I went to the vigil yesterday and the city felt different.

 

My heart goes out to the victims and their families.

Say whatever you want about my thoughts, but that's what I say:

It's not about to pray for what you care about. It's about to fight for it. Because this is the way to defeat your enemy.

5 hours ago, badass22 said:

Manchester attack protocol:

1) Islam has nothing to do with terrorism.

2) The man was a lonewolf.

3) If you claim otherwise #1 and #2, you're a racist bigot freak.

4) Post a profile pic on Facebook using the flag of the country where the attack happened as filter.

5) Hold a march with candles and flowers around the streets with the Muslims living in your city.

6) Wait for the 

 

Do you mind elaborating a little bit on how exactly blaming Islam would make someone a racist? Last I checked, Islam wasn't a race. When you use such a historically important word so loosely, it loses its true value and meaning. 

2 hours ago, Riley24 said:

That was an intelligent, amazing, blessed man. I respect what he fought for and his word, but I disagree with this particular quote in reference to terrorism.

 

I challenge you to ask victims of terrorism how much they love the attacker. Ask them if they forgive the attacker. I guarantee you, off television, you won't get any positive responses. How can I love and forgive a man that rapes, murders, mutilates, burns, hangs, and beheads innocent people? How would I forgive a man that raped my mother? Or burned my wife in a cage? Or beheaded my children in the middle of the street in broad daylight? This isn't a civil rights movement, this is an attack on all of us and what we hold dear to us.

 

I agree, fight hate with hate, that doesn't solve anything. We need to fight hate with bullets, that's much more effective. I'll show how much I love putting them out of this planet so that people don't have to suffer and fear for their lives. It's ridiculous that children are being targeted. It's cowardly, and it pisses me the hell off. I have no love or forgiveness for terrorists, they need to be put down. They don't deserve to be on this planet, and I'd place money that the parents of the girls that lost their lives would agree.

Edited May 24, 20178 yr by TheDivineHustle