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26 May 2013
'LAW COULD NOT HAVE STOPPED ATTACKS'
Eric Pickles Says 'Snooper's Charter' Could Not Have Prevented Woolwich Killing
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'LAW COULD NOT HAVE STOPPED ATTACKS'
Eric Pickles Says 'Snooper's Charter' Could Not Have Prevented Woolwich Killing
- http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/24/woolwich-snoopers-charter-pickles_n_3330078.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-politics
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When Anders Breivik, self-styled member of an 'international Christian military order', massacred 77 innocent Norwegians, most them children, in July 2011, did we indict Christianity? Sadly, we hold Islam and Muslims to a separate standard...
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Our response now should also be familiar: calm and measured. Not creating a sense of panic - this it what these people want - but not underestimating the threat either. And everyone should take some strange comfort from the fact that this types of mindless violence is almost impossible to stop: because that also shows how very few people in our country want to do it.
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Dead-set on proving to their constituents that Ukip are actually fluffy toys when it comes to Europe, Despite Cameron's commitment to a referendum in the next Parliament, Ukip would die. Excuse my Belgian-French, but this is crap.
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