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The repeated attacks, heavy immigration of refugees...I'm hoping for the best, but I feel like there is a powder keg here. Whether or not it is based in any fact, how this is handled and plays out is a serious concern.
What do people think the refugees were running away from? Exactly these people.
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Reworded to avoid offence (hopefully): deaths are not irrelevant, but their exact precise number is irrelevant. What matters is the scale of the security failure, compounded by the fact that they suffered a similar one less than a year ago and they were currently on high-alert (because they've only just started bombing Syria). The knowledge that a network could carry out such a widespread and well-coordinated attack…
Not all craziness is preventable by a security system.
118 dead reported by AFP (80 inside Bataclan concert hall) and 4 terrorists executed by special forces
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Reworded to avoid offence (hopefully): deaths are not irrelevant, but their exact precise number is irrelevant. What matters is the scale of the security failure, compounded by the fact that they suffered a similar one less than a year ago and they were currently on high-alert (because they've only just started bombing Syria). The knowledge that a network could carry out such a widespread and well-coordinated attack…
> Basically, the French security system has been revealed as completely ineffective. How can a country possibly prevent these things while still maintaining a free society?
You can't even prevent them when not being a free society. Its not like terrorism only occurs in free societies.
Plan multi attentats: Sudden surge of multiple situations
Plan blanc (in Île de France): surge of unpredictable activity of a hospital
Plan rouge: when there are significant casualties in a small area
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No, the number of innocent killed people is never irrelevant. Every single dead person is one dead person too much. Full stop. Edit: no need to further downvote as parent has changed his statement. Thanks parent poster.
Of course. But by the same reasoning, there is no difference if there were 1 or 118 victims, which is my point. It's not about keeping score.
Edit: no need to further downvote as parent has changed his statement. Thanks parent poster.
The repeated attacks, heavy immigration of refugees...I'm hoping for the best, but I feel like there is a powder keg here. Whether or not it is based in any fact, how this is handled and plays out is a serious concern.