Sir David Amess, Conservative MP, Assassinated at Constituency Meeting in UK
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Re: Sir David Amess, Conservative MP, Assassinated at Constituency Meeting in UK
#2@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.
Re: Sir David Amess, Conservative MP, Assassinated at Constituency Meeting in UK
#3@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.
Yep title definitely needs an update
Re: Sir David Amess, Conservative MP, Assassinated at Constituency Meeting in UK
#4@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.
Where 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
Re: Sir David Amess, Conservative MP, Assassinated at Constituency Meeting in UK
#5@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.
Where 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
The Daily Telegraph disagrees with this analysis (you may have opinions on why this is the case)
Re: Sir David Amess, Conservative MP, Assassinated at Constituency Meeting in UK
#6> She was killed outside a library in Birstall, West Yorkshire, where she was due to hold a constituency surgery.
What is constituency surgery...?
Re: Sir David Amess, Conservative MP, Assassinated at Constituency Meeting in UK
#7> She was killed outside a library in Birstall, West Yorkshire, where she was due to hold a constituency surgery. What is constituency surgery...?
Re: Sir David Amess, Conservative MP, Assassinated at Constituency Meeting in UK
#8> She was killed outside a library in Birstall, West Yorkshire, where she was due to hold a constituency surgery. What is constituency surgery...?
A scheduled meeting with constituents i.e people from the district the MP represents.
Re: Sir David Amess, Conservative MP, Assassinated at Constituency Meeting in UK
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where 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
The Daily Telegraph disagrees with this analysis (you may have opinions on why this is the case)
The 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?
Re: Sir David Amess, Conservative MP, Assassinated at Constituency Meeting in UK
#10@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.
Where 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
>That region has had neo-nazi problems for many years.
I would wager inhouse power dynamics or foreign influences as a more likely motive.