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> She was killed outside a library in Birstall, West Yorkshire, where she was due to hold a constituency surgery. What is constituency surgery...?
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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 fo…
@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
Source? I lived there for nearly 40 years, and can’t say I ever experienced such problems any worse than other places.
> She was killed outside a library in Birstall, West Yorkshire, where she was due to hold a constituency surgery. What is constituency surgery...?
In British English, a physician's or dentist's office is called a surgery. Thus, for Britons, going to the surgery just means visiting the doc; it does not have the same connotations of going under a knife that it has for Americans.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 fo…
@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.
John Hinkley shot Ronald Reagan not out of some statement against his policies but because of a deranged Jodie Foster obsession and bizzare belief that it would get her attention. Granted Hinkley himself also referred to it as an assassination.
@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
@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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 fo…
The Telegraph, along with the bbc now, are saying the arrested man is British of Somalian heritage. So unlikely to be a neo-Nazi.
@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.
Assassination means murder of a prominent person.
Definition of assassination 1 : murder by sudden or secret attack often for political reasons : the act or an instance of assassinating someone (such as a prominent political leader)