Re: Distraction tactics - attack is the best form of defence
@Pompous Git: "The big killers, particularly over the last 100 years have been governments executing their own citizens. The ratio is well over 1000:1."
Do you mean "statutory executions" or something else? AFAIK the UK Government does not pick people at random and execute them; terrorists do. Where people are executed (or were in the case of the UK) it was as a consequence of being found guilty of an offence for which execution was the specified penalty. (OK; there have been miscarriages of justice where innocent people have been executed, which is possibly one of the reasons that other sentences now apply.)
Other governments (no names no pack drill) may have been rather less discriminating in those they select for execution but to lump those together with (for example) the UK is either careless, mischievous, or perhaps deliberately misleading. The article was about a stance taken by the UK Government, and no other. Could you perhaps clarify your figures by providing details of (a) statutory executions, (b) "random" executions, and (c) killings by terrorists. The add (d): serious injuries caused by terrorist action.
There seems to be a growing body of opinion that Google, Facebook and the like are behaving as though they see themselves as being beyond the reach of national laws and anything that serves to remind them that they aren't is OK with me.
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