Car Crashes Into Glasgow Airport

[Papewaio]

Well-meaning official policies aren't worth a badly drawn four-dollar bill if the practical reality is prejudice and ostracization in daily life. People only learn to be with people if they are with people, and that goes for immigrants in a new land just as much as growing kids. Poor sods already have their platters full dealing with culture shock, language barrier and trying to get a life started; getting welcomed with thinly veiled (if not open) hostility doesn't exactly encourage anyone to try to "fit in" so to speak, but instead encourages them to turn inwards towards their own "peer-group". Unemployement (which already plagues the natives who don't have the additional handicaps immigrants and "foreigners" have to deal with on the job market), poverty and ghettoisation only heighten the effects, doubly so as the natives tend to have a bad tendency to avoid moving into the same neighbourhoods. Throw in the extra problems of the younger generations and post-11/9 discrimination, and you've got one damn toxic soup ready for serving.

I think you are assuming all the would be terrorists are of the brown shirt category... I think some are more educated and deadly and what I term the black shirts... such as the average education level of the 9/11 bomber, Osama himself (hardly dirt poor and uneducated) ...Surgeons are not on the whole poorly educated either, or destined to have a poor bank account either. So we can't just say it is poverty that is doing it as a lot of the terrorists aren't poor. Also some of them are married and have children too so its not like they don't have something better to liver for.

And if unemployment is the reason for some why didn't we see the whole of the north of England have an uprising with the massive unemployment when the steel industry collapsed.

Nor can you blame immigration when some of the guys have only recently turned up and by looks of it solely for one thing, to kill other people in the name of some meme suite.

At some point personal responsibility has to be taken for ones actions.

[Watchman]

The "white collar" level is in no way immune to these mechanisms - indeed, they are far more like to go down the radical/terrorist path than the underclass, which usually lacks the acumen to channel their frustrations in such comparatively sophisticated fashion. The ghetto boys tend to engage in aimless violence, vandalism and rioting instead unless recruited by some suitable populist movement; the modern urban equivalent of Medieval banditry.

The leaders of radical movements have always had a tendency to be from the educated, middle-class or above layers of society. They have enough of an analytical toolbox to articulate their bitterness and anxieties into some kind of cause. Just for an example, most of the founding members of the Rote Arme Fraktion were very much members of the educati.

Same thing here. The truly dispossessed, such as the youths of the French immigrant ghettoes, manage little more than pointless street violence and huliganism to vent their ire. The British doctor becomes a member of a terrorist cell and starts building bombs in the Qaidaist fashion.

[Devastatin Dave]

The British doctor becomes a member of a terrorist cell and starts building bombs in the Qaidaist fashion.

Hence the meaning of my thread earlier that was closed.

[InsaneApache]

Except he wasn't British.

[Devastatin Dave]

Except he wasn't British.

He was living there right? He was treating Brits right? He wanted to bomb you guys right? He was working in your medical system right? Close enough. Now thats a healthcare system; not only do they treat you, but they also cause you to use the system!!!

[Tribesman]

Hence the meaning of my thread earlier that was closed.

It had a meaning ???????wow

not only do they treat you, but they also cause you to use the system!!!

Errrrrr...the only person who they caused to use they caused system was the nutter who set himself on fire
Still it could have been worse , they could have been training in the UK to fly planes eh , listing their address as a military base or something simple like that .

[Watchman]

Except he wasn't British.

I assume he had citizenship though ? Outta general curiosity, any info of whether he was practicing before embarking on a new, challenging and embarassingly unsuccesful career as a terrorist ?

[ShadesPanther]

I assume he had citizenship though ? Outta general curiosity, any info of whether he was practicing before embarking on a new, challenging and embarassingly unsuccesful career as a terrorist ?

I think the Hippocratic Oath sorta got in the way. It explains alot.