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@General Lighting 540931 wrote:

You will not hear about many of the violent incdents and murders in Holland unless you read de Volkskrant in Dutch (to be fair it is better put together than the Grauniad) and French newspapers have no crime section whatsover as their privacy laws prevent effective crime reporting.

Plenty of “orrible murders” don’t get reported in the UK for all sorts of reasons. For a start, there’s the reason that nobody knows about them apart from the perpetrator.

For another, there’s the rather common factor of the person murdered being so expendable that cops don’t even bother investigating and the coroner has scope to recommend “open” verdict (“They were probably murdered but the cops are far too easy breaking up free parties and chasing unpaid fines to actually find the killer. Plus, the possible victim was completely worthless to capitalism anyway.”

There are all kinds of legal binds regarding reporting crimes in the UK – which is stupid and outdated in criminal cases where there is no jury (you can’t prejudice a jury if there isn’t a jury).

@DeezNuts 540902 wrote:

Boston marathon explosion: two dead, at least another 77 injured. All hell breaks loose.
Series of early morning explosions across cities in Iraq: 50 dead and nearly 300 wounded. Only a portion of people care or even know about it.
US bombs Afghan wedding: at least 30 killed and a total of at least 120 killed or wounded. Not much attention given here, eh?

Apparently two US lives are more important than 50 Iraqi and/or 30 Afghani lives. Then even though there is nothing to suggest middle eastern terrorist groups have been involved, the mass media uses this as a tool to help pit Americans against the Middle East and create further nationalism through hatred.

Mate, the Afghan wedding that got bombed – is that the story that’s been doing the rounds on facebook for the last day or so? If so, then that’s a story that actually occurred in 2002, but someone’s evidently recycled it as current news, possibly in response to the media reaction to the Boston bombings.

The USA is the biggest terrorist the world has ever seen tbh.

@DeezNuts 541037 wrote:

The USA is the biggest terrorist the world has ever seen tbh.

haha! Yeah right, good one

@DeezNuts 541052 wrote:

Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, often violent, especially as a mean

Therefore, the USA is a terrorist.

Well there’s a war going on and if the USA didn’t fight back, things wouldn’t exactly work in our favor, so it’s a defense mechanism. You attack us, we attack you

@DeezNuts 541054 wrote:

But only if there is oil involved!

Did someone say…..oil???

@DeezNuts 541037 wrote:

The USA is the biggest terrorist the world has ever seen tbh.

Um… I do not agree. “Terrorism” is the belief that you can bully and aggressively, VIOLENTLY dominate by intimidation to get what you want.

While the US does use terrorist means – such as assassination – the figures of victims in countries currently such as China, past regimes such as Soviet Russia, suggest that the US is not the biggest culprit.

It’s up there but it isn’t the worst, just the most reported.