News Stockholm Incident

[Anrish]

I just read about the attack in Stockholm. I'm shocked and at loss for my words. I hope there won't be too many victims to that cruelty.

I think at all people involved - the victims, the witnesses and my colleagues in Sweden.

 

[hodge]

Me, too, Anrish. It's horrible.

 

[joeylittle]

A link to the event: Stockholm truck drives into shopping crowd, killing three people

 

[Deadman]

I'm too worn down and weary to be shocked any more. Sadly I expect more similar incidents in the future.

 

[Deleted member 29920]

Yes, agree with you @Deadman, I'm desensitized and have been for some time now to these attacks.

 

[zaniara]

But Stockholm isn't cold tonight. So many people are trying to help, offering a place to stay for all those stranded in or out of town due to the lock-down of the transport-system.. That's hope. Genuine kindness and humanity.

My daughter was a hundreds meters away. A friend passing by seconds earlier.. Am relieved. But sad for all who suffers tonight(both there and here). And praying.

 

[Freedomfighter]

I just read about the attack in Stockholm. I'm shocked and at loss for my words. I hope there won't be t...

I am not desensitized about these events at all, everyone of those events shocks me deeply. What cowards such people are I surely understand, because people that stalk me actually use those same techniques ( their cars) to harass me.

I hate criminal cowards who need to rely on others to do their dirty work. They don't even have the guts to do that themselves.

I am also deeply shocked about the attack in Syria, can not forget the pictures of the children. Those pictures are seared into my mind right now.

 

[Anrish]

@zaniara I'm glad your daughter is safe.

I agree with @Freedomfighter - I'm also far from being desensitized. I know that I'll have to get on duty as soon as something like that happens around here - and I'm responsible for taking part of people who are lightly or not injured - and find people who might be witnesses. ...I would be in that situation very deep - so I'm shocked about every new one.

 

[zaniara]

The only really strange thing in all of this is that not more people died. It's actually pretty unbelievable that he didn't manage to kill more people! It's an extremely crowded shopping-street(no cars allowed), and with the speed he was driving at I really don't understand how so many avoided being hit. At least thirty, forty people minimum "ought" to have been killed.. This and the fact that so many people are trying to help out in many ways, showing compassion and kindness, is the only positive thing in this.

 

[Anarchy]

I hate that these things happen.

Memories are short, it emerged in around 1990 in an admission by Andreotti (Imo ultra sleazy) who was Italian Prime minister at the time

That there were "parallel structures" within the European states, which had been involved in terrorism since the mid 1960s. In Italy, they were known as "Gladio",

They had been responsible for probably all "left wing terrorism" including the Milan and Bologna railway station bombings and the kidnap and murder of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro.

Similar parallel structures were present in the other Countries to the west of the wall. This was openly admitted in the Early nineteen nineties (see the three part BBC time watch documentary about gladio, on YouTube).

Similar stuff emerged in Russia, when secret service people were caught planting explosives to blow up apartment blocks, to be blamed on Chechens.

the story was published by Alexander Litvinienko. Who someone then assassinated by feeding him Polonium.

An attack on a shopping street in Stockholm makes absolutely no sense as an act of war. None at all. It's not likely to affect any of the key people or structures of the state, or the people and Plants involved in weapons production.

It only makes sense as part of creating a "strategy of tension" of setting people at each other's throats, and looking to rulers for protection.

A "strategy of tension" is probably best summed up by a quote from H L Mencken from around 1920:

The art of practical politics consists of keeping the population afraid, and hence clamourous to be lead to safety. This is achieved by menacing them with an endless string of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary

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The clip is fictional, but sums the idea up beautifully in a few seconds
00V for Vendetta-why they need us.avi

The people killed, hurt and traumatised, are all too real.

 

[Justmehere]

My daughter was a hundreds meters away. A friend passing by seconds earlier.. Am relieved. But sad for all who suffers tonight(both there and here). And praying.

I am so glad your daughter and friend are ok! I'm praying with you. It's so heartbreaking. It is good to read that so many are helping each other out as the city tries to get through this.