New Statesman - Know your enemy
Mehdi Hasan, the New Statesman’s senior politics editor, on a man stopped in his tracks while preparing to use tennis balls as bombs, whose case hardly got any coverage in the national media because editors were not interested: the man’s name is Neil Lewington, and no, he’s not a white convert to Islam but a Nazi. Despite the fact that “ethno-nationalists”, most of them white, commit the vast majority of terrorist attacks in Europe, they get a fraction of the media coverage and, in this country, they get handled with kid-gloves by the law.
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Tennis balls are probably rather less lethal as bombs- or potential than cars or rucksacks full of properly mixed diesel fuel and fertiliser.
Should read: Tennis balls are probably rather less lethal as bombs- or potential bombs- than cars or rucksacks full of properly mixed diesel fuel and fertiliser.
All things assumed to be “foreign” get special attention. While drugs from Asia and Africa are outlawed, people can still enjoy legal drugs with similar devastating consequences because they are made at “home” by artificial chemical manipulation to simulate the real drugs.
That is the story of humans; always repeating the same mistakes.