Manchester the latest targer

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At least 22 people have died and more than 59 injured after what Theresa May described as an “appalling terror attack” at the Manchester Arena during an Ariana Grande pop concert.

@Eaglebauer Said

Latest report I've seen is 22 dead and one 23 year old man arrested. At least another 59 injured.

I feel for the English people. Hopefully they will get to the bottom of this and bring the perpetrator or perpetrators to quick justice.

@psycoskunk Said

ISIS is supposedly claiming responsibility for the attack. The security at the concert apparently just did bag check and didn't do any pat-downs or coat checks, according to some of the concert-goers Twitter feeds.

@shadowen Said

And as is often the case it takes a terrible event like the bombing in Manchester to be reminded that their are still good people out there, like the homeless man who rushed to the site and provided help to the victims until the ambos were able to take over.

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I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."

@mrmhead Said



I wasn't aware that that type of information was intended to be kept secret.

Can't necessarily *blame* Trump for this.

@chaski Said

In the early stages of an investigation (especially investigations of things like "terrorism", serial murders, and "foreign counter intelligence" ) this type of information is kept out of the news because if it is put out in the media too soon it tips off the bad guys.

While the media has a responsibility to report the news, they have lost all ability to use discretion (if they ever had any) in what they report.

There are, at least arguably, some occasions when the leaking of sensitive information is appropriate. However, leaking information about sensitive terrorism investigations is almost never acceptable. The U.S. intelligence official(s) that "leak" this sort of information to the press should be fired and prosecuted. IMO.

Trump: You are correct that, at least at this point, Trump can't be blamed. On the other hand there seems to be more and more of this leaking, much of which Trump and his proverbial inner circle are clearly responsible for.