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These groups form quickly and haphazardly. They usually have no leadership, choosing simple majority vote instead. To try to pin one, hard set of principles and demands on such spontaneous, diverse gatherings is impossible. However, it is fair to say that the youth today have grown up in a...

You'll be able to hear it for yourself when, hopefully, Nick snatches the audio content and adds it to the media hall of shame.

The once-a-week hunger strike. He is allowing himself a 'special supplemental drink' so that his 'life is not in danger'. It's a special city.

https://network23.org/stopg8/j11-carnival-against-capitalism/ "Traditionally, carnival is the time where the people take over the streets, the bosses run and hide, and the world gets turned upside down. It is a time to celebrate our resistance and our dreams, to bring music and colour to the...

Their website, containing the answers you are looking for, is not hard to find. Here: https://network23.org/stopg8/ideas/capitalism/

Why not? Everything else about the football club is drenched in sponsorship.

It is ludicrous! It serves no point whatsoever. Nobody cares about his welfare because he's at no risk of starvation. And because there are no health risks, nobody is going to bother checking that he honours his promise. It is an utterly meaningless gesture, and another humiliating moment...

There is no need to feel slighted by the shoddy honours system. Besides, who needs a title when you have a statue?

Most contemporary religions would not have continued to exist into the 21st century without a history of martyrdom; you only need look at the most powerful, ubiquitous symbol of the past 2000 years -- the crucifix -- to see the far-reaching impact of martyrdom. We can even look to our own...

The terrorists sure know how to target the symbols of power.

The moral factor is being satisfied: they will be punished by the laws of this country. As for fear, you can see on this thread that many patriots want to undermine the values of the UK -- that is fear in action. That is why it is worth reiterating the importance of absorbing this kind of thing...

Margin for error in killing innocents; doesn't act as a deterrent; ethical conflict with society, etc. But they can be dismissed out of hand when you consider the martyrdom factor, which ought to be a sufficient reason to view the punishment as injudicious.

Other than capital punishment being a discredited method, the problem there is that the country would be making martyrs of them ... exactly what they would want, and a surefire way to stoke up foreign and domestic radicalism.

That is a different matter altogether: the subject of legal punishment. But if you are for freedom of speech and a liberal democracy, then you must understand that there is no place criminalising viewpoints or murdering those who have not committed a crime.

After a 'joke' like that one? Unquestionably.

They already do that. Plenty of would-be terrorists have been arrested, charged and jailed for planning attacks. If it is the price to pay for freedom, so be it. It is madness to endorse a police state because one person was killed ... or even if 1000 people were killed. That is not only...

You are contradicting yourself, Nick. In the post quoted you were against freedom of speech (nabbing people for 'radicalised' views) and for murder (the 'disappearance' of such individuals).

You realise that you're advocating a police state and cessation to freedom of speech, right? As any American hick would say, that be lettin' the terrorists win.

So much cock in so few sentences.

Mmm. Of course, they would say (correctly) that the west has been meddling in middle eastern affairs for decades, whether initiating wars or upholding totalitarian states, causing the death of millions of their folk. It sure doesn't make what happened today okay, but it is important to be aware...