Boy arrested on ‘extreme right-wing’ terrorism charge

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  1. Glad to see this stuff getting picked up, especially after the warning of increased radicalization from groups ranging from ERW, to Islamic terror, to conspiracy groups etc. during lockdown.

    It’s also alarming to see groups like this:

    >Exposed: Leader of ex-Army group that’s plotting mayhem as 200 members of a sinister anti-vax group meet in a Staffordshire park to practise smashing through police lines

    >An undercover Mail on Sunday reporter joined black-clad supporters of Alpha Men Assemble (AMA) led by ex-Royal Fusilier Danny Glass for a combat-style training camp.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10382723/amp/Exposed-Leader-ex-Army-group-thats-plotting-mayhem.html

    My pessimistic side always brings up this excerpt of a small speech by Stanley Baldwin however, although it’s morose, I think it does have a lot of truth to it unfortunately:

    >I think it is well also for the man in the street to realise that there is no power on earth that can protect him from being bombed. Whatever people may tell him, **the bomber will always get through.**

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_bomber_will_always_get_through

    Similar to the “today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once” statement by the IRA.

  2. Arrested but then released on bail as not ‘not believed to be any imminent threat to the public’

  3. What concerns me is how difficult it is to detect people who have “self-radicalised”. People who go online to extreme right wing forums and become radicalised leave very little trace of their radicalisation, so it’s unlikely they will come to the attention of the security services. The boy in the article was detected, but there are probably many more who have not yet been detected, and it is difficult to do so without giving the security services too much power.

  4. Last two ‘terror’ stories I recall are the offensive T shirt one and the lad now reading Jane Austin as punishment for having a copy of Anarchists cookbook, be interesting to see what this is.

  5. Perhaps I should speak to these anti terrorist coppers. I know about one far right bitch who wants to drown refugees… Does that count as terrorism?

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