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Why Corbyn’s terrorism speech was a watershed moment
Absolutely excellent Daniel, one of your best in my humble opinion. M
By Daniel Margrain
This is what Margaret Thatcher, of all people, said in 1985 during a speech to the American Bar Association in relation to terrorism:
“The terrorist uses force because he knows he will never get his way by democratic means…Through calculated savagery, his aim is to induce fear in the hearts of people. And weariness towards resistance……And we must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. “
Starving the terrorists of media publicity was clearly not what PM, Theresa May had in mind on the steps of Downing Street in the aftermath of the Manchester bombing. In the hours that followed what was clearly a heavily rehearsed and scripted speech that lacked genuine emotion and empathy, May made the decision to present to the public uniformed soldiers that are to replace the thousands of police…
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