We are in the front line - for peace

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On 5/24/2017 at 9:25 AM, Eoin Joyce said:

I will be at the Arena next month hopefully.

Not now it appears. The convention is cancelled 

[TrueTomHarley]

Could it be that someone thinks the place has become a terrorism magnet?

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probably 

3 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:

 a terrorism magnet?

Probably a number of similar British centres of urban activity are currently at risk.  There's also the issue of the ongoing police investigation of the area along with structural repairs to the adjoining Victoria Station. Hence, the main area outside the venue remains closed.

[TrueTomHarley]

The taking of innocent life is despicable. I have heard the rationale, however, that since citizens of the Western world vote, they thereby empower the leaders whose military policies may have claimed their innocent children (or other relatives). Thus, terrorist attacks are a twisted form of 'payback.' 

But had I a dead father in my hands, or a dead mother, brother or sister, a victim of foreign actions, perhaps I would not think it so twisted. It's a vicious world, that turns us all into mad dogs.

Curious what @James Thomas Rook Jr. might think about this. He has weighed in strongly on family ties.

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

IT IS NOT MY JOB TO PUNISH EVILDOERS, after the fact.

It is my job to be vigilant, and in my responsibility as a man to defend the innocent ...

.... and to provide a COMPETENT defense.