Naturally the Manchester Arena terror attacks dominate our thoughts today. Across new media snowflakes are lighting virtual candles, adding twibbons #prayingforManchester (although only crazy old people believe in God!) and are busy reporting Katie Hopkins to the Met for the hate crime of suggesting that the assailant might have been a Moslem. I really hope that the Old Bill don't waste their time on whatever happened at the Manchester Arena and focus all their efforts on making sure that Katie Hopkins has no right to free speech. Let's get our priorities right.
Above all we are told that we must "carry on as normal", do not let ISIS and the other islamofascist jihadis change the way we lead our lives. Well up to a point. Perhaps there are a few things we might change.
The Telegraph today reveals that around 50 British women have left the UK either with their husbands or to find husbands within ISIS run territory. Around 800 British men have made the same trip. Thankfully around 130 British citizens fighting for ISIS have been killed. Less thankfully about 350 including some of the wives have come back to the UK. I assume that if we are "to go on as before" we will welcome the remaining 370 back with open arms, offering them welfare, housing etc.
Well how about we don't go on and before and change the law so that if you fight for a proscribed organisation which claims to be a State -and I think we can safely say that ISIS fits the bill - you lose your right to be a citizen of this state? And as such we have no obligation to take these scum back, to bring them back to our bosom where they can threaten us directly?
The Manchester bomber probably never went to Syria and the liberal elites will say therefore that my proposal makes no sense. Au contraire the fewer Islamo-nutters we have resident in the UK the fewer folks are spooks have to monitor and the lower the chance of a terrorist getting through the safety net becomes.
Is it unreasonable to suggest that, in this respect at least, we do not "carry on as normal?" "Carrying on as normal" in the fight against ISIS is, across Europe, just not working. Or are we so cowed by the threat of finding ourselves reported like Katie Hopkins that none of us dare say what, I suspect, nearly all of us are thinking?