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Sure, terrorist attacks have been used in the past to help usher in new authoritarian measures. But the calls for such measures usually have to come loud and fast for the tactic to work. That's not happened on this occasion. In fact:
"Often what is significant in the Commons is what is not said. As the Guardian’s home affairs editor Alan Travis says, it was striking that this atrocity has not led to calls for a new anti-terror crackdown.
Alan Travis (@alantravis40)
Significant PM's Commons statement on Westminster terror attack hasn't heard any demands for tougher counter-terror laws or tighter security
March 23, 2017
The one exception to this was Theresa Villiers suggesting that all police officers guarding “sensitive sites” in London should be routinely armed. (See 11.57am.) But the fact that this was a relatively modest proposal, which Theresa May was happy to sidestep, proves Alan’s point; there is no appetite in the Commons for a fresh wave of authoritarianism."
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2017/mar/23/westminster-attack-parliament-resumes-tributes-keith-palmer-live
Terrorism is intended as a way to make a country change it's lifestyle and way of thinking. One of the best ways to deal with that is to go on as usual.
Makes sense that they would just get used to it, no matter how many are maimed and slaughtered
Until it's a politician that gets taken out.
Brendan Cox has urged Britain not to let itself be divided by the Westminster attack, saying the assailant no more represents British Muslims than his wife’s murderer represented the people of Yorkshire.
Jo Cox, a Labour MP, died after being shot and stabbed outside her constituency surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire on 16 June by far-right extremist Thomas Mair.
Mr Cox said it was important to remember the victims, and not the assailant, of yesterday's terror attack outside Parliament and on Westminster Bridge that left four dead.
"What the terrorist would like to happen is for us to fall apart and start blaming groups of people, to say that in some way this is Muslim or Islam as a whole," he told Radio 4's Today programme.
"We have to remember that the person who did this is no more representative of British Muslims than the person who killed Jo is representative of people that are from Yorkshire."
"I’m going to do whatever I can to remember the names of the victims like PC Palmer and not the name of the person who did this, partly driven by the desire for notoriety," he said.
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Whoever has attacked our parliament for whatever motive will not succeed in dividing us. All of my thoughts with those injured.
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Seven people remain in hospital in a critical condition after the incident, in which a man drove a car along a pavement and stabbed a policeman before being shot dead by police.
The officer, who died from his injuries, was named as 48-year-old Keith Palmer. A woman in her 40s and a man in his 50s were also killed in the attack.
“The first thing we need to do is to remember that this is a story about people who didn’t come home yesterday, and the impact that will have on their families, the thousands of lives that will be touched by the individual tragedies,” said Mr Cox.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brendan-cox-london-attack-latest-no-more-represents-muslims-jo-cox-murderer-yorkshire-a7645026.html
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Another stage managed attack by the British Establishment - 
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