Posted on 08/16/2018 9:37:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The mayor of the ever increasingly violent city of London is now seeking a ban on cars in certain areas after a “car attack.” Since banning guns and regulating knives hasn’t worked, Sadiq Khan said he’s likely to ban cars to prevent future terrorist attacks.
Violence in London continues to spike regardless of the weapons used by those committing acts of aggression. But since a gun ban and severe knife regulations have failed to stop violence, Khan wants certain areas to be “car free zones” in response to an alleged terror attack committed with a car. According to Politico, Khan says his proposed car ban would help keep people and buildings safe after car drives into cyclists and pedestrians.
Kahn’s proposal comes after three people were injured when police say a car collided with a number of cyclists and pedestrians before crashing into barriers that line the Houses of Parliament. Police have arrested a 29-year-old British citizen originally from Sudan, identified as Salih Khater by British media outlets, on suspicion of committing the attack. Police claim that the alleged terrorist drove his Ford Fiesta from Birmingham to London late on Monday night. Just before the attack, police say he had been driving around the area of Westminster and Whitehall for about an hour and a half before driving into pedestrians and cyclists.
Khan told BBC radio that making certain areas only available to pedestrians would provide more safety to both citizens and buildings in the surrounding area. But he also said the city would need to ensure people “don’t lose one important thing about our democracy: People having an access to parliamentarians, people being able to lobby parliament and being able to come and visit parliament.” Kahn added, “I think there would be lots of challenges if we would do the whole square. It is a thoroughfare for cars, vehicles and commercial deliveries going through London,” he said. “So it’s possible to have a designed solution … in keeping our buildings and people as safe as we can do. And also not losing what is so wonderful about our city that is a vibrant democracy, people can walk around safely.”
Well, since all the other laws aimed at preventing violence have failed, why not just keep banning things? Pretty soon, everything will be illegal in the UK and the people will wonder when they actually became slaves to the government.
“We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear’s work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come.” –Joseph Goebbels
Ban Mooslims would be the answer.
Islam is very Democratic. Once they are the majority, they make all the rules.
Bingo! You are exactly right!!
Seems legit, LOL sarc
Ban Islamonazism. Why won’t hizzoner condemn radical Islam as practiced in England?
If it is not real Islam then you are doing muslims a favor by ridding their ranks of false teachings.
This was from The Onion right?
Eventually this guy will get his ultimate goal,no more British
Pedestrian islamists can still carry backpack bombs, jars of acid, and knives.
Try again, mayor.
Apparently, Moslems don’t need a majority to make rules in the UK.
Soon, kahn will require all uk citizens to stay home full time.
What khan wants is a muslim sharia city, period.
Are they going to import Camels?
Everytime you ban something, restrict freedoms, create new laws for “safety and security”, use the phrases “public good or public safety” the terrorists win. Generally all of these responses do little to deter criminals and terrorists and, in some cases like metal detectors, make it more dangerous for the law abiding citizen.
Ban ALL inanimate objects, no matter what they are and the real nucleus of the problem persists, jihadist Muslims. Complete and thorough segregation of Muslims from non Muslims will be a good first step. No brainer!
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
You are not quite in the right place.
Every time the government bans things, additional power accrues to the government. Bureaucratic empires get more headcount, budgets get bigger, and serfs, er, citizens have fewer options.
It is never about safety. It is always about power.
a Muslim ban will solve UK’s problems, instantly
Well, Londoners had better hope nobody gets their ear BITTEN off, or things could get ugly.
Not that British dental hygiene is not already pretty ugly...
> Soon, Kahn will require all UK citizens to stay home full time. <
LOL. I was thinking the same thing. But of course that won’t apply to UK Muslims who are carrying out “religious duties”.
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