KILLER NAMED: London attacker identified as Khalid Masood
UK Parliament attacker was Khalid Masood, a 52-year-old
British man with criminal convictions, police announce.
TWO MORE ARRESTS MADE
After ISIS claimed responsibility, the U.K.’s top terror officer said Friday that the
country made two more “significant” arrests in the investigation into this
week’s London terror attack that killed four. Country officials said two
officers remain in critical condition and are hospitalized. ________________
We can say we’re not afraid, light candles and make hearts of our hands but the truth is that we can’t go on like this, says KATIE HOPKINS
Welcome to London
By Katie Hopkins, The Daily Mail
PHOTO: People make hearts with their hands during a ceremony in Belgium to commemorate the first anniversary of the bomb attacks in Brussels
They stood in the centre of Brussels. Row on row.
Hands held high, making hearts to the heavens. Showing
the slaughtered they were not forgotten. Reminding themselves they were here
with love. Looking to show humanity wins. That love conquers all.
They lay in the centre of London, face down where they
fell. Stabbed by a knife, rammed with a car, flung, broken, into the Thames,
life bleeding out on the curb.
And the news came thick and fast.
A car rammed deliberately into pedestrians on the bridge.
Ten innocents down.
A police officer stabbed at the House of Commons.
Confirmed dead.
Another woman now, dead at the scene.
Shots fired. An Asian man rushed to hospital.
A woman, plucked from the water.
And I grew colder. And more tiny.
No anger for me this time. No rage like I’ve felt before.
No desperate urge to get out there and scream at the idiots who refused to see
this coming.
Not even a nod for the glib idiots who say this will not
defeat us, that we will never be broken, that cowardice and terror will not get
the better of Britain.
Because, as loyal as I am, as patriotic as I am, as much
as my whole younger life was about joining the British military and fighting
for my country — I fear we are broken.
Not because of this ghoulish spectacle outside our own
Parliament. Not because of the lives rammed apart on the pavement, even as they
thought about what was for tea. Or what train home they might make.
PHOTO:
Bystanders stop to give people mouth to mouth after the driver mowed them down.
Katie Hopkins says we are now a broken London
But because this is us now.This is our country now.
This is what we have become.
To this, we have been reduced.
Because all the while those forgiving fools in Brussels stood with their stupid hands raised in hearts to the sky, another mischief was in the making. More death was in the pipeline.
As the last life-blood of a police officer ran out across the cobbles, the attacker was being stretchered away in an attempt to save his life.
London is a city so desperate to be seen as tolerant, no news of the injured was released. No clue about who was safe or not.
Liberals convince themselves multiculturalism works because we all die together, too.
An entire city of monkeys: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Blind. Deaf. And dumb.
PHOTO: Members of the civil protection outside the damaged front of Brussels Airport, in Zaventem, a year ago today. The attacks left dozens dead and hundreds injured
Immersed in a seething pit of hatred, hidden in pockets
of communities plagued by old animosities and ancient strife.
These people may have left their lands. But they have
brought every tension, every conflict, every bit of fight here with them.
The Afghans hate the Somalias who loathe the Eritreans.
As it was before, it is now. London is a city of ghettos behind a thin veneer
of civility kept polished by a Muslim mayor whose greatest validation is his
father's old job.
Son-of-a-bus-driver Sadiq.
I see him now, penning a missive about how London is a
beautiful and tolerant city, how we are united by shared values and understanding,
and how we will not be cowed by terror.
Sure enough, there he was, saying exactly that, just now.
Fool.
A police officer is led away from the scene after she
tries to revive her colleague who was stabbed in the attack on Wednesday afternoon
Even as mothers text to check their children are safe.
Including my own, worrying about me as I sit overlooking the scene, feeling
fearful of this place where monsters lurk and steal lives away in an instant.
For nothing.
I would ask Sadiq to stop talking. Empty words.
Meanwhile, banning pictures of women in bikinis on the Underground. How does
that help?
Please, no hashtag, no vigil, no tea lights. I am begging
you not to light up Parliament in the colours of the Union.
Because we are not united. We are wrenched asunder.
The patriots of the rest of England versus the liberals
in this city.
The endless tolerance to those who harm us, (while the Home
Office tries to shift the focus of public fear to white terror) — versus the
millions like me who face the truth, with worried families and hopeless hearts,
who feel the country sinking.
We are taken under the cold water by this heavy foot in the south, a city of lead, so desperately wedded to the multicultural
illusion that it can only fight those who love the country the most, blame
those who are most proud to be British, and shout racist at the 52%.
Photo:
Prime Minister Theresa May speaks outside 10 Downing St after the attacks.
Katie Hopkins says it is time to admit that multiculturalism has not worked
This place is just like Sweden. Terrified of admitting
the truth about the threat we face, about the horrors committed by the migrants
we failed to deter — because to admit that we are sinking, and fast, would be
to admit that everything the liberals believe is wrong.
That multiculturalism has not worked. That it is one big
fat failure and one big fat lie.
President Erdogan of Turkey said there is a war being
waged between the crescent and the cross. But he is wrong. Because the cross is
not strong. We are down on bended knee, a doormat to be trodden on, a joke only
funny to those that wish us harm.
The war is between London and the rest of the country.
Between the liberals and the right-minded. Between those who think it is more
important to tip-toe around the cultures of those who choose to join us, rather
than defend our own culture.
Photo:
Katie Hopkins says these incidents are no longer unusual, but commonplace
How many more times?
And how many more attacks must pass before we acknowledge
these are no longer the acts of ‘extremists’? That there is no safe badge with
which to hold these people at arm’s length, in the way the liberals casually
use the term 'far-right' for anyone who has National pride.
These events are no longer extreme. They are commonplace.
Every day occurrences.
These people are no longer extremists. They are simply
more devout. More true to their beliefs. Beliefs which will be supported
endlessly across our state broadcaster for the next few months until we buy into
the narrative that one religion is not to blame.
That in fact we should blame Brexit supporters. For
believing in a Britain. As it was before.
Anything but the truth.
This is why there is no anger from me this time, no rage.
No nod for those who pretend we will not be cowed, even as they rush home to
text their mum they are safe. No surprise that the city of which I was so proud
is now punctured by fear, and demarcated even more formally by places we cannot
tread; there were always parts in which a white woman could not safely walk.
Photo:
Sadiq Khan should 'stop talking' according to Katie Hopkins, who says his words
are empty as we are 'wrenched asunder'
Now I feel only sadness, overwhelming sadness.
KATIE HOPKINS
I will walk over the river tonight and look to the
Thames, to the Union flag lowered at half mast, and the Parliament below, and I
will wonder, just how much longer we can go on like this.
