You're assuming that potential attackers are sane and rational. Odds are they won't be.
Migeru simply explained what happens, not what should happen.
His wording suggested that this is a fact of life we must accept, and even has a silver lining.
I disagree. It's a common mistake among the civilized to assume that violent scum aren't sane and rational. In a political context, they frighteningly often are.
Just to illustrate (since anecdotal evidence of course proves nothing) the attacker in the Nygaard case is believed to have been either a hitman or an Iranian government operative. His tracks disappeared at the Iranian embassy.
For that matter, the thug who stabbed Theo van Gogh is also jugded to be sane. Anna Lindh's killer, too. Both appear to have been politically motivated murders. The world's northernmost desert wind.
Both appear to have been politically motivated murders.
What motivated them?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Lindh
Theo van Gogh: Dutch filmmaker, stabbed and shot to death in 2004 by a Dutch radical Islamist with terrorist connections in retribution for a 10-minute film about suppression of women in Islam. On his body the killer appended a note which threatened Western governments, Jews, and the politician A. Hirshi Ali, on whose book the film was based.
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Now, how do you suggest Europe can prevent political assassinations from happening other than instituting some sort of thought police? guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
Allegedly Olof Palme's was also a political assassination.
Probably, but that's never been resolved.
Now, how do you suggest Europe can prevent political assassinations from happening other than instituting some sort of thought police?
I have never said I believe it can be prevented outright. That would be pretty daft.
I have said that yielding to threats is not going to help. Rather it will encourage those making such threats.
Keeping known extremist factions under surveillance, as is being done all over Europe, is obviously also wise. The world's northernmost desert wind.
