School massacre plots foiled in Britain, counter-terror police reveal

There is a VERY nasty fact in this article from the Telegraph, but it isn’t the headline.

School massacre plots inspired by US rampages have been repeatedly thwarted by British police in recent years, the country’s most senior counter-terrorism officer has revealed. Matt Jukes, the head of counter-terrorism policing, warned that investigators were finding an increasing amount of material glorifying school shootings shared by young people online.  Arson was (relatively) the most common attack on schools (empty at weekends or holidays)  even when I was an inky fingered schoolgirl. I think many of us  fantasised about it and there was even a playground rhyme about it, Build a bonfire, build a bonfire, put the teachers on the top,  put the (variable) in the middle and we’ll burn the ruddy (or alternative expletive) lot.  We would never have done such a thing; black humour has always been an escape. Shootings attacking live people, including fellow pupils is a different matter.

Speaking at a Scotland Yard briefing about threats facing the UK, the police chief also disclosed that eight “late stage” terror plots were foiled last year, several of which were “close calls” that he described as “goal-line saves”.

Asked by The Telegraph whether police had disrupted any school shooting plots in recent years, Mr Jukes said: “Yes, absolutely. We have absolutely seen cases in which we have intervened with young people to prevent them going on to potentially carry out attacks in their school days.

He added that the details of the thwarted attacks could not be revealed as cases were still making their way through the legal system.  Mohammad Farooq is a mature man and was planning to attack a military site; he is indeed making his way through the legal system but to refer to him in the same paragraph as a potential student on student massacre is somewhat disingenuous. 

Mr Jukes also warned that “violent misogyny” espoused by individuals such as Andrew Tate risked pushing more young men towards terrorism. Misogyny was said to be a common feature across the spectrum of terrorism cases, including Islamist, far-Right and incel extremists.

He added: “One thing that is very clear is men are dominant in our terrorist casework and increasingly young men and boys are present, so anything that introduces that kind of toxicity has to be a concern to counter-terrorism policing.”  What about male bodied transgender/transexuals,  who threaten to behead and eat the ‘terfs’ who challenge their encroachment of woman’s safety?  In a troubling new development, suspects under the age of 18 now constitute one-fifth of terrorism arrests and police have investigated individuals as young as 13.

The eight near-miss plots smashed by authorities were said to have involved would-be attackers who had selected their targets and were in the process of gathering weapons.

Police fear the danger to the public could soon increase as several high-risk terrorists reach the end of their prison terms in 2023, with an average of one terrorist prisoner released every week. And there’s the rub. The majority of high-risk terrorists in prison are Islamic; Thomas Mair, the lone white Englishman who killed Jo Cox MP is serving a whole life sentence so won’t be released any time soon. 

Among those due to leave prison are “individuals who have been convicted of very serious offences in the 2000s, individuals who have served over a decade in prison”, according to Mr Jukes.

The top rated comments sum it up nicely. These sort of pronouncements no longer fool anybody. 

~ So the multitude of concrete barriers and bollards at Christmas markets and major shopping streets , the bomb detectors at concerts, night clubs and major tourist sites and armed police at railway stations and airports are there because of a threat from skinheads and other assorted right wingers and young men who are not getting laid as much as they’d like to…and listen to Andrew Tate

Are we really expected to belive this tripe….strewth……DT seriously WTAF!!!.

~ That’s OK then, the people of this country are only under threat from the ‘right’ or deluded school boys. Thank the Lord the usual suspects are no longer a problem.

~ I have no doubt the Islamist threat is real and will result in further mass murder here in the UK.