Today is the ninth anniversary of the Islamic attack on people attending an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena.
22 people died and over 1000 were injured in this monstrous attack on adults and children attending the conference. The mass murderer was a Libyan origin suicide bomber whose family should never have been allowed to settle in the UK. They were so well connected to jihadism that members of the Libyan diaspora who live in the UK warned the police and security services that the whole family were wrong’uns but such warnings were ignored by the British state.
The dead and the injured from the Manchester Arena attack are the direct result of state failure to do the right thing by the British people. The state let in too many people of questionable background and with disturbing beliefs. The state convinced the British people that being concerned with those with dangerous and destructive beliefs was some form or ‘racism’ which led to a security guard at the Manchester Arena prior to the bombing not wanting to make a fuss about a shifty looking Muslim with an incongruous backpack in case he was being ‘racist’ by doing so.
The Manchester Arena attack happened in large part because the British State failed to do its job of recognising threats to security and acting robustly on those threats.
We must never forget those who were murdered or maimed in body and in soul by savages who should never have been in the country in the first place. We must never forget that the monster who bombed the Arena and thousands of those just like him have been sometimes facilitated in their activities by a State infected with suicidal empathy. We must not forget the police, Security Service (MI5) and private security at the venue who failed to act against a man and his family who even the most dim amongst us could have seen as a security threat. We must not forget the religious figures of authority who preach jihad and hatred daily in mosques and online who have been mostly left alone by the British state, to the detriment of all of us whether we be non-Muslim or one of those many Muslims who reject Jihad.
The twenty two people who were murdered and the thousand or so who were injured were not dead or injured by the bomber alone, but by a state that has failed to put the security of British people to the fore.
I do what the Government doesn’t want me to do and that’s look back in anger at what happened at Manchester. It’s right and proper to be angry at not just the bombing itself but also the long list of government and administrative failures that created the background events for this attack to happen.
May the memory of those who died be for a blessing and may those injured in body and mind be healed. Again I curse government and the administrative and security classes which allowed the conditions for the Manchester Arena bombing to occur.
