On The Murder of Sir David Amess


Sir David Amess 

Richard Townshend, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons


One of the pitfalls of blogging is that you are always a little late with anything that is from the news. News is, you see, always changing. Worse, you run the risk of confusing one story with another.

This happened here, recently. Among the stories below, you will find a link to a thoughtful analysis by Luke Haines of the recent murder of Sir Richard Sutton, a British businessman who was stabbed to death allegedly by the son of his companion.


However, the same day as this story ran on this blog, there was another killing in Britain, this one political and apparently an act of terrorism. Sir David Amess, a popular Conservative MP was stabbed to death at a rally by a young man “of Somali extraction” who was apparently acting in the name of Islamic Jihadism. As of press time, little else was known about the crime or its motivations.


In any case, readers should not confuse one murder with the other. They are completely separate incidents.


However, one note of analysis. The assassination of Amess is extraordinarily disturbing to anyone concerned with the well-being of democracy. Increasingly, we must ask ourselves how we may protect our governments and liberty in an age of Islamic Jihadists, Russian Assassins, and Chinese money. 

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