For God’s sake a is stabbed and killed outside Parliament – yet a man wielding a knife outside Parliament is left untouched by Police – it happened he was using the foot long blade to cut the Indian flag. London has a knife crime problem. Knives used in this same location to kill police. This man walks free. The police are not even protecting their own from knife crime. How do I say to someone, join the police?
Rule 1: It’s not about your feelings
No authority cares the Indian flag was burnt. You wont make them care. Stop caring that others don’t care about what you care about. Instead, to get them to do what you want – punish the flag burners – focus on what the authorities care about – knife crime outside Parliament and terrorism links. It’s also why petitions don’t work. Letters to MPs are better but not much good. But do write them. At least it will keep the issue alive as it should.
Rule 2: Get the evidence to them.
Collate all the photos and videos from social media onto one Google Drive folder. The police are busy.
Rule 3: Find the links on social media – find the accounts of people in UK around Parliament on the day and keep copies of their support – cross reference to Facebook accounts to – friend them to find out what they are saying. Collect this evidence.
Rule 4: Vengeance is not our goal – duty to society is
When these people behave this way, working for state sponsored pro-Khalistan/Kashmir group, trying to fund a militant ISIS type state of religious fundamentalists – they are doing to other faiths what has been done to Islam. Stop them.
The identification of terrorists in crowds is still often a manual task, going through images, social media etc. For instance, take this image where the Indian flag was burnt by those wanting to free 'Jaggi' who the Indian Government has charged based on intelligence of terrorist-related fundraising.
We manually have to sift to determine terrorist-related elements under the Terrorism Act 2000 and cross-reference them on social media and other data sources and then determine their links - often they don't even realise they are supporting illegal groups (which is no defence).
Especially keen to identify those covering their faces, wearing sunglasses, caps, hoods. It's all our responsibilities to be vigilant. Our country.
If your organisation works in ID, cataloguing, analysis of terrorist imagery - you should apply to Government here: https://apply-for-innovation-funding. service.gov.uk/competition/157/overview
By the way, the bearded man, with the long knife, and t-shirt with machine gun image, is of special interest for carrying an offensive weapon in public, possible incitement to murder offences based on the writings around the machine gun.
Relevant legislation:
Public Order Act 1986, s.5 abusive, threatening behaviour.
Terrorism Act 2000
Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2006
