The UK responded to a small terrorist attack (three people wounded) with drastic proposals, such as a life sentence for terrorists.

The recent terrorist attacks in the UK add up to a tiny amount of violence compared with all the violence in the UK now. Even if these measures reduced the violence (and we don't know), that would make a very small difference in safety.

It is self-defeating to respond to this with disproportionate symbolic "toughness". What is needed is to search for an effective way to deradicalize.

*‘Try to stop me’ — the mantra of our leaders who are now ruling with impunity.*

*‘I'm not a robot’: Amazon workers condemn unsafe, grueling conditions at warehouse.*

This is one of the many reasons to refuse to buy from Amazon. I have never done so, and I refuse to start.

The US deports lots of Salvadoreans to El Salvador. Since 2013, 200 of them have been killed, raped or tortured — usually by the same gang that had threatened them before.

*Was order to kill Soleimani lawful?* It seems to have been an act of war, not authorized by Congress.