[HN Gopher] Sir David Amess, Conservative MP, Assassinated at Co...
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       Sir David Amess, Conservative MP, Assassinated at Constituency
       Meeting in UK
        
       Author : graderjs
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2021-10-15 16:17 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.bbc.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.com)
        
       | arthurcolle wrote:
       | > She was killed outside a library in Birstall, West Yorkshire,
       | where she was due to hold a constituency surgery.
       | 
       | What is constituency surgery...?
        
         | dandotway wrote:
         | In British English, a physician's or dentist's office is called
         | a surgery. Thus, for Britons, going to the surgery just means
         | visiting the doc; it does not have the same connotations of
         | going under a knife that it has for Americans.
        
           | selfhoster11 wrote:
           | This is not related to the medial meaning of the term. In
           | this case, it's closer to "office hours", a specific time
           | when constituents can come and ask questions.
        
         | _-david-_ wrote:
         | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgery_(politics)
        
         | colinb wrote:
         | A scheduled meeting with constituents i.e people from the
         | district the MP represents.
        
       | torstenvl wrote:
       | @dang: original title without editorialization is "Sir David
       | Amess: Conservative MP stabbed to death"
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       | It's easy to imagine this was an assassination, and it might very
       | well be -- counter-terrorism specialists are investigating the
       | murder in order to find out whether it was -- but there's no
       | evidence of that as of now.
        
         | robbedpeter wrote:
         | Where and how it occurred provides a bit of context, as far
         | right extremist attacks have happened in the area before.
         | 
         | Given who and where, it's not unreasonable from a bayesian
         | perspective to be highly certain this was a politically
         | motivated murder. That region has had neo-nazi problems for
         | many years
        
           | blowski wrote:
           | > That region has had neo-nazi problems for many years
           | 
           | Source? I lived there for nearly 40 years, and can't say I
           | ever experienced such problems any worse than other places.
        
           | GaryTang wrote:
           | >That region has had neo-nazi problems for many years.
           | 
           | I would wager inhouse power dynamics or foreign influences as
           | a more likely motive.
        
           | spzb wrote:
           | The Daily Telegraph disagrees with this analysis (you may
           | have opinions on why this is the case)
        
             | robbedpeter wrote:
             | The venn diagrams for terrorist and assassination
             | definitely overlap, and even more so with the loosened
             | definition of terrorism these days. I may be wrong in
             | assuming the politics of the attacker, but the event
             | doesn't seem to be random - the mp was targeted at a
             | scheduled event, so that ticks all the boxes in my mind -
             | someone specifically targeted and murdered for political
             | reasons was assassinated.
             | 
             | Have a link for the daily telegraph article in question? Or
             | at least, some more detail?
        
               | spzb wrote:
               | The Telegraph, along with the bbc now, are saying the
               | arrested man is British of Somalian heritage. So unlikely
               | to be a neo-Nazi.
        
         | tailspin2019 wrote:
         | Yep title definitely needs an update
        
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