Signed up just to comment on this. Couldn't hold back.
A few things strike me about this attack.
1) Hollande says that they 'know who the terrorists are'. Who are they? It's not been announced but there are assumptions that it is ISIS. I've not seen myself that this has been declared by anyone, perpetrator, government or otherwise. It's an odd thing to say.
2) How is it that terror groups can co-ordinate and, more than that, actually undertake an attack like this? Isn't it pretty hard to hide a machine gun? How on earth did they get into the concert hall, or whatever it was? Surely there are checks there... There are scant details on any of the 'details', which is bizzare.
3) Even if this isn't a conspiracy, sure makes governments in Europe look damn stupid for allowing hundreds of thousands of 'refugees' to flood the borders without doing checks on these individuals. Even if this is real, not a false flag, surely someone would have realized that terrorists could have posed as refugees? It's incredible this connection wasn't made sooner.
4) I don't see the links between the so-called 'coordinated' attacks. They don't appear to have any logical link. Hostages here, bombs here, grenades here. This goes back to point 2: if this was planned, how in this day and age with CCTV and security everywhere can this even happen? You can't carry machine guns or large amounts of explosives around a city without at least someone noticing.
5) If it is a conspiracy, the 'powers that be' are making it much more plausible every time it happens. This is a big one, and plenty of footage of victims is being released which was scant during some previous terror attacks. Are these victims real? We don't know. We don't know what's going on, really.
6) You can bet your bottom dollar this will be used to further curb our freedoms. You can't help but wonder whether this was planned, in some way. Allowing extremists into Europe, this was bound to happen. Although it all goes back to a single core: Western powers destabilizing the Middle East. Even if this is a genuine terror attack, then the Western powers are the cause. Funding terrorist groups in Syria and the like, and expecting that these groups won't turn on those who fund them. Naive. There is certainly an agenda here, likely for oil and influence. Sad to say but some Western powers are some of the worst for propagating terrorism, though of course it's never reported in this way.
Issues like these are so complex and intricate and there is so much going on that it's hard to know what to believe. But mark my words, the Western powers created Isis, directly or indirectly, and there's a lot of complexities that can barely be fathomed. Most will follow the reports of bloodbath like sheep. Though really, you need to remember what Mark Twain said. Believe only half of what you see and none of what you hear. And this was before television. I'd update this and say, believe only half of what you see with your own eyes in 'real life', and none of what you see on TV or hear on the radio or through hearsay. Everyone has an agenda. Every government, every news organization, every group.
What do we do? Just don't let your freedoms get eroded by this. That's the primary concern.
RD