More Security Scares in the UK
Jul 9th 2005, 10:08 pm
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Re: More Security Scares in the UK
yeah but they can do controlled explosions on a packed lunch someone left abandoned.
Still you can't be more impressed by the police / security / health services in the past few days.
Still you can't be more impressed by the police / security / health services in the past few days.
Jul 9th 2005, 10:09 pm
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Re: More Security Scares in the UK
Originally Posted by Manc
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Still you can't be more impressed by the police / security / health services in the past few days.
Still you can't be more impressed by the police / security / health services in the past few days.
Jul 9th 2005, 10:10 pm
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Re: More Security Scares in the UK
Originally Posted by ImHere
BAllan Sartori, a Birmingham club owner, said police appeared to have the situation under control in the city centre.
He said evacuating the city centre would have cost "a lot of people a lot of money".
But he added: "People's lives are far more important than money in a situation like this."
Very magnanimous of him.
He said evacuating the city centre would have cost "a lot of people a lot of money".
But he added: "People's lives are far more important than money in a situation like this."
Very magnanimous of him.
Jul 9th 2005, 10:11 pm
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Re: More Security Scares in the UK
Originally Posted by Manc
Still you can't be more impressed by the police / security / health services in the past few days.
Jul 9th 2005, 10:29 pm
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Re: More Security Scares in the UK
Originally Posted by Manc
yeah but they can do controlled explosions on a packed lunch someone left abandoned.
Still you can't be more impressed by the police / security / health services in the past few days.
Still you can't be more impressed by the police / security / health services in the past few days.
I would imagine either terrorists or hoaxers could piss around over the next few weeks causing all kinds of mayhem with bomb scare telephone calls etc; because all threats will have to be taken seriously.
Also, as said on the news earlier this week, the bombers (unless they were suicide bombers and that hasn't been confirmed or denied at this point) are out there, they've compromised themselves now and know they are being looked for, they could well be working under the impression that they have nothing to lose by planting more bombs.
Jul 9th 2005, 10:32 pm
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Re: More Security Scares in the UK
I can't help but feel, that if the same had happened in the USA. that a lot of finger pointing towards the CIA / FBI and blaming would be going on.
In the UK, I think there is a general air of understanding that the authorities just cannot keep tabs on every needle in a huge haystack.
Even on CNN, they were all about keeping people safe.
Whereas I think in the UK we know we're never ever going to be 100% safe, and it is a phalasy to even pretend we can be.
In the UK, I think there is a general air of understanding that the authorities just cannot keep tabs on every needle in a huge haystack.
Even on CNN, they were all about keeping people safe.
Whereas I think in the UK we know we're never ever going to be 100% safe, and it is a phalasy to even pretend we can be.
Jul 9th 2005, 10:34 pm
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Re: More Security Scares in the UK
Originally Posted by Manc
I can't help but feel, that if the same had happened in the USA. that a lot of finger pointing towards the CIA / FBI and blaming would be going on.
In the UK, I think there is a general air of understanding that the authorities just cannot keep tabs on every needle in a huge haystack.
Even on CNN, they were all about keeping people safe.
Whereas I think in the UK we know we're never ever going to be 100% safe, and it is a phalasy to even pretend we can be.
In the UK, I think there is a general air of understanding that the authorities just cannot keep tabs on every needle in a huge haystack.
Even on CNN, they were all about keeping people safe.
Whereas I think in the UK we know we're never ever going to be 100% safe, and it is a phalasy to even pretend we can be.
In the U.S. they're aren't (weren't) used to being attacked on home soil. It's happened in the UK plenty of times.
Jul 9th 2005, 10:38 pm
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Re: More Security Scares in the UK
a guy on another board commented that after 9/11 everyone was running about in bewilderment like chickens with their heads cut off,
and in London last week, everyone just went to the pub.
and in London last week, everyone just went to the pub.
Jul 9th 2005, 10:39 pm
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Re: More Security Scares in the UK
Originally Posted by Lion in Winter
Right.
In the U.S. they're aren't (weren't) used to being attacked on home soil. It's happened in the UK plenty of times.
In the U.S. they're aren't (weren't) used to being attacked on home soil. It's happened in the UK plenty of times.
Jul 9th 2005, 10:41 pm
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Re: More Security Scares in the UK
Originally Posted by AmerLisa
And that's the point, isn't it?
Jul 9th 2005, 10:43 pm
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Re: More Security Scares in the UK
Originally Posted by Lion in Winter
U.S. used to be able to rely on being "far away", at least from its theatres of war. Now it's no longer the case.
Jul 9th 2005, 10:46 pm
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Re: More Security Scares in the UK
Originally Posted by AmerLisa
I like to think of it as the case of "Chicken Little"
Had you considered a career in foreign policy?
Jul 9th 2005, 10:53 pm
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Re: More Security Scares in the UK
Originally Posted by Lion in Winter
Had you considered a career in foreign policy?
Jul 9th 2005, 11:07 pm
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Re: More Security Scares in the UK
Originally Posted by Manc
well I guess it's nowhere near St Andrews or Villa Park.
ermm .. can we pack this brummie bashing in you northern monkey
Jul 9th 2005, 11:10 pm
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Re: More Security Scares in the UK
Originally Posted by Eskimo
ermm .. can we pack this brummie bashing in you northern monkey
