Terror Threat

Amnesia · 7 Jan 2011 at 14:46

kenmare said:
This.

Maybe our government should start giving us more rights and responsibilities to help protect ourselves.

how on earth would you stop a suicide bomber exactly ? i know there isn't much chance you will come across one but in your mind that chance seems higher

joeyjojo · 7 Jan 2011 at 14:46

Sky "news".

Noxia · 7 Jan 2011 at 14:49

sigma said:
So you're so you're 4/9 of a terrorist?

*Calls 911*

Laughing at the thought of the authorities finding you, eh? Good job I quoted your post, no covering your trail now!

Tinfoil hat time.

anything I don't mind · 7 Jan 2011 at 14:51

I watch some tv at lunch time at work for the first time yesterday in months. I put bbc news on and they were talking about terrorist threats and going on about flu epidemics, they had someone getting vaccinated on loop. Showing the needle going in. Then they went on speculating about the kind of attacks that we could get etc. I couldn't take the propaganda so i switched to skynews and it was running the exact same stories. So i switched to russia today and wow, they actually had some news. They were talkin about three ships that were stuck in ice with 400 people stuck on it, then they were talking about the building up of rubbish in new york city and asking people what they thought about it. I couldn't believe, actual news.

western news is despicable propaganda, the worst kind. DRIVEL!

sigma · 7 Jan 2011 at 14:52

Noxia said:
Tinfoil hat time.

Who told you I was sat at my desk wearing nothing but a tin foil hat? :eek:

Really worried now. Stealing my freedoms.

Von Smallhausen · 7 Jan 2011 at 14:53

LordSplodge said:
Balanced by how many sent to their graves by bad American intelligence? The war in Iraq for example?

No argument there.

Do you not believe that the UK would have been hit more than just 7/7 without the US and their intel services ?

anything I don't mind · 7 Jan 2011 at 14:59

Well there are some people that actually blame the intelligence agencies for the terrorist attacks. Those crazy unfounded tin foil hat theories....

Abraham · 7 Jan 2011 at 15:01

Noxia said:
I have wondered though, as the majority of our police are not armed, how many people could potentially get killed before an armed team is even sent in?

Just look at Derrick Bird, quite a few, however that's a remote location, in central london I would imagine armed police could be on the scene in minutes.

DisrupTor75 · 7 Jan 2011 at 15:06

invoke said:
I have to go through London tomorrow, I am currently fearing for my life.

theres more chance of you slipping on a banana skin and falling down an open manhole all the way down to the earth's core than a "terrorist" incident happening.

It's a big joke m8 i would not give them the satisfaction of it interupting your day

LordSplodge · 7 Jan 2011 at 15:10

Von Smallhausen said:
No argument there.

Do you not believe that the UK would have been hit more than just 7/7 without the US and their intel services ?

No, I do believe our own Intelligence Services may have prevented some attacks.

Noxia · 7 Jan 2011 at 15:11

Abraham said:
Just look at Derrick Bird, quite a few, however that's a remote location, in central london I would imagine armed police could be on the scene in minutes.

Yes I agree. I was at the Mall in Bristol and I thoguht about it whils't I was there. Bristol isn't really classed as a major city if comparing to London and The Mall is a fair distance from the centre.

Pate · 7 Jan 2011 at 15:12

I would have thought a multiple washington sniper esque attack would be more problematic than just some people running around with AK's.

But hey, lets just throw even more police officers into the equation, creating a really nice police state. Withhold the right of individuals to protect themselves and keep everyone in a nice state of panic. Sheep are easier to control after all.

Noxia · 7 Jan 2011 at 15:21

kenmare said:
I would have thought a multiple washington sniper esque attack would be more problematic than just some people running around with AK's.

But hey, lets just throw even more police officers into the equation, creating a really nice police state. Withhold the right of individuals to protect themselves and keep everyone in a nice state of panic. Sheep are easier to control after all.

I'd say we're almost at the police state stage already.

DisrupTor75 · 7 Jan 2011 at 15:23

Noxia said:
I'd say we're almost at the police state stage already.

Yep we are almost there with all the restrictions / law changes.

Danthus · 7 Jan 2011 at 15:31

Really, I can pretty much do what I want whenever I want too.

uvarvu · 7 Jan 2011 at 15:40

Noticed the police passing through Liverpool Street Station today. They had a few beefy ones walking around instead of the usual PSCOs.

mmj_uk · 7 Jan 2011 at 16:19

kenmare said:
I would have thought a multiple washington sniper esque attack would be more problematic than just some people running around with AK's.

Real terrorists could do a lot of things to terrorise our nation if they really wanted to and it would be impossible for our intelligence agencies to stop it pre-emptively, the Washington snipers or Raule Moat are perfect examples and if they really wanted to terrorise us then major sporting events would be a good start. There must be some unwritten rule that these Muslim terrorists can only use bombs as weapons and even then only on public transport.

Aside from 9/11 & 7/7 which are the foundations of the "War on Terror" all we have really seen since is a few mindless lone extremists with DIY bombs who are upset that we are waging war in two muslim countries (one of which we made up a story about WMD to go into).