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I'm confused now as to who to be scared of. Apparently there are untold legions of al-Qaida agents hidden amongst the general population (or so I gather from that unimpeachable news source the Daily Mail). So if we get quarantined or cordoned in or whatever, doesn't that mean we're stuck in here with - ulp - THEM?
I've long since lost track of which initiatives and legislation are meant to reassure us, and which to make us more paranoid. I've started working on a theory that it's all a big plan to make the British public so fucking bored with the idea of terrorism that it loses all power to scare, and hopefully the terrorists'll get bored cos no-one else is playing so it's no fun anymore. (Kind of like the IRA managed to do not so long ago.)
On a more serious note, yes, training and planning for security cordons and the like seems only sensible. Legislating in advance, as Ignatius says, is a little worrying, especially in a time in which the West is prepared to claim a victory after chucking a missile at six guys who were SUSPECTED of being terrorists. Cos, well, they haven't come up with any alibis or anything since being killed, have they? Well there you go then. Guilty as charged, m'lud.
And after all the great PR work everyone's agencies did after the last Gulf War claiming there was never the intent to kill Saddam Hussein because that would be assassination and wrong. |
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