UK terror threat level 'severe'
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- Horp0
This is ridiculous.
24 hours after declaring the terror tone to be 'Severe', a man has been arrested at Manchester airport (plus the terminal was cleared ) for attempting to board a plane with a bag of UNIDENTIFIED white powder in his luggage.
The man was detained, but he hasn't been arrested and the white powder has not been identified as an explosive/corrosive or anything else. In fact the man voluntarily declared at check in that he was carrying a bag containing a freeze dried compound in his luggage.
Despite the lack of anything remotely terrifying, this is being treated as breaking news and is front page on Yahoo and the Daily Mail. Even more absurd is that one of the photographs used to decorate this column of insubstantial scaremongering is the London bus that was blown up in 2005.
Why?
- version30
couks the lot of them
- set0
Its quite obvious really Horp. Its continued scare mongering to frighten the people into accepting the new anti terrorist laws that infringe on our freedom. We are basically already in a police state and the whole terrorist thing is their excuse for bringing this in.
Its called problem, reaction, solution.
Create a problem... get a reaction from the people... and then bring in a solution which was what you wanted to do before the problem even existed.
If there was no apparent threat to their safety the people would never so willingly allow our freedoms to be taken away.
They can pretty much do anything they want now under section 44 of the terrorism act.
- detritus0
- "What's that, Mr Brown? You're already steaming ahead with this ineffective technology? Brilliant!"detritus
- gets me hot. I'm considering a career change
flashbender
- raf0
You can vote them out, right? General election's due in a few months. Vote for politicians who are going to stop the erosion of basic freedoms and revert the police state.
I forgot who they were though...
- irony at its best :)Corvo2
- lol thats funny. they are all the same group.set
- guns will keep you safe.winnie_the_shit