Tony Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Today's news includes: Nudie airport scanner abuse Police tell internet cafe owners to spy on customers Exploding boobies and bums I don't care. I want my life to be my life. I'll accept the 'threats' of Muslim takeover or 747's dropping out of the sky onto a puppy school. I don't want intrusion, interference, monitoring, restriction, mistrust, paranoia, suspicion of me and my neighbour. How about you? Time for a change? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eater Sundae Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Today's news includes: Nudie airport scanner abuse Police tell internet cafe owners to spy on customers Exploding boobies and bums I don't care. I want my life to be my life. I'll accept the 'threats' of Muslim takeover or 747's dropping out of the sky onto a puppy school. I don't want intrusion, interference, monitoring, restriction, mistrust, paranoia, suspicion of me and my neighbour. How about you? Time for a change? I tend to feel the same way as you. If we make our way of life more restricted and authoritarian, then, to some extent, the terrorists have won. We must protect our way of life by continuing to express it in the way we always have. Although if my bus to work were to blow up, then my views might change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted March 25, 2010 Author Share Posted March 25, 2010 Though I'm guessing that if you were run over by your bus you wouldn't be trying to ban buses? How on earth did we allow the Government to do this to out nation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyfriday Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Today's news includes: Nudie airport scanner abuse Police tell internet cafe owners to spy on customers Exploding boobies and bums I don't care. I want my life to be my life. I'll accept the 'threats' of Muslim takeover or 747's dropping out of the sky onto a puppy school. I don't want intrusion, interference, monitoring, restriction, mistrust, paranoia, suspicion of me and my neighbour. How about you? Time for a change? I accept that there needs to be some degree of security provided it's effective and not just a succour to the paranoid, I remember some posters here using as an anti burkha argument that security cameras cant identify the people wearing them, 'security' like that to me is a case of the tail wagging the dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Wasn't it Benjamin Franklin who nicely summarised the issue several hundred years ago? Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildcat Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 It depends whether it is a proporionate response to the threat. Asking people not to leave and to report unattended baggage, proportionate. Police with machine guns on display at Leeds station disproportionate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 The thing is that most people recognise that the "terror threat" is virtually non existent so scare tactics no longer work. The last serious terror attack in Britain was in 2005, nearly 5 years ago, so what have all these mysterious terrorists been doing since then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted March 25, 2010 Author Share Posted March 25, 2010 Hanging out in Starbucks apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upinwath Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 It depends whether it is a proporionate response to the threat. . It also depends on if the threat is real or not. Most of it was invented, or caused by this Labour government. To invade Iraq they needed Muslims to be a threat. They invaded Iraq on a bunch of lies and created a real threat because some Muslims are actually narked that Britain killed by the thousand. Blair is now being paid millions of quid in bribes. Sorry, not bribes. It's just that all his cash for speeches and so on is coming from US companies or 'friends' of the US. Pure coincidence, not bribes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Blair is now being paid millions of quid in bribes. Sorry, not bribes. It's just that all his cash for speeches and so on is coming from US companies or 'friends' of the US. Blair's Korean oil money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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