Warning over 'huge' terror threat

[B17NNS]

A case of when you've got the public afraid you get them to agree to almost anything?

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20081014/tuk-warning-ov...

[elster]

B17NNS said:

A case of when you've got the public afraid you get them to agree to almost anything?

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20081014/tuk-warning-ov...

Sounds like good news to me. They are monitoring the article says.

[SS HSV]

I am truly past caring. There is so much bullst and propaganda about now that I just don't trust any government in the UK.

Sadly this means I do not believe there to be a threat until it happens. Opressed? Just how much more can we be opressed??

[VxDuncan]

Soo, terror bill doesn't get passed and is now under discussion. I wonder why this story has come out? Didn't we have the hand luggage restrictions last time they needed to get something passed?

[Mojocvh]

Within two hours of the vote, the government announced it was dropping the 42-day proposal from the Counter-Terrorism Bill.
But the home secretary said she had written the plan into a separate one-page bill which could be pushed through Parliament quickly in the case of a national emergency.
BBC News

[B17NNS]

I don't know, call me stupid but I just don't see much al qaeda activity in Britain.

These 'terrorists' don't seem to do much terrorising here.

People seem to forget that we lived with the very real terror of the IRA for many years without all this nonsense.

[Roger McLittriss]

There is one way that the bombers could possibly make an impact (as it were) very quickly, but I'm damned if I'm going to expound at length on here.
In some ways the IRA were more effective than AQ.

[B17NNS]

Roger McLittriss said:

There is one way that the bombers could possibly make an impact.

Interesting.

If you were a terrorist hell bent on murder and destruction what would you do?

A gas attack on the tube would be pretty bad as would be poisoning the water supply for a major city.

Why do all their plans seem to involve the destruction of the terrorist. Not very bright really?!?

[mybrainhurts]

Roger McLittriss said:

There is one way that the bombers could possibly make an impact (as it were) very quickly, but I'm damned if I'm going to expound at length on here.
In some ways the IRA were more effective than AQ.

Life's hard when you live in a cave...

[lionrampant]

B17NNS said:

A case of when you've got the public afraid you get them to agree to almost anything?

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20081014/tuk-warning-ov...

The Party is Mother, The Party is Father...

[SkinnyBoy]

Our story begins, as these stories often do, with a young up-and-coming politician. He's a deeply religious man and a member of the conservative party. He is completely single-minded convictions and has no regard for the political process. Eventually, his party launches a special project in the name of 'national security'. At first, it is believed to be a search for biological weapons and it is pursued regardless of its cost. However, the true goal of the project is power, complete and total hegemonic domination. The project, however, ends violently... but the efforts of those involved are not in vain, for a new ability to wage war is born from the blood of one of their victims. Imagine a virus - the most terrifying virus you can, and then imagine that you and you alone have the cure. But if your ultimate goal is power, how best to use such a weapon? It is at this point in our story that along comes a spider. He is a man seemingly without a conscience; for whom the ends always justify the means and it is he who suggests that their target should not be an enemy of the country but rather the country itself. Three targets are chosen to maximize the effect of the attack: a school, a tube station, and a water-treatment plant. Several hundred die within the first few weeks. Until at last the true goal comes into view. Before the St. Mary's crisis, no one would have predicted the outcome of the elections. No one. But after the election, lo and behold, a miracle. Some believed that it was the work of God himself, but it was a pharmaceutical company controlled by certain party members made them all obscenely rich. But the true genius of the plan was the fear. A year later, several extremeists are tried, found guilty, and executed while a memorial is erected to canonize their victims. Fear became the ultimate tool of this government. And through it our politician was ultimately appointed to the newly created position of High Chancellor. The rest, as they say, is history.

Edited by SkinnyBoy on Wednesday 15th October 02:39

[turbobloke]

Maybe Gordon has another cunning plan to announce to the world stage.

Gord the Debt Builder can he fix it etc

[thinfourth2]

Al Queada or whatever they are spelt have abandoned attacking the UK as they have basically winning without lifting a finger as the mere mention of their name removes our freedoms everyday.

I would happily accept the risk of being killed by a terrorist increasing 10 times if it meant we had less anti terror bks

[Civpilot]

SkinnyBoy said:

Our story begins, as these stories often do, with a young up-and-coming politician. He's a deeply religious man and a member of the conservative party. He is completely single-minded convictions and has no regard for the political process. Eventually, his party launches a special project in the name of 'national security'. At first, it is believed to be a search for biological weapons and it is pursued regardless of its cost. However, the true goal of the project is power, complete and total hegemonic domination. The project, however, ends violently... but the efforts of those involved are not in vain, for a new ability to wage war is born from the blood of one of their victims. Imagine a virus - the most terrifying virus you can, and then imagine that you and you alone have the cure. But if your ultimate goal is power, how best to use such a weapon? It is at this point in our story that along comes a spider. He is a man seemingly without a conscience; for whom the ends always justify the means and it is he who suggests that their target should not be an enemy of the country but rather the country itself. Three targets are chosen to maximize the effect of the attack: a school, a tube station, and a water-treatment plant. Several hundred die within the first few weeks. Until at last the true goal comes into view. Before the St. Mary's crisis, no one would have predicted the outcome of the elections. No one. But after the election, lo and behold, a miracle. Some believed that it was the work of God himself, but it was a pharmaceutical company controlled by certain party members made them all obscenely rich. But the true genius of the plan was the fear. A year later, several extremeists are tried, found guilty, and executed while a memorial is erected to canonize their victims. Fear became the ultimate tool of this government. And through it our politician was ultimately appointed to the newly created position of High Chancellor. The rest, as they say, is history.

Edited by SkinnyBoy on Wednesday 15th October 02:39

(hopefully I'm not the only one who knows where that came from)

[chris watton]

thinfourth2 said:

Al Queada or whatever they are spelt have abandoned attacking the UK as they have basically winning without lifting a finger as the mere mention of their name removes our freedoms everyday.

I would happily accept the risk of being killed by a terrorist increasing 10 times if it meant we had less anti terror bks

I am sure the terror threat was more real in the 70's, 80's and 90's, and the governments didn't curb EVERYONE'S civil liberties!

[bob1179]

Civpilot said:

SkinnyBoy said:

Our story begins, as these stories often do, with a young up-and-coming politician. He's a deeply religious man and a member of the conservative party. He is completely single-minded convictions and has no regard for the political process. Eventually, his party launches a special project in the name of 'national security'. At first, it is believed to be a search for biological weapons and it is pursued regardless of its cost. However, the true goal of the project is power, complete and total hegemonic domination. The project, however, ends violently... but the efforts of those involved are not in vain, for a new ability to wage war is born from the blood of one of their victims. Imagine a virus - the most terrifying virus you can, and then imagine that you and you alone have the cure. But if your ultimate goal is power, how best to use such a weapon? It is at this point in our story that along comes a spider. He is a man seemingly without a conscience; for whom the ends always justify the means and it is he who suggests that their target should not be an enemy of the country but rather the country itself. Three targets are chosen to maximize the effect of the attack: a school, a tube station, and a water-treatment plant. Several hundred die within the first few weeks. Until at last the true goal comes into view. Before the St. Mary's crisis, no one would have predicted the outcome of the elections. No one. But after the election, lo and behold, a miracle. Some believed that it was the work of God himself, but it was a pharmaceutical company controlled by certain party members made them all obscenely rich. But the true genius of the plan was the fear. A year later, several extremeists are tried, found guilty, and executed while a memorial is erected to canonize their victims. Fear became the ultimate tool of this government. And through it our politician was ultimately appointed to the newly created position of High Chancellor. The rest, as they say, is history.

Edited by SkinnyBoy on Wednesday 15th October 02:39

(hopefully I'm not the only one who knows where that came from)

I can't for the life of me remember where this came from. Go on, do tell, pretty please?

[Einion Yrth]

bob1179 said:

Civpilot said:

SkinnyBoy said:

Our story begins, as these stories often do, with a young up-and-coming politician. He's a deeply religious man and a member of the conservative party. He is completely single-minded convictions and has no regard for the political process. Eventually, his party launches a special project in the name of 'national security'. At first, it is believed to be a search for biological weapons and it is pursued regardless of its cost. However, the true goal of the project is power, complete and total hegemonic domination. The project, however, ends violently... but the efforts of those involved are not in vain, for a new ability to wage war is born from the blood of one of their victims. Imagine a virus - the most terrifying virus you can, and then imagine that you and you alone have the cure. But if your ultimate goal is power, how best to use such a weapon? It is at this point in our story that along comes a spider. He is a man seemingly without a conscience; for whom the ends always justify the means and it is he who suggests that their target should not be an enemy of the country but rather the country itself. Three targets are chosen to maximize the effect of the attack: a school, a tube station, and a water-treatment plant. Several hundred die within the first few weeks. Until at last the true goal comes into view. Before the St. Mary's crisis, no one would have predicted the outcome of the elections. No one. But after the election, lo and behold, a miracle. Some believed that it was the work of God himself, but it was a pharmaceutical company controlled by certain party members made them all obscenely rich. But the true genius of the plan was the fear. A year later, several extremeists are tried, found guilty, and executed while a memorial is erected to canonize their victims. Fear became the ultimate tool of this government. And through it our politician was ultimately appointed to the newly created position of High Chancellor. The rest, as they say, is history.

Edited by SkinnyBoy on Wednesday 15th October 02:39

(hopefully I'm not the only one who knows where that came from)

I can't for the life of me remember where this came from. Go on, do tell, pretty please?

[richyb]

Aren't the Icelandic bankers the biggest terrorist threat at the moment?

[mechsympathy]

B17NNS said:

A case of when you've got the public afraid you get them to agree to almost anything?

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20081014/tuk-warning-ov...

That's the vaguest pile of wishy washy bks I've ever heard, even by politicians' standards that's astonishing.

[Marf]

Einion Yrth said:

bob1179 said:

Civpilot said:

SkinnyBoy said:

Our story begins, as these stories often do, with a young up-and-coming politician. He's a deeply religious man and a member of the conservative party. He is completely single-minded convictions and has no regard for the political process. Eventually, his party launches a special project in the name of 'national security'. At first, it is believed to be a search for biological weapons and it is pursued regardless of its cost. However, the true goal of the project is power, complete and total hegemonic domination. The project, however, ends violently... but the efforts of those involved are not in vain, for a new ability to wage war is born from the blood of one of their victims. Imagine a virus - the most terrifying virus you can, and then imagine that you and you alone have the cure. But if your ultimate goal is power, how best to use such a weapon? It is at this point in our story that along comes a spider. He is a man seemingly without a conscience; for whom the ends always justify the means and it is he who suggests that their target should not be an enemy of the country but rather the country itself. Three targets are chosen to maximize the effect of the attack: a school, a tube station, and a water-treatment plant. Several hundred die within the first few weeks. Until at last the true goal comes into view. Before the St. Mary's crisis, no one would have predicted the outcome of the elections. No one. But after the election, lo and behold, a miracle. Some believed that it was the work of God himself, but it was a pharmaceutical company controlled by certain party members made them all obscenely rich. But the true genius of the plan was the fear. A year later, several extremeists are tried, found guilty, and executed while a memorial is erected to canonize their victims. Fear became the ultimate tool of this government. And through it our politician was ultimately appointed to the newly created position of High Chancellor. The rest, as they say, is history.

Edited by SkinnyBoy on Wednesday 15th October 02:39

(hopefully I'm not the only one who knows where that came from)

I can't for the life of me remember where this came from. Go on, do tell, pretty please?

Penny for the guy?