The Terrorism "threat" has been reduced from "Severe" to "Substantial" and, I for one, am so grateful for this snipppet of good news in a sea of disasters.. I am sure that I speak for the millions on this country when I can say that "I will sleep more soundly in my bed tonight, knowing that it is only Substantially likely I will be blown up instead of Severely likely.
What a great idea - a real "wheeze" to scare people out of their collective wits by inventing the modern day version of the "Bogey Man for Grown Ups" and then, for no explainable resason, reduce the "threat" and bask in the glory of your achievement.
Is it just me? Am I out of step with the world? I seem to recall that, in the 1970s and 80s, we were, on a regular basis, blown up by the IRA - with real bombs, in real places and real people died (I myself was in 2 places blown up by them, once the night before [Birmingham pub bombings] and once about 30 minutes before [Canary Wharf]) - and I do not remember having to carry ID cards, having to donate DNA samples, fingerprints, sperm samples, nose pickings, carry biometric passports, be spied upon by cameras on every lamppost, and have council officials monitoring every fart - just in case. No, when we were actually being blown up, we all just got on with it and kept a watchful eye out for anything out of the ordinary.
Now, having been blown up once, possibly by our own government, suddenly, we need all of this crap, we need free speech curtailed, we need everything secret, we need the highest paid and most corrupt government in history, we need to stop smoking, drinking, eating and reproducing - all for "our own good". It also seems that we "need" to be in two ulawful wars - oddly, both in the oil producing part of the world, and, this week's excuse is that it "is to make the streets of London safer" (I live in the West Country so, actually, I don't give a monkey's about London's streets). The excuse used to be WMDs, then, regime change and now, it's all for our own good and safety.
In Iraq, it's about oil and, now we have secured it for our colonial cousins, we can leave. In Afghanistan, it's about building a pipeline from Russia to a warm water port and, oddly, the Afghan people, when it was explained to them that this was going to happen and there was nothing in it for them, got a bit upset and actually tried to run their own country - how arrogant is that!!
The results have been that people in that general area have got a little ticked off (can't imagine why) with us and the USA. All we have done is invade them, kills hundreds of thousands of their civilians, destroy any infrastrcuture they had, impose our views and morals upon them - and, for some reason, they are not happy and want to "pay us back in kind". So, having done this to them and, even most of them can no longer organise enough food to eat, we been told that they are "terrorists" and "could", at any moment, strike us anywhere, at any time, backed with more money and orgnisation than most governments have. So long as we ignore that we have never been attacked from anyone outside this country since the IRA (backed mainly by the good old US of A - The Tube bombers [if they were the tube bombers] were born and bred here), these impoverished, shell shocked and, in many cases, dead somehow pose the greatest threat to us that we have ever know.
Personally, I wonder how so many people here can be fooled, so often, by so few. Any terrorist threat to this country is from within and, as for intelligence as to the next attack, I would suggest that the "intelligence" services just consult their own year planners for "further details".
For the rest of us, if the "reduction" in the "threat level" has gone down, it is merely because the civil servants who arrange the "threats" have 6 weeks holiday a year and they have all decided to grab a couple of weeks in the summer because they can not carry the entitlement over till next year.
I am not saying that there is no posibility of a "real" attack - quite the reverse, they are angry enough to try - but, the chances of the police and emergecy services "practicing" the attack at the very moment it occurs (as with 7/7) is remote.
Anyway - we can all sleep better tonight knowing that we can only be "substantially" blown up instead of (the far worse) "severly" - and it only costs us £3million a minute to employ a government that "makes it happen". Money well spent?????
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