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Do We Have To Accept That This Sort Of Thing
http:// www.bbc .co.uk/ news/uk -englan d-susse x-34821 392
is now part of everyday life?
The security services are preventing potential attacks everyday.
is now part of everyday life?
The security services are preventing potential attacks everyday.
Answers
In the world of terrorism and bomb planting there is a "come on" ploy. I suffered loss of hearing on one such bomb. Police officer looks in bin and sees an air rifle and a knife. The officer will grab those at his peril. "What LIES BENEATH? A spring loaded booby trapped bomb. Best leave the experts make informed decisions how and where they use controlled...
15:12 Sun 15th Nov 2015
Now, if only people had listened to the *great man 40 years ago;
///Yet, even though that picture is dark and darkening, there is one factor which has not yet been injected. I do not know whether it will be tomorrow, or next year, or in five years; but it will come. That factor is firearms and explosives. With communities which are so divided nothing can prevent the injection of explosives and firearms with the escalating and self-augmenting consequences which we know perfectly well from experience in other parts of the United Kingdom and the world.
At first there will be horrified astonishment, and inquiry as to what we have done wrong that such things should be happening. Then there will be feverish endeavour to find methods to allay the supposed grievances which lie behind the violence. Then follows exploitation by those who use violence of the ascendancy they have thus gained over the majority and over authority. The thing goes forward, acting and reacting until a position is reached in which—I shall dare to say it—compared to those areas, Belfast today will seem an enviable place.///
*Sorry for the slight sidetrack, Talbot. No prizes for knowing the visionary who said it.
///Yet, even though that picture is dark and darkening, there is one factor which has not yet been injected. I do not know whether it will be tomorrow, or next year, or in five years; but it will come. That factor is firearms and explosives. With communities which are so divided nothing can prevent the injection of explosives and firearms with the escalating and self-augmenting consequences which we know perfectly well from experience in other parts of the United Kingdom and the world.
At first there will be horrified astonishment, and inquiry as to what we have done wrong that such things should be happening. Then there will be feverish endeavour to find methods to allay the supposed grievances which lie behind the violence. Then follows exploitation by those who use violence of the ascendancy they have thus gained over the majority and over authority. The thing goes forward, acting and reacting until a position is reached in which—I shall dare to say it—compared to those areas, Belfast today will seem an enviable place.///
*Sorry for the slight sidetrack, Talbot. No prizes for knowing the visionary who said it.
In the world of terrorism and bomb planting there is a "come on" ploy. I suffered loss of hearing on one such bomb.
Police officer looks in bin and sees an air rifle and a knife. The officer will grab those at his peril. "What LIES BENEATH? A spring loaded booby trapped bomb. Best leave the experts make informed decisions how and where they use controlled explosions and not the arm chair Generals eh.
Police officer looks in bin and sees an air rifle and a knife. The officer will grab those at his peril. "What LIES BENEATH? A spring loaded booby trapped bomb. Best leave the experts make informed decisions how and where they use controlled explosions and not the arm chair Generals eh.