UK Terrorism

[AsylumDave]

With the recent terror raid and the arrests that came with it I was just wondering, does it scare people?

Some of the potential targets being close to my home (e.g. Trafford Centre) it kind of hit me that I could have been a victim. Yet strangely...it doesn't scare me. Maybe thats just my frame of mind. What are other peoples thoughts?



On a lighter note, don't know if any of you saw some of the armed officers making the arrests on the news. It was actually me, I stormed in there and it went something a little like this:

Me: "Get your ass on the ground you're under arrest"
Terrorist Suspect: "PAH, thats just a paintball gun"
Me: "Its an SLG 09 and i'm not affraid to use it"


...

Me: "Its got a mother****ing ULTRALITE FRAME!!!"
<Terrorist Suspect trembles in his shoes and gives up>

We all know paintball defeats terrorism at the end of the day

 

[Gassy]

Strange how the terror raids start as soon as the goverment need to take the news headlines away from bent ministers

 

[spangley_special]

Strange how the terror raids start as soon as the goverment need to take the news headlines away from bent ministers

...and other policemen killing unarmed men from behind with no provocation.

 

[AsylumDave]

Strange how the terror raids start as soon as the goverment need to take the news headlines away from bent ministers

lol are you really implying that its all made up? Yeh bent ministers want to take attention away from themselves but you can't seriously believe this is linked?

 

[Dusty]

Lived with terrorism most of my life, so no it doesn't scare me. Thats not intended to make me sound all big and bad, not scared of anything, it has just been a part and parcel of our daily grind over here for so long, if we worried about it we wouldn't leave the house.

 

[Mario]

I dont think he was implying its made up, i think he was implying these things happen at just the right moments for some politicians. For example how the raids were bought forward and the hoo haa with the top dog in CT for the police.

 

[dextrus]

I was also there i ran across infront of the Terrorist Suspect supermaned for about ten feet then went freeze i have a splatmaster and went pew pew and he laid on the floor like he was dead and gave up.

But on a serious note i live near a powerstation

 

[Gassy]

I dont think he was implying its made up, i think he was implying these things happen at just the right moments for some politicians. For example how the raids were bought forward and the hoo haa with the top dog in CT for the police.

Bingo

 

[Ali]

same as retro n dusty.....it dont scare me despite all the stories and even my uncle being held hostage quite a while ago now. its just one of those things that dont scare me yet terrorist acts can happen to us anytime and any where.

 

[niallist]

...and other policemen killing unarmed men from behind with no provocation.

not to mention (allegedly) witholding evidence and misleading the IPCC, the CT hoo ha certainly shifted the alleged assault from the top spot of the headlines.

Very uncool, I was there (not at the moment of the attack) during the day. The police were out of control, it was obvious something bad was going to happen.

As regards OP, I'm no more scared now than I was before, which is not much. The chances of being caught up in anything like that are infinitesimally small. I live and work in central london, it goes with the territory.