Attack Warning Red

[Jimbuna]

Can't say I'm surprised....should have been raised months ago.

The UK's terror threat level has been raised from "substantial" to "severe" in response to conflicts in Iraq and Syria, Home Secretary Theresa May says.

The new alert level rates the risk of an attack on the UK "highly likely", although Mrs May said there was no evidence to suggest one was "imminent".

It is the second highest of five possible UK threat levels.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28986271

[Oberon]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28986271

You may now officially panic, run around screaming and forget about governmental nonsense because the terrorists are going to kill us all.

Have a safe and productive work day.

Alternatively, you can express your skepticism via twitter:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014...tml?1409330186

2:57!

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Nippelspanner

2:57!

I must admit 2:46 always gets a little chuckle from me, knowing my luck if the balloon ever went up that's where I'd be.

[Catfish]

So the "threat level" has been "raised" ? At least this sure raises the thread level ..
Friends of mine are currently in the UK, i so i can fully understand your reaction



From the reactions:
"Threat level: Salad for dinner."

[Pisces]

Disregard, my previous writing makes no sense after this thread got moved and merged.

[Skybird]

Of course we can run around now, screaming. But why dying tired?

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Of course we can run around now, screaming. But why dying tired?

They say that the birth rate in the US spiked several months after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Of course we can run around now, screaming. But why dying tired?

It's healthier for you, lose excess weight so when the radiation comes it has less distance to travel through the body.
It's called being considerate, being an atomic particle is no easy task you know. Remember, if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

[eddie]

I don't think anyone is worried that ISIS will come marching through London or New York anytime soon, but with AQ calling for more attacks by individuals instead of anything like the subway attack or 9/11 all over again, I think the "Lonewolf" attack might be what their going on about. Like when that British soldier was killed recently in the UK, or something on the order of the bombings in Boston.

No reason for anyone to get super paranoid about it, but if something bad happens, and our Governments didn't say anything about a terrorist threat, we'd be all over them about that too.

[Rhodes]

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by eddie

I don't think anyone is worried that ISIS will come marching through London or New York anytime soon, but with AQ calling for more attacks by individuals instead of anything like the subway attack or 9/11 all over again, I think the "Lonewolf" attack might be what their going on about. Like when that British soldier was killed recently in the UK, or something on the order of the bombings in Boston.

No reason for anyone to get super paranoid about it, but if something bad happens, and our Governments didn't say anything about a terrorist threat, we'd be all over them about that too.

Aye, that's likely the case, I just have to shake my head when I consider the 1960s-90s where we had much more regular acts of terrorism than today and yet nowhere near the amount of governmental hysteria about it. Admittedly the IRA wasn't prone to sending suicide bombers across, but people in London were used to bomb scares, tube station closures, and the occasional car bomb or pipe bomb.
If it happens, it happens, but yeah, you're right, society has changed now and we'd only go "why wasn't there any warning?!" if it did.

[Catfish]

^ This is exactly what it is about.
Terrorist activity has always been there as an abstract or not so abstract threat (think about 'Carlos', the german 'RAF', the IRA, the fake leftist bombings, done by right-wingers to discredit the left done by the Gladio units and whatnot), but are we really afraid about it, every day, 24 hours ?

And do we really blame our governments ?


But it is not only about

If it happens, it happens, but yeah, you're right, society has changed now and we'd only go "why wasn't there any warning?!"

itis about whether terrorist warning alarms make any sense, apart from having a justification for harsher laws and getting more information via official eavesdropping on own citizens.

[Wolferz]

Originally Posted by Catfish

^ This is exactly what it is about.
Terrorist activity has always been there as an abstract or not so abstract threat (think about 'Carlos', the german 'RAF', the IRA, the fake leftist bombings, done by right-wingers to discredit the left done by the Gladio units and whatnot), but are we really afraid about it, every day, 24 hours ?

And do we really blame our governments ?


But it is not only about

itis about whether terrorist warning alarms make any sense, apart from having a justification for harsher laws and getting more information via official eavesdropping on own citizens.

Makes you wonder who the real terrorists are. Do it?

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Aye, that's likely the case, I just have to shake my head when I consider the 1960s-90s where we had much more regular acts of terrorism than today and yet nowhere near the amount of governmental hysteria about it. Admittedly the IRA wasn't prone to sending suicide bombers across, but people in London were used to bomb scares, tube station closures, and the occasional car bomb or pipe bomb.
If it happens, it happens, but yeah, you're right, society has changed now and we'd only go "why wasn't there any warning?!" if it did.

Well remember the IRA did give warnings in most cases. With a few notable exceptions of course.