Comments on: Living with Terrorism http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/2010/01/living-with-terrorism/ Dummies For Destruction - A drop of blood in a sea of piss Mon, 20 May 2013 09:35:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=481 By: lyle http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/2010/01/living-with-terrorism/comment-page-1/#comment-165746 lyle Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:44:43 +0000 http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/?p=6892#comment-165746 That’s what I mean by Security Theatre, BW – it’s all aimed towards making people feel “safer”, but at the same time fails because it involves making them think about terrorism all the time.

And none of it actually does anything to prevent the attempts.

]]> By: Blue Witch http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/2010/01/living-with-terrorism/comment-page-1/#comment-165745 Blue Witch Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:00:38 +0000 http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/?p=6892#comment-165745 They’re all barking up the wrong tree though.

Think of the ethnic profile of those who work airside and see where the *real* risk to security comes from…

]]> By: lyle http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/2010/01/living-with-terrorism/comment-page-1/#comment-165742 lyle Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:10:46 +0000 http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/?p=6892#comment-165742 Yep, if you were more cynical you might even believe that a lot of the “plots” were there to just sell more security machines etc.

But that’d be really cynical.

]]> By: Lionel http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/2010/01/living-with-terrorism/comment-page-1/#comment-165741 Lionel Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:14:45 +0000 http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/?p=6892#comment-165741 Isn’t it convenient that whenever the government’s ready to introduce new security measures that there’s a foiled plot or failed attack to reduce the public’s resistance to the idea …

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