[Gllug] Even more increased airport security announced.

[Aaron Trevena]

On 23/08/06, Daniel P. Berrange <dan at berrange.com> wrote:
> Its obviously very hard to say - on the one hand you've got the government
> effectively saying it would have been "the UK's 9/11", but on the other hand
> you've got people saying its totally overblown because they supposed liquid
> explosive would never have done any damage / worked at all.

The solution for me would be to have a nice 'chinese wall' between the
security services / Police and gubberment, much as with the judiciary.

While the 'war of turrrr' is politicised, we just get hyperbole and
people like Blair, Reid and that Gallaway idjit trying to make
money/power/publicity/agenda from fear and suffering.

> Until the government's evidence against these guys is presented in court we'll
> never know (assuming they even allow the court sessions to be public). I kind
> of suspect the truth could turn out to be a bit of both. eg, the 'terrorists'
> *intended* to cause 'the next 9/11', but at the same time didn't realise /
> know their chosen method of attack was doomed to failure / fundamentally
> flawed. Which would mean the actual danger was minimal, but the intent
> was still there - and at the end of the day, its the intent that's the
> bigger long term issue to address - something which none of the last 5 years
> of anti-terror laws does anything positive about :-(

The problem with this is - if you provide enough information for the
public to be really informed about what happened then you're probably
in contempt of court.

What would be more useful would be anonymous statistics without the
locations, hearsay, crayon drawings of suspects, and the court to
provide authorised press releases on what the public actually need to
know.

I think the Home Secretary should be concentrating on getting his
departments in working order instead of micro-managing 'security
theatre'.

Bah.

A.
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