Good on the feller - love the sites dedicated to 'buyiung John smeaton a beer'! - some of the comments are hilarious
However we should not get too carried away. This is sobering reading:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2...seshysteria.htm
and I tend to agree with the conclusion:
<< Similar attacks were a staple of the 60's and 70's but the government and the media downplayed them because they were of minimal threat to anyone and to hype such non-events was handing a propaganda victory to the terrorists.
Since the very definition of terrorism is to influence government policy not by the attack itself but by hyping fear of new attacks, the government of Gordon Brown is engaging in terrorism by strongly intimating that fresh attacks are inevitable.
Brown came to power with an agenda to push through new anti-terror laws including wiretaps being admissible in court and extending the 28-day detention without charge law to 90 days. Though such proposals failed under Blair and Brown was expecting a fight to get them passed, expect them to breeze through Parliament with little opposition following the outright panic that has been generated as a result of recent events. >>
I was living and working in central London throughout all the IRA bombings in the 70s, and was within a few hundred yards of most of the explosions. There was no panic or hysteria, we were all amazingly sanguine about the risks, and everyone just got on with their lives. The only measures taken were to remove rubbish bins inc on tube stations and on centre of city pavements, and to seal up some letterboxes
