She’s gone through hell and it’s fuelled her to really make a difference – which *is* good – but I’m not sure how workable her goals are across all events and venues.
Presumably it’d cover things like music festivals too – which can have thousands of visitors with both weekend and day tickets.
Glastonbury is the low hanging fruit with a damn town of 210,000 people across 900 acres, but even Reading Festival sees 90,000, Boomtown sees 66,000 and smaller ones still in the thousands too.
Good luck meaningfully policing and having a plan for a terrorist attack in such a situation. You could potentially have security gates at the entrance but there seems so many ways around it… up to and including even having multiple people bringing in the components of a weapon and assembling it on site in a tent. I’m being a cynic but there’s big hurdles to get past.
The Manchester Arena bombing didn’t happen because the arena didn’t have some plan or other in place.
It happened because the British government aided, abetted, and harboured terrorists (because they were terrorising the wicked Col. Gaddafi), one chicken of which came home to roost.
Perhaps there should be a law against *that*.
Well, May and Cameron needed deniable expendable proxies for their war in the Middle East, and didn’t want to fund the security services so lavishly that they could spare the resources to monitor a case as red flaggy as… (take a deep breath and say it with me now!) …a close relation of a known extremist, who had been to visit extremists convicted of terrorism offences, *in UK prisons*, who had been known to be travelling back and forth to Libya to fight alongside other extremists.
And you’re one of the *little people*, who don’t really matter. I certainly don’t think you can expect titans of politics like Cameron and May to be held accountable for any of this, nor the security services, of course. Not for something little, like this.
Like Senator Armstrong says, when you’re making the mother of all omlettes, you can’t fret over every egg.
On the upside, at least no one was politically incorrect 🙄
57% upvoted because let’s just pretend this didn’t happen?
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She’s gone through hell and it’s fuelled her to really make a difference – which *is* good – but I’m not sure how workable her goals are across all events and venues.
Presumably it’d cover things like music festivals too – which can have thousands of visitors with both weekend and day tickets.
Glastonbury is the low hanging fruit with a damn town of 210,000 people across 900 acres, but even Reading Festival sees 90,000, Boomtown sees 66,000 and smaller ones still in the thousands too.
Good luck meaningfully policing and having a plan for a terrorist attack in such a situation. You could potentially have security gates at the entrance but there seems so many ways around it… up to and including even having multiple people bringing in the components of a weapon and assembling it on site in a tent. I’m being a cynic but there’s big hurdles to get past.
The Manchester Arena bombing didn’t happen because the arena didn’t have some plan or other in place.
It happened because the British government aided, abetted, and harboured terrorists (because they were terrorising the wicked Col. Gaddafi), one chicken of which came home to roost.
Perhaps there should be a law against *that*.
Well, May and Cameron needed deniable expendable proxies for their war in the Middle East, and didn’t want to fund the security services so lavishly that they could spare the resources to monitor a case as red flaggy as… (take a deep breath and say it with me now!) …a close relation of a known extremist, who had been to visit extremists convicted of terrorism offences, *in UK prisons*, who had been known to be travelling back and forth to Libya to fight alongside other extremists.
And you’re one of the *little people*, who don’t really matter. I certainly don’t think you can expect titans of politics like Cameron and May to be held accountable for any of this, nor the security services, of course. Not for something little, like this.
Like Senator Armstrong says, when you’re making the mother of all omlettes, you can’t fret over every egg.
On the upside, at least no one was politically incorrect 🙄
57% upvoted because let’s just pretend this didn’t happen?