Tuesday 24 March 2009

Climate of fear: update

As I've said before, "I am not a conspiracy theorist as such, but it is indisputably true that our gummint enjoys creating a Climate Of Fear in order to be able to ram through restrictions on our freedoms, increasing taxes and/or enlarging the power of the state."

Here's today's instalment from The Metro, apparently "Britain faces nuclear bomb threat from terrorists." Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't, but if they genuinely believed it, why don't they round up those "20 Islamic militants living in Britain after receiving terror training in Pakistan" and charge them or deport them or something?

2 comments:

roym said...

presumably those buggers were under watch. now theyve been partially outed wont they just go back to whatever the day job was?

Eckersalld said...

Problem for the government is that many of the people they're trying to scare are in their 30's now.

We saw Threads when we were kids. Bearded nutjobs are nowhere near as as scary as having to wear black bin liners, sitting under tables and awaiting the Soviet nukes to hit.

When you've had Sheffield in the 80's made to look more grim - and lets face it, thats a hell of a lot of grim - fundie Muslims just don't cut it.