Service Personel attacked at Olympics

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph....ing-the-Olympics.html

/// The MoD has refused to reveal how many attacks there have been on service personnel, who were forced to plug gaps in security at London 2012 after G4S failed to recruit enough security staff. ///

Why do they once again try too sweep these matters under the carpet?

The cowardly attack upon a service man, by a group of four Asian men happened on Monday 6 August, why has the news only just broke, had it had been an attack on a solitary Asian men by a gang of four soldiers, it would have been broadcast with vigour and disgust very much sooner.

[emmie]

AOG, it is a sad and stupid thing that anyone should attack service personnel, but it's not unheard of for white lads to have a go at them, i don't understand it either.

[friedgreentomato]

Would you be so keen to have a go if it was squaddies going about their popular pass time of beating up civilians?

[emmie]

do they do that in your experience.

[Canary42]

////had it had been an attack on a solitary Asian men by a gang of four soldiers, it would have been broadcast with vigour and disgust very much sooner.////

I just love the way you use conjecture to support your xenophobic views.

[Kerosene]

Let's not over-egg the pudding here. There have been millions of people here for both codes of Olympics, and it's inevitable that those literally in the front line of security - the vast majority of them wearing uniforms - are inevitably bound to attract some attention for the wrong reasons.

No one can condone any of the morons responsible, but I'm sure our squaddies have encountered far worse in Iraq and Afghanistan and are quite capable of handling themselves.

[friedgreentomato]

Yes Em they do.

[jno]

you think naval personnel are actually endangered by extremist leafleting?

How?

[Gromit]

Have there been many cases of terrorists leafleting before their attacks?

It would seem like a bit of a give-away to the authorities if it were true and not just a figment of AOG clutching at straws.

[sp1814]

AOG

You made light of homophobic attacks.

A friend of mine ended up losing an eye a few years ago after being being beaten up by a group of young 'men' who screamed homophobic abuse whilst kicking him in the head.

I'm sure you can understand what I think of your 'pink uniforms' quip.

So to clarify...these attacks go on all the time, not just during the Olympics. They get very little coverage in the national press, and like attacks on servicemen/women - they aren't suitable subjects for levity.

[Kromovaracun]

"cowardly and savage cowards."

Auuurgh those cowardly cowards. It makes me soooo annnnngryyyyyyyy

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// You made light of homophobic attacks.///

I apologise if my over generalisation of Pink Uniforms and Gays failed to amuse you, I would have thought that you in particular possessed a sense of humour that realised it was only offered up in jest.

I am sorry to hear about your friend, but just because there are cretins about who think nothing of attacking homosexuals, Blacks, Whites, Asians, Jews etc, doesn't in anyway excuse these recent attacks on our Armed Forces.

These guys and girls were ushered in at a minutes notice to provide the security at the Olympics, so you, I, and our overseas visitors are able to enjoy the experience with a lesser chance of being involved in a terrorist attack.

I wonder if those ABers who have took a negative approach on these attacks on our service personnel, would show them a little more support and respect if they themselves were to be holed up in a shopping precinct or such while these brave individuals put their own lives on the line to defuse an explosive devise?

It is almost a certainty that there will be another terrorist attack at some time in the future, and just be certain the murderers who carry out such attacks will not differentiate between their victims, men, Women, Children and yes even those ABers who now seem to be defending them.

[friedgreentomato]

I have not seen one person make light of the attach or of terrorist activity - instead I have seen people question the reporting of this and the bias of the OP.

[Baldric]

Again, someone using the word "cretin" during the time of the Paralympics
Not very well considered imo.

[humbersloop]

quite baldric, plus a //jest// about pink uniforms: we're doing well here.

//those ABers who have took a negative approach on these attacks on our service personnel//

//even those ABers who now seem to be defending them//

aog, do you actually read other posters' responses?

[sp1814]

AOG

Like humbersloop, I'm confused by your post.

You wrote:

"I wonder if those ABers who have took a negative approach on these attacks on our service personnel, would show them a little more support and respect if they themselves were to be holed up in a shopping precinct or such while these brave individuals put their own lives on the line to defuse an explosive devise?"

I would understand it if you'd said, "I wonder if those ABers who regularly criticise the armed forces...etc"

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// Like humbersloop, I'm confused by your post. ///

You surprise me that you can understand humbersloop's post, because I am damned sure that I can't.

/// I would understand it if you'd said, "I wonder if those ABers who regularly criticise the armed forces...etc" ///

Are they not each of the same?

[Baldric]

Ah!
The renowned ago 'straw-clutch' manoeuvre.

[Baldric]

Ago,................&£@ IPad
:0)

[Baldric]

Arghhhhhhh!........it's done it again, I give up on that one.

[humbersloop]

then let me try again.

no one here has condoned this attack

nor has anyone here condoned a terrorist attack, either now or at some point in the hypothetical future

however, the phrases quoted from your posts suggest exactly the opposite, hence my question