Do We Have To Accept That This Sort Of Thing

[-Talbot-]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-34821392

is now part of everyday life?

The security services are preventing potential attacks everyday.

[Svejk]

For the foreseeable future, I suppose. Better be safe than sorry, don't you think?

[Mamyalynne]

We have had to accept stepped up security measures in the past and managed , so yes we should expect it and accept it.

[Ken4155]

Disruption is a small price to pay for safety.

[naomi24]

While maniacs are on the loose, if we have any sense at all we'll accept it.

[Svejk]

Now, if only people had listened to the *great man 40 years ago;

///Yet, even though that picture is dark and darkening, there is one factor which has not yet been injected. I do not know whether it will be tomorrow, or next year, or in five years; but it will come. That factor is firearms and explosives. With communities which are so divided nothing can prevent the injection of explosives and firearms with the escalating and self-augmenting consequences which we know perfectly well from experience in other parts of the United Kingdom and the world.

At first there will be horrified astonishment, and inquiry as to what we have done wrong that such things should be happening. Then there will be feverish endeavour to find methods to allay the supposed grievances which lie behind the violence. Then follows exploitation by those who use violence of the ascendancy they have thus gained over the majority and over authority. The thing goes forward, acting and reacting until a position is reached in which—I shall dare to say it—compared to those areas, Belfast today will seem an enviable place.///

*Sorry for the slight sidetrack, Talbot. No prizes for knowing the visionary who said it.

[mikey4444]

We have no choice. International terrorism has been a fact of life for many years now.

[ummmm]

Mikey....not on this scale.

[Khandro]

Proof that terrorism works.

[Jackdaw33]

Sounds tome very much like Enoch.

[mikey4444]

Ummm...the attack on the Twin Towers in 2001 resulted in 2,996 dead. This doesn't take anything away from what happened last night in Paris, but terrorism has been with us for many, many years.

[Hypognosis]

@mikey4444

//but terrorism has been with us for many, many years.//

It doesn't pay to look too far back into the past, though: they massacred entire cities, back then.

[237SJ]

This sort of thing is always part of everyday life where airports are concerned and always has been. You see something suspicious and it`s "everybody out"

[ToraToraTora]

"Disruption is a small price to pay for safety. " - no it isn't, bombs and bullets are nothing compared to what we do to ourselves. Terrorists win if we disrupt our own way of life.

[douglas9401]

Safety first, fair enough, but what's the story with 'controlled explosions'?

It was an air rifle and a knife found to be dumped, no your most obvious bomb shaped items. Could they not just be picked out of the bin?

[retrocop]

In the world of terrorism and bomb planting there is a "come on" ploy. I suffered loss of hearing on one such bomb.
Police officer looks in bin and sees an air rifle and a knife. The officer will grab those at his peril. "What LIES BENEATH? A spring loaded booby trapped bomb. Best leave the experts make informed decisions how and where they use controlled explosions and not the arm chair Generals eh.

[anotheoldgit]

Would one be classed as paranoid or even Islamophbic if they felt rather uncomfortable seeing a Burka clad person in one's local supermarket?

[retrocop]

Mr aog
Always have done!!! Long before ISIL.Hideous. Not natural and not necessary unless they are ALL pug ugly.!!!!

[ummmm]

Mikey...9/11 is part of this scale!

[THECORBYLOON]

ANOTHEOLGIT I would say "one" was paranoid and "one" was Islamaphobic if "one" were uncomfortable at seeing someone in a burka.

[Togo]

//I would say "one" was paranoid and "one" was Islamaphobic if "one" were uncomfortable at seeing someone in a burka//
No consideration for where "one" happened to see someone in a burka then?
St Pauls? Ladbrokes? Rock concert? On your doorstep?