Terror

[deathboy]

Y'know, two American friends have mentioned to me about the new "foiled terrorist attack" in London (some lame car-bomb).

Absolutely no British people I've spoken to today have mentioned it in the least.

Seriously. We just couldn't give a fuck.

That's how you fight "terror".

Comments

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Oh, they have... 8-)

[gillen.livejournal.com]

Why do you hate America? Is it because of our freedom?

::grin::

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

http://grh.livejournal.com/633249.html?thread=2561441#t2561441

:)

[hughe.livejournal.com]

oh yeh, the car with 60 litres of petrol and some nails on the floor.

60 litres is about a full tanks for a merc. thats a bit suspicious in london. a merc with a full tank.

[stevek.livejournal.com]

thats a bit suspicious in london. a merc with a full tank.

Especially with central London petrol prices!

[squiddity.livejournal.com]

An important point, expressed concisely and with trademark laconicity.

I would link to it, but I don't really care enough.

[danblood.livejournal.com]

there was a what, now?

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

it's been a bit of a talking point in our office, but only really because our street was cordoned off. if it'd been just a few metres further up haymarket we could have had the day off!

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

I'm just round the corner on Suffolk Street and totally failed to *notice* until I tried to walk over to St James' ...

[vagabonds.livejournal.com]

APATHY RULES O..whats the point...

[witchchild]

Wait, what? What about Paris Hilton?

[princealbert.livejournal.com]

Was wee Maddy found in the merc's boot?

[princealbert.livejournal.com]

How we fight terror.
Cop opens door and removes electronics from gas and petrol cannisters.
source:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/29/nbomb829.xml

[untermensch.livejournal.com]

Flowers and candy floss I tell you. Car-nage indeed.

[tbrd.livejournal.com]

It's true. I saw it on the news this morning and went "oh" and went to work, just like everybody else in London.

In the US there would probably have been looting by now and end-of-the-world-is-nigh men in sandwich boards.

[smarriveurr.livejournal.com]

It's times like this I wish I had a paid account... just for that icon that was going around back in the day...

"You're a bit cold? Tea.
Your boyfriend has just left you? Tea.
You've just been told you've got cancer? Tea.
Coordinated terrorist attack on the transport network bringing the city to a grinding halt? TEA DAMMIT!"

But, yeah. You're spot on about the response. The problem in the US is that the terrorists don't have to do a damn thing to destroy the "American Way of Life" - sensationalist news media and an idiot President are all too willing to do all the terrorizing for them.

Hell, I heard this all over American news... turned on BBC World on the way into work today, and it was like "Oh, by the way, yes, carbomb, 60 litres of petrol, yawn... and now to continued in-depth coverage on yesterday's attack by American forces on alleged allies in Iraq."

Priorities. Fuckdamn.

[deviantsaint.livejournal.com]

what can I say, we get bored easily and we like drama.

-Ds

[deviantsaint.livejournal.com]

Apathy.

how british.

-Ds

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

meh :)

[cyberpunkgrrl.livejournal.com]

someone at work was discussing it, and came out with "I wouldn't mind but they always do it on my route into work!"

Which made me laugh ;)

[shiftplusone.livejournal.com]

They've failed to mention the other suspect vehicles they towed away.....quite a few vehicles infact...;)

[aoakley.livejournal.com]

However, a lot of us in Zone 7 have noticed that the government convened the COBRA emergency response team (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4663369.stm) in light of a failed bomb that closed one underground station in London, whilst not doing so for flooding and freak storms that have killed half a dozen people, left tens of thousands homeless, closed national motorways and railway lines and caused billions of pounds of damage in the UK's fourth largest city (see also video of the main bridge into Ludlow collapsed into floodwater (http://www.shropshirestar.co.uk/2007/06/bridge-collapse-video)). The only response? Worcester Fire Brigade installed some new phone lines (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6252058.stm).

Presumably, if we got invaded, unless they actually got inside the M25, we'd just send in Worcester Rugby Club, right? Or Malvern Women's Institute? Wyre Piddle 1st Cub Scouts?

Gordon Brown cut flood defence spending last year.

[thegreatgonzo.livejournal.com]

UK's fourth largest city

Sheffield doesn't like being a city so much, they like acting like a big village, if you ask most people round here they don't want to be doing with the big city ways of your Leeds, Manchester or Liverpool despite being bigger than two of those.

Gordon Brown cut flood defence spending last year.

And virtually all of it went on the over complicated computerised "warning" system than virtually no-one in the most at risk areas knew about or subscribed to.

[drcuriosity]

Reminds me of a time, not long after 11/9, when there was some American lady on the telly saying that people elsewhere in the world don't know what it's like to live in fear of a terrorist attack, that you could visit some shopping mall or post office and have a bomb explode.

A British guy I knew (Liverpudlian, I think) gaped at the screen for a few moments and then proceeded to laugh himself sick. (The woman was from Boston, I think, which only made it all the more ironic...)

[smarriveurr.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, yeah, I remember people going on about that, in the usual egocentric Ami way... and I was like "Uhm... hello, Northern Ireland, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Israel, Sudan, Ethiopia..."

Comparing attacks to population, America had nothing on many nations even after 11/9. Just had to pretend we were the first.

[purplegril.livejournal.com]

I was agreeing with that until they closed off Fleet Street just now right around the corner from work.

Having said that, I'm still carrying on as normal. I just feel ever so slightly worried. Probably less worried than I would be if something really big happened though, like they stole my chocolate :D

[hexadb.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... G8 summit thingy - tube bomb, new PM - car bomb.
Diversionary tactics? "Don't look at what the government are doing! Look out for BOMBS!"

I'm staying away from London around the time of the next general election :P

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

It's totally what I thought, actually. :P

[thegreatgonzo.livejournal.com]

Maybe I am a cynic, but the any really negative comment on the BBC Vox Pop is from someone who works in TV. Even then she says she is more worried about gun crime.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6252788.stm

[deviantsaint.livejournal.com]

worried about gun crime? in england? I thought you banned all of that.

-DS

[intenslycolored.livejournal.com]

I wish our news would shut the fuck up about it.

And everything else for that matter.

Fucking idiots. The lot of them.

[jr06.livejournal.com]

But then how'd you know about what's happening with Paris Hilton???

[steam-doll.livejournal.com]

At this moment I am kind of glad my television is broken.

[disastrid.livejournal.com]

preach on, brother.

[shesmymonkey.livejournal.com]

I had no idea until just now when I read about it on yours and redcountess's ljs. Go apathy, I know I'm 120ish miles from London right now but ... what were we discussing?

[dyfferent.livejournal.com]

We were laughing about it today in the staffroom--because the traffic wardens are more efficient than the cops, they never sleep.