Author Topic: Ever get the feeling... (Read 250 times)

Hortlund · « **on:** February 11, 2003, 09:07:19 AM »

..that they know something they arent telling us?

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A total of 450 troops have joined 1,000 extra police officers in patrolling Heathrow Airport as part of a tightening of security at sites across the capital.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2747677.stm

Toad · « **Reply #1 on:** February 11, 2003, 09:23:34 AM »

I just can't understand why they don't publish everything they know and give us hourly updates on the television.

We demand and deserve the right to know exactly what the government knows about the terrorists and the exact positioning and shift change times of our anti-terrorism forces!

Sometimes it almost seems folks are that foolish.

Maverick · « **Reply #2 on:** February 11, 2003, 12:51:11 PM »

Toad,

You are far closer to the mark than you know. More than once a suspect has been able to tune into the news and see the positions Officers were taking on a barricade situation. The media wants to do pretty much the same thing in the middle east if hostilities break out. Then we can all see just what and where things are happening real time. saddumb won't need any satelite intel, cnn, fox, abc, cbs, etc. will provide it.

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #3 on:** February 11, 2003, 12:53:24 PM »

For some reason I expected this thread to hit 30 posts when I got back from lunch.

Dowding · « **Reply #4 on:** February 11, 2003, 02:35:07 PM »

I think we should go back to the media controls used in WW1. The first day of the Battle of the Somme was reported as a 'great success', but conveniently overlooked the 20,000 British dead and the 30,000 wounded for about 3 inches of ground gained. Everything was going swimmingly, and it was just a coincidence that whole streets would be missing a father, a son, an uncle.

Clearly a balance has to be struck.