Originally Posted by
Globaliser
I mean, just WTF does someone like him know about counter-terrorism? He's in a different field altogether.
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As for the people who actually do the counter-terrorism stuff day in and day out, their record of success speaks for itself.
He isn't claiming to know everything about counter-terrorism - he is simply making a point about a particular part of the process which as far as I can see is absolutely indisputable. But I am happy to be proven wrong if you would care to address his point rather than dive straight into the "ad hominem" attacks.
And I'm afraid the absence of terrorist attacks does not in itself say anything at all about the success of counter-terrorist "specialists". If you had any understanding of logic that would be obvious to you. Is there some other "record of success" that I'm missing apart from locking up lots of innocent people, inconveniencing millions more and failing in the very few cases they do get to court?
The only major success I can see is to get large proportions of the population to acquiesce to "government by fear".
And finally, I would be absolutely astonished if BT isn't very closely involved in "counter-terrorism" at many levels.