Originally Posted by SilsoeSid
Blimey, what is it with you lot? It's like listening to Shami Chakrabarti.
You say that like it's a bad thing? Why?
Originally Posted by SilsoeSid
I guess you don't wear seat belts, just incase you can't get out of the vehicle after the crash,
I always wear a seat belt (except when reversing as a) is my right and b) chesty substances make it awkward
Originally Posted by SilsoeSid
or you use mobile phones while driving simply because when flying you can talk on the radio, read a map and fly all at the same time and you have decided that the mobile phone regulations are an unreasonable and un-enforceable!
My Pprune strapline indicates "hovering and talking" ... and the realisation that,at a time, the two tasks were not mutually compatible.
However, Silsoe hun, the examples you are quoting are LAW. Current LAW. However, if something is not LAW, why should anyone follow it? I believe it is my right, as an Anglo/Irish(wo)man, to go and do and say what I want provided it is not against the LAW. I do not see why (especially as I have grown up with terrorism) I need to prove who I am to those who ARE NOT recognised Government officials.
Originally Posted by SilsoeSid
You may well be 'not doing anything dodgy'. But how on Earth is anyone talking to you, watching you, serving you tea, to know that?
Magna Carta ... innocent until proven guilty ...and if the wee lass pouring me a pint in the White Horse needs to know that I come from a long line of Northern Irish terrorists, what's she going to do??
Now Silsoe Sid ... I KNOW that I am providing you with heaps of ammo here ... but why not take a step back and really think about what you're writing? It seems to me to be a knee -jerk reaction without thinking about the implications?
In my current employment we have had certain intelligence that terrorist threats during the Olympics will come from outside the Olympic region i.e the North. However, none of the measures that have been written about here would curb any such terrorist activity.
C'mon guys ... we have all lived with terrorism for decades, and none of the measures made recently have made a whole helluva lot of difference. Why not learn from the past rather than simplying imposing rules that may, or may not, cover a Government Official's arse?
Cheers
Whirls