Is our country really a safer place to live.. To hold a sports event we are now committing an awful lot of our military capability which might suggest our government disagrees with that suggestion. If Argentina really wants to play games then wait a few months and occupy Gibraltar.. We do not have so much as a spare row boat to defend that peninsula, help yourself..
Are we seriously considering shooting down aircraft over the most densely populated area of Great Britain? Has anyone stopped to think about what we are doing? We are already committing a significant number of our front line RAF aircraft along with the largest warship in the Royal Navy. No doubt there will be other Naval assets playing silly fools off of the South-East coast, there are even silly reports of using 'depth charges' if the need were to arise. Hundreds, if not thousands of troops to carry out so called security duties, are we going to have Challenger tanks driving round the M25 looking for suspect vehicles. Rapier missiles with the military acting as security for the operating crews and then no doubt the police acting as security for the military.. It is madness.. Here in Devon we are sending hundreds of Police Officers up to the capital to assist with these games so how many other forces will also deplete their own police service just so London can hold these games?
A few days ago the Queen and Prince Philip paid a much appreciated visit to the city of Exeter. Yes she had security but none of this crazy nonsense we are reading about in our press, both the Queen and her husband went 'walk-about' shaking the hands of dozens of total strangers, none of which had been searched and most were carrying large bags. There surely must come a time when we ask ourselves what are we doing?? If the security service deems it safe for our Queen to walk the streets of our cities without the need for Typhoon aircraft, aircraft carriers, rapier missiles, Royal Marines and crikeys knows what else, then surely it should be safe for Mr Joe Bloggs competing in the Olympic Air pistol event to safely walk our streets?
Is the aim of the terrorist to inflict terror, be it physical, or psychological pressure? How many hours, be that hundreds of thousands, or millions of hours have there been in the planning of this sports meeting? How much money has there been spent on just the security side of holding an athletics meeting? Has the terrorist already struck and indeed won? The terrorist has not so much as said boo and yet here we are flooding our capital with military hardware 'just in case'
I totally accept we all have a duty to protect the population, but there comes a time when we have to say enough is enough!! Are we seriously going to shoot down ANY type of aircraft over the capital?
What about these Typhoon aircraft towing a banner that states 'Follow me to waste ground so I can shoot you down' Of course this would have to be in multiple languages otherwise the Politically correct brigade would be crying foul, but at least it would avoid a downed aircraft from falling on the Palace of Westminster (House of Commons)
At least if this was done it would be good training as after the games were over these aircraft could then tow other types of banner
