Originally Posted by
inOban
I assume that the airport has a perimeter fence which is continuously patrolled and under camera surveillance. Have the security staff been disciplined?
An airfield is extremely difficult to secure. It has a very long perimeter with ample opportunity to enter.
Back in the day the option on a threatened military airfield with limited security personnel was:
1. Put the aeroplanes all together where a small number of armed guards could protect them from a ground attack.
2. Disperse the aeroplanes all around the airfield so that they couldn't all be taken out in one air attack.
Clearly, the present threat is the former but, whilst to a law abiding citizen, an airport/airfield LOOKS secure a determined attack will probably be successful.
SO - those who counsel shooting could have a point. Oh, yes, pretty little Jemima, whose father is a Conservative or Labour life peer, lying there, ripped to bits, will present an agonising picture but shouldn't they have been made aware by the Establishment that this may happen?
I really can't emphasise this enough that it MUST be made crystal clear to misguided young people with not enough to occupy them that, by taking part in harebrained attacks led by people who care not a whit for their welfare, they stand a high chance of being killed or maimed and will never have a partner or children and for what? Absolutely nothing!