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March 23, 2009
Brave New World
Sixty thousand staff working in UK transportation, shopping centres and public buildings are to be trained as amateur terrorist-watchers.
There are fears they will swamp the police and security services with spurious alerts or single out law-abiding British Muslims, which could also inflame religious tensions.
Also inflaming religious tensions, British Muslims massacring their fellow citizens at home and Her Majesty's armed forces abroad.
Not that I am in favour of the scheme. Until recently, we used to call armed, vigilant citizens "the general public". These days you can be entrusted with the responsibility to report on your neighbours to Big Brother but heaven forbid you should be entrusted with a firearm to protect yourself from them (your neighbours or Her Majesty's government).
Posted by Ghost of a flea at March 23, 2009 06:47 AM
