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Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday May 24 2017, @03:13PM   Printer-friendly

n1 writes:

For the first time in 10 years, the Prime Minister said the terror threat had been raised to the highest possible level, from 
severe to critical, meaning an attack 
is "expected imminently".

[...] Mrs May also announced that troops would replace police officers at set-piece events including sports venues and concerts.

It will be the first time since 2003 – when the Government reacted to a plot to bring down an airliner – that troops are deployed on the streets.

[...] It is the first time Britain has been on maximum terrorist alert since 2007, when a blazing car loaded with gas canisters was driven into Glasgow Airport.

Source: The Telegraph

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by bob_super on Wednesday May 24 2017, @04:39PM (2 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday May 24 2017, @04:39PM (#514920)

    TSA is security theater. European military guys with automatic weapons have already stopped a few assholes, as in Paris (Louvre, Champs Elysees, Airport).
    If you're gonna pay them to train for a conventional war which isn't tomorrow, you might as well make them do something useful.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 25 2017, @02:25PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 25 2017, @02:25PM (#515470)

    There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

    - Commander Adama, Battlestar Galactica

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday May 25 2017, @04:21PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Thursday May 25 2017, @04:21PM (#515534)

      Shouldn't we quote the show writer, not the character?

      There's a standard US confusion in your reply, because US cops are always heavily armed when "serving", and so many are former or wannabe military.

      Those European military guys perform no police duties whatsoever, outside of protecting people in the event of an immediate danger. They are not trained for policing, and do not want to get involved in any justify-your-actions paperwork, unless they absolutely have to put a stop to a situation to save lives.

      More importantly, why do you believe the Italian military grunts would want to obey orders to treat their own people as the enemy? Europeans don't have that insane US relationship to their own government.