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
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @04:44PM (3 children)
Obviously mistakes were made in the past, like letting his parents into the country, granting automatic citizenship to anyone born in your country, etc. All these are counter to self-preservation of you and your culture. As a first generation immigrant I feel the pull of my homeland everyday. It's naive to think people coming to another country will assimilate. I love my new country, but I will never love it even a third as much as my homeland. Luckily my culture and the culture of my new home are not too different. There is plenty of differences, don't get me wrong, but they are not as big as me thinking I can rape any woman I see alone.
I only pray my children will grow up to love their ancestral home even half as much as I do, it will take work on my part, but that is my duty.
Maybe UK can't walk this one back, but other countries have not made the same mistakes, and should not start now. Learn from this.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Wednesday May 24 2017, @05:07PM (2 children)
Your ideas are not without precedent. Australia is very cautious about admitting refugees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_affair [wikipedia.org]
Qatar is very cautious about granting citizenship:
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Qatar [wikipedia.org]
Adoption of such policies in response to terrorism would rightly be perceived as a success by the terrorists.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @06:29PM (1 child)
Of course, they would be! For a while there, all the immigrants were criminals!
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday May 24 2017, @11:47PM
That includes both the convicts AND their gaolers.
http://www.therocks.com/the-new-south-wales-marine-corps-and-new-south-wales-corps-1788-1809/ [therocks.com]
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex