Friday, November 03, 2006

Sun in "caught fibbing" shock.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

The real question is not why the above story didn't make headline news, but why so many ludicrously impractical schemes of mass destruction by "muslim extremists" do make headline news.

The country is undoubtedly full of people plotting to make Blue Peter style "dirty bombs" out of empy fairy liquid bottles, fertiliser and exotic neurotoxins. Fortunately, the ones that make the headlines never even had the potential to work - if it were that easy, it would have happened already.

Anonymous said...

Becuase the anti-terrorism laws are not there to prevent terrorism or capture terrorists, they are about appearing 'tough' on terrorism.

If there isn't widespread newspaper coverage of a story, there is no need to wheel out terror laws - criminals can be charged with the crime they've actually committed instead.

Anonymous said...

Does Britain have much experience with home-grown terrorism? Here in the States, the government would be coming down on these people with both feet, but we had Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing. It seems like the press didn't pick up the story because the police told them there wasn't actually any planned terrorist activity. One is forced to wonder what point all the stockpiling could possibly have had, then. (Purely defensive in case Britain is invaded, perhaps? Although that may not be so far-fetched given that rampant paranoia seems to be a precondition for BNP membership.)

James said...

Does Britain have much experience with home-grown terrorism?

Britain has a long history of dealing with terrorism from white English-speakers at least, although the question of whether or not it was "domestic" is precisely what all the terrorism was about.

Anonymous said...

Oh, certainly. I wasn't very clear. I actually meant specifically far right lunatics like McVeigh and, apparently, these folks. (The far left lunatics pretty much abandoned terrorism around the mid-70s in the U.S. and the lunatics seem to be on the right these days.)