The destruction of the world trade centre has global implications that will affect everyone. The tragic events of tuesday have spurred NATO into declaring a state of war for all member states against an as yet unidentified enemy.

While the finger of blame is being pointed at osama bin laden there is a strong call going out for increased security, surveillance and policing for the whole of the western world. A BBC journalist reported that there would very likely be increased police attention towards dissident political groups. A country at war has no time for disagreement.

We could find ourselves in a few weeks or months in a large scale war against large parts of the arab world and suffering a major clampdown by the authorities on home soil. If this ever becomes the case, how will we react?

There is also likely to be a very large race issue since the press have been stoking the fire for months now, this could be enough to trigger far more racist attacks and/or more sympathy for the bnp and nf.

These things have to be discussed, the world is changing very rapidly and we don't want to be caught out.