Tom Ridge, U.S. terrorist threat, in London.
Mick2 | 08.11.2002 14:13
To celebrate the visit of Homeland Security boss Tom Ridge to London, the Home Office attempted to terrorise the British population with dire warnings of dirty bombs and poison gas, then retracted after an hour.
Tom Ridge's U.K. visit, aimed at provoking fear and loathing to justify the New World War, was given a boost by
the slavish grovelling and scare mongering of Jack Straw's
Home Office. As Ridge, one of the key players in American domestic warmongering, addressed the Centre for Defence Studies at Kings College, London, the Home Office distributed a draft document raising the spectre of nuclear and gas attacks on U.K. soil. This text, whilst full of caveats such as "we cannot be sure" and "maybe" mentions dirty bombs, gas and "conventional" terrorists attacks as being possible things that "we can be sure ("fanatical extremists") will try". It was withdrawn an hour after it's release, presumably because it consisted of little more than speculation. Ridge's speech promised "casualties in the thousands or tens of thousands" as the result of such attacks. Is this a realistic assessment or psyops/psychological warefare aimed at terrorising us into being led blindly into an unjust, terrorist war?
the slavish grovelling and scare mongering of Jack Straw's
Home Office. As Ridge, one of the key players in American domestic warmongering, addressed the Centre for Defence Studies at Kings College, London, the Home Office distributed a draft document raising the spectre of nuclear and gas attacks on U.K. soil. This text, whilst full of caveats such as "we cannot be sure" and "maybe" mentions dirty bombs, gas and "conventional" terrorists attacks as being possible things that "we can be sure ("fanatical extremists") will try". It was withdrawn an hour after it's release, presumably because it consisted of little more than speculation. Ridge's speech promised "casualties in the thousands or tens of thousands" as the result of such attacks. Is this a realistic assessment or psyops/psychological warefare aimed at terrorising us into being led blindly into an unjust, terrorist war?
Mick2
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