Britian under marshall law

ted bovis | 11.02.2003 10:41

What other role can our troops play?

These tanks and troops being moved to heathrow will be in striking distance to this saturdays anti war demo .They will be moved in if the goverment dosn't like whats going on.Will our goverment be so stupid that it would take on its own upset public?
also will we see a terrorist alert which will lead to arrests quickly linked to iraq over next few days?

ted bovis

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11.02.2003 11:01

ITV news has just reported (11:00am) soldiers are carrying out random stop-and-search on people and vehicles at heathrow. Armed patrols are also apparantly patroling the M25 and 'London'.

you mean 'martial law' peut-etre?

11.02.2003 11:10

The troops at Heathrow are off to the Gulf or Turkey to fight under the famous american general Marshall Law

the might of the police is quite sufficient to maintain order in London without appealing to 'martial law'.

This will be a peaceful and vast demonstration-- and I think it should be clear to everyone who stands to gain from spreading rumours that it will be (a) violent and (b) met with violence.

So just piss off-- or see you in the streets on Saturday

GhostBuster

Now thats what i call paranoid!

11.02.2003 11:17

Clam down mate - what are you on!
I doubt the government/met's move to put troops at heathrow is as straight forward as they make out, ie more to do with raising the fear levels in the run up to war, but come on do you really think they are planning to role tanks out at an anti-war demo!

matilda

hopes for peaceful demo

11.02.2003 12:42

I think and hope the demo will we peaceful but we there may be some elements who dont. Of couse the goverment wont send in tanks butto think the goverment wouldnt be prepaired to do so if they wanted is wrong there is plenty evidence to show they could ,ie the anti war demos from WW1
troops were put on the streets of glasgow,The miners strikes in the 1980s soldiers took part with the police in fact desguised as police, BLOODY SUNDAY IN IRELAND.we should be aware of this but the best way to go is through a MASS PEACEFUL PROTEST WITH AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE ON THE STREETS OF LONDON AND GLASGOW.

ted bovis

Look at my muscles!

11.02.2003 13:11

Meridian local news just reported that there was 'no specific threat' and that the tanks etc... are just a 'precaution' over the Islamic Eid period.

However, Al-Qaeda don't have a track record of attacking on significant dates, far from it in fact. The troops will remain deployed 'as long as is neccessary' according to the reporter.

So, with no specific threat, this is clearly muscle flexing. Who it is aimed at is debatable; Gov say to reassure the public, seems more to scare them.

Regardless, 15th Feb will be bigger than the entire UK armed forces personnel combined.

Peace

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A Joke?

11.02.2003 13:18

WARNING! BRITAIN UNDER MAJOR TERRORIST THREAT ALERT!!!!

Yawn.... I can't say I noticed, walking down Holloway Road, it was an ordinary day, everyone as miserable as ever, slaves to their shopping bags, wishing they were dead anyway and already brain-dead.

Right?

Climate of Fear

11.02.2003 13:48

It's a classic 'climate of fear' move by the establishment
- make the folks who elect (or not) the govt think there is a greater threat than there really is - by putting troops on the streets, & use some bullshit reason (like they have done), the daily (hate) mail & sun readers will all think it's a sign that
there is more of a threat from terrorists, asylum seekers, whoever the govt wants to scapegoat next.
There is no evidence to support their theory that Al-Qaeda will carry out an attack on a specific date - unless you're a conspiracy theorist who believes in the power & significance of the number 11...

So it's convenient for the march on sat - gives the sun readers a chance to let their brain cells stumble into action & think that there is a greater threat to their freedom etc & all these
folks protesting on Saturday are wrong.

If you haven't see Michael Moore's film 'Bowling for Columbine'
then I strongly recommend it - explains the theory behind the 'climate of fear' approach very well (& shows how fuct up america is)

gnome

to "ghostbuster"

11.02.2003 16:06

in fact, "marshall law" might be the more accurate term after all ! lets face it, blair is about to play the sheriff and send in the posse...

wyatt twearp

to "ghostbuster"

11.02.2003 16:06

in fact, "marshall law" might be the more accurate term after all ! lets face it, blair is about to play the sheriff and send in the posse...

wyatt twearp

Tanks are very slow - Heathrow to Centre???

11.02.2003 19:54

er, tanks go quite slowly - it would take them quite a while to get from Heathrow to the centre of London on Saturday !

notankgirl

er, actually

11.02.2003 21:06

Actually scorpion light tanks are 'reconnaisance' tanks with a speed of up to 80 km/h, but lets just hope they don't need to prove it, eh?

Peace - See you Saturday

Scorpion:

http://www.angelfire.com/ga/batwentyone/Armor.html

Further Reminders...

12.02.2003 01:52

Remember that they - and it is always they - have hired a very large fleet of Boeing 747's - apparently for troop movements. How many airports are there close to London where such planes can land? Would the occupants of said airplanes need protection by any chance? Will it definitely be troops on those planes?

Hovis