42 Days Later - Part One
It's been an eventful few days in the world of terror from my perspective.
On Tuesday, on a jolly little jaunt in to London, I was alarmed to be stopped by the thin blue line of the Metropolitan Police and their Community Support Officers at my friendly local Northwood Tube Station.
I was informed that 'the force' were stopping people under the terrorism act.
I don't consider myself to have the stereotypical suicide bomber look, but in the case of Richard Reid - as the US State Department recently pointed out - there is no stereotypical look. This is especially true from an untrained eye I imagine; how could an ordinary James WJ like me identify such a creature.
Now my second thought was if I was a suicide bomber in my blazer and jeans ensemble, I would have just blown a community support officer up. Why are the community support officers on the front line? If the hardest working element of the police were to be liquified then who would walk the beat? Law and order would break down, whilst the official police would be left shooting each other.
On Tuesday, on a jolly little jaunt in to London, I was alarmed to be stopped by the thin blue line of the Metropolitan Police and their Community Support Officers at my friendly local Northwood Tube Station.
I was informed that 'the force' were stopping people under the terrorism act.
I don't consider myself to have the stereotypical suicide bomber look, but in the case of Richard Reid - as the US State Department recently pointed out - there is no stereotypical look. This is especially true from an untrained eye I imagine; how could an ordinary James WJ like me identify such a creature.
Now my second thought was if I was a suicide bomber in my blazer and jeans ensemble, I would have just blown a community support officer up. Why are the community support officers on the front line? If the hardest working element of the police were to be liquified then who would walk the beat? Law and order would break down, whilst the official police would be left shooting each other.
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