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Originally Posted by rogueteens
I don't see what the problem is? We've been having to do this since the 1970's thanks to the IRA (Who, i'm sure you all recall, recieved a lot of funding from american idiots)
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My first thoughts on this were similar - that the UK has had this going on for years.
But what good has it done? A bomb went off in a city centre and everyone was 'on the alert'. A month down the line everyone (apart from the victims and their families) had forgotten and were not checking for 'suspicious packages'. Until the next bomb went off. And so on.
People working in public transport did the 'be alert' course, but they still thought 'it's not going to happen to me' and turned a blind eye to all sorts of suspicious packages. Because any other way would have made transport grind to a halt.
Same with any big meeting place. If you were on the alert constantly it would drive you mad and you'd never go anywhere.
But what has happened is that in the UK (and now it seems the US) the 'threat' of violence is being used to bombard people with 'information' about what they should be looking out for. And to be suspicious of their neighbours.
And that's why the extension of this is wrong. Anywhere.