Reply #101: "With you on this"? No. Sorry, but that's a ridiculous idea. [View All]

[Spider Jerusalem]

There may be cameras everywhere; that doesn't mean all of the camera footage is watched live. Four men with rucksacks packed with explosives; well, you know, quite a few people getting on the Tube are going to be carrying bags of one sort or another. Does that mean they're ALL supposed to be automatic suspects? Or that those few out of millions who pose an actual threat ought to be spotted immediately? The powers of the police are many and various, but I doubt they extend to clairvoyance.

And the idea that this was in any way a "distraction" is laughable, anyway. If some sinister and shadowy intelligence organisation WERE attempting to create an event that would distract media attention from something happening in the US, would the US not be the logical place to do it? New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, or Washington would me MUCH better locations than London.

There's nothing wrong with a bit of healthy paranoia, but there's such a thing as carrying it too far.