I'm suspicious as to whether this was even a real terrorist attack. Months of planning, aquisition of an unregistered car, why would you then cock it up by driving erratically and drawing attention? Why do these things always fail to go off? I'm sure in the coming weeks there will be a call from the polititions for more anti-terrorist regulations...cameras, ID cards, longer detention without trial etc. I'm more scared of the goverment than any terror attacks!
I haven't had much time to watch the TV news, so pretty much all I know is from articles like this.
I love London so much, it is my favorite large city on earth! The thought of anything happening to that wonderful city breaks my heart. Still, the small amount of news coverage I did see seemed very suspicious to me. It all seemed too convenient. I do know they want to pass all their anti-terrorism laws, which is pretty hard to do with no terrorism, so maybe they have to create it.
Last time I was in London was in 2003. I stayed in Kensington and I have to say that the police were complete assholes. I really had several problems with the police. One day I tried to ask one something (directions, I think) and he totally ignored me as though I wasn't there at all and then just walked off. Another time there was a car accident and the police completely freaked out, like they thought there was a bomb in the car and they pretty much told everyone that the car was going to explode (from a bomb), but it turned out to just be a drunk driver who had crashed into a building, he wasn't even Arab and was really quite English. There were a few more strange things I noticed about the police, but I don't really remember now. It all left me with the impression that they were trying to frighten people. Very strange, compared to the police here where I live.
I can see why people are so taken by London, short term it's a great place to visit. To the rest of the UK it seems like a foreign land, it's not typical of the country and the police there especially are a law unto themselves! I used to drive a Merc there a few years ago, picking up and dropping off clients from various meetings and then later clubs, resturants etc. Daytime was OK but as night fell it was a different world. I would watch chauffuers drop clients off at the front entrance of £2000 a night hotels while at the rear people would argue over the cardboard by the bins desparetly trying to keep warm. Any friendly police were replaced with an agressive, bolshy nightshift. 24hr traffic wardens would literally hide and then ticket people while their backs were turned using the cash machines. I saw muggings, car thefts, drug dealing, homeless people brutalised by doormen for just walking past exclusive hotels and not once did the police respond to a call. In the morning the public toilets were cleared of the homeless trying to wash and get ready to face another day on the streets, by burly security guards worried that they would put tourists off. Daylight would bring the familiar 'respectable' London back to life, the under class only just visible out of the corner of your eye...
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I'm suspicious as to whether this was even a real terrorist attack. Months of planning, aquisition of an unregistered car, why would you then cock it up by driving erratically and drawing attention? Why do these things always fail to go off? I'm sure in the coming weeks there will be a call from the polititions for more anti-terrorist regulations...cameras, ID cards, longer detention without trial etc. I'm more scared of the goverment than any terror attacks!
I haven't had much time to watch the TV news, so pretty much all I know is from articles like this.
I love London so much, it is my favorite large city on earth! The thought of anything happening to that wonderful city breaks my heart. Still, the small amount of news coverage I did see seemed very suspicious to me. It all seemed too convenient. I do know they want to pass all their anti-terrorism laws, which is pretty hard to do with no terrorism, so maybe they have to create it.
Last time I was in London was in 2003. I stayed in Kensington and I have to say that the police were complete assholes. I really had several problems with the police. One day I tried to ask one something (directions, I think) and he totally ignored me as though I wasn't there at all and then just walked off. Another time there was a car accident and the police completely freaked out, like they thought there was a bomb in the car and they pretty much told everyone that the car was going to explode (from a bomb), but it turned out to just be a drunk driver who had crashed into a building, he wasn't even Arab and was really quite English. There were a few more strange things I noticed about the police, but I don't really remember now. It all left me with the impression that they were trying to frighten people. Very strange, compared to the police here where I live.
I can see why people are so taken by London, short term it's a great place to visit. To the rest of the UK it seems like a foreign land, it's not typical of the country and the police there especially are a law unto themselves!
I used to drive a Merc there a few years ago, picking up and dropping off clients from various meetings and then later clubs, resturants etc. Daytime was OK but as night fell it was a different world. I would watch chauffuers drop clients off at the front entrance of £2000 a night hotels while at the rear people would argue over the cardboard by the bins desparetly trying to keep warm. Any friendly police were replaced with an agressive, bolshy nightshift. 24hr traffic wardens would literally hide and then ticket people while their backs were turned using the cash machines. I saw muggings, car thefts, drug dealing, homeless people brutalised by doormen for just walking past exclusive hotels and not once did the police respond to a call. In the morning the public toilets were cleared of the homeless trying to wash and get ready to face another day on the streets, by burly security guards worried that they would put tourists off. Daylight would bring the familiar 'respectable' London back to life, the under class only just visible out of the corner of your eye...
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