YerArseInParsley
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Local TV News
Jan 13, 2003, 12:12
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I've got all this information from local TV this morning so apologies for inaccuracies.
Its not on the Trident Ploughshares website yet, but they have blockaded BAe arms factory in Edinburgh today in protest at the Iraqi war.
Also, Greenpeace have reoccupied the Sizewell B Nuclear plant in England to highlight the lax security there.
MI5 have ordered that a fence be built around Mugdock resevoir near Glasgow to prevent terrorists poisoning it.
Lothian & Borders police has written to businesses urging them to vet all staff as potential terrorists.
Congratualtions to Trident Ploughshares and Greenpeace. It is truly scary how many times since 911 that protestors have occupied both nuclear power stations and Trident nuclear submarines, either of which would have catastrophic consequences were they terrorists. These people will be charged as criminals for highlighting the risks we face while the base commanders remain unpunished for risking millions of lives through inadequate security. Personally I blame the politicians for pretending that there is or ever can be adequate security around these bases. At least until the war on terrorism is over, our nuclear bases should be mothballed.
It is also pretty scary that military 'intelligence' think a fence will prevent a determined terrorist from accessing a resevior, or for that matter a determined child. Presumably they don't, presumably the story of the fence is deliberately meant to scare the populace, or just to cover some officials arse in case of such an attack. That would also explain the police advice to screen employees as terrorists, which serves no real purpose than to add to the climate of fear and mistrust - I mean, how many employers would hire people they suspect may be terrorists ?
These four stories show that it is the peace protestors who are highlighting the true dangers our society faces, and the security services that are deliberately panicking the public with their incompetence. Lets see a few less protestors in prison and a few more incompetent security officers and politicians on trial.
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anthonyqkiernan
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Re: Local TV News
Jan 13, 2003, 12:47
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No need to fence off Mugdock. Scottish Water do a decent enough job of poisoning it themselves every now and again. I take it they're not going to suggest the same for loch Katerine (?) as that'd ruin some kinda heritage area?
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Rhiannon
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Re: Local TV News
Jan 13, 2003, 13:46
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I had to go and collect some fish from Oldbury power station (don't ask) last year, and I was amazed by the casual security. I didn't have to prove my identity at all, I could have been anyone. Admittedly I don't know what I could have DONE once I was in there (slapped someone with a fish?) but it did surprise me how I could wander around all over the place without having to produce a pass or anything. If there is anything naughty you can do at a nuclear power plant then getting in would be your first stage, and apparently that's as easy as falling off a log.
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YerArseInParsley
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Re: Local TV News
Jan 13, 2003, 13:55
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One of the Greenpeace protestors said getting into the control room at Sizewell is easier than getting into a Norwich nightclub. I've been knocked back from night clubs around the UK but I was always let in in Norwich. The Sizewell security officer said there was no danger and no damage caused - doh!, they are peace protestors, they weren't there to risk an explosion. And if it was Al-Quaeda in the control room of a nuclear power station?
I just saw on TV the marvellous Jane Tallents from TP protesting at Loch Long, where the Ark Royal is loading munitions. She said we are no better than a dictorship for not allowing a vote on the war.
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YerArseInParsley
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Re: Local TV News
Jan 13, 2003, 13:57
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Agreed, Scottish Water should be a proscribed terrorist organisation - wasn't it there where they allowed sheep to graze causing the cryptosporidium outbreak last year ?
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RiotGibbon
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Mordor
Jan 13, 2003, 13:58
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I once gained entry into the Millbank Tower (home of the Labour Party, the UN etc etc) with only a Tesco rhubarb pie as identification. That was the first thing I pulled out of my bag, and the security waved me through
They're not on sale any more ...
RG
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anthonyqkiernan
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Re: Local TV News
Jan 13, 2003, 14:09
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Yup. And, a year or two back they spilt diesel into it.
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Zastrozzi
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Re: Local TV News
Jan 13, 2003, 14:30
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Yes, but I'm guessing you weren't wearing a turban, brandishing an AK47 and answering 'Allahu Akbar!' to every question at the top of your lungs. Hence you don't qualify as a threat, according to the I-Spy Book Of Ghastly Foreign Johnnies, as issued to MOD, Police, etc etc...
All joking aside, the level of security in UK installations is, and always has been, shit-the-bed useless. I managed to blag a ride on a Hercules once just by showing a press card to an RAF Officer. Wasn't even my card, which I'd left at home.
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RiotGibbon
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Re: Local TV News
Jan 13, 2003, 15:14
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matey fingering his sa-80 outside the barracks in Windsor on Saturday looked pretty tasty though ... after you ...
RG
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Zastrozzi
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Re: Local TV News
Jan 13, 2003, 15:32
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Yeah but they only fire 50% of the time anyway, so you're in with a reasonable chance...
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