> you seem to forget I do have some personal experience with counterterrorist incidents
I didn't forget; I didn't know in the first place. Unless you're talking about G8, in which case I think there's something of a difference, but that's neither here nor there since you still would have more experience than me.
> I mean realise the efforts and machinations that do go on
Go on then: what, exactly, are you having to do now that you weren't having to do this time last week? All of the perpetrators of the latest hilarious jape are in custody. The threat assessment has been downgraded again. We are no more at risk now than we have been for the last thirty years—I would say significantly less so: at least the IRA actually knew how to make a bomb that had a chance of going off.
> Don't try and conflate the governance of this country[...] with the Police service's responsibility
I'm trying not to. That's exactly why I want your boys back out on the Grassmarket where I need them and not industriously strip-searching everyone of a vaguely brown complexion.
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Date: 2007-07-05 04:55 pm (UTC)I didn't forget; I didn't know in the first place. Unless you're talking about G8, in which case I think there's something of a difference, but that's neither here nor there since you still would have more experience than me.
> I mean realise the efforts and machinations that do go on
Go on then: what, exactly, are you having to do now that you weren't having to do this time last week? All of the perpetrators of the latest hilarious jape are in custody. The threat assessment has been downgraded again. We are no more at risk now than we have been for the last thirty years—I would say significantly less so: at least the IRA actually knew how to make a bomb that had a chance of going off.
> Don't try and conflate the governance of this country[...] with the Police service's responsibility
I'm trying not to. That's exactly why I want your boys back out on the Grassmarket where I need them and not industriously strip-searching everyone of a vaguely brown complexion.