Posted on 05/23/2017 1:52:18 PM PDT by onemiddleamerican
The UK's terror threat level has been raised from severe to critical, meaning an attack is considered imminent.
Prime Minister Theresa May announced the decision from Downing Street.
The move means that military personnel could be deployed to support armed police officers.
"It is a possibility that we cannot ignore that there a wider group of individuals linked to this attack," Mrs May said.
She said that the threat level was under constant review.
"The change in the threat level means there will be additional support available to the police as they work to keep us safe," she said.
I see this idea floated from time to time here.
I’d like to think we have a fighting chance, but we don’t.
They can literally call in a strike on us from the other side of the planet, firing from 50,000 feet.
I don’t care what you have in your arsenal, it’s not going to make a hill of beans worth of difference after the first few days.
Continuing to import sources of terrorism is a critical error.
That would only result in them taking the money and coming back sorta like repeated enlistment in the Union Army, deserting and getting another enlistment bonus ad infinitum.
That only happens in a Banana Republic and Trump is no Emperor. Rome’s methods are not compatible with our constitution, yet.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3554652/posts?page=76#76
Thanks for that screen cap, numberonepal !
Ping to screencap mentioning another group of Terr o ists.
Remember playing it in college Outside venue with fireworks. They decided to use the ROTC artillery at appropriate time. Vibrations shattered windows all over campus !
I don't know you're referring to, but any missle launched upon the U.S. will be tracked back to its point of origin before it even lands here.
That origin point will be hit so hard by counter strikes, every seismometer on the planet will record it. Sure, "they'd" do some damage to us, but their country would be gone.
Sad to see you joining the surrender lobby. Never figured you for that type.
PM Theresa May raises UK threat level to ‘critical’>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Wow! An unarmed populace gets to cower in fear behind their Victorian lace curtains?
Now about closing down all of the hate filled madrassas that are training British Muslims to kill all infidels in the West and establish a world wide caliphate?
Just turn Manchester United soccer fans on them!
Meetings have been held to discuss the response to numerous moments of national emergency, the most recent one prior to Tuesday taking place in response to the March 22 Westminster terrorist attack. “It is a way of ensuring you have got security, intelligence, police, emergency services, whoever you need for the nature of the crisis itself, brought together in one place and communicating very rapidly with one another,” Lord Turnbull, formerly a senior civil servant, told the BBC.
What?
They should go to “ludicrous” alert.
I recall reading that quite a few German fathers had no impact when trying to turn them away from nazi ideology.
Might be wrong.
We will have to cancel all performamces of the 1812 Overture, and also all Christmastime performances of the “Nutcracker” ballet.
We can’t let them Russkies subvert our nation!
Really dumb. The threat level WAS critical right before the attack - they just didn’t know it.
Like the people who say that the world changed the morning of 9/11 2001. Wrong. The world HAD already changed - they just didn’t know it.
Not really. We would not allow them re-entry.
You’re missing the whole point.
Who is our biggest enemy in this nation. Russia? China? The fools on Capital Hill and in the White House?
Do you think for two seconds Obama wouldn’t have called air-strikes on Conservatives if we had taken to the streets in a militaristic way?
Our government executes airstrikes from around the world on an almost daily, if not daily basis.
What I am trying to convey, is that the time has come when it’s essentially impossible to use our weapons to affect change. How do you stop the attacks from 50,000 feet, when it’s your own guys doing it?
As for me being a part of the surrender lobby, as a leader there are times when you have to caution your folks from walking into a complete suicide mission.
American service members are not going to drop bombs on their own fellow citizens. They'd kill the guy issuing that order, first.
If the military were such unthinking automatons, Obama would have already used them to overthrow the country.
JimRob is a Navy vet. Why don't you ask him if he would have ever fired on Americans if ordered to do so? How about asking the rest of the vets here, or active duty Freepers? Your assertion is paranoid and ridiculous, Doughty.
That's why they want DREAMERS to become soldiers, they won't have such loyalty.
Do you remember Waco?
Evidently not.
Do you remember the Weavers?
Evidently not.
You need to give this more thought.
As if Dreamers will ever make up a large enough percentage in the general ranks to pose that sort of threat. Never happen. Don't forget that even Dreamers have friends and family amongst the citizenry.
What of their fellow soldiers who wouldn't obey such urders? You think the traitors would be safe from them? And what of the chain of command that would forward such treasonous orders to the general ranks? Do you really think they'd survive the ensuing mutiny? They would not, and they know it.
This sort of talk is a slap in the face to our military folks, who (by and large) are better people than the keyboard jockeys who sit here slandering those who put their lives on the line to preserve their freedom.
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