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7 Responses on Bomb Scare in Glascote

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  By Stuart Wootton at February 2nd, 2010

  Surely if somebody wanted to blow somewhere up, they’d pick a slightly better location than a petrol station, maybe an oil refinery? It is all just blatant paranoia, people didn’t panic like this for the IRA and they shouldn’t panic now.

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  By Bec at February 2nd, 2010

  I agree, and the latest terrorist scare stories are designed by governments to keep its citizens under control by the use of fear.

  And of course, as has come out in the Iraq war inquiry, we wouldn’t even have this level of terrorist threat if a couple of war criminals hadn’t decided to invade Iraq.

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  By kat avery at February 2nd, 2010

  Is this got something to do with all the goings on in greenheart, amington? Because the police have been here since 3am sunday morning and still havent gone.

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  By Warren at February 2nd, 2010

  I don’t think this was something dreamed up by the government to keep us under control.. Why on earth would they pick Tamworth?

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  By Henrik at February 3rd, 2010

  All this was strange anyway. As I a couple weeks ago, spoke to one of the ladies working at the garage. Saying 2-3 younger people were sneaking around outside and inside, like they were planning something….wonder if its got any connection.
  I thought a robbery had happened, and was a bit shocked when driving past monday night after work..
  But no matter what. We cant feel safe anywhere, there are crazy people everywhere in the world
  And yes off course it seems like panic situation, but you never know in the world we live in today, even in a city like Tamworth

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  By Bec at February 3rd, 2010

  Warren, I wasn’t referring to this specific indecent, I was replying to Stuart Wootton’s comment “It is all just blatant paranoia, people didn’t panic like this for the IRA and they shouldn’t panic now”.

  And his statement is absolutely true, If you watch the BBC2 documentary ‘The Power of Nightmares’, you soon realise how the government manipulates our fears to keep us in check.

  Remember the armoured cars and tanks outside one of the London airports, because the government said ’some’ terrorists had a surface to air missile and were going to shoot down a plane?
  How is a tank going to stop a surface to air missile?, and what happened to this hyped up threat? It was simply propaganda to try and justify an illegal war and state sponsored mass murder.

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  By mark stables at February 17th, 2010

  i was in one of those tanks at heathrow. back in the 90’s we used to deploy to heathrow on a regular basis to support the airport police when threats had been made against el al airlines from isreal. the standard response to any threat at heathrow (or gatwick) was a troop of armoured vehicles and a number of infantry. the armoured vehicles obviously were there for show of force and hence a deterrent. unfortunately in this instance the dust was blown off the instructions for action required for threat at heathrow and we were deployed before anyone realised it was no longer effective.