The whole thing is ridiculous, all those people and cars just sitting there, some of which filming it with their stupid mobile phones - doing nothing but standing like mannequins. To add to that we have endless blogs and comments on every news site and every forum known to man of your average joes talking rubbish about something they know nothing about with educations that stretch as far as the television allows. Some of their opinions are shocking like, makes me ashamed to be a human sometimes. Its all - look after our own country and fcuk everyone else mentality. Getting all emotional because it was a soldier and that were supposed to be all proud or shut up. Surely this only adds to the problem. Incidents like these should have limited coverage and kept out the spotlight for the sake of everyone. Extremists like to have their message spread around the world its it certainly has been now. Also not a mention of the 10 year old Afghan boy stabbed in the kidney by a drunk british soldier in 2011, jailed for 10 years this week. I'm doubtful this one was a hoax, but their is very limited info at the moment. I have learned not to believe nothing from mainstream media and nor should anyone.
I see what you mean, and I agree that the mainstream media fuel so many issues.
However, I also think that these 'terrorists' that want the publicity, if ignored, won't stop and will keep getting more and more serious until they do something catastrophic.
There's already news local to me of a Mosque being petrol bombed last night.
I think we just live in a nation that is filled with complete f**king idiots that are incapable of thinking with the slightest bit of logic and have no concept of consequences.
Personally, I don't agree with religion at all, I think it's outdated and unnecessary. But I think everyone's entitled to their opinions, as long as it has no direct affect on myself. And anyone with extreme views on anything can go f**k a lawnmower or something.
This^...the vast majority of suffering and death down through history has been caused by or in the name of religion, the world would be a fairer ..spiritually wealthier and more tolerant place without this morally bankrupt edifice weighing everyones conscience down.
I also agree with this, but not with the original post. If I was there and could have done something about it, I would have. But the fact is that these sickos were wielding ducking meat cleaners! I'll bet my left bollock that the op wouldn't have done anything in that situation! Now if I was one of the Police Officers, I would have had a go. Even with just a baton, it would have offered some protection. And with a good hit from one of them, believe me they wouldn't be able to grip anything for a long time! Problem with the armed response was that they were subject to the same ROE as the MOD staff on the barracks gate were. They were not an imminent (further) threat to human life, so their hands were tied by beaurocratic Bollox until they were charged.
As a serviceman myself, this feels very raw, and makes you think that this could happen to any base anywhere in the country. We were told yesterday morning not to wear uniform off base, then made a swift :-)turn by COP the same day after a lot of complaints, that the only way to defeat terrorists was to carry on as normal. I don't wear uniform outside of work apart from if I'm driving in and out anyway, but this is obviously a very real threat, and always has been as far back as when the IRA were a major issue. Precaution is the only way, however unfortunate it is that we have to resort to it in our own country.
