How afraid are you about the recent terror alerts in the news?

Question

The main one being that the threat to Britain is high.

'Echoing a warning last week by the head of domestic spy agency MI5, Reid said authorities were aware of 30 active terrorist plots.'

Source:- Yahoo!

To Fidget, if you go onto Yahoo.co.uk. it's in the list of todays news. So I am not scaremongering as you put it.

Answer 1

Sadly what will be will be - there is no point wasting your life in worrying about things that might or might not happen . Just be aware - be alert and thats all we can do xxx

Answer 2

The threat may be high but I understand that Al Qaeda are to launch a terrorists charter in the new year according to a Al-Jazeera television report which I saw tonight.
Apparently in the charter they are looking to gain more support for attacks in the UK by agreeing to only attack Government buildings, Police offices and local council instead of innocent commuters.
A spokesperson for Al Qaeda explained that a new tactic had been sought out due to the fact the "British Government doesn't care enough for it's people and we need a new policy that will rock the egg's of the civilised world"
The British Government doesn't make deals with terrorists but will the British public is the question from Al-Jazeera tonight.

Answer 3

The Prisonplanet article has not extra helping info than we've been shown on the alleged plot. attempt as i'd, i won't discover something to represent that ability explosive gadgets have been discovered on that Boston flight -properly none that i'd certainly describe as information sources. The mum or dad article helps the view that the protection amenities at the instant are not one hundred% precise one hundred% of the time. besides the certainty that, i'd quite they err on the component of warning - otherwise we would have yet another 7/7 style attack. needless to say, you look to forget the certainty that those bombs interior the underground went off killing fifty two human beings and injuring 800. If that doesn't hint at probable terror plots, i don't be attentive to what does. As for the timings, properly learn the BBC article under which shows yet another motives for the timings of activities. yet another concept only as possible if not extra so than your individual.

Answer 4

Not at all.
As for referencing Yahoo and saying that you are not scaremongering - no you aren't but others may be. It is in the interst of the media to create "end of the world is nigh" stories on a regular and stupidly irritating basis. Last year it was bird flu that would transmogrify into a human pandemic that would kill all of us...and there were about 6 cases - worldwide.
The investigations and terror incidents alluded to may well be there but it lacks a lot of fact and enormous amount of detail and statistically terror incidents while creating more fear and media headlines have killed a tiny proportion of people compared with for instance stabbings, shootings, mugging, assault, al;cohol, smoking, car crashes etc etc.
Live the life live on

Answer 5

I know one shouldn't answer a question with a question, but, is it a coincidence that those 2 announcements were made within days (hours) of the Queen's speech, in which she announced that her government proposes to introduce yet more "anti terror" legislation, including the one time abandoned 90 day detention period, and also the dreaded, and truly frighteningly costly, identity cards that we actually don't need?

Answer 6

As there is nothing I can do against it but hope, then I don't spend time either worrying or being afraid. There are more serious threats to life and limb out there and not a lot I can do about them either.

live for today! tomorrow never comes!

Answer 7

Read 1984 by George Orwell.

If you have done so, do it again and pay attention this time.

The chance to be harmed by a terrorist attack is so ridiculously negligible that no sane person should be worrying about it too much.

The current breed of politicians in developped countries are discovering waht tyrants and tin point dictators have known for long time: fear is the ally of the powerful.

It is up to you, citizens of free countries, to give the cold shoulder to all this fear mongering.

Answer 8

You've just got to live with it. The Irish did it for years during The Troubles, the Americans have trouble daily with terrorist alerts.

Carry on your daily life as normal. I do.

Answer 9

NOT AT ALL.. if you pay too much attention to these things you'd never leave the house... let the people who are paid to worry about these things do the worrying and just get on with a normal life.

Answer 10

I don't like to see the amount of publicity we are giving to terrorist, I dont think the media helps by giving them so much air time, That makes one battle those cowardly bombers are winning by trying to scare us and we are playing their game.