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Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, yesterday pledged to end the "secret, behind closed doors" approach to tackling terrorism as the government prepared to launch a fresh strategy this week. A new 60,000-strong civilian force, including security guards at shopping centres and hotel workers, will be hailed as one of the most important instruments in confronting the terrorist threat. [...] "We're clear that if we're going to address the threat from terrorism, we need to do that alongside the 60,000 people that we're now training up to respond to a terrorist threat, in everywhere from our shopping centres to our hotels.
"The approach we are taking tackles the immediate threat through the relentless pursuit of terrorists and disruption of their plots, builds up our defences against attacks and our resilience to deal with them, and addresses the longer term causes - understanding what leads people to become radicalised, so we can stop the process."
It kinda reminds me of Nazi Germany. What do you guys think?
Yes, I agree. Be a good citizen and turn in your neighbor. What is crazy is that with all this talk of terrorism, prevention of terrorism, terror alerts, protection from terrorism, war on terrorism.... I find myself much more afraid of what our governments have in store for us than what the terrorists are planning.
Trust me from someone who has lived it, if your monitored 24/7 your life is a nighmare, you cannot do anything, and they decide who you talk too, which is absolute crazy.
Originally posted by Matter
reply to post by andy1033
Trust me from someone who has lived it, if your monitored 24/7 your life is a nighmare, you cannot do anything, and they decide who you talk too, which is absolute crazy.
I would be interested to hear about your experiences. In what way were you involved?
A new 60,000-strong civilian force