There was an excellent article on
The Register about this.
The short of it is, there are no liquids which oxidise like typical explosives that can cause explosions to bring planes down. It is complete and utter bollocks, designed entirely to put the fear into people.
Lets look at it from another perspective, and assume that liquid explosives are entirely feasible and a real threat to airline security.
You used to get through the airport security screening process quite quickly, where you maybe spent a couple of hours waiting and shopping etc. You're in a safe zone with everyone else who has been screened at a basic level.
The way it is now - with the advanced security measures, you are spending that time OUTSIDE of the safe zone, queuing with hundreds of other people who have not been screened at all. If I was a terrorist and I wanted to cause a huge loss of life - I would detonate myself in the queue before any security guy has seen me. I could walk in with dynamite strapped around the outside of my body (like a stereotypical Die Hard terrorist) and I couldn't be stopped. I'm in a public area, with a high density area of people.
If anything, the new measures put us all at a greater risk.
Planes are not special, and aren't really a massive target - they are an emotional target - since people generally are slightly nervous and aware that they are travelling in way which depends entirely on the mechanics and physics of a plane. People know that if something goes wrong and there is a crisis on a plane their number is generally up. It's not like you slow down and come to a halt if the engines fail like in a car or a bus.
The London bombings where co-ordinated around the G8 summit because every man and his dog was aware of the huge security operation going on in Gleneagles. They targeted a capital cities infrastructure just like the Madrid bombings.
A terrorist injects terror and fear into the population, and makes them doubt the very things they take for granted on a daily basis, like transport. The UK Goverment implements security measures at the airports so they strike the bus and underground. We spend £millions on bus and underground security measures, and so they blow up a shopping center. We secure a shoping center with a few more £million, and they start attacking theatres and schools (like in Russian with Chechen terrorists).
Repeat, rinse and scare the crap out of everybody.
It is endless, impossible to defend - and is costing every single tax paying person in this country a lot of money. Money that SHOULD be spent on existing problems like health care and hospitals, education and schools, transport infrastucture - railways, roads and motorways.
At some point there has to be a correction in the UK's economy which is currently propped up by overpriced housing, buy-to-let entrepreneurs and mass immigration. The UKs manufacturing industries have gone, our service industries (like call centers and tech support) have gone. We don't produce anything, we don't provide anything - and yet Average Joe is up to his eyeballs in debt.
We need a different approach - we need to stop being emotionally manipulated by the goverment and the media, and we need to find the root cause of the problem. If we are being targeted by terrorists - why is that? How did we get into that situation? Is it jealously of our "freedom" and westernised culture? I don't think it is. I believe it's because we've gone roaming around the world with our Yank cowboy partners killing hundreds of thousands of people in the name of peace and freedom.
No, we should not ever, ever, ever give in or support terrorism.
But the UK does support terrorism (directly and indirectly) when it suits us, we help to fund Israel, we fund and depend upon the USA. We have to depend upon them because we have never had any nuclear deterrrent that we can call our own, we have to lease the stuff from America and thus have become the equivilent of a New York small business that pays for mafia style protection. We are no better that Al-Qaeda, or the IRA, or any of the other thousands of terror groups which exist and will always exist.
I'd like to think that if (hypothetically) we were invaded by Iraq, our country all but destroyed, our goverment over turned and most of our troops and police killed - that the citizens in this country would stand up and fight against the enemy - the people who have invaded and mutilated us and our children.
And I don't understand why the majority of people don't see it the other way around. As long as their Sky TV works and feeds them shitty exported TV series 24/7, as long as they can order 2 kilos of grease to be delivered through their letterbox by a kid on a dominos pizza scooter, as long as they can read the dumb ass media stories that
we are righteous and have done nothing wrong - why care or even question what we are told?
Historically people only revolt when they are oppressed and desperate. And in the current climate I can't see this ever happening. The more deaths and suffering we cause in conflicts abroad, the more future generations will be born to be our enemy. We are making things significantly worse for our own future generations - all in the name of short term profit, power and control.
The western world is a fucking disgrace.
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good going there goverment of UK 
