I posted this on the Thom Hartman site www.thomhartmann.com site I decided to post it here as well.




Posted 02 July 2007 10:00
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/6257846.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6261076.stm


I have been holding back on this but I cannot hold back much any longer. In addition to Hartmann's
blog I post on the site. www.billybragg.co.uk.
As many of you know, there were two incidents involving car bombs in the UK
It appears the Police and M5 did their job identifying and preventing real destruction. But the real significant fact is what diden't happen Widespread panic. PM Gordon Brown called for calm. Police Officials asked for Vigilance. The opposing Tory Party praised the Police and did not use this incident as political folder.
In the USA, Fox Five would be going out their way to scare the "crap out of us" Politicians like Rudy Guliani would be all over the place exploiting this to the MAX.
Republicans would be blaming Democrats
and the reverse Hilary would be out there coming up with some position statement about terrorism
I think the Brits have a lot to teach us

"The best way to fight terrorism is Don't allow yourself to be terrorized" Salman Rushdie


"a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason."