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Still trying to create a climate of fear. In this I think this is the police rather than the govt doing this. Raising fear levels allows them to justify their budgets in a time of contraction.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Aug 11th, 2010 at 05:03:20 PM EST
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While I accept the notion that 'conspiracy' is overused, it's always useful to propose alternative motivations. I live in the smoke and mirrors world, and the disjunct between the overt message and the internal reality are every day occurrences.

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Aug 11th, 2010 at 05:17:13 PM EST
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could you expand on this please?
by njh on Wed Aug 11th, 2010 at 07:17:47 PM EST
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  1. do they understand what a "false positive" is?
  2. do they know their history? Do they really want to be used by neighbors involved in bitter petty disputes?


Wind power
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Aug 12th, 2010 at 03:55:47 AM EST
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Increasingly, cash is deprecated, as you know...

The US didn't give a rat's arse about money laundering regulations until somebody flew a couple of planes into a couple of prominent buildings...

Then again, the call to "report your neighbour" is troubling, but the UK is a country where as a result of IRA bombing campaigns there were no rubbish bins on the streets in Central London and airport announcements tell you that unattended baggage "will be removed and may be destroyed"...

By laying out pros and cons we risk inducing people to join the debate, and losing control of a process that only we fully understand. - Alan Greenspan

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Aug 12th, 2010 at 04:41:15 AM EST
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