Tuesday, 14 June 2011

BT Police - armed and dangerous?



I have been investigating the internet edition of the London Evening Standard.

Someone has come up with the bright idea of having armed BT Police on the Underground network so that terrorists cannot come on to the network and blow everyone to kingdom come. This intrinsically sensible sounding idea is alright until you come to consider how every passenger is considered to be a terrorist and not just the terrorist themselves. Yes, the terrorist could be you and every member of railway staff on all the TOCs plus TFL is made aware of that fact.

So when you de-train from your broken down train at Woking, or elsewhere and start to walk down the track and find a police officer in a flak jacket gazing fondly down his Heckler and Koch at your goodself, remember that you are thought of as the terrorist.

Dont send to ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

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