Most of us woke up this morning to news that theUK had raised its terror threat level from ‘substantial’ to ‘severe.’ Considering the competence and trustworthiness of the nation’s Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, there must be some specific threat they’re concerned about to justify instilling fear in a population of 65 million. Nope.
Although the new threat level rates the risk of an attack on the UK to ‘highly likely,’ Home Secretary Theresa May stated that ‘there was no evidence to suggest one was imminent.’ Well then.
It makes you wonder if the the change in threat level is being used in part to justify the extraordinary $80 million sum spent on building a fortress around the Newport and Cardiff city centers in Wales, which many are describing as ‘similar to the Berlin Wall,’ or a ‘zoo,’ in an unprecedented display of protection for many of the world’s most corrupt politicians.
The BBC reports that:
This post was published at Liberty Blitzkrieg on Aug 29, 2014.
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