Tightening security is what it's all about, it would seem. And why not, since it hasn't seemed to be such an imperative up until now. The question is, how many times does a country have to be targeted and done harm by before it begins to sit up and notice that somehow they've managed to be rather lax on the home security front...?
Britain's new prime minister has been handed a real hot potato. He's already been initiated into the burnt-hand syndrome of lack of due diligence in favour of ducking the head and playing political correctness long beyond the time when it's been indicated the disease has set in and has begun to metastasize.
Britons don't panic, though. They grit their teeth and deal with the situation. First on the terrorist agenda, successful home-grown attacks, and shock and horror set in that citizens who have been privileged to live in a free country with no artificially discriminatory boundaries holding back freedoms and achievement would attack the hand that fed it.
And then a generous and kindly (or self-serving and predatory, take your pick) system that permits medical professionals trained abroad to receive scant scrutiny but grand acclaim in their place in a badly underfunded and under-serviced health care system, would signal their willingness to disrupt, maim and murder as thanks for permission to live in a free society.
But then we're dealing with the passions of the spirit here, subsuming all other interests as being merely that of human existence, no challenge for the sublime servicing of Allah's will. His will be done, by worshipful adherents whose piety is not to be questioned by an obscenely corrupt secular democratic society that eschews God's presence in all things.
To counter the heavy balance of absorbing so many now-unknown-potentials for fanatical Islamism, Mr. Brown turns to the intelligence-gathering communities within his own and other countries, urging the necessity to share data, to warn of the imminence of danger, to share names, places, dates, conspiratorial cells of murderous intent.
"I want the system which we are trying to implement in Europe, a system for known potential terrorist suspects, expanded to other countries", he announced with great forethought. This man is really on the ball, it's clear for all to see, he's been exercising the grey matter, reaching conclusions, formulating plans of action.
Now here's an interesting situation, an unfortunate situation. In the face of sloppy oversight, leading to the introduction of potential terror-bent fanatics - young Muslim men posing themselves as students involved in academia - converging on British institutes of higher learning to burnish and enhance their educations.
Student visas handed out liberally, but somehow many students somehow managing to forget why they entered the country and imagine that, not showing up for classes. "If someone does not show up for their course and explain immediately, their visas should be cancelled at once. It's an appalling loophole that the government has to deal with urgently," suggests a Tory MP.
Yes, it most certainly is. What have all these well-remunerated bureaucrats been overlooking? Ah, that and a whole lot more. For example, intelligence agents in Britain have not seen merit in the habit of checking potential immigrants against an existing global database of terror suspects. Whose fault is that?
And yet Prime Minister Brown tetchily suggests vital data has not been forthcoming.
Seek and thee shall find.
For Interpol's secretary general, Ronald Noble has indicated that his international policing agency has recorded passport numbers, fingerprints and photographs of more than 11,000 suspected terrorists on its database, freely available for the use of policing agents worldwide.
Britain, it would appear, has not taken the elementary cautionary step of checking entrants against the list.
Oops.
Labels: Terrorism, World Crises
posted by Pieface @ Monday, July 09, 2007
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