{"id":393,"date":"2006-08-10T23:55:37","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T23:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=393"},"modified":"2006-08-10T23:56:58","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T23:56:58","slug":"new-labour-new-airport-pr-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"New Labour New Airport PR stunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

It should be a cause for concern that only hours before the latest greatest ‘foiled terror plot’ (a dusted-off rehash of Operation Bojinka)<\/a>, Home Secretary John Reid was proclaiming in another <\/span>speech<\/a> to Labour think-tank Demos, that traditional liberty was old fashioned and had to make way for whatever fanatical social realignment Gordon Brown and Blair desired.<\/p>\n

To add a dash of New Labour-flavoured pretext to this dangerous nonsense, was the statement that another terrorist plot was effectively imminent:<\/p>\n

“The hyperactive home secretary – who will mark 100 days in the job this Friday – confirmed that a terrorist attack on the UK was “highly likely”, as signalled by the current “severe” warning on official government websites”<\/span> Guardian<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Could it be that former-communist Reid, one of Blair’s favourite multi-purpose attack dogs, reshuffled into position as Home Secretary, swapping out former-communist Clarke after Labour’s rightly disastrous May council elections, was not clairvoyant put merely refering to the political\/security timetable, arranging his speech (or adjusting the content of it) just pre-arrests and resulting kerfuffle at airports accordingly to an operation he knew was imminent ?<\/p>\n

As Home Secretary, it seems difficult to imagine that Reid would not have been aware of what was behind the ‘severe’ warning (which had been fed out into the press in recent days).<\/p>\n

Today “..Reid, said such an attack could have caused civilian casualties on an “unprecedented scale”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed, but it seems it was quite under control:<\/p>\n

“A decision was made to move suddenly following months of surveillance […] <\/span>There were no firm indications of plans for an attack to have been carried out today<\/u>, but the US homeland security secretary, Michael Chertoff, said it was a “well advanced” scheme. He said the plot was based in Britain but was “international in scope”.<\/span><\/p>\n

So let’s get this straight. A well advanced ‘plot’ which had been under surveillence for months, and which there are no firm indications it was being enacted today, is rounded up the day after Reid’s speech telling people to give up their liberty because another terrorist event was imminent.<\/p>\n

“The decision to take action was made with the “full knowledge” of Tony Blair, the prime minister, who is abroad on holiday but has been in constant contact with ministers about the unfolding events and spoke to president Bush overnight about the situation”<\/span><\/p>\n

As such, the event has been spectacularly successful in wiping Israel’s now escalating ground invasion<\/a> of Lebanon, rubber-stamped by a vacationing Blair, off the front pages. […]<\/p>\n

http:\/\/jultra.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Jultra!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It should be a cause for concern that only hours before the latest greatest ‘foiled terror plot’ (a dusted-off rehash of Operation Bojinka), Home Secretary John Reid was proclaiming in another speech to Labour think-tank Demos, that traditional liberty was old fashioned and had to make way for whatever fanatical social realignment Gordon Brown and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}