FBI at the Olympics

[andy at handiwork]

Cant imagine the US would allow another country to send 1000 (presumably armed) police to an American sited olympics. And I bet they saddle London with the cost.

[Sam Slater]

Well, us silly Brits have no experience of hosting large sporting events or dealing with terrorism!

[David Johnson]

Doesn't look like it is going to be a friendly games with 21,000 security guards including potentially thousands of armed American guards.

Not excluding of course the deployment of surface to air missiles.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15724639

Hopefully, they could fire the surface to air missiles during the opening and closing ceremonies. Something different!! Huh, you Chinese think you can lay on a great ceremony, kop this for a firework display.

My suggestion would be that they blow up Slough for a finale. It could do with rebuilding.

Cheers
D

[spider]

Thank you John Betjeman.



Why do we continue to kid ourselves that we are a sovereign, independent country?

Why can't we just admit that the Yanks own our asses?

Th unwashed go on about European influence on the British way of life and Government and I don't understand it.

I can't see the French or Germans insisting on sending thousand of their Policemen to "help" us out.

[Robches]

Maybe the fact that French and German cops are tooled up, and ours have little sticks, has influenced the Americans? I'm sure they see unarmed policemen as some sort of Pythonesque joke.

[David Johnson]

As the link shows the person who asked the new Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond the question bringing forth the detail about SAMs was one, Liam Fox.

I assume Fox is lining up his ever present mate, Adam Werrity to set up a few BOGOF deals on SAMs and Cruise missiles with the UK government.

Every little helps!

Cheers
D

[David Johnson]

Exactly.

And having spent 6 months working in Slough once on a contract, I know exactly how he feels.

Cheers
D

[frankthring]

Well, David, we can all agree that obliterating Slough wouldn`t be so
bad....
I have thought for yonks that the Games are a terrorist`s dream and
a security man`s nightmare. They seem to me so easy to disrupt in so
ways. Even an anonymous phone call to the media or authorities could
cause untold disruption and panic.
And the Yanks with their security obsession are a pain in the ass. Once
they knee-jerked reacted to 911 and set up the huge and costly
Homeland Security Dept, on top of the FBI, CIA and numerous smaller
defence agencies, they have to be "seen" to be doing something just to
explain away all this expenditure.
They seem to think its OK to extradite Brits to the States for crimes, but
not Americans to the UK...and they seem to think they can walk
roughshod over a foreign power`s own rights to organise its internal
security.
They swank around the globe like the own it and then wonder why so
many countries loathe them.

[Robches]

"They seem to think its OK to extradite Brits to the States for crimes, but
not Americans to the UK...and they seem to think they can walk
roughshod over a foreign power`s own rights to organise its internal
security."

It's only "OK" because the British government allows it. Does any other country have such a one sided extradition treaty? If armed FBI agents are based in London, again, it will be because the British government allows it.

[Arginald Valleywater]

Which is exactly why the 2012 games (or the regeneration of London at every other fuckers expense) has very little interest outside the South East.