It was about a year after the bombings (when I was also at Liverpool Street) and I would like to see someone get a bomb that was dangerous to anything more than a frog in my satchel. I would also suggest random bag searches are a pretty poor way to stop potential bombings.
However, my point was more that in the olden days the police had to have a good reason for searching you, fingerprinting you, etc whereas now (as evidenced by the ad campaign) everyone is a potential terrorist, all the time, and must be treated as such.
I don't think we are living in a police state either. However I can't see why we need new legislation or emergency powers. Maybe you right and they do actually prevent terrorism and are only used in specific circumstances. I'm not convinced though.
Things like randomly searching members of the public and publicity campaigns like this strike me as at best useless and waste of resources and at worst divisive and fearmongering.
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Date: 2008-03-05 04:06 pm (UTC)However, my point was more that in the olden days the police had to have a good reason for searching you, fingerprinting you, etc whereas now (as evidenced by the ad campaign) everyone is a potential terrorist, all the time, and must be treated as such.
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Date: 2008-03-05 07:40 pm (UTC)Things like randomly searching members of the public and publicity campaigns like this strike me as at best useless and waste of resources and at worst divisive and fearmongering.