In the days after the 7/7 bombings it was more common than not to hear Londoners speak in stoic terms about the terrorist atrocities which claimed 52 lives.
"I'm not going to change anything about the way I go about my life", people would say, "if I did that it would be letting the terrorists win".
Sadly, this spirit of stoicism doesn't appear to have extended to the mandarins at Northamptonshire County Council.
According to the Metro this morning, the parents of 100,000 schoolchildren in the county have received letters from headteachers advising them of the risk of terrorism associated with visting the capital. London is, the letters explain, at "severe" risk of a terrorist attack.
The scaremongering tactics of Northamptonshire County Council are wholly irresponsible; injecting an element of fear into the traditional school day trip to London and placing an unfair burden of worry on parents. What kind of a word do we live in when a school day trip to the British Museum or such like comes with a "terrorism warning"?
This looks like a case of an overzealous civil servant, but it has nothing whatever to do with abuse of civil liberties.
Posted by: Sati Pera | 13/10/2010 at 02:36 PM
Sati, not sure i agree with your statement.
If you have this type of information put in front of you for long enough you will begin to believe it. You will then be more willing to accept 'measures' in order to make things 'safer'.
i doubt very much those reebok air shoes will make your bum nice and slim, but by god after watching those adverts i sure wish my wife would buy a pair
Posted by: mrmovie | 13/10/2010 at 02:54 PM