Bag's Rants

Where do we draw the line?

Read this article on the limited protection we can put on the railways and thought to myself, 'What is the point of even doing this?'.

Let's face it, terrorists are going to take the easiest targets and have already shown they see the rail network a viable target. If we can't protect them then what has all the funding and resources been going on. Aircraft have been protected for many years. They have a limited area where unsophisticated attacks can take place and can easily be secured. Railways on the other hand have thousands of miles of infrastructure that would cost billions to protect.

Even if they could protect this then the terrorists will just move on to buses and car bombs or in the last instance suicide bombers like in the Gaza strip.

Are we going to end up having to pay for scanners outside every door so anyone walking in can be scanned.

It's looking more and more like the old gun ban scenario. Let's legislate for something that will be mainly ineffective. At least we can say we did something. The politicians dilemma.

The only ones really protected in this country are the Politicians who got us into this.

posted by Bag @ 9:02 pm