tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254362504495980377.post77600482398881678..comments2024-03-20T12:03:26.126+00:00Comments on Thin Pinstriped Line: Thoughts on the tragedy in WoolwichSir Humphreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08704774192275240783noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254362504495980377.post-68778523387070583242013-07-05T20:03:57.250+01:002013-07-05T20:03:57.250+01:00While using a Managed Security provider, it is imp...While using a Managed Security provider, it is important to give them about your existing network, so that they can understand and cater to your needs. <a href="http://www.firstsecurityservices.com/san-francisco-private-security-guards-services/" rel="nofollow">firstsecurityservices.com</a><br />chillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14946596507196302181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254362504495980377.post-79285127781769450342013-05-29T23:14:38.699+01:002013-05-29T23:14:38.699+01:00As somebody long involved in (local)government and...As somebody long involved in (local)government and hence required to deal with the (local)press I have always assumed that politicians and civil servants at national level experienced the press as we did but worse - idle, worthless, drunken self-serving and self-important sh*ts who lacked the courage, wit or application to take on real decision-making but wrote from their deluded belief that they were latter-day Woodwards and Bernsteins who could by definition do anything vastly better than those actually charged with doing it for real...had they not been drawn to the "higher calling" of being the "Tribunes of the People" as journalists(as they saw it)...most of them thought themselves talented enough to be great novelists as well, despite rarely being more than half-literate...and spending their mornings composing fiction at their desks and their afternoons and evenings drinking in the pub.<br /><br />Unfortunately, because they control the press they succeed in peddling the notion of their own infallible cleverness with great success...and conspire together to keep their own lying stupidity out of the public gaze... <br /><br />aka GNBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254362504495980377.post-46796667829260906132013-05-29T16:16:33.456+01:002013-05-29T16:16:33.456+01:00I believe it was Gerry Adams, so feel free to corr...I believe it was Gerry Adams, so feel free to correct me, who when talking about about the IRA bombing campaign said: <br /><br />"we only have to be lucky once" <br /><br />sadly this is still true today. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254362504495980377.post-71635951999911052212013-05-29T14:31:12.660+01:002013-05-29T14:31:12.660+01:00The developing, 'meeja', interest has evol...The developing, 'meeja', interest has evolved quickly, as it does, into a morbid but detailed interest much closer to Sir Humph, who is, above all else, a communicator and a bloody good one.<br />Sir Humph's favourite broadsheet has fastened on Philip Hammond's side swipe at the Treasury over the likely cuts to the defense budget. This oblique reference to non-operational targets puts the MoD's legion of communications staff in the firing line.<br />I recommend Guido Fawkes as required reading for where the axe will surely fall.<br />Politicians absolutely love the lowering of staff numbers.Derek McBridenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254362504495980377.post-86252039247004390052013-05-29T12:59:54.630+01:002013-05-29T12:59:54.630+01:00Not a new problem :
"A lie can travel halfway...Not a new problem :<br />"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."<br /><br />Mark Twain in the 1860s (misquoted by Churchill and Callaghan among others)El Sidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254362504495980377.post-3200151093989845572013-05-27T23:08:39.442+01:002013-05-27T23:08:39.442+01:00Sir Humph is, once gain,mightily exercised by the ...Sir Humph is, once gain,mightily exercised by the attitude of the ,'meeja'. This is a Whitehall phobia born of perceived injustice and lack of a fair hearing. I think this is unfair to the Press.. For eons they have had their tails pulled, their phones tapped, their intelligence insulted, (if I may be permitted a slight hyperbole). They have been palmed off with dossiers of pathetic misinformation, petty D-Notices and lying civil servants and even more lying political idiots. The misdoings of Whitehall have come full circle to the extent that Sir Humph is complaining of the unenlightened<br />media in the same way the Press moaned about the Whitehall smoke and mirror machine.<br />In the same way,perhaps we may look forward to an enlightened Muslim backlash against these horrific acts done in the name of Islam, but I won't hold my breath just yet. Until they do, another attack is probable. We are dealing with insanity here, so rational outcome is no basis for the future role of the security services.<br />Meanwhile, my advice to Sir Humph and his partners in our security network is not to go into the lion's den when they are in a feeding frenzy, after all, this weeks injustice is next week's fish and chip paper.Derek McBridenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254362504495980377.post-39472442335996044142013-05-27T04:52:24.967+01:002013-05-27T04:52:24.967+01:00Excellent post Sir H,
Excellent post Sir H,<br /><br />Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18182426936194426623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254362504495980377.post-39003539174675630982013-05-26T18:47:21.791+01:002013-05-26T18:47:21.791+01:00An excellent analysis, Sir H. The criticism of the...An excellent analysis, Sir H. The criticism of the uniform decision seems to have come from people who have either forgotten, or are ignorant of the fact that it is nothing new.<br />Until it was known that this was a one-off attack it made a great deal of sense. It was rescinded pretty quickly when that became clear.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254362504495980377.post-65689438994345389292013-05-26T18:40:14.592+01:002013-05-26T18:40:14.592+01:00One has to look at the House of Commons Intelligen...One has to look at the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee reports on the various security services. (If you don't now what that is, rewatch the movie Skyfall) There have been cuts tot he security services, and not just due to the austerity plans.<br /><br />It's not wise to quickly point fingers first.Jeneral28https://www.blogger.com/profile/16332640271661260029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254362504495980377.post-68660075949041137462013-05-26T17:18:28.950+01:002013-05-26T17:18:28.950+01:00Amen Sir H, very good shout.
I think people forge...Amen Sir H, very good shout.<br /><br />I think people forget, when they call for the security/police services to 'increase' their efforts, that in order for the services to be 'more successful' significant changes to the public's liberty is required in exchange... to a level that people would rightly find unacceptable. <br /><br />The media coverage is arguably the main target now for such evil minds, it taps into the reaction to the US school shootings; how the experts time and again cite the huge extent of constant media coverage as the main source of 'inspiration' and strive for such evil.<br /><br />As to uniforms, there can still be incidents at garrison/port/airfield towns. I remember the stir caused but the Base commander of RAF Wittering when she decreed that personnel should not wear uniform just because a couple of people complained/spat. <br /><br />Your final paragraph is so solid, alas seems few willing to speak it out on the media :cmikenoreply@blogger.com