About a year ago, when the British intelligence services ‘discovered'
a so-called terrorist Ricin factory in the kitchen of a London flat,
there were suddenly hundreds of ex-military gas masks for sale on
Ebay. They changed hands for £100 (nearly $200) each and taxi-cab
drivers and couriers wouldn't go into the city without one. So,
while the UK government was whipping up a frenzy of panic about
chemical-laden Islamic terrorists in our midst, they were at the same
time disposing of tens of thousands of perfectly serviceable Chemical
& Biological masks from military stores throughout the country at a
fraction of their cost to the taxpayer, into the private sector.
Shouldn't these have been officially distributed to, for example,
tube train staff and essential workers in the city, rather than sold
to private entrepreneurs?
And now, while propagating a whispering campaign about ‘dirty bombs'
on the London tube or massive attacks on central London, they are
simultaneously selling off tens of thousands of modern, perfectly
serviceable PDRM82 personal radiation detectors from Home Office
depots and other sources all around the country. (The ‘82' referring
to 1982 being the year they were designed, I suppose) These, too,
are turning up in private hands on Ebay etc ( see, for example
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6518430217&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT
(where there is, incidentally, a link to the manufacturers website
(I think) which will give you some idea of how current these things
still are). With the demise of any sort of Civil Defence
organization in Britain, should not this equipment, too, have
cascaded down to the emergency services in London or to those
civilians involved in mundane, key jobs that keep them daily in the
city? Perhaps the Tube environment is continuously monitored anyway
for background radiation, maybe from naturally occurring Radon gas?
The selling-off of the remaining emergency reserve of fire engines
(really basic fire-trucks, the 1950s Green Goddesses have seen the
UK through a number of crises in recent decades) is another pointer to
duplicitous thinking by the British government. (See:
http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/detail.asp?cat=General%20News&id=5310736
We're told continually that the western world has never been under
greater threat, yet an im****tant element of national protection that
costs NEXT TO NOTHING TO MAINTAIN, is being disposed of, certainly
not for financial benefit to the nation because it's unlikely the
return will cover the cost of disposal.
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