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David Hansen

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:45:57 +0000 (UTC) someone who may be
(Nick Leverton) wrote this:-

If the entire police force of a county can't stop a couple of hundred
ravers from getting together in one place to have a party (a confrontation
which still happens in most counties most weekends), I'm not sure how even
the police+army is going to stop millions of people from leaving London.

Indeed. Such ideas may seem fine in television programmes, but it's
difficult to see how to stop human waves. I suppose one could try
using area weapons, like Saddam Hussein did using the weapons of
mass destruction we had sold him against the Iranians, but I suspect
that would simply make the public more determined and I'm not
convinced that most of the police or armed forces have forgotten
that they are not in the SS. Even if the armed forces were withdrawn
from imperial wars overseas I doubt if there would be enough of them
to stop the public in other ways.

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David Hansen, Edinburgh
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