Maybe I'm Weird...

[forsyth]

But when I see a news story about British police arresting a bunch of would-be terrorists after having them under survelliance for six months, I take that as a good thing, and a reason to be less scared, rather than a reason to be more frightened. But some people seem to take it as a moment of "HOLY SHIT PEOPLE WANT TO KILL US!" and think that means there's terrorists under every bush. No. There's not. There's a very small percentage of people who are willing to do this kind of thing and have the means to do anything. At least as long as they have other options, or we haven't say, killed all of their family by bombing.

Especially when the last "Terrorist threat" that the British police broke up was a bunch of guys who were going to blow us all up with liquid binary explosives that would take hours and extreme cold to mix in a very smelly way, with chemicals they didn't even have yet.

Here's the BBC's take, make sure you read the bit at the end.
And here's breathless fearmongering over at Bizarro world. Warning, the comments over at RedState are completely disconnected from reality.
And here's a bit of breathless fearmongering about the government from a different source.

My guess? I can't guess on the truth of the actual claimed plot until more info comes out. But I'm confident that the danger's been hyped. Terrorists are not going to kill you in your beds. Sleep well, citizens.

Comments

[thaeus]

Your reaction is pretty much the same as mine a year ago when the RCMP busted a terrorist group in Ontario that was planning to blow up Parliament and behead the Prime Minister. Is it scary that people would think of doing such a thing? Yes. But they were caught; the system worked.