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What a waste of money this is. If you have no criminal convictions and have never committed a crime you would have no problems giving your finger prints at the roadside, however if you have a criminal history or have recently committed an offence, then you would not give it, and the police have no power what so ever to insist that you have to give it to them. So you still would have to go to the station if the police felt that you were hiding anything. Utter madness and another waste of public money.
@Mr Bigstuff wrote:
He was plotting to use radioactive bombs to spread terror on both sides of the Atlantic. 40 years is a very fair sentence and it’s judges who pass sentences not politicians.
Well i am quite amazed how this topic has turned out and how it has led on to other topics. I am in agreement that this man should be locked up for his and our own protection, but still feel 40 years minimum is far too long. I just also wanted to correct Mr Bigstuff on his assumptions that he was planning to let off radioactive bombs on both sides of the Atlantic. This is quite correct that he had intended on setting of radioactive bombs or dirty bombs as the government and media like to portray them, but what the media has somehow forgotten to mention is how he intended to build these bombs and how effective they are. He intended to get the radioactive material from Smoke alarms as they have a very small amount of radiation in them. It was calculated that he would have to aquire between 2.5 million and 5 million smoke alarms. Now the practicalities alone make this questionable if he really intended to go along with this plan. He would have to strip each one and somehow make the bomb small enough to fit in a car or lorry, then there is the small practicality of making it transportable. If he somehow succeded by himself in buying between 2.5 and 5 million smoke alarms, strip each one down individually and then made a bomb small enough to move around easily and set it of in London for example, it would cause very minimum damage. A study was carried out 3 years ago, it was shown on BBC 2 around that time, where they got 3 nuclear scientist and some bomb disposal experts. Some from the government others independant. When they had concluded there evidence together, it showed that if a nuclear bomb or dirty bomb went off in London that the effect would be minimal, and states most of the death that did occure would be people panicking trying to get away. The main risk of a dirty bomb is an increase in cancer later on in life. The increases depend on where you were in relation to the blast. If you were within 5km your increase chance of cancer rises to 0.1%, if you are within 1km it increases to 1%, and if you were within 500 meters and spent more than 2 days in the same area your chances would increase to 1 in 7 people getting cancer. The national average that this country gets today. So when the term Dirty Bomb is used by the media or government it is purely used as a scare tactic. A lot of people imagine another Hiroshima when these bombs go off, when actually it is nothing like that at all. There are long term affects to peoples health using dirty bombs from cancer, but you would have to stay within the effected area for many days and not get any sort of treatment. There is no evidence to suggest that a dirty bomb would kill thousands of people in one go. It is a scare tactic used by many goverments around the world including ours. Here is the link to the program that i mention about the dirty bomb and you to can come to your own conclusions, of the word dirty bomb and its true meaning and effect. http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/dirtybomb.shtml There are 4 pages to summarise the program with different scenarios, including one from Trafalgar Square. I am not being disrespectful to Mr Bigstuff, it is just that i thought a true meaning of the word Dirty Bomb should be advocated here.
I have noticed over the last few years we seem to have two summers in the one. It is nice and warm in June and July, then its gets wet and windy, until mid to late August when the weather get warm and sunny again till the end of September begining of October
Mr B, i have to take my hat of to you. It is not often that you see such a good and unbiased argument. You have done good work here, and hopefully someone will read all you have said and see things from a Palestinian side of things for a change.
I have been an organ donor for years, and are registered to give any part of my body that they want, apart from me eyes. They are coming to the grave with me. The rest of it, they can have. I will not be needing it lol. And i hope that just one person may get a better life, from my death. As for blood donations, i go each year when they turn up to our local Tesco store. I might need it myself one day.
bran
