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Originally Posted by HarryT
What would you suggest as an alternative? That when intelligence services learn that terrorists have devised methods of planting explosives in laptops that can't be detected by current airport scanners that this information should simply be ignored, rather than steps taken to protect the safety of passengers? I'm sorry, but as a frequent flier that seems like an irresponsible course of action to me.
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I'd like governments to act similarly urgently on some of the other things we've learned about terrorism. For example, the way in which terrorism is fueled by a climate of fear and hatred, nationalism and division, poverty and inequality. I'd like certain government to take a much longer, harder look at their own radicalised-Christianist-dude domestic terrorism problem, instead of pretending the threats are all external because it's good for votes (ratings). I'd like governments to recognise the connection between violence in one's personal life (particularly intimate partner violence) as a flag for the potential for wider community violence.
And if we're talking about value for money in saving lives for longer than the next election cycle, I'd like a hell of a lot more attention paid to inequality and healthcare, global reproductive health services and education of girls, and climate change mitigation.
I'd like a lot of things.