We're All Going to Die and There's Nothing We Can Do About It

At least that's the message that seems to be coming out this morning. Apparently, the UK is top of the Al Qaeda hit list and that it's only a matter of time before they strike again.








The claim is that the July 7th bombings in London were "just the beginning" and that "complex cells" of terrorists are working under one "master cell" that will bring down Western society to a crumbling wreck.

Yet again we have fancy scaremongering from Downing Street. Just from reading the article, you get the impression that these "warnings" have just been made up by someone as they were stood in the shower this morning.
Interestingly, the statement comes only a week or so after some bad publicity about the Government's ID card proposal, an idea which they believe would stop terrorism and make everything fine and dandy again.
Yep, according to Blair and Co, ID cards are the solution. OK, so the terrorists that attacked London last Summer were legitimate UK residents and would have been able to legally obtain an ID card anyway, but apart from that, ID cards are the solution to all of life's problems.

So scaremongering is the order of the day. I only wish we had cool, simple to understand colour-coded warnings like the US do.
I don't deny that we live in dangerous times but at the same time, I'm sceptical of the notion that every inner-city suburb in the UK has an underground network of extremists wanting to cause mass destruction. Terrorism has always existed, so why is it suddenly a major problem today?

Is anyone else not quite buying into this new "terror threat"?