Well UK, It must be fun living in a real life "V For Vandetta". Drones unleashed

[Danny Ocean]

How does this make ANY sense?

What? Global warming or spy planes?

 

[Numb1lp]

Look, if it cuts down on crime in this crime filled country then it's ok by me.

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty
to purchase a little Temporary Safety,
deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."- Benjamin Franklin
I don't think the govt. has the right to spy on it's citizens, but just call me a crazy American, I guess.

So why was the Patriot Act passed?

What? Just because it was passed means I agree with it. I don't make the legislation in my country.

Very true - it just bugs me when Americans use that quote to say how "Orwellian" the UK is, when their own country passes similar, if not more extreme, domestic surveillance measures.

We live in an age of paranoia. People don't trust anybody, which isn't that bad of an idea.

 

[Standby]

By Daily Mail Reporter

That's British slang for "This is most likely not even based on facts".

As the comedian Russell Howard puts it, the average Daily Mail headline is:
"DON'T GO OUTSIDE! It's full of queers, blacks and crime! Oh, if only Diana were here."

Which shows exactly how seriously that paper should be taken.

This statement is as accurate as Russell Howard is Unfunny.

Which is very.

 

[Trivun]

Interestingly enough BAE Systems have come under a lot of fire here in Leeds recently among students, because they keep advertising with our university for internship programs and graduate placements, and because they're an arms manufacturer a lot of students have been complaining and demanding that they not be allowed on campus...

Anyway, this doesn't surprise me in the slightest. personally though I wish the Government would crawl under a rock and die, and let actual competent people take over who care about Mr. Joe Bloggs on the street and not the criminals. As if that'll ever happen...

 

[MrDarkling]

By Daily Mail Reporter

No :I
Their news is mostly over the top and incorrect.

 

[DeathWyrmNexus]

I'm basically waiting for this to happen in the US as well. Then I'll don a Guy Fawkes mask and probably confuse everybody before I am shot as a dissident.

 

[Chechosaurus]

How does this make ANY sense?

What? Global warming or spy planes?

The fact that our government rages on about global warming, jacks up the price of fuel, says we need to fly less and then decides that we should put loads of planes in the sly. It's kind of hypocritical really.

 

[Dauntlessidiot]

damned BAE systems have sold out our country!

Oh well, timeto pack my bags and move to canada then...

 

[Zykon TheLich]

Real life V for Vendetta or 1984? HA! Ahahahaha. HA! HAHAHAHAHA! Hohoho. Excuse me while I wipe a tear from my eye. That's as moronic as the Brits who assume you can't walk down the street in the US without being shot or the FBI come and take you away if you say anything Un-
American over the phone or online.

Seriously, it really really helps a lot if you actually live in the place you are commenting on, otherwise there's a good chance you are going to be talking utter bullshit.

 

[Dauntlessidiot]

They'll probably leave all the tapes on a train again.

lol, they probably will do that, I managed to get me a laptop that way [joke (better be careful what I say now, eh?)]

but really, haven't they got enough surveilance on us already?
Im just quoting from memory (wich is like a goldfish's memory) but wasn't it one CCTV camera to every 4 people at the last count or somthing? I would think thats enough, heck, they even took allour fingerprints down at our school. and Why arent the British army getting any of the money for these 'military' style drones, I mean the british army ar comprised of THe squad, THE truck, THE helicopter, THE tank (under repair in brighton), THE boat, and THE plane (also uder repair).

 

[Brotherofwill]

Even if this is the Daily Mail, I could totally see this happening.

The direction a lot of Western nations are headed in is troublesome to say the least. Anyone remember the 'let civilians control surveillance cameras for money' news some time ago? Security paranoia is the worst thing to hit the Western world since facism.

 

[Shinotama]

The sad thing is that this is believable, but again I won't believe this until it hits mainstream news

 

[madmatt]

i was worried until i saw
"By Daily Mail Reporter"
most people in the uk know just how reliable this source is. Which is a good thing, because if it were true I would have a fit

 

[pope 1337]

finally i have a use for the mini nuke launcher i keep in my garage TO THE ROOFTOPS

 

[scornedbythenine]

Military-style spy planes 'to be used to target civilians in the UK'

By Daily Mail Reporter

I read there and stopped. Nothing good has ever come from that source.

Also wouldn't 1984 be a better choice than V for Vendetta? It's simpler, easily recognizable, and these situations are referred to as "Orwellian."

same...
did you know the sun published this first (another unreliable paper who's first headline was "double decker bus found on moon")

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

During an international event like the Olympics I would hope they'd step up security.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

How much longer till we have mall security bots?
"DO NOT PANIC, THE MALL IS NOW CLOSING."
*pew pew pew*

 

[Treblaine]

Wouldn't it be better to have these deployed in... oh I don't know... THE WARZONES WHERE OUR TROOPS ARE ACTUALLY FIGHTING!?!?!?!

Who cares about some fly tipping when some talibani mother fucker is fly tipping an IED right next to a well used road?!?

Then again this is the Daily Mail and they have told absolute bare faced lies as long as it cons a couple millions outraged people to part with their pennies. If this is a complex civilian based training operation then I'd have to say that is bloody clever, now it only they could direct a guided missile onto the fly tippers then the whole situation would be perfect