thomas davison Party Leader
Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 4018 Location: northumberland
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 10:26 am Post subject: DONT RUN FROM TERRORISTS ATTACK THEM |
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PETER HITCHENS: 'Run! Hide! Tell!' Try saying that to Churchill and Nelson
By Peter Hitchens for The Mail on Sunday
PUBLISHED: 01:46, 15 October 2017 | UPDATED: 01:46, 15 October 2017
If you had asked me for a national watchword in my childhood, it would have been along the lines of: 'Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, or close the wall up with our English dead,' or perhaps: 'We shall fight on the beaches,' or possibly: 'England expects that every man will do his duty.'
I suppose, with a sigh, that such things have now passed out of the national mind.
But how miserable that the motto we are now being advised to adopt, when under terrorist attack, is the ghastly police advice of 'Run! Hide! Tell!'
Not only do I feel faintly nauseated by the suggestion that I should run and hide when confronted by evil (I may actually do so, but I will be ashamed of myself if I do) but I also think it is bad advice.
At times of great danger, what you need most of all is calm. It makes you more use, and it stops you infecting other people with panic, or of being infected by it.
How miserable that our current anti-terror slogan is 'Run! Hide! Tell' when we see something not quite right in a public place, says Peter Hitchens +3
How miserable that our current anti-terror slogan is 'Run! Hide! Tell' when we see something not quite right in a public place, says Peter Hitchens
I was worried by one recent episode of real terror when a schoolboy was injured not by the bomb but by the crowd fleeing afterwards.
Did this really fit with our self-congratulation about the Blitz spirit prevailing yet again?
Possibly, calm may even give you the resolve needed to hit back. When authority is squawking at you to run away, it is hard to be calm.
Panic leads to stampedes, and quite often to greater danger than you already face.
Don't we still, in fact, admire those who hit or grab or trip up terrorists, rather than fleeing from them?
Won't we be safer if terrorists know that we might stand up to them? And is headlong flight wise?
If fire breaks out in a building, are we told to run? On the contrary, we are urged to leave in an orderly way.
I was struck by the report in this newspaper of what happened last weekend in London when a car roared into crowds outside the Natural History Museum. We now know this was an accident.
People nearby, quite reasonably, reacted as if it might be terrorism. And they didn't run and hide, to their great credit.
It's not just Corbyn's advisers who have communist links
Former MI5 chief Stella Rimington is exercised about Marxist advisers to Jeremy Corbyn, who in the 1980s wanted to destroy democracy.
No doubt. But did she not notice that Tony Blair himself was a student Trotskyist (a fact he's now finally admitted), Peter Mandelson was a Young Communist, Blair's Defence Secretary John Reid was an Old Communist, and four other Blair Cabinet Ministers have neither denied nor regretted reliable reports of Marxist pasts?
I'd guess there are at least a dozen more we don't know about. Did MI5?
The driver was seized and held before police arrived. Then, one witness recounted: 'The police charged at us shouting, 'Get out of here! Run and don't stop running.'
These police obviously thought the threat had escalated. People started running for their lives.'
Another described how 'there were all these people on Exhibition Road running� people were just panicking and running'.
I am still wondering how much this panicking and running were caused not by the incident, but by the shouted police advice to flee.
You might say that there could have been a bomb, but there wasn't. People could also have been badly hurt in the panic.
We have to get this into proportion, and we have to remember that terrorism is called 'terrorism' because its whole aim is to scare us.
Terror will always surprise us, and it is horrible, but actually it does a very small amount of damage compared with conventional war.
It will not destroy our economy or starve us to death. It only wins if it forces us to change our way of life out of fear of it. We should not do so.
It appears to me that the so called police giving this advice are on the side of the terrorists----------------time for a change then hire ex-service men and women and get rid of these pro-terrorist, pro-muslim so called police |
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