Posted: Jun 10, 2013 3:48 pm
Blackadder wrote:A friend of mine who works for the Special Branch ..... informs me that most terrorist plots are foiled by informants and infiltration.
There's a world of difference between the collaborateurs of Nazi occupied France and an informant who helps to stop child abuse, major crime or a terrorist attack.
Oh yes, the old platitudes, the old self-righteousness. It has ever been the way: when THEY do it, it's immoral, evil, vicious; when WE do it, it is moral, for the good of society, kind and at the very worst, the lesser of two evils. Trouble is, if I was an alien from outer space, I'm damned if I could see the difference.
As to the terrorist problem, I'm so very glad that you are comforted by the illusion that informing on and catching terrorists is making society safer or better, or is improving it in any way or, indeed, is doing anything OTHER than exacerbating the problem which is, in fact, what is happening.