enjoying the festival
enjoying the shade
orderly departure
deserted field
disgruntle
resignation
bomb dog
I have no idea of the nature of the threat or what if anything was found.
The festival was just gearing up to be a fantastic day out the weather was ideal and the atmosphere very relaxed. A great day made a lot odder than one would have thought.
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What really happened ?
11.07.2005 11:14
Debbie Mahmoufdieh
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Try Again
11.07.2005 16:18
Kathy
Let's enjoy the paranoia
11.07.2005 19:25
Reality Theorist
Explanations, they're all plausible
15.07.2005 08:12
It was kids mucking about
It was gangsters causing trouble
It was a right wing organisation reacting to the London bombs
It was the continuing Al-Quaida threat
It was a police training exercise
Who knows what the truth is however we can all see that every one of these reasons is at least as credible as the official reason ie that a bomb threat that had to be taken seriously had been made.
We all know that the police world wide have failed to stop terrorist attacks in New York, Madrid and now London precisely because no warning was given so the fact that one was given already makes me suspect that there is something different about this compared to real bomb attacks. The police clearly feel they have to act because "if the threat were real not to would be irresponsible" but we have to ask how can they really separate the true warning from the blatant hoax. The answer is they can't and they don't, the result is that the public are treated as cattle for their own saftey. This has happened in Birmingham Sheffield and probably elsewhere (after all Abbeyfield park never made the national news so how many other scares haven't). We have to ask ourselves are we ready to take the risks associated with these threats. On Sunday I for one would have, there is very little that could have been said down a phone line that could have convinced me to clear a park without some real evidence, something more dangerous than an empty bag would have had to be found for me to stop the festival. It is important that we force the police to justify their actions else we will be for ever treated as cattle and have our days out ruined.
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