Every household to get "terror advice"

[Richard M]

An £8m government campaign to help the public prepare for terror attacks and other emergencies is being launched.
Advice booklets will be sent to every UK household and a series of radio and television adverts begins on Monday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3923949.stm

You know, I can't help thinking about the media and government creating fear and paranoia in the way that Michael Moore famously pointed out in Bowling For Columbine...

[Jon M]

Let me guess ..the main advice will be "Duck and Cover"

[TigaSefi]

Hell, that going overboard, even in Israel I never got a leaflet through my door about terrorism. Though saying that, because it more frequent, everyone always had warning signs in the back of their heads and being generally alert all the time.

It is completely unneccessary to waste money on leaflets and the money should be used on training and prevention by the police.

[CaKe]

Living close to Portsmouth Harbour and some kind of fuel/oil depot, every year we get a laminated sheet with what to do in cases of emergency - for radiation leaks, and for the fuel depot :s

Quite scary - tells you where to go to pick up your water supplies, tablets etc, tells you to lock all doors and windows, stay in a room in the middle of the house.

Which is all well and good - but if it wasn't a valid threat to me, it'd be quite a daunting thing to have - it's scary enough now, even knowing that a leak of any kind is quite unlikely.

This new media campaign does smell of scaremongering to me though

Originally Posted by s1lv3r

Let me guess ..the main advice will be "Duck and Cover"

http://www.archive.org/movies/detail...ectionid=19069

There's a whole load more with equally useless advice there as well.

[Marge]

I'll need to get some tins of corned beef in

[Stuart]

I always thought it was funny that people in England (when told anything about nuclear war) were told it would be enough to put duct tape on the Windows. Well, according to my old Physics teacher, who then pointed out that if you use duct tape as protection, you would be burned by superheated air, killed by radiation or simply blown to bits as the wall was destroyed by the blast wave..

What a totally pointless exercise, and a waste of money.

Gotta agree with Richard M. My first thought when I heard this cr@p was, 'I see Tony the Liar is starting the Bush fear tactic'.

If you're number is up, then there is nothing you can do to avoid it.

Eat, Drink and Be Happy. for Tomorrow We Die.

[Richard M]

Originally Posted by Earl of Bronze

Eat, Drink and Be Happy. for Tomorrow We Die.

Do you know something we don't?
cue mass panic
Where's my book, I need to know what to do!

j/k

[Ramrod]

*ramrod ponders where the best location is for the shelter he'll have to dig in his garden*...........New Zealand probably

[downquark1]

I remember Fox News advice for a dirty bomb attack was to stay inside, don't eat drink or breathe anything.

I can see people issuing "how to sow your own radiation suit" pamplets

L'oriel radiation proof face cream, 'because I'm worth it'

Originally Posted by downquark1

I remember Fox News advice for a dirty bomb attack was to stay inside, don't eat drink or breathe anything.

Well that just sums up the idiocy of Fox News

So Foxes advice in the case of a dirty bomb.

1). Die of hunger.

2). Die of thirst.

3). Die of aspixiation. (sp)

Cant half tell they are owned by the news group that brought us great newspapers like, The Sun.

[zoombini]

A clever terrorist would find out who the printers/distributors are, get a job there & put something nasty in with the leaflets....


Ooops, now I've given them the idea.

As with other comments from on the news, these will be read, consigned to the spam corners of the brain & thrown away after being laughed at.


Should I order some corrugated sheeting now or wait until the rush starts?

[downquark1]

Originally Posted by Earl of Bronze

Well that just sums up the idiocy of Fox News

So Foxes advice in the case of a dirty bomb.

1). Die of hunger.

2). Die of thirst.

3). Die of aspixiation. (sp)

Cant half tell they are owned by the news group that brought us great newspapers like, The Sun.

But what are you suppose to do under dirty bomb attack?
This advice is based on the fact that radiation does more damage if it enters the body, and the house can act as minor protection. Obviously the only to be certain of protection is to issue everyone with a radiation suit or a lead shelter.

Once inside shelter how would they rescue you? Lead coated vans?
Would it be simplier just to evacuate yourself in a car and risk exposure?

[andygrif]

Isn't this just a case of scaremongering like the American's have had force fed to them for the past two years?

Making the people beleive there is a real threat is a great way of controlling them. Like getting support for a war for example?

Personally I have more faith in the Great British public than to be sucked into the propaganda.