As announced on
the BBC News at 7am this morning, and again published in the online
version of The Sunday Times, the Home Office is to deploy UK troops to power stations around the UK.
The deployment is in response to terror concerns, but is not in response
to any specific threat.
‘Ministers are
considering using soldiers to guard power plants against terrorist attack, it
has emerged. But the Home Office said the review of protection arrangements did
not come in response to any specific terrorist threat against facilities such
as electricity power stations or gas pipelines. The News of the World has named
the gas pipeline facility at Bacton in Norfolk, oil and gas terminals in
Humberside and Grampian, Scotland, and oil refineries at Coryton, Essex, and
Fawley, near Southampton, as locations where troops will be deployed to beef up
security.’
Again, we see the
government keeping up the threat fear, the propaganda is pumped into our homes
on a daily basis.
For a government
to make such a deployment during a time of peace at home is virtually
unprecedented, and if I am not mistaken illegal.
My understanding
of the law is that troops may only be deployed to civilian sites during an
emergency, and using the Emergency Powers Act.
For a government
that is all too ready to outsource everything they do, using private
contractors to run our prisons to buying pens, this military deployment sounds
very fishy.
Let me remind you
if you have not had an opportunity to read my earlier blog.
The modus
operandi of any fledgling authoritarian state is;
- Create a fear, real or contrived.
- Engineer events to give credence to
that fear.
- Find a portion of the population to
blame for that fear.
- Enact laws to ‘protect’ the majority.
- Neuter the press.
- Further engineered events, keep up
the scare propaganda.
- Save the majority by containing, then
detaining the target group.
- Introduction of emergency powers and
the suspension of political and judicial process.
- Look for other groups to blame.
- Total control
What will be
next, troops at telephone exchanges, airports and government buildings?.
