I'm not sure if you are joking or not Kanelli?
You will forgive me for not immediately believing what is given to the media to report.
If I did so, I would have thought that the poor Brazilian was running away, and refused to comply with Police instructions to stop (what Ian Blair, Commissioner of Met Police, said in a press conference early on).
I would also believe that the two guys in Forest Gate were Al Qaeda sympathisers who had chemical weapons in their home and that the guy who was shot was shot by his brother.
I would believe that there was an Al Qaeda plot to poison people with Ricin and that Ricin poison was found in a flat where some muslim bachelors were staying..
I would also have to believe that Saddam did have WMD which could target the West and be deployed in 45 min.
Jumping the pond, I would also believe that the Oklahamo bombing was carried out by Muslim Terrorists.
I actually think that 'Innocent until proven guilty' is a great WESTERN value - but in this case believing in this maxim when the accused are young muslim men is to be labelled as believing in a conspiracy?
Look, track record hasn't been good - but I will give the police etc the benefit of the doubt and give them some time to produce some evidence of explosives or any other physical evidence that an attack was imminent - other than postings on the internet.
As for mis-using security scares, I was in the UK just before the Iraq invasion when Heathrow was surrounded by tanks and the army supposedly in response to a terrorist threat. Security experts all commented that this was for show only - Al Qaeda do not have tanks in the UK or use tactics that will be deterred by having the army parading around the terminals (remember that armed Police and other security measures had already been put in place in and around the airports).
And this occured at a time when Tony Blair had to justify to Parliament his reasons for going to war with Iraq. Conspiracy? Hmmm?
I'll condemn anyone who is guilty - you should know this by now. But let's see the evidence - the security forces have cried wolf too many times for me to accept initial reports at face value. As I said, let's see how the evidence unfolds and what is real and what is hype.
Cheers,
Shafique