Quote Originally Posted by Psychotic
I wonder what civil rights infringing legislation will be passed in the wake of this. Certainly ID cards will be introduced now, and who knows what else we will have introduced. Airport style security at the London Underground and all train stations? It's possible.
When it does happen, it will play straight into the hands of the terrorists. Their goal with this bombing was not to kill as many people as they could, it was to spread panic and fear among the people of London. High security measures, rather than make the public feel safe, are only going to scare them even more. The best thing we can do in this situation is not to let their tactics demoralise us, to realise that we are in fact quite safe from terrorism and that attacks like today's are rare. Otherwise, the terrorists will have won.