1 Drone x N Witnesses = N Drones?
'At the time, local MP Henry Smith described the force's spending as "shocking".'
Ah, Little Henry, contributing absolutely nothing useful to the world as usual. He really is an oxygen thief of the worst kind.
With only reports of the incident to go by, IMHO there may have been something in the air that kicked off a frenzy of speculation and the usual bandwagon-jumping by people who are routinely terrible witnesses, leading to massive pressure on a police force to 'solve' a crime that was quite likely 99% non-existent. Did some thoughtless kid get to play with an early Xmas gift and let it be seen near the airport? Just once? That may have been all it took to start this entire fiasco running like a snowball going downhill.
The police may have handled things badly, but consider the difficulty they were in: possibly no crime at all, but hundreds of 'witnesses' plus the enormous consequences of this occurring in a highly sensitive safety-first operation.
Police officers' time has to be paid for. As a member of the party that slashed police resources savagely, Little Henry has nothing to offer except soundbites of easy blame—typical political bullshit, criticising those who do what he could not.
As for terrorism and the mention elsewhere of man-portable missiles etc: everyone who understands the subject knows that a single terrorist with discipline, modest resources, and an adequate working knowledge of chemistry and electronics could cause absolute mayhem in any part of the country he chooses. A basic fertiliser bomb with a carefully focused... —well, you wouldn't expect me to say more.
It is fortunate that those kind of people rarely become terrorists. Perhaps the fact that only an intellectual cripple would contemplate murdering dozens of innocent civilians is the single best thing about wannabe terrorists: for the most part, they're too fucked up and unhinged to be effective. (And before anyone says "9/11", let me point out that those Saudi Arabians had a technology level of "box-cutter").
Let's hope that terrorists remain lazy, fatalistic, ignorant, stupid and careless.
My perfect suicide bomber detonates alone in the desert during drills.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
