Worries over the security of the Olympics have been raised
this week with the news that the company contracted by the government to hire
security staff to protect the Olympic venues will be unable to meet the
required amount of persons. As a result 3,500 soldiers have been put on standby
in what has become the biggest peacetime operation the UK has ever performed.
People are becoming worried that the games are going to have
too large a military presence, already rockets are being placed on people’s
homes in the East End and a military ship will be stationed in the Thames at
all times. Personally I understand why London 2012 needs such a large and visible
military presence, unlike Beijing in 2008 and Athens in 2004, London is a much
more at risk of a terrorist attack. The United Kingdom is one of the biggest
terror targets in the world, second only to the United States. The terrorists
must be forced to believe that they cannot win, and that if they are going to
attack London, do so another day.
Most likely the Olympics will go off with absolutely no
troubles, but there will be a whole myriad of groups who wish to disrupt the games
and kill innocent people. We must do everything in our power to make sure that
never happens.
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