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Thread: 'Will you open fire on UK citizens? British Government asks its Army!

  1. 2nd March 2009, 10:40 PM #1
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    'Will you open fire on UK citizens? British Government asks its Army!

    'Will you open fire on UK citizens?'

    Anyone get the feeling there is a big storm coming?

    http://thejournal.parker-joseph.co.u...2/4109792.html

    What are the government playing at getting the army to ask questions like that? It's starting to sound very bad, especially if it's true the army are buying up tear gas and riot shields on mass

    This story is also doing the rounds.

    http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...-on-bank-riots
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  3. 2nd March 2009, 11:08 PM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by bluefish View Post
    'Will you open fire on UK citizens?'

    Anyone get the feeling there is a big storm coming?

    PJC Journal :: 'Will you open fire on UK citizens' Army personnel being asked

    What are the government playing at getting the army to ask questions like that? It's starting to sound very bad, especially if it's true the army are buying up tear gas and riot shields on mass

    This story is also doing the rounds.

    Daily Express | UK News :: MI5 alert on bank riots
    http://www.politics.ie/current-affai...ng-1984-a.html

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  4. 2nd March 2009, 11:09 PM #3
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    I thin these news reports are hyperbole and speculation. Unless they provide actual figures for purchases of new riot equipment, i´d take it with a grain of salt.
    The BA has always had contingency plans for Internal Security. Nothing new there, apart from one claimed question at interview.
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  5. 2nd March 2009, 11:11 PM #4
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    A follow up question: would you fire on an EU citizen?
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    Quote Originally Posted by He3 View Post
    A follow up question: would you fire on an EU citizen?
    You think they might be called in to give our lads a digout?
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  7. 2nd March 2009, 11:15 PM #6
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    Perish the thought.
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    Quote Originally Posted by absconded View Post
    I thin these news reports are hyperbole and speculation. Unless they provide actual figures for purchases of new riot equipment, i´d take it with a grain of salt.
    The BA has always had contingency plans for Internal Security. Nothing new there, apart from one claimed question at interview.
    Of course. Nothing at all to worry about.
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  9. 3rd March 2009, 06:24 AM #8
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    They have done so before.
    "What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass". Lord Melborne, on Catholic emancipation in Ireland
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    There's enough Scot's, Welsh, Irish and other nationalities in the BA to order such an event See How British Army is fast becoming foreign legion - Times Online, it would be a turkey shoot
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    Firstly, Britain does not have citizens, it has subjects!

    Secondly, would I fire?

    Ah sure why not Only the fleashy bits tough!!!

    Yeah thats it! I want Brian to give me and all my other Army Reserve buddies, B.B. guns and a crowd of demonstrators so I can shoot them all in the arse
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