Surface-To-Air Missiles At London Olympics

First time accepted submitter TheGift73 writes "I have to admit, when I first read about this I thought it was a hoax, but unfortunately it's true. The UK government is considering placing surface-to-air missiles on residential buildings in London for the duration of the London Olympics. From the article: 'The Ministry of Defence is considering placing surface-to-air missiles on residential flats during the Olympics. An east London estate, where 700 people live, has received leaflets saying a "Higher Velocity Missile system" could be placed on a water tower. A spokesman said the MoD had not yet decided whether to deploy ground based air defence systems during the event.'"

Comments

Horrible! Imagine if it were the other way around!

[Anonymous Coward]

Can you just imagine what the world would be like, if western governments such as USA and UK would engage in wars that mostly affect the civilian population and that UN would call illegal wars? Wars, that leave hundreds of thousands of civilians dead, wounded or homeless... Yes, I understand it's difficult to imagine even that but now imagine that the wars would have support from about half the population of those western countries...

I know that sounds disgusting and if something like that were to actually occur, I could see why immigrants from the affected countries would be somewhat hostile against those western countries and even consider the civilian population to be acceptable target. Nothing like that has happened, however, so that kind of attitude should be out of question!