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2004-07-12 Britain

UK Intelligence chiefs call for Parliament 'ring of steel'; new national security measures

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Posted by Bulldog 2004-07-12 8:43:38 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yup it's Round Three. Hoist the barrage ballons and get filling those sandbags..

Posted by Howard UK 2004-07-12 10:29:57 AM|| 2004-07-12 10:29:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 ball-oons.

Posted by Howard UK 2004-07-12 10:30:15 AM|| 2004-07-12 10:30:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 barrage ballons??

Posted by trailing wife 2004-07-12 12:13:56 PM|| 2004-07-12 12:13:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Sorry. Of course I meant, "Barrage balloons??"

Posted by trailing wife 2004-07-12 12:14:48 PM|| 2004-07-12 12:14:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 This just in: The International Court has ruled the "Ring of Steel" ringing the British Houses of Parliament violates zoning laws and must be torn down.

Posted by Steve 2004-07-12 12:28:47 PM|| 2004-07-12 12:28:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 trailing wife - barrage balloons were a familiar feature of life in WWII England, used to defend vulnerable targets from low-level enemy aircraft attack. They were smallish unmanned dirigibles tethered to the ground by wires at the optimum height to provide a verticle wire 'screen' and so deter the bombers or straffing aircraft. If a plane hit the wire, the wire would detach at the ground (and the balloon? I'm not sure) and the plane would fly on, hopefully uncontrollable, dragging the wire and possibly with a severely damaged wing and/or engine.

Posted by Marcel Marceau 2004-07-12 12:33:43 PM|| 2004-07-12 12:33:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Dammit, that was me.

Posted by Bulldog 2004-07-12 12:34:47 PM|| 2004-07-12 12:34:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 lol - busted! Mime-Boy!

Posted by Frank G 2004-07-12 12:45:06 PM|| 2004-07-12 12:45:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 __ ____ __ ____ ____, Frank G!

Posted by Bulldog 2004-07-12 12:49:43 PM|| 2004-07-12 12:49:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 No litter ballons growing up jokes.

Posted by Shipman 2004-07-12 12:50:05 PM|| 2004-07-12 12:50:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Rantburg U. roolz!!

Posted by trailing wife 2004-07-12 2:02:01 PM|| 2004-07-12 2:02:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Just remembered - the wire would detach at both the ground and the balloon, deploying small drogue parachutes at either end. Quite effective, but apparently not alway so.

Posted by Bulldog 2004-07-12 2:16:55 PM|| 2004-07-12 2:16:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Sometimes the would attach small explosive charges to the cable.

Posted by raptor 2004-07-12 3:02:18 PM|| 2004-07-12 3:02:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 It is not a balloon, it is an AIRSHIP!
[/Graham Chapman]

As to the so-called "Ring of Steel." What Britain really needs is a "Rod of Steel" straight up its @ss to stop admitting slime bags like al Qaradawi. No wall or fence of any size (e.g., Hadrian's Wall) will protect Britain from the idiotic liberalism they constantly show towards these genocidal wife-beating thugs.

Posted by Anonymous5718 2004-07-12 4:02:26 PM|| 2004-07-12 4:02:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 quite.

Posted by Howard UK 2004-07-12 4:11:49 PM|| 2004-07-12 4:11:49 PM|| Front Page Top

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