Whenever you see "terror arrests made during dawn raid" on the news in UK, it's easy to dismiss it. But it happens pretty much every month now, and has been like that for a couple years now.
There are two options here. One is that there really are monthly plots to attack civilians in the UK, and these raids are genuinely saving lives. The other is that bring able to point at terrorists threatening our city centres is a very convenient way to distract people from the real issues.
How many of these raids are against real credible threats, and how many are people with a grudge getting hit for discussing the wrong thing? Unfortunately we're unlikely to know since so many of the trials are held in secret to protect the evidence being given.
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There are two options here. One is that there really are monthly plots to attack civilians in the UK, and these raids are genuinely saving lives. The other is that bring able to point at terrorists threatening our city centres is a very convenient way to distract people from the real issues.
How many of these raids are against real credible threats, and how many are people with a grudge getting hit for discussing the wrong thing? Unfortunately we're unlikely to know since so many of the trials are held in secret to protect the evidence being given.