“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
Posted by: George
By George Whale, 21:20 Monday
I have just received an urgent telephone call from British Freedom leader Paul Weston who has been arrested outside Wormwood Scrubs Prison.
Speaking from the back of a police van being driven to an unknown destination, Paul hurriedly informed me that he and a friend had travelled to the prison in West London this evening with the aim of visiting Tommy Robinson, or at least assuring themselves of his well-being.
Excellent advice. It is a testament to how far down the slope of totalitarianism we have already come that to obey this excellent and obvious advice as a non-criminal, productive member of a ‘free’ society we could face a decade or more in jail (at least in Canada) for being prepared to defend ourselves.
By Ian Drury
PUBLISHED: 16:40 GMT, 2 October 2012 | UPDATED: 06:33 GMT, 3 October 2012
British troops are carrying loaded weapons at all times inside Camp Bastion to protect themselves against insider attacks by rogue Afghan soldiers and policemen.
Servicemen and women moving around Britain’s main base in Afghanistan have been told to carry their personal firearm following a spate of ‘green on blue’ murders, in which allied troops are killed by the local forces they are training.
US General John Allen, the top soldier in the warzone, is understood to have issued a fresh directive to coalition forces at all bases in the country in mid-August.
Troops at Camp Bastion, pictured, are now carrying loaded weapons with that at all times because of the rise of ‘green on blue’ attacks
Precautions were originally bolstered in the spring after US defence secretary Leon Panetta was the target of a suicide attack at Camp Bastion by an Afghan worker driving a stolen vehicle.
This year, rogue security forces have killed more than 51 coalition troops – including nine British servicemen.
A serving British soldier told the Mail: ‘Whether we’re going to the canteen or out for a run, we have to have a loaded weapon with us so we are able to react in an instant.
Some see it as an inconvenience but safety and security is paramount.’
Camp Bastion, in Helmand province, is home to most of the 9,500 UK troops in Afghanistan and thousands of local employees and contractors.
Afghan forces are not allowed inside with a weapon.
Details about the latest directive emerged as the head of Nato admitted that insider attacks were sapping morale and had damaged relations between international forces and the Afghan police and military.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Nato’s secretary-general, said: ‘There is no doubt that insider attacks have undermined trust and confidence, absolutely.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has admitted that the attacks, where troops are killed by the Afghan forces they are training, are sapping morale