UK government officials back Trump demands for Internet censorship following London bombing
By
Paul Mitchell and Robert Stevens
18 September 2017
Moves by the ruling elites, in the US and internationally, to censor and even shut down access to the Internet, are gathering pace following Friday’s detonation of a bomb on a London Underground train.
Within minutes of the bombing at Parsons Green tube station that injured 30 people, US President Donald Trump called for the Internet to be shut off. Within hours, senior government UK officials were repeating his demands in increasingly hysterical terms.
The government of UK Prime Minister Theresa May quickly used the bombing to increase the UK terror threat level from “severe” to the highest level, “critical,” triggering Operation Temperer, the mobilisation of heavily armed soldiers working alongside armed police on the streets of the capital and other major urban areas.
Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, national lead for counterterrorism policing, declared, “Military personnel have been drafted in to protect national infrastructure sites, allowing additional armed police officers to carry out patrols.” These would “be patrolling at crowded places, iconic sites, transport hubs and ports.”
On Saturday, the Daily Star reported that troops from the Special Air Service (SAS) have been deployed in pairs on the London Underground “with orders to kill terrorists.” A source told the newspaper, “The unit is composed of some of both male and female personnel from the Special Reconnaissance Regiment who are trained killers and can pose as couples while travelling on public transport.”
Within hours of the explosion, an 18-year-old was arrested in the departure hall at the port of Dover on suspicion of planting…