A VBIED is a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device. A car bomb. When you absolutely, positively need to keep fundamentalist terrorists or ecosocialist nutters from carbombing your shrubbery, you can deploy the Quick Link Lite barrier system like this...
at the impressive rate of 30 metres of barrier per hour with 'minimum disruption'.This is the architectural expression of how the government has allowed the police, through terror legislation (specifically in this case Lord West's terrorism strategy CONTEST2) to militarise our public realm unabashedly and completely. The top picture looks like a checkpoint along the Berlin wall, and I think it's really interesting how the photographer has tried to give it the maximum intimadation factor by taking the picture from down low.
Quick Link Lite was first used at the G20 summit in London in April, and is coming soon to a perfectly legal and peaceful demonstration near you...
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I'm glad they've made the shrubs in Hyde Park safe from car bombs. I can imagine the manufacturer scaling this up to a 3m size and making it soundproof. Then the police can deploy it around a crowd of demonstrators and nobody will know they are there.
ReplyDeleteUgly and oppressive - a very nasty piece of work!
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