On today’s episode of Olympic Security Theater:
Thousands of Army troops have been told to prepare for duties at Games sites and given “notice to move” orders – bringing the military presence at the Games to 17,000 to meet any shortfall from G4S, the company charged with providing security for the Games. G4S is contracted to provide 10,000 guards for the London games and is being paid £284m to do so.
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The Government has now put an additional 3,500 troops on standby to provide security at the Games. The presence of Games guards dressed in military uniforms is unlikely to go unnoticed by Olympic visitors; the potential for an overbearing security presence has been a talking point in recent weeks. Air-based missile defence systems will sit on civilian roofs and some of the navy’s largest battleships are in position in east London and at the sailing venue in Weymouth, Dorset.
17,000 troops, surface to air missiles, and battleships?! Holy fuck, are we defending a relatively small section of London, or invading a country? Battleships and SAM sites! Because the terrorists have a large tank battalion, a sizable Navy, and a fleet of heavy bombers that we will have to defend against. I’m pissed about the idiocy of this, and I’m not even British!
Battleships! Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ, really?
520 Chestnut 
[…] To be fair to Mitt Romney, when he was organizing the Olympics he did not, to the best of my knowledge, deploy a fleet of battleships. […]