About 20 years ago my daughter was on a class trip to London. The kids were all using the underground when suddenly they were all hustled up to the street. An IRA bomb threat. So used to the constant bombings and threats the London-ers took it all calmly. Not so much the students.
That said.......my son stationed in Germany for four years......during those days.......15 yrs.ago, the government showed NO patience whatsoever for anyone wanting to protest or march for something or other. The government would enter the main train station with batons and forced any loitering folks out of there and not gently either. That authoritarian governing has slowly devolved....as we can all see the decline of all of the European countries, as well as our own.
