The raising of the terror alert level following the attempted mass killing on a London tube train has resulted in machine gun armed police on patrol in public places, not just in London but across Britain, and so has been the experience of shoppers at Sheffield's Meadowhall shopping centre.

However the modus operandi appears to be one of the armed police (as instructed by CCTV handlers) to follow asian men around the centre as was observed. For instance two slow walking armed officers when over taken by 2 asian men quickened their pace to follow the two asian men literally out of the centre.

Whilst experienced behaviour was whilst shopping at Sports Direct store that is apparently closing down.

As I approached the exit a member of staff squawked on her walkie talkie something like "he is coming out" and immediately opposite were two machine gun armed police officers who then proceeded to follow me as I turned right towards the first meadowhall dome.

On approaching the dome, I sat down on the nearest vacant seat with the armed officers brushing past.

The impression given by the observed modus operandi is that Meadowhall does not want asian men to shop at their centre. For there is nothing more unnerving than armed police officers following close behind, literally shuving their machine gun up ones arse.

So has this publicity stunt really prevented any acts of terror or is it more likely to piss people off who have nothing to do with the thankfully small number of lunatics who do commit acts of terror. For I am sure, as is the case for many on the receiving end of such 'special treatment' is to make them feel LESS likely to want to either shop at Meadowhall or to help the police.

Whilst I am sure most reading this will say if you are innocent you have nothing to worry about, well yes until it's your turn to be on the recieving end of 'special treatment' which I am sure Irish people reading this will fully aware of what it means when it's YOU.

Hopefully the terror threat will soon diminish as all those responsible are caught so that the armed police can once more melt into the background so that innocent asian man can go about their lawful business, for instance shopping without having armed police officers unnervingly following close behind.

Though it is highly unlikely I will be shopping again at Meadowhall or Sports Direct anytime soon.

By Nadeem Walayat

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Nadeem Walayat has over 30 years experience of trading derivatives, portfolio management and analysing the financial markets, including one of few who both anticipated and Beat the 1987 Crash. Nadeem's forward looking analysis focuses on UK inflation, economy, interest rates and housing market. He is the author of five ebook's in the The Inflation Mega-Trend and Stocks Stealth Bull Market series that can be downloaded for Free.

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