I’m picking a few quotes from news articles about the car bombs yesterday:

[Quote:]

British intelligence sources say the police did not have any advanced warnings about the threat of car bombs.

So how did they find the cars?

The first car:

[Quote:]

Events yesterday unfolded when police were called to Haymarket, south of Piccadilly Circus, after a man fell at the nightclub Tiger Tiger, injuring his head, prompting a call for an ambulance about 1:30 a.m. yesterday.
When crews arrived, they noticed smoke coming from a green Mercedes parked in front of a club, Clarke said.

The second car:

[Quote:]

Police announced tonight they had found similar explosives in a second car. The blue Mercedes 280E model “was issued with a parking ticket about 2:30 this morning” in the Haymarket area, British anti-terror police chief Peter Clarke said, then impounded and taken to a garage near Hyde Park an hour later.

So old-fashioned solid police footwork did the job. None of the crap that took away all our liberties for the last few years made any difference. In fact, if you look at all the arrests made with the new laws, they were all pretty much bullshit, arresting people who weren’t actually doing anything. So, to the police officers who found the car bombs I say “Good work, guys! You set an excellent example!” and I hope they get a big commendation from their superiors for it.

And all those camera’s? Do they make you “safer”? Well, they’re going to be used to find the drivers:

[Quote:]

They also had the benefit of footage from closed-circuit TV cameras, and hoped the surveillance network that covers much of central London will help them track down the driver of the Mercedes.

But if the bombs had gone off, you’d be just as dead as without them, so their benefit is limited.