On Jan 7, 3:36*pm, wrote:
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 07:23:36 -0800 (PST)

bob wrote:
I don't dispute that mistakes happen, but that is exactly my concern:
another mistake might happen. *The OP asked, "If a uniformed presence
discourage one islamist from killing one person is that not worth the
effort?" *I would have to say no. *I do not believe the risk of
another terrible mistake is worth taking for the hope that lots of
uniforms and guns at railway stations might perhaps deter a bad person
from doing a bad thing.




If its a choice of one civilian dying because of a mistake or dozens dying
because of a bomb the choice is a no brainer. Anyway , I don't see what
your problem is - almost every other country in the world has armed police
as the norm, even fluffy liberal sweden.

B2003

Except that in the case of the Brazilian electrician, if that had been
the choice for the security services they should have intercepted him
before he travelled on two separate buses during his journey to
stockwell underground.

Unless of course they are so clever that they 'know' that potential
bombers are only going to explode themselves on sub-surface transport.