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Daily Mirror, 25 July 2005: Ian Blair insisted yesterday police shoot-to-kill rules of engagement were necessary to protect lives. The Met police chief faced off critics as he apologised for the shocking blunder in which innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was shot dead by officers hunting the London bombers. Jean, 27, was blasted five times in the head. Sir Ian said: "We're quite comfortable the policy is right but these are difficult times. They (the rules) have to be that. There's no point in shooting at someone's chest because that's where a bomb is likely to be. . .The only way to deal with it is to shoot to the head." @@@@@@ Tsk, tsk. . .so it has come to this: The Great Anglo-Saxon Powers claim their *War on Terror* strategy from George A. Romero's zombie hunting handbook. Nearly as appalling as the senseless murder of de Menezes is the complete lack of reflection on the part of the Anglo-Saxon Powers. This brutal murder is the *War on Terror* in microcosm. Ever since *9/11,* the *coalition of the willing* have been scrambling around from Afghanistan to Iraq like trigger happy Keystone Kops, killing thousands and thousands of dark-skinned others in an unending series of *regrettable mistakes.* After last Thursday's dud *terror* attack on the London subway, limey Prime Minister Tony Blair opined about the *evil ones*: "Everyone is canny enough to know what these people are trying to do - whoever is responsible for this latest incident - and that is to intimidate people and to scare them and to frighten them, to stop them going about their normal business." Less than 24 hours later, fear was frozen on the face of a remarkably unfortunate Brazilian electrician named Jean Charles de Menezes. . ..here is how this man was exited from the Land of the Living: "As the man got on the train I looked at his face. He looked from left to right, but he basically looked like a cornered rabbit, like a cornered fox. He looked absolutely petrified," said eyewitness Mike Whitby. "He sort of tripped but they were hotly pursuing him and couldn't have been more than two or three feet behind him at this time. He half-tripped, was half-pushed to the floor. The policeman nearest to me had the black automatic pistol in his left hand, he held it down to the guy and unloaded five shots into him." Mr. Blair, just who is terrorizing who? The next time Blair or Bush stand before the world and preach of the virtue of their war, try to remember the last moments of Jean Charles de Menezes: "He looked from left to right, but he basically looked like a cornered rabbit, like a cornered fox. He looked absolutely petrified." But the truth is, there have been thousands of such moments in Afghanistan and Iraq. . . But you would think that maybe, with one of these corpses right there at his own rush hour feet, a decent *Christian* chap like Tony Blair might stop for a moment, might reflect upon the crime. . .might pause his part in the *War on Terror* for a whole minute or two and ask himself if he's chosen the correct course. After all, it was only the day before the pointless murder of the Brazilian electrician that Mr. Blair had bragged on himself and his fellow countrymen for their response to the subway attacks: "It doesn't change us. It is not going to change what we do. To react in any other way is to engage in the game they want us to engage in." So in haste, so in panic, so in a *rush to judgment,* the state murders a Brazilian electrician. . .and winks at its own crime. Just as the Anglo-Saxon states have winked at their thousands of murders in Afghanistan and Iraq (which, if one gives a very generous benefit of doubt to the Powers That Be, is the result of the haste, panic and rush to judgment after the famous *9/11*). And while the Anglo-Saxon powers have never been saintly, there has been a post-*9/11* change, contrary to Mr. Blair's claims: the veneers of humanitarianism, rationality and the respect for truth have been stripped away. The helter-skelter murder of Jean Charles de Menezes is one more symptom of post-*9/11* Anglo-Saxon criminal irrationality, joining the Afghan Convoy of Death, *Gitmo,* Abu Ghraib, Fallujah, etc. The *War on Terror* has always been ugly . . .now it is not only ugly, but a farce, as well. . .a gruesome farce. . .idiot cops chasing *terror* shadows. . .shooting stray coloreds, then scraping away the mess and issuing, as London Metropolitan Police Chief Ian Blair did, the following chillingly banal paradox of the *War on the Terror:* "Somebody else could be shot. But everything is done to make it right. .. ." Conclusion at: http://hometown.aol.com/thejman99 |
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On 26 Jul 2005 11:55:39 -0700, wrote:
I cannot write how I feel when I think what happened to him or what went through his mind. If these bombings never happened I can understand the uproar but why run in the first place and why run into the Underground ? We know these bombers are intent on killing civilians - can the police take the chance ? I feel so sorry for what happened to him. Imagine you've left your flat and travelled three miles - including part of the journey on a bus - and nothing unusual has happened to you. You get inside the Tube station, and are in the process of buying a ticket when suddenly a gang of men in plain-clothes come running in waving guns and _not_ (apparently) identifying themselves as police. Are you positive you wouldn't panic and run for you live? -- Nick Cooper [Carefully remove the detonators from my e-mail address to reply!] The London Underground at War: http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...ra/lu/tuaw.htm 625-Online - classic British television: http://www.625.org.uk 'Things to Come' - An Incomplete Classic: http://www.thingstocome.org.uk |
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And another one who wont explain why this illegal immigrant in fear of
his life didn't ask the police at Stockwell for protection. When is one of these ****s going to answer the question. Kevin |
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![]() wrote in message oups.com... And another one who wont explain why this illegal immigrant in fear of his life didn't ask the police at Stockwell for protection. When is one of these ****s going to answer the question. Kevin Well said that man |
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"Bob man" wrote in message
... wrote in message oups.com... And another one who wont explain why this illegal immigrant in fear of his life didn't ask the police at Stockwell for protection. When is one of these ****s going to answer the question. Kevin Well said that man Ian Blair keeps telling us that a policeman must make a life or death decision in a split second and on this occasion they got it wrong. Why is the same excuse invalid for an innocent man facing a gang of gun toting thugs? -- Malcolm |
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In message .com, at
05:44:42 on Wed, 27 Jul 2005, remarked: So if you were in a Tube station, buying a ticket and a load of men came in screaming unintelligibly and waving guns, you would think, "Now, what's happening here? Must look around to see if there are any police officers I can ask for help..." Would you ****. Like most people, you would run for your life. On the other hand, if I were outside and started to be pursued by armed police... -- Roland Perry |
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Are all you people complete f**king idiots. Since the 7 July and
especially since the incident at the adjacent station on the previous day, each tube station has been ringed by police in very, very bright yellow jackets. Only a complete idiot could fail to have noticed them. The guy was not in the ticket hall buying a ticket, he ran in and had enough presence to vault the gates. You are dead right that I would run for my life but past goodness knows how many policemen, vault a 4 foot high barrier, get cornered in tube train. Lets face it the guy was a complete and utter (innocent for all the liberals) idiot. Reminds me of the idiotic scenaio that you see in so many films that makes for good movies but you can't help thinking what a pratt, when being chased you run up a fire escape to the top of a very tall building and well get stuffed basicly. Kevin |
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In message , at 07:39:08 on Wed, 27
Jul 2005, Nick Cooper remarked: Imagine you've left your flat and travelled three miles - including part of the journey on a bus - and nothing unusual has happened to you. You get inside the Tube station, and are in the process of buying a ticket when suddenly a gang of men in plain-clothes come running in waving guns and _not_ (apparently) identifying themselves as police. Are you positive you wouldn't panic and run for you live? Hypothetical, if what really happened was: "As Mr Menezes waited to cross the busy main road, the decision was taken at Scotland Yard that he must not be allowed to get to the platform. The marksmen were told: if you think he has explosives under his coat and he fails to heed shouted warnings, then you must shoot to kill. As the three plain-clothes officers closed in on Mr Menezes, they say that they screamed their first warning that they were armed police. Their version is that he turned, ran into the station concourse, vaulted the ticket barriers and reached a waiting train before they could catch him." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...707480,00.html -- Roland Perry |
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