Running to catch a train

[rowyn]

This version of the events leading to the London Tube shooting is the most unbelievably awful thing I can recall reading.

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I'll be following this one to see what else comes out. I hope the officers have better justification than it currently appears. O_o

Comments

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

They wouldn't be justified, they'd be lucky. To say that someone could have had a bomb is not justification for that kind of overkill. And reassigning all the responsibility to the terrorists with "look what you made me do" does not solve the problem.

[howardtayler.livejournal.com]

I'm not suggesting that it does. I'm just describing the problem in different terms.

[howardtayler.livejournal.com]

Allow me to clarify:
1) In saying they'd be justified, I'm being half-sarcastic. They would APPEAR to be justified, and the erosion of personal freedoms in the name of security would continue to escalate, with the pendulum only swinging back in the other direction after potentially MANY similar incidents.

2) Collateral damage inflicted upon your own citizens during the time of war can be blamed on those pulling the triggers (your own soldiers), but the enemy can credit THEMSELVES with those kills. In the case of our Islamofascist enemies, be sure that they DO credit themselves.

3) Through all this, we must never allow ourselves to forget that we are fighting a war. It has numerous fronts, including a home front, where enemy operatives under deep cover position themselves to murder civilians. Those who would fight on that front need to be a LOT better trained than the police who shot Charles De Menezes.