I think it’s the five shots to the head
that sets this apart from the average mistaken identity killing, allowing
for adrenalin and literal rush to avoid a detonation. Was he not dead after
the first two?
London with its minority populations does
not need to acquire the reputation for excessive force that the IDF or LA PD
have. Britain does not need an
intifada or home grown race violence, as Keith worries
about.
The Japanese would have the same public
perception problem if this happened in a Tokyo subway to a Korean migrant
worker.
kwc
Harry's question still
stands.
I know that it would be nice to avoid grievances and
for us all to live in peace and harmony. But at this juncture: What to
do?
If the police don't shoot they are blamed. If the police
shoot they are blamed.
arthur
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Message-----
Chris,
What would you do
if someone in a heavy overcoat on a hot
day - someone who was under your
surveillance - went into
the subway and boarded a train, soon after
similar
situations in which bombs had been exploded killing
50
people?
You needn't answer, for you are never faced with
that
situation.
It's always easy - for a non-player - to complain
at
mistakes made by those who are trying to save multiple
casualties
and must think and act quickly.
Harry
> -----Original
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:futurework-
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Reuss
> Sent:
Saturday, July 23, 2005 1:16 PM
> To:
futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca
> Subject: [Futurework] London Assassins
were Trained in
Israel
>
> As the Guardian reports, the squad
who executed an
innocent man
> in the
> Stockwell tube
station with 5 shots to the head, have been
trained in
> Israel in
the IDF style of dealing with "suspects" --
shoot to kill,
>
playing policeman, attorney, judge and henchman in one
person at
>
the same time.
>
> Refs:
>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,15347
79,0
>
0.html
>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,15347
53,0
>
0.html
>
> The British public has to wonder if it really wants
to
copy the
> archaic
> travesty of a rule of law from
Israel. From a historical
perspective,
> it's a shameful
irony that Britain now allows its
"anti-terror" forces
> to be
trained by the same state that performed terrorist
attacks
>
against
> British civilians and forces in Palestine and elsewhere
in
the 1940s,
> and
> appointed the leaders of these
terrorist groups to its
first Prime
> Ministers.
>
>
Chris
>
