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Originally Posted by ChrisA No they don't. It's just a substantially less sh1tty thing (providing it doesn't happen too often) than if one of our servants fails to shoot dead a guilty man, before he kills a much bigger bunch of innocent men dead.
I'm totally sick of all this bleeding heart stuff.
People want to live in this country in the current climate?
They need to learn the culture real quick...
These days, a policeman says stop - you DON'T run away into a tube train. |
You were not there, I was not there, and he was not a guilty man. You do not know that he knew it was a policeman, you do not know that he comprehended what the guy chasing him with a gun was saying, you do not even know if he knew he was being chased. The first report said he vaulted the barriers and was wearing a bulky coat. The last report I heard claimed that he used his ticket to pass through the barriers normally, and had no such coat. My guess is that the policeman had to vault the barriers, and was bulked out by his body armour, and an eye-witness made a mistake. I thought our culture was that a man was innocent until proven guilty. I thought that our culture was that if the worst in our society had their legal rights respected the there was a good chance that all of our legal rights will be respected. People have died for that principle. Suspected serial killers have killed before the proof was found to arrest them, and the insane before their condition was established.
I have been stopped by police three times in my life, once for running with a bag, and twice for walking with one. I have heard tube trains coming into a station and ran for them. I have heard people shouting something behind me and thought it was nothing to do with me. I would probably run away from a man with a gun.
The terrorists are winning, we are scared. When we should be uniting as a society we are separating out people based upon their appearance. Cultural isolation, us against them, is the first step in making a bomber.