Reply #70: The Met. police have had nearly four years to prepare for this [View All]

[mogster]

It is four years since the 911 attacks, and the UK police, anti-terror-forces and government has had every opportunity to prepare for terrorist attacks. Yet none of the attacks was discovered until the damage was done. Worse, the attacks two weeks later flunked because of bad bomb-making, not because the authorities investigated and hindered them. They didn't have a clue.

Nor did the cops shooting this poor man, they acted like a possé. Suspicion, verdict and execution - all desicions taken in a matter of hours, if not minutes. If we're gonna accept that the police can shoot people on a hunch, law and order is a thing of the past.

But I can see the situation the cops on the ground were in here, it is the same situation the US troops face every day in Iraq.
And here, just as there, it is the overall doctrine, and the people that promotes that doctrine that is to blame. Kick upwards instead of blaming the cops for overreacting; start to ask why no one foresaw the July 7th attacks in the UK government. Has Blair's unjust, illegal, phoney war made us all safer?

A couple of months ago I saw Tony Blair emasculated and impotent emerging after the election. I was happy, because that meant one fascist prick less to deal with.

Now Tony is bristling with power again, you can see him egging up the game and smile confidently. How that weasel must laugh at us, debating law and order as if it actually MEANT something.
He knows better; it's all up for grabs if you let go of all tradition and respect for human suffering, and joins the neocons in their agenda.