London incidents

[gertcha EFM]

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EFM The Firm, The Voice said:
Even though they've just revealed that the man shot had nothing to do with any of this.

Have a word with your contacts at M15 and read this:

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I'm [****!!****] glad they shot him, and disapointed with your attitude. Even if he wasn't one of the four from yesterday we can't take any chances and he was down there to start trouble. If he wasn't why run away from a police checkpoint and onto a tube train ? At the very least this will make them think twice.

I know you are just repeating what they put on the Carter board, but use your loaf here. There have been 8 bomb attacks in two weeks on London's transport network. Your left wing style of delaing with them will not work. Shoot to kill has to be the policy.

Maybe if you were directly involved, or someone you cared about dies as a result of this campaign of terror you'd think differently.

They are the scum of the earth so why even try to defend them ?

I really don't know were you are coming from on this one.

[Rob_the_Saint]

This 'shoot to kill' policy doesn't sit easily with me. If this person posed a direct threat to the general public and was seen to be capable of exploding a bomb then yes, shooting him was the only option available. Until we know all the facts we can't say whether this was the case. I have a feeling there is more to come on this particular incident so will not speculate any more..

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Right, when I made the flippent comment to gertcha's post it was a pisstake at the fact he'd put 10 bulletts into an innocent man, at the time the news hadn't filtered about the bloke running away and jumping over barriers, the only news was an innocent/unconnected man had been shot. So I support what the police did.

 

And I'm not against our war on terror, I never have been, I am against the war in Iraq that is a seperate issue which has given the terrorists an excuse in their propaganda, however I don't necessarily subscribe to the left wing view that the war has made us a greater target, after all 9/11 and Bali were well before the war started.

 

And gertcha you seem to forget that I am directly involved, being in the transportation industry after the various emergency services we're probably the nearest to the so called front line as you can get. I have to make various decisons that could be important when I'm in charge, for example a member of the public reported to a ticket inspector an asian man looking at his watch, being restless and then running from the train yesterday, I then decided not to evacuate the train but sent the guard through the train to confirm ownership of all the luggage in the train.

 

And Zeal I have never once put anti-Brtish sentiments on the web and any refrence to dislike of the police is usually due to petty things like flare ownership, of course I fully support them in their job against terrorism.

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

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Rob the Saint said:
This 'shoot to kill' policy doesn't sit easily with me. If this person posed a direct threat to the general public and was seen to be capable of exploding a bomb then yes, shooting him was the only option available. Until we know all the facts we can't say whether this was the case. I have a feeling there is more to come on this particular incident so will not speculate any more..

Experiences in Israel have seen people shot in the chest (the normal police marksmen way) and still being able to set off sucide bombs so shoot to kill is the only way. Any specific details on the person shot yesterday will come out in the wash however if the reports of padded jackets in this heat and running and jumping over ticket bariers are true he can have little complaint, also I gather he was under survailance!

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Hot off the press, we had a suspect package in the bushes in a recreation ground by the side of the railway at the North Pole Junction, which is basically by Wormwood Scrubs on the Willesden - Clapham line and it has just been confirmed as a bomb! So it's taken a new angle to overground services with no suicide involved.

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Overreaction and giving into terrorists

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Couldn't open it, but assume it's the Inter Milan thing?

 

Fk 'em.

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Yeah it is!

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

It's pathetic.

 

OfficeWoman was supposed to be going shopping in the Luton Arndale Centre today with her (30-year old) daughter, but they've cancelled their trip "just to be on the safe side".

 

"You never know with all these bombs going off."

[YELLOW]

You'll never go anyway if you think that way. I work in a flipping government building, a prime target for an attack and I never think one day there might be a bomb in there or at any time not feel safe.

 

Then again half of these terrorists are on benefit anyway!!!! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

You work in Southend dole office YELLOW, hardly top of Bin Ladens hit list, which is odd if I was head of a terror association I'd be thinking it'll be great PR to bomb Essex <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

[YELLOW]

It already looks a bomb site anyway!!!