Saturday, July 23, 2005

Five in the Head

Apparently this man was held down by two people and it now transpires was shot five times in the head.
Prior to that he was apparently terrorised into panic and ran, his only crime it seems was to run.
A natural reaction under the circumstances?
Should this be considered an act of state sponsored terrorism?
Should we get used to it?
But why five times in the head?
It seems that he was being watched and followed, so was there time to have averted the situation?
Is there a system in place that when a suspect bomber is being followed to a station, that allows the station to be locked on his or her approach. If there is not, then there should be!
It would only take a phone call to lock the station down and exclude the terrorist from his target, it may not stop him setting off his bomb, but it must surely be of help.
We seem to be drifting into an acceptance of an errosion of our liberty.
During the evacuation of Birmingham, we had the spectacle of machine gun weilding police marshalling people away from the suspected danger areas.
Why was it neccessary for duty police men to be armed whilst carrying out a humane act.
We used to have armed response units which were kept in the background until needed
Now we have this tragedy.
Is it a case that if we escalate our response to these satanic muslims, and I am being specific to terrorists here, will that not lead to a further escalatory response from them and will that elicit a similar response from satanic christians eventually.
I deeply resent any act that leads to a restriction of my freedom and liberty, whether in reading, a book watching a film, gathering in a public place to protest and my freedom of movement without fear.
We must not lose sight of the fact that a fundamental detail of any city or nation is liberty and freedom, without them the rich detail of live would be pointless and we might as well just exist in industrial sheds.