Following the attempted attacks of yesterday, London police shot a man they believed was attempting another terrorist act:
"A man was challenged by officers and subsequently shot. London Ambulance Service attended the scene. He was pronounced dead at the scene."
Police are believed to be under orders to shoot to kill if they believe someone is about to detonate a bomb.
Sky News Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said: "The officer or officers involved in this clearly felt this suspect was about to detonate a bomb."
If you are going to shoot, shoot to kill as I was taught in the military. No word yet if the bag the man carried contained a bomb or not.
The years of appeasing the Muslim community in Britain appears to be hurting them in many, bad ways. They, however are willing to take extreme steps to protect the public. Not so, here in America. The ACLU is up in arms over a NYC plan to check baggage in the subway system.
I guess the ACLU doesn't understand that the right to breath and not be bombed trumps all other rights.
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I'm not sure I agree with that last statement. I feel as though if the terrorists get us to change our society, especially the freedom in our society, then they've won without killing one more person. I don't necessarily think that holds for baggage checks at the subway, I'm just speaking in general about the last statement. Baggage checks themselves seem a bit useless, I think we could technology to do something more useful, but none the less, we could and should do something and I think we agree on that.
I guess I'm more of the mindset of 'live by the sword, die by the sword'. I'd rather see our society fail with our freedoms in tact, then see it sustained with less freedoms.
The terrorists have 'won' if they get what they want. They could care less about whether we are free or not, unless we are not free in the way they want us to be, under Sharia law, then they haven't 'won'.
It might be more accurate if you were to claim that if we change our society we have lost without the terrorists killing another person, but since change happens all the time I don't think that makes a whole lot of sense.
Certainly it is always good to argue whether any given tradeoff of liberty for security is worth it or not, but rhetoric like if we change then they have won is nonsensical.
Drastic times require drastic actions. Am I talking about interring all Muslims ala FDR? No I am not.
Checking bags is an inconvenience and a hassle, but not a grave intrusion of someone's rights.
The main priority of any stable government is to protect the people who've elected them, and this is one small measure that assists the government with that duty.
With regard to the last statement, the right to survive and not be murdered by ideological thugs is generally thought of as a right that counts more than most others.
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