A Promise Broken

A few moons ago, I said I wouldn't pick on Minipundit when he begged me to back off. Well, sometimes he writes a post that irks me to such an extent that I just have to respond. Let's start off with his lede:

I guess they're the same in the U.K. as in the U.S. Here, they beat black men senseless, shoot them 41 times for pulling out their wallets, and get acquitted. There, they kill an Arab man because he "looked" like a suicide bomber. Racial profiling triumphs again:

The NYPD and LAPD acted wrongly in both cases. In the case of Rodney King they beat down a man who was already subdued. With regard to Diallo (by the way, dude, you may want to read the link instead of linking to a dead link), the NYPD reacted as they did because they thought the man had a gun, they were mistaken. 41 shots is surely excessive and the cops paid dearly. I'm not a NY cop and never have been so I don't know what compelled them to shoot and neither do you.

As for the London incident, the forces that shot this innocent man did so because their city was attacked twice in two weeks. They were under orders to shoot to kill, preferably in the head, as anyone who has served in the military knows is the part of the body that will put you out of commission the fastest.

They shot a man who chose not to heed their warnings, exited a building that was under surveillance and where suspected terrorists were living and headed for the Tube where numerous people died on July 7.

Anyone who has read the papers in London knows full-well that the city is on edge and this mans actions were not considered normal.

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Let me get this straight. He happens to live in an apartment building that was under surveillance; we have no reason to believe that he caused it to be. He left the building and, because he was in public, was followed by the police (which is totally not stalking). His clothing and behavior were "suspicious", and so they shot him. It's not as if he pulled a gun on the cops. What he "did" wouldn't even be grounds for an arrest. This is why there is no logic to Islamist terrorism. Even if an attack succeeds, and even if the terrorists' demands are met, racists in the country they attack are inevitably going to start persecuting Muslims.

Of course he didn't pull a gun, they are essentially illegal in Britain (which has led to a stunning increase in crime, but of course that's a post for another day), he instead headed for the subway and was not just dressed "suspicious", he was wearing a jacket on a warm day. That is how a suicide bomber hides a bomb belt.

The agencies involved have apologized and have shown remorse. More importantly if you're worried about terror, they've not backed off their shoot to kill policy.

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P.S. As Justin Delabar points out in the comments, the guy was Brazilian, not Arab or Muslim. All the worse.

You're right, it is all the worse as radical Islam is not just confined to Arabs, it's spreading to near every country on the planet. I guess your whole racial profiling argument got flushed down the toilet just like a Koran at Gitmo. The new type of profiling will be a guy who acts nervous, refuses to listen to police and wears a jacket in the middle of summer while boarding a subway car.

You miss the salient fact in all this, the reason the innocent man was shot was simply because British civilians were massacred by Islamofascists who don't give a damn about women or children. They would kill you or your loved ones and scream "Allahu Akhbar" as they did it. The Brits were forced to instill extraordinary means to protect their citizens.

I imagine that this is a lost argument if you are from the "we brought it on ourself" camp, but facts are facts.

God forbid that a terrorist event happens in New York or New Hampshire, if it does, the US will be forced to upgrade our security to the point that events like this may occur. This is why we must defeat them where they live, not here.

My prayers go out to man's family. Unfortunately he became the latest in a long line of American's, Israeli's, Brits, Spaniards, Phillipino's etc. to die in a war started by Muslim extremists. A sad death, but I fear, not the last.