there was a thread here recently started by that **** varrus, celebrating how the cops in the UK shoot first and ask questions later, in relation to the Brazilian commuter who was murdered, on suspicion of being a suicide bomber.
I was wondering if he would like to retract his statements concerning how great the police are now that they have been shown to have been soooo wrong, and then been shown to have lied to cover their own ******
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well, honestly, i dont think varrus needs to retract anything.
fear does bad things to good people. if that cop had NOT shot him, and he did blow up a train, how many people here would be screaming for his head ANYWAY. he was damned if he did, and damned if he didnt. just like soldiers who open fire on a car full of people. dammned if the are innocent, dammed if he lets them go and they are killers.
the cop had to make a judgement call. sprinkle in some fear, dust it with a bit of nationalism, and viola, a killing waiting for some inocent fool to walk in to.
unless any one of you wants to be the person standing between potential killers and the public, and be forced to make the decision he made 100 times a day, knowing he will be hung out to dry for one mistake.........no one has any right to say a damn thing against this poor schmuck.
he did his job as well as any other average person could have. hind sight is 20/20. it is easy to say i would have doen this, or i would have done that when you already know the results. its another whole ball game to look at a few thousand people a day, KNOWING one of them is a potential killer, and be right even HALF the time.
thats why 30 to 40 thousand totally innocent human beings have been butchered so far in iraq. wouldnt want to have to explain that to Peter at judgement time. better to be wrong and dead, than loose eternity for the blink of an eye we are on this world.
but fear makes you do stupid things. thats why Bush used it during his election campaign to get elected.