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Originally Posted by Abraham
And who would have expected exactly three months ago (July 6th!) that the British police would within days get orders to shoot at civilians... And that the British police would actually shoot and kill an innocent bystander!
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Indeed, there were some fairly harsh and all-encompassing decisions made back then. The reasult of which being that the police were one nill down at halftime.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons that here there's always been a heavy resistance here from the public and the government and the police themselves against the introduction of firearms to the average coppers beat kit (beat- as in his daily rounds, not a rubber truncheon lol). It promotes a kind of escalation, becoming more lethal each time.
We have armed response officers, who 'specialise' in dealing with armed confronation and high security problems etc. They killed an innocent man, so under the most severe conditions, even the most highly trained officer can balls it up.
I can appreciate the necessity for getting the job done, but that usually has some fairly far reaching repercussions tacked on.
And it's events like the one in the article about the teenager getting killed after not being given a choice to help or not, and the guy shot by police on the london tube that make me try and hold on to what is rapidly becoming a dimminishing belief in the 'best qualitys in (a) man'* after almost three decades of life. I understand it, but that doesn't make it right all the same; I guess like terrorism, that's the reality of life you can count on, that at no time in our recorded history has the ever been no war at all, it's always there in some place or other. Motive almost seems irrelevant. Wheather you're looking at a coalition of the free or brotherhood of the holy crusade, if you strip away all the rubbish and veils of culture and religion, the wrapping whith which we surround our lives, they both kill and spill the blood of their fellow man or woman and that of the innocent. For me the only reason I can see any justice in it at all is that some people still cannot reconcile the masive gulf between the understanding of what must be done and what is right.
* plato - the republic. justice in the individual / the similie of the cave.