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Daily Mirror, 25 July 2005: Ian Blair insisted yesterday police
shoot-to-kill rules of engagement were necessary to protect lives. The
Met police chief faced off critics as he apologised for the shocking
blunder in which innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was
shot dead by officers hunting the London bombers. Jean, 27, was blasted
five times in the head. Sir Ian said: "We're quite comfortable the
policy is right but these are difficult times. They (the rules) have to
be that. There's no point in shooting at someone's chest because that's
where a bomb is likely to be. . .The only way to deal with it is to
shoot to the head."
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Tsk, tsk. . .so it has come to this: The Great Anglo-Saxon Powers claim
their *War on Terror* strategy from George A. Romero's zombie hunting
handbook.

Nearly as appalling as the senseless murder of de Menezes is the
complete lack of reflection on the part of the Anglo-Saxon Powers. This
brutal murder is the *War on Terror* in microcosm. Ever since *9/11,*
the *coalition of the willing* have been scrambling around from
Afghanistan to Iraq like trigger happy Keystone Kops, killing thousands
and thousands of dark-skinned others in an unending series of
*regrettable mistakes.*

After last Thursday's dud *terror* attack on the London subway, limey
Prime Minister Tony Blair opined about the *evil ones*:

"Everyone is canny enough to know what these people are trying to do -
whoever is responsible for this latest incident - and that is to
intimidate people and to scare them and to frighten them, to stop them
going about their normal business."

Less than 24 hours later, fear was frozen on the face of a remarkably
unfortunate Brazilian electrician named Jean Charles de Menezes. .
.here is how this man was exited from the Land of the Living:

"As the man got on the train I looked at his face. He looked from left
to right, but he basically looked like a cornered rabbit, like a
cornered fox. He looked absolutely petrified," said eyewitness Mike
Whitby. "He sort of tripped but they were hotly pursuing him and
couldn't have been more than two or three feet behind him at this time.
He half-tripped, was half-pushed to the floor. The policeman nearest to
me had the black automatic pistol in his left hand, he held it down to
the guy and unloaded five shots into him."

Mr. Blair, just who is terrorizing who?

The next time Blair or Bush stand before the world and preach of the
virtue of their war, try to remember the last moments of Jean Charles
de Menezes:

"He looked from left to right, but he basically looked like a cornered
rabbit, like a cornered fox. He looked absolutely petrified."
But the truth is, there have been thousands of such moments in
Afghanistan and Iraq. . .

But you would think that maybe, with one of these corpses right there
at his own rush hour feet, a decent *Christian* chap like Tony Blair
might stop for a moment, might reflect upon the crime. . .might pause
his part in the *War on Terror* for a whole minute or two and ask
himself if he's chosen the correct course. After all, it was only the
day before the pointless murder of the Brazilian electrician that Mr.
Blair had bragged on himself and his fellow countrymen for their
response to the subway attacks:

"It doesn't change us. It is not going to change what we do. To react
in any other way is to engage in the game they want us to engage in."

So in haste, so in panic, so in a *rush to judgment,* the state murders
a Brazilian electrician. . .and winks at its own crime. Just as the
Anglo-Saxon states have winked at their thousands of murders in
Afghanistan and Iraq (which, if one gives a very generous benefit of
doubt to the Powers That Be, is the result of the haste, panic and rush
to judgment after the famous *9/11*). And while the Anglo-Saxon powers
have never been saintly, there has been a post-*9/11* change, contrary
to Mr. Blair's claims: the veneers of humanitarianism, rationality and
the respect for truth have been stripped away. The helter-skelter
murder of Jean Charles de Menezes is one more symptom of post-*9/11*
Anglo-Saxon criminal irrationality, joining the Afghan Convoy of Death,
*Gitmo,* Abu Ghraib, Fallujah, etc.

The *War on Terror* has always been ugly . . .now it is not only ugly,
but a farce, as well. . .a gruesome farce. . .idiot cops chasing
*terror* shadows. . .shooting stray coloreds, then scraping away the
mess and issuing, as London Metropolitan Police Chief Ian Blair did,
the following chillingly banal paradox of the *War on the Terror:*

"Somebody else could be shot. But everything is done to make it right.
. ."

Conclusion at:

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It looks to me like you are guilty of 'rushing to judgement' in
condemning the actions of the police based only on a single eyewitness
account. Are you sure you know the whole story?