DEFENCELESS. Airline Bomb Plot Cops' fury at ban on guns in terror raids

UK Mirror ^ | Aug. 20, 2006 | Justin Penrose

[FairOpinion]

UNARMED police were sent to search homes in the airline terror plot - despite a cache of weapons being uncovered in one house.

It is thought police chiefs did not want to risk another bungle like the Forest Gate raid or the shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes.

But a senior intelligence source said: "The decision not to go in with armed officers was dicing with death. What would have happened if the came up against an armed suspect?

All 23 arrests in High Wycombe, Walthamstow and Birmingham were carried out by Metropolitan Police's unarmed Territorial Support Group.

[FairOpinion]

How do you spell insanity?!

Sending UNARMED police against terrorists.

I think it will take a terrorist nuke, before people give up their fine PC notions.

[FairOpinion]

PING

[silentknight]

Ohhhh GEEESH - I don't even know what to say to this one. Insane is right.

wow

[LiberalBassTurds]

Boy, you said it. Flat-out nuts.

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[GeronL]

good lors. I heard they also tipped off all the major mosques although I could not find that story.

[RedCell]

Not to mention this is a calling-all-cars heads-up to the terrorists that they have nothing to fear when the door gets kicked in. Nice piece of reporting.

[kittycatonline.com]

Sending UNARMED police against terrorists. I think it will take a terrorist nuke, before people give up their fine PC notions.

Oh, with the current British logic in effect, a terrorist nuke would lead the British government to immmediately declare themeslves a nuclear-free nation and dump all their atomic weapons.

[GeronL]

lors is the one true Gos.

[FairOpinion]

They just wanted to make sure the police wouldn't actually hurt those darling terrorists who planned to blow up ten planes with thousands of innocents.

[Paleo Conservative]

That's worse than taking a knife to a gun fight.

[GeronL]

There was a photo from LAX after the plot came out showing the soldiers guarding it... no clips in the guns.

[nopardons]

bttt

[zarf]

Insane? I think it's downright hilarious.

To watch so called "enlightened" western nations going through these contortions of misguided morality is highly amusing.

It's going to be interesting to see what event or series of events finally cleanses western society of it's PC guilt, shame and fear.

[RedCell]

Newsflash!

Armed only with harsh language, members of the Territorial Support Group advanced on a known terrorist safe house. As officers kicked down the door, they piled through the front entrance insulting the mother's of all present. The terrorists, deeply offended, laid down their AK-47's and immediately demanded a phone so they could call their legal team. The latest word is that the terrorist cell will be suing for severely hurt feelings. Calls to the TSG were not immediately answered. /s

[RedCell]

In other news, members of the Territorial Support Group will no longer be allowed to wear body armor. A high-ranking official with knowledge of the inner workings of the group spoke on a guarantee of anonymity. They were quoted as saying; "By wearing life-saving body armor, it sends a signal to our persons-of-interest that we don't trust them. We don't want to insult them by thinking the worst of them as we attempt to diffuse an already tenuous situation. Our boys will be fine. As a matter of fact, they're now required to keep a supply of fresh flowers and candy to provide to any persons-of-interest we need to ask questions of."

Officials at the Territorial Support Group could not be reached for comment. /s

[sourcery]

I think it will take a terrorist nuke, before people give up their fine PC notions.

Unlikely. Firstly, police armed with tanks, let alone handguns, would be rather ineffective against nukes.

More importantly, use of nuclear weapons by terrorists will just convince the loons to be even more strident and irrational about the subject of the phobias, such as guns and nukes.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

"I think it will take a terrorist nuke, before people give up their fine PC notions".

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In the U.K? People in any rational society would be stocking ammo and oiling rifles, not legislating bans on sharp pointed knives. I don't want to even consider what it will take to wake the U.K. up!

[LiberalBassTurds]

lors is the one true Gos.

Hello GeronL. I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you mean on the above.

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[LiberalBassTurds]

They just wanted to make sure the police wouldn't actually hurt those darling terrorists who planned to blow up ten planes with thousands of innocents.

Hehe, sad but true. I lived in London for almost two years and though I have strong feelings for the English I still can't quite figure them out. For what it's worth, the average working man (the best folks there) are fed up with the Muslim nonsense and will tell you that things are about to get very ugly. Coming from the epicenter of hooliganism I tend to believe them.

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[Mad Dawg]

There is no Gos but the lors, and GeronL is his prophet?

As for the UK, what I always say is never bring a billy-club to an AK-47 fight.

And that nastiness has begun. I can't find it now but last night the fox news site had a sotry of an unarmed solitary muslim in the UK getting mugged merely for his religion, as it appeared.