Posted on 07/22/2005 3:37:04 PM PDT by veronica
For many people this morning's shooting at Stockwell Tube must have sounded like a scene from a Hollywood movie: a man chased down a subway escalator by armed police, cornered in a train and shot five times at close range.
For Michael Winner, the film director who sent Charles Bronson out to clean up the streets of New York 30 years ago in Death Wish, it was a sign that Britain is finally coming to terms with the challenge of terrorism.
Terrorism experts said that the South London shooting was an unavoidable use of lethal force, the first result of new rules of engagement given to the security forces to deal with the threat of suicide bombers: shoot for the head, not for the body, in case you detonate explosives on the suspect's body. If officers thought the man was carrying explosives, they had no choice.
Mr Winner, chairman of the Police Memorial Trust, went further than that. He told Times Online: "I think the police shooting the terrorist was absolutely right.
"Our whole approach to terrorism is absurd. We need new laws to detain people without trial - we are at war. We are playing cricket and they're playing mass murder. Police powers should be massively increased, as well as police numbers."
Mr Winner's comments will earn him no thanks from the Metropolitan Police, whose Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, was at pains today to say that "any death is deeply regrettable". Since the suicide bombings of July 7, Sir Ian has done all he can to stop the terror attacks dividing London's ethnic and religious communities.
And the fact that the suspected suicide bomber was shot so many times also caused some disquiet today - even before the dead man was identified. The Muslim Council of Britain said it had received a number of phone calls from ordinary Muslims worried that the police had adopted a "shoot-to-kill" policy.
Inayat Bunglawala, a Council spokesman, said: "There may well be reasons why the police felt it necessary to unload five shots into the man and shoot him dead, but they need to make those reasons clear. We are getting phone calls from quite a lot of Muslims who are distressed about what may be a shoot-to-kill policy."
Mr Winner was unrepentant: "The so-called politically correct liberals have on their hands the blood of many of our citizens already. Tragically, the number will vastly increase before anything sensible is done about it."
"Nothing to do but cut and run, huh? What else? What about the old American social custom of self-defense? If the police don't defend us, maybe we ought to do it ourselves."
Winner was a good friend of Charles Bronson, and directed some of his best films: Death Wish, The Stone Killer, Chato's Land, and The Mechanic.
The man knows what he is talking about.
I see nothing wrong with this.....Shoot first, shoot last, shoot some more, and when in doubt, SHOOT!
If the ragheads ARE worried, they brought it on themselves. Since they condone terrorism (by their silence), then they should be VERY afraid, and continue to be afraid until they start to rid themselves of the radicals....
Death Wish 3 ...Critics hated it ...Although flawed , I enjoyed it immensely !
Death Wish 3 is amazing.
It's too bad that as of yet,they don't have laws in place that would enable them to go after the mullahs inciting and recruiting,and to go after the terrorist suspects BEFORE they act,and not have to wait until they're either on the brink of acting or have already acted.I hope that Blair can get some passed.
It's also too bad that the citizenry can't legally defend itself with effective force. I don't doubt that it won't be long before there's a hostage situation,and even if the law enforcement wants to negotiate(which of course they shouldn't),the terrorists aren't going to.
Not to mention that these scum are killing innocent British at their OWN EXPENSE-I mean that of the British taxpayer-one of their most notorious mullahs inciting violence and applauding the killing has been on the dole since he's been there(yes I'm watching Fox)
Yes, it is. It's also too bad that these mullahs aren't ending up dead from undisclosed "accidents".....
You almost can't blame the British people. Look at what happened to that farmer when he shot burglars who were attempting to rob him yet again. HE almost went to jail,IIRC. Actually, I need to look that up and refresh my memory,but I remember enough to know that it was a scandal,that he couldn't defend himself and his property with due force.PC run amok has left those people defenseless and at the mercy of the terrorists.They'd have to beat them with cricket bats, I suppose.
The whole piece was focused on "how London has changed" since the Bobbies "now carry gins" as witness the shooting of a terrorist in the London Underground yesterday. Zero mention was made in this piece of the bombings by terrorists which led to this shooting.
And people ask why we are "after Big Bird" when we try to get Congress to STOP GIVING TAXPAYER DOLLARS to this leftist, anti-American twits at NPR. (Sorry for shouting.)
Congressman Billybob
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