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Police test new powers during weapons blitz in Melbourne's west
Police and the Victorian Government have defended new police search powers being tested at Footscray Railway Station today. It is the first time police have used new laws that allow them to "lock down" designated areas, and use metal detectors to search anyone suspected of carrying weapons.
Police seized a machete from one train passenger soon after the operation began this afternoon.
Snip: The president probably would have attended memorial services for the dead, expressed "strong condemnation," persuaded the United Nations to issue more worthless resolutions, but little more. That's because the president isn't fighting - or speaking - as if we are at war. He first called the attempted bombing an "incident." In his Saturday radio address, the president finally, if belatedly, tied the attempted attack to al-Qaida's branch in Yemen. Still there is great reluctance by this administration to state the obvious.
President Obama and his Cabinet apparently believe that by not calling it a war, it becomes something less. This president refuses to call it a war and sometimes approaches pacifism in his rhetoric. If al-Qaida and its affiliates around the world behave as if they are at war and the United States views every attack as "incidents" and not part of a larger battle, our enemies will win.