May be, but PVR was talking about the security services not the general public or a bunch of bored Liberal councillors.Geezah wrote:elevensies wrote:pvr wrote:I am sure they can trace this back. As always, there is a Muslim convert involved. Find the mosque involved, find everyone involved there and roll it up. I can't comment on what the security forces do as I have no idea, but I would like to think that they are not tied by good-doers and can get on with the job.
unfortunately, yes
Trude dat!
Look at the amount of do-gooders getting their knickers in a twist because the RAF were using drones to take out these nut jobs.
Hell! Use whatever means are at your disposal I would say. These do-gooders live in a parallel universe to normal thinking people.
Experienced this 'Pink and Fluffy' attitude in Starbucks only this week. Woman sitting next to me finishes her coffee and leaves, leaving her bag behind. Me thinking she was away to the cludgie ignored it but after some time, her table was cleared and her bag was still there. I informed a member of staff who removed it.
The owner eventually came back looking all flustered as her bag was missing. I said, good humouredly, ' Good to see you back, you don't look like a terrorist anyway, the management have your bag.' She looked at me and in all seriousness said, ' You shouldn't think bad of everyone, there are good people in the world too you know.' as she flounced off. True, I didn't expect any thanks for being an observant, security conscious member of the public.
So.....by definition then, she acknowledges that there are also bad people in the world....but that we should do nothing about it?
I rest my case Petrocelli!
Personally, I have every confidence that the UK security services are amongst the most well trained, well informed and most effective in the world. We live in a free democracy not a police state, so of course they can't just go around locking every one up, or hounding every nut job. But when in comes to the sharp end they get it right most of the time.
Bearing in mind the huge personnel responsibility, one of the protection team at Westminster on Wednesday, shot to kill, when they needed to. They will have known the consequence of getting it wrong, but training & skill, allowed that individual to do what had to be done, within the rules, in those few split seconds. What followed within seconds was a calm well executed plan, coordinating all of London's emergency services, whilst the whole world looked on. Of course lessons will be learned but from what I observed the UK security and emergency services did a bloody fine job.