RE: Different approach by the West Mids police

Bill and all, I am all for the police acting sensibly and in accord with the rule of law, and always have been.  Shooting to kill is not, to me, the best and wisest course when it is based upon vague feelings and rationalized with assertions of probable cause after the fact.  "To act" need not automatically mean shooting to kill, amazingly enough.  This is not essentially disarming the police; it is a call for return to sanity, although I admit that these days that is the province of lefty extremists.

Like you (hope you're sitting down now) I wish to avoid the deaths of thousands of innocent people.  Unlike you, I see shooting to kill as more likely, not less, to bring it about.  It is also an endorsement of the terrorist mentality.

If, as your argument below suggests, the police are always right by definition, then there is no hope for exchange, but I am glad that at least you have clarified that acting in a suspicious manner means a spontaneous death sentence for the unlucky.  What would Ben Franklin think about that!

cheers,
Clark

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] on behalf of William Highfield
Sent: Thu 7/28/2005 10:50 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CAT23-Achat] Different approach by the West Mids police
 
Clark,

By saying the cops should not act when they feel they have probable 
cause, you're essentially disarming them.  Now I wasn't there and 
neither were you.  I'm giving the British police the benefit of the 
doubt until proven different when they say that they felt the man was a 
threat.  You are doing exactly the opposite when you suggest that the 
performed a "street execution".

The next time this situation occurs - and I'm sure it will - I only hope 
and pray that some cop doesn't hesitate because he doesn't want to be 
accused of performing a street execution and instead, the suspect 
manages to detonate his bomb killing thousands.

I know to many on the left think police are all jackbooted fascists, but 
I cannot understand the need to accuse these cops of performing a street 
execution when they had a suspect acting in a completely suspcious 
manner in a very tense situation and they did what they thought was the 
right thing to do.


-- 
Bill Highfield
St Cloud, Florida, USA!

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