London shooting
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For my part, I am very tolerant of honest, even if horrible, mistakes made by those who are trying to defend our civilization from this Islamic terrorism. However, if these guys lied about that mistake, than it is no longer an honest mistake, and, if true, they should certainly be confronted with that and dealth with accordingly. "Capitalism is the source of all true freedom."
Thank you. I am very emotional about this incident as I have friends who are Italian and Spanish who live in that area. All are "dark skinned" and could have been the ones shot so it hit home very personally. The cover-up makes matters just far worse. It appears now too that the police chief asked the government if the police could handle the investigation into the shooting themselves. Thankfully they were told no. "Defending our freedom" does not mean shooting people dead because you think they might be dangerous. That is too high a price to pay IMHO.
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Thank you. I am very emotional about this incident as I have friends who are Italian and Spanish who live in that area. All are "dark skinned" and could have been the ones shot so it hit home very personally. The cover-up makes matters just far worse. It appears now too that the police chief asked the government if the police could handle the investigation into the shooting themselves. Thankfully they were told no. "Defending our freedom" does not mean shooting people dead because you think they might be dangerous. That is too high a price to pay IMHO.
fakefur wrote: "Defending our freedom" does not mean shooting people dead because you think they might be dangerous. That is too high a price to pay IMHO. The problem though is that expecting honesty is one thing, expecting perfection from the police force is something eles entirely. Is it possible that the London police are cold blooded, racist murders? Well cetainly it is, but it is far more likely that they simply made a mistake - now compounded by dishonesty about it. It is important to place the blame where it belongs - with the terrorists themselves. It is the terrorist's fault that police are put into situations where such mistakes can, and will, be made. You have to have some kind of faith in something, and if our own police are as evil as the terroists themselves - where does that leave us? But, as I said, the least we can expect is honesty when mistakes are made, which we apparently might not have gotten in this case. "Capitalism is the source of all true freedom."
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So now that we can see the photo of the poor mans dead body wearing a light tshirt and a close fitting denim jacket can we assume that someone made the mother of all f**k ups and then we had an inept and insulting attempt at a cover-up? Yes I have seen the earlier thread but I also saw that it degenrated into arbitrary and meaningless discussions about unrelated issues. The simple fact of the matter is an innocent man was gunned down in the most horrific and uneccesary fashion by a bunch of macho cowboy wannabes trying to get some kind of revenge and send some kind of a signal. It makes me sick. I hope the people involved are charged with something that sees them go to jail for a long time. X| [edit] Profanity removed as it was serving no purpose and it came from emotion not logic. [/edit]
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fakefur wrote: Oh and those people voting 1's ------ F**K YOU I'm all bent over and lubed up. You can use that dick you either wish you had or wish was bigger. Make it quick though, I have constructive topics with intelligent people to participate in.
Anonymous wrote: Make it quick though, I have constructive topics with intelligent people to participate in. Your post doesn't fall into either the constructive or the intelligent category. Is that the reason why you are posting anonymously? Good music: In my rosary[^]
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So now that we can see the photo of the poor mans dead body wearing a light tshirt and a close fitting denim jacket can we assume that someone made the mother of all f**k ups and then we had an inept and insulting attempt at a cover-up? Yes I have seen the earlier thread but I also saw that it degenrated into arbitrary and meaningless discussions about unrelated issues. The simple fact of the matter is an innocent man was gunned down in the most horrific and uneccesary fashion by a bunch of macho cowboy wannabes trying to get some kind of revenge and send some kind of a signal. It makes me sick. I hope the people involved are charged with something that sees them go to jail for a long time. X| [edit] Profanity removed as it was serving no purpose and it came from emotion not logic. [/edit]
Um, you need to get your facts straight mate, ideally separating what was reported by the media, now and then, and what was actually reported by the police. The police did not say what he was wearing, eyewitnesses and the media did. The police did not say he ran anywhere, eyewitnesses and the media did. The police did say he entered a train, he did. The police did say he didn't comply with police instruction when subsequently challenged, he didn't comply. The police did say they tried to restrain him, and they did try to restrain him. What has happened here is classic Trial by Media. All motive - all motive - has been speculated by the media. False information was put out by the media (and as it has in the past I believe in some cases willingly), to gorge themselves on all the hype. The police where unable to come forward and give corrections because of the IPCC investigation into the shooting. Ask any lawer, you can't talk about a case in public while it is still being investigated, especially not if there is the possibilitiy it could become criminal. Aside from the legal repercusions it only goes further to create kneejerk uninformed reactions such as yours. This leak will not help Mr. Menezes family get a fair investigation, it is another sad day for them, and for us, where once again public opinion will decide the fate of many lives while the law is casually cast aside. None of this information changes anything. Do not forget that this man was positively identified as a man who had set off one of the eight bombs that had exploded on the London transport network within the previous two weeks. And we now know that as fact, if mistaken. Do you think CCTV footage of each of those bombers doesn't show them calmly walking onto their tube train before they murdered 52 civilians and injured more than 700? Like you, a big part of me wants the police officers involved in this case to be sent to prison for carrying out their sworn duties to protect us. That way, when every armed police unit in the country goes on strike and lays down their weapons, leading to a surge in violent and gun crime, I can take glee in The Sun publishing a full written appology for helping to bring our country into exactly what the terrorists want it to become. :|
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Um, you need to get your facts straight mate, ideally separating what was reported by the media, now and then, and what was actually reported by the police. The police did not say what he was wearing, eyewitnesses and the media did. The police did not say he ran anywhere, eyewitnesses and the media did. The police did say he entered a train, he did. The police did say he didn't comply with police instruction when subsequently challenged, he didn't comply. The police did say they tried to restrain him, and they did try to restrain him. What has happened here is classic Trial by Media. All motive - all motive - has been speculated by the media. False information was put out by the media (and as it has in the past I believe in some cases willingly), to gorge themselves on all the hype. The police where unable to come forward and give corrections because of the IPCC investigation into the shooting. Ask any lawer, you can't talk about a case in public while it is still being investigated, especially not if there is the possibilitiy it could become criminal. Aside from the legal repercusions it only goes further to create kneejerk uninformed reactions such as yours. This leak will not help Mr. Menezes family get a fair investigation, it is another sad day for them, and for us, where once again public opinion will decide the fate of many lives while the law is casually cast aside. None of this information changes anything. Do not forget that this man was positively identified as a man who had set off one of the eight bombs that had exploded on the London transport network within the previous two weeks. And we now know that as fact, if mistaken. Do you think CCTV footage of each of those bombers doesn't show them calmly walking onto their tube train before they murdered 52 civilians and injured more than 700? Like you, a big part of me wants the police officers involved in this case to be sent to prison for carrying out their sworn duties to protect us. That way, when every armed police unit in the country goes on strike and lays down their weapons, leading to a surge in violent and gun crime, I can take glee in The Sun publishing a full written appology for helping to bring our country into exactly what the terrorists want it to become. :|
Ðavid Wulff Audioscrobbler ::
David Wulff wrote: Like you, a big part of me wants the police officers involved in this case to be sent to prison for carrying out their sworn duties to protect us. That way, when every armed police unit in the country goes on strike and lays down their weapons, leading to a surge in violent and gun crime, I can take glee in The Sun publishing a full written appology for helping to bring our country into exactly what the terrorists want it to become. Wow! Powerful statement. I wish I had said it. "Capitalism is the source of all true freedom."
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fakefur wrote: Oh and those people voting 1's ------ F**K YOU I'm all bent over and lubed up. You can use that dick you either wish you had or wish was bigger. Make it quick though, I have constructive topics with intelligent people to participate in.
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Um, you need to get your facts straight mate, ideally separating what was reported by the media, now and then, and what was actually reported by the police. The police did not say what he was wearing, eyewitnesses and the media did. The police did not say he ran anywhere, eyewitnesses and the media did. The police did say he entered a train, he did. The police did say he didn't comply with police instruction when subsequently challenged, he didn't comply. The police did say they tried to restrain him, and they did try to restrain him. What has happened here is classic Trial by Media. All motive - all motive - has been speculated by the media. False information was put out by the media (and as it has in the past I believe in some cases willingly), to gorge themselves on all the hype. The police where unable to come forward and give corrections because of the IPCC investigation into the shooting. Ask any lawer, you can't talk about a case in public while it is still being investigated, especially not if there is the possibilitiy it could become criminal. Aside from the legal repercusions it only goes further to create kneejerk uninformed reactions such as yours. This leak will not help Mr. Menezes family get a fair investigation, it is another sad day for them, and for us, where once again public opinion will decide the fate of many lives while the law is casually cast aside. None of this information changes anything. Do not forget that this man was positively identified as a man who had set off one of the eight bombs that had exploded on the London transport network within the previous two weeks. And we now know that as fact, if mistaken. Do you think CCTV footage of each of those bombers doesn't show them calmly walking onto their tube train before they murdered 52 civilians and injured more than 700? Like you, a big part of me wants the police officers involved in this case to be sent to prison for carrying out their sworn duties to protect us. That way, when every armed police unit in the country goes on strike and lays down their weapons, leading to a surge in violent and gun crime, I can take glee in The Sun publishing a full written appology for helping to bring our country into exactly what the terrorists want it to become. :|
Ðavid Wulff Audioscrobbler ::
Actually according to the police: 1. He was wearing a padded heavy jacket - wrong 2. He didn't comply with orders to stop - wrong. None were given. 3. He jumped the ticket barrier and ran away - wrong. 4. He tripped and fell into the train whilst running away from the police - wrong. He was seated and restrained by a security guard. In addition: The police officer doing surveillance was pee-ing at the time the guy left the apartment building (bolded there to make people realise this wasn't a small house or something). He was allowed to go several miles by foot and bus without being challenged. He was not positively identified as anything. In fact the officer said "Check identity". It wasn't done. All in all I'd say pretty damning evidence. Then add a few grains of smelly cover-up and you have a huge stinking mess that makes everyone look bad and dishonest. People should be forced to resign and face criminal charges. [edit] Like I said - I think the price is too high if innocent people can be killed like this. Clearly the UK police force isn't up to the job and they maybe should all lay down their guns. [/edit] [editedit] Answer me this honestly: If it was your brother / mother / father / sister / son / daughter would you be saying the same things? Honestly remember. [/editedit]
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Actually according to the police: 1. He was wearing a padded heavy jacket - wrong 2. He didn't comply with orders to stop - wrong. None were given. 3. He jumped the ticket barrier and ran away - wrong. 4. He tripped and fell into the train whilst running away from the police - wrong. He was seated and restrained by a security guard. In addition: The police officer doing surveillance was pee-ing at the time the guy left the apartment building (bolded there to make people realise this wasn't a small house or something). He was allowed to go several miles by foot and bus without being challenged. He was not positively identified as anything. In fact the officer said "Check identity". It wasn't done. All in all I'd say pretty damning evidence. Then add a few grains of smelly cover-up and you have a huge stinking mess that makes everyone look bad and dishonest. People should be forced to resign and face criminal charges. [edit] Like I said - I think the price is too high if innocent people can be killed like this. Clearly the UK police force isn't up to the job and they maybe should all lay down their guns. [/edit] [editedit] Answer me this honestly: If it was your brother / mother / father / sister / son / daughter would you be saying the same things? Honestly remember. [/editedit]
Did YOU really write that? I agree, and you even made me talk to you again. :omg: Never forget: "Stay kul and happy" (I.A.)
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Did YOU really write that? I agree, and you even made me talk to you again. :omg: Never forget: "Stay kul and happy" (I.A.)
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Thank you. I am very emotional about this incident as I have friends who are Italian and Spanish who live in that area. All are "dark skinned" and could have been the ones shot so it hit home very personally. The cover-up makes matters just far worse. It appears now too that the police chief asked the government if the police could handle the investigation into the shooting themselves. Thankfully they were told no. "Defending our freedom" does not mean shooting people dead because you think they might be dangerous. That is too high a price to pay IMHO.
fakefur wrote: Thank you. I am very emotional about this incident as I have friends who are Italian and Spanish who live in that area. All are "dark skinned" and could have been the ones shot so it hit home very personally. The cover-up makes matters just far worse. It appears now too that the police chief asked the government if the police could handle the investigation into the shooting themselves. Thankfully they were told no. I am surprised that everyone's 1-voting your post. You seem to be making very valid points in my opinion.
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Um, you need to get your facts straight mate, ideally separating what was reported by the media, now and then, and what was actually reported by the police. The police did not say what he was wearing, eyewitnesses and the media did. The police did not say he ran anywhere, eyewitnesses and the media did. The police did say he entered a train, he did. The police did say he didn't comply with police instruction when subsequently challenged, he didn't comply. The police did say they tried to restrain him, and they did try to restrain him. What has happened here is classic Trial by Media. All motive - all motive - has been speculated by the media. False information was put out by the media (and as it has in the past I believe in some cases willingly), to gorge themselves on all the hype. The police where unable to come forward and give corrections because of the IPCC investigation into the shooting. Ask any lawer, you can't talk about a case in public while it is still being investigated, especially not if there is the possibilitiy it could become criminal. Aside from the legal repercusions it only goes further to create kneejerk uninformed reactions such as yours. This leak will not help Mr. Menezes family get a fair investigation, it is another sad day for them, and for us, where once again public opinion will decide the fate of many lives while the law is casually cast aside. None of this information changes anything. Do not forget that this man was positively identified as a man who had set off one of the eight bombs that had exploded on the London transport network within the previous two weeks. And we now know that as fact, if mistaken. Do you think CCTV footage of each of those bombers doesn't show them calmly walking onto their tube train before they murdered 52 civilians and injured more than 700? Like you, a big part of me wants the police officers involved in this case to be sent to prison for carrying out their sworn duties to protect us. That way, when every armed police unit in the country goes on strike and lays down their weapons, leading to a surge in violent and gun crime, I can take glee in The Sun publishing a full written appology for helping to bring our country into exactly what the terrorists want it to become. :|
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Cops need to be given stun-bullets that don't kill but just stun the targets. That way, such tragedies can be avoided.
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Actually according to the police: 1. He was wearing a padded heavy jacket - wrong 2. He didn't comply with orders to stop - wrong. None were given. 3. He jumped the ticket barrier and ran away - wrong. 4. He tripped and fell into the train whilst running away from the police - wrong. He was seated and restrained by a security guard. In addition: The police officer doing surveillance was pee-ing at the time the guy left the apartment building (bolded there to make people realise this wasn't a small house or something). He was allowed to go several miles by foot and bus without being challenged. He was not positively identified as anything. In fact the officer said "Check identity". It wasn't done. All in all I'd say pretty damning evidence. Then add a few grains of smelly cover-up and you have a huge stinking mess that makes everyone look bad and dishonest. People should be forced to resign and face criminal charges. [edit] Like I said - I think the price is too high if innocent people can be killed like this. Clearly the UK police force isn't up to the job and they maybe should all lay down their guns. [/edit] [editedit] Answer me this honestly: If it was your brother / mother / father / sister / son / daughter would you be saying the same things? Honestly remember. [/editedit]
fakefur wrote: [editedit] Answer me this honestly: If it was your brother / mother / father / sister / son / daughter would you be saying the same things? Honestly remember. [/editedit] I think it weas an atypical Wulff post - normally he's one of the most neutral guys here in the Soapbox. Maybe he got affected by the tone/language used by your original post.
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For my part, I am very tolerant of honest, even if horrible, mistakes made by those who are trying to defend our civilization from this Islamic terrorism. However, if these guys lied about that mistake, than it is no longer an honest mistake, and, if true, they should certainly be confronted with that and dealth with accordingly. "Capitalism is the source of all true freedom."
I'm sure some of Anne Frank's nieghbors thought it all a terrible terrible mistake too... "Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make us comfortable." -- Jamake Highwater Toasty0.com My Grandkids
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Um, you need to get your facts straight mate, ideally separating what was reported by the media, now and then, and what was actually reported by the police. The police did not say what he was wearing, eyewitnesses and the media did. The police did not say he ran anywhere, eyewitnesses and the media did. The police did say he entered a train, he did. The police did say he didn't comply with police instruction when subsequently challenged, he didn't comply. The police did say they tried to restrain him, and they did try to restrain him. What has happened here is classic Trial by Media. All motive - all motive - has been speculated by the media. False information was put out by the media (and as it has in the past I believe in some cases willingly), to gorge themselves on all the hype. The police where unable to come forward and give corrections because of the IPCC investigation into the shooting. Ask any lawer, you can't talk about a case in public while it is still being investigated, especially not if there is the possibilitiy it could become criminal. Aside from the legal repercusions it only goes further to create kneejerk uninformed reactions such as yours. This leak will not help Mr. Menezes family get a fair investigation, it is another sad day for them, and for us, where once again public opinion will decide the fate of many lives while the law is casually cast aside. None of this information changes anything. Do not forget that this man was positively identified as a man who had set off one of the eight bombs that had exploded on the London transport network within the previous two weeks. And we now know that as fact, if mistaken. Do you think CCTV footage of each of those bombers doesn't show them calmly walking onto their tube train before they murdered 52 civilians and injured more than 700? Like you, a big part of me wants the police officers involved in this case to be sent to prison for carrying out their sworn duties to protect us. That way, when every armed police unit in the country goes on strike and lays down their weapons, leading to a surge in violent and gun crime, I can take glee in The Sun publishing a full written appology for helping to bring our country into exactly what the terrorists want it to become. :|
Ðavid Wulff Audioscrobbler ::
David Wulff wrote: Like you, a big part of me wants the police officers involved in this case to be sent to prison for carrying out their sworn duties to protect us. That way, when every armed police unit in the country goes on strike and lays down their weapons, leading to a surge in violent and gun crime, I can take glee in The Sun publishing a full written appology for helping to bring our country into exactly what the terrorists want it to become. Look, if your police are that big a bunch of wankers that they would quit because the public doesn't exactly like the idea of police officers gunning down innocent people then you got bigger problems than terrorism to worry about. "Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make us comfortable." -- Jamake Highwater Toasty0.com My Grandkids
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Cops need to be given stun-bullets that don't kill but just stun the targets. That way, such tragedies can be avoided.
Sounds cool. How about lasers as well ? And helicopter back packs. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
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So now that we can see the photo of the poor mans dead body wearing a light tshirt and a close fitting denim jacket can we assume that someone made the mother of all f**k ups and then we had an inept and insulting attempt at a cover-up? Yes I have seen the earlier thread but I also saw that it degenrated into arbitrary and meaningless discussions about unrelated issues. The simple fact of the matter is an innocent man was gunned down in the most horrific and uneccesary fashion by a bunch of macho cowboy wannabes trying to get some kind of revenge and send some kind of a signal. It makes me sick. I hope the people involved are charged with something that sees them go to jail for a long time. X| [edit] Profanity removed as it was serving no purpose and it came from emotion not logic. [/edit]
fakefur wrote: The simple fact of the matter is an innocent man was gunned down in the most horrific and uneccesary fashion by a bunch of macho cowboy wannabes trying to get some kind of revenge and send some kind of a signal. I'm interested to know if you've met the cops in question, to know their motives and thoughts so intimately ? Or are you just jerking off, based on reports from a biased media ? Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
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fakefur wrote: [editedit] Answer me this honestly: If it was your brother / mother / father / sister / son / daughter would you be saying the same things? Honestly remember. [/editedit] I think it weas an atypical Wulff post - normally he's one of the most neutral guys here in the Soapbox. Maybe he got affected by the tone/language used by your original post.
Nishant Sivakumar wrote: think it weas an atypical Wulff post - normally he's one of the most neutral guys here in the Soapbox. Maybe he got affected by the tone/language used by your original post. It was a typical Wulff post on anything to do with the police. He recently supported the police firing a Tazer weapon at a woman stopped for a traffic offence who refused to get out of her car. John Carson "The English language, complete with irony, satire, and sarcasm, has survived for centuries wihout smileys. Only the new crop of modern computer geeks finds it impossible to detect a joke that is not Clearly Labelled as such." Ray Shea
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Um, you need to get your facts straight mate, ideally separating what was reported by the media, now and then, and what was actually reported by the police. The police did not say what he was wearing, eyewitnesses and the media did. The police did not say he ran anywhere, eyewitnesses and the media did. The police did say he entered a train, he did. The police did say he didn't comply with police instruction when subsequently challenged, he didn't comply. The police did say they tried to restrain him, and they did try to restrain him. What has happened here is classic Trial by Media. All motive - all motive - has been speculated by the media. False information was put out by the media (and as it has in the past I believe in some cases willingly), to gorge themselves on all the hype. The police where unable to come forward and give corrections because of the IPCC investigation into the shooting. Ask any lawer, you can't talk about a case in public while it is still being investigated, especially not if there is the possibilitiy it could become criminal. Aside from the legal repercusions it only goes further to create kneejerk uninformed reactions such as yours. This leak will not help Mr. Menezes family get a fair investigation, it is another sad day for them, and for us, where once again public opinion will decide the fate of many lives while the law is casually cast aside. None of this information changes anything. Do not forget that this man was positively identified as a man who had set off one of the eight bombs that had exploded on the London transport network within the previous two weeks. And we now know that as fact, if mistaken. Do you think CCTV footage of each of those bombers doesn't show them calmly walking onto their tube train before they murdered 52 civilians and injured more than 700? Like you, a big part of me wants the police officers involved in this case to be sent to prison for carrying out their sworn duties to protect us. That way, when every armed police unit in the country goes on strike and lays down their weapons, leading to a surge in violent and gun crime, I can take glee in The Sun publishing a full written appology for helping to bring our country into exactly what the terrorists want it to become. :|
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David Wulff wrote: That way, when every armed police unit in the country goes on strike and lays down their weapons, leading to a surge in violent and gun crime, I can take glee in The Sun publishing a full written appology for helping to bring our country into exactly what the terrorists want it to become. It seems you want it to become a police state. The police, like the military, must be subject to civilian control. If the police can't accept that, they have no business being police. The loss of civil liberties as a reaction to terrorism threatens to become more damaging than the terrorism itself. John Carson "The English language, complete with irony, satire, and sarcasm, has survived for centuries wihout smileys. Only the new crop of modern computer geeks finds it impossible to detect a joke that is not Clearly Labelled as such." Ray Shea
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For my part, I am very tolerant of honest, even if horrible, mistakes made by those who are trying to defend our civilization from this Islamic terrorism. However, if these guys lied about that mistake, than it is no longer an honest mistake, and, if true, they should certainly be confronted with that and dealth with accordingly. "Capitalism is the source of all true freedom."
Stan Shannon wrote: defend our civilization from this Islamic terrorism That’s a very us and them attitude and about as useful as "defend our Islamic civilisation from this western oppression" I don’t agree with either but its interesting that you can take these stupid statements from either side and swap a few terms and not tell the difference. Go on Stan, let me have it, I have a quiet afternoon to fill
