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London Bombings

by John Cole|  July 22, 20051:22 pm| 24 Comments

This post is in: War on Terror aka GSAVE®

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Several of you have asked if I have any thoughts about the new London bombing attempts or the subsequent shooting. Other than “If he was a terrorist, shoot him again,” I have nothing to offer.

Joe Gandelman, on the other hand, has a link rich round-up.

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  1. 1.

    Stormy70

    July 22, 2005 at 1:44 pm

    What is there to think? Looks like Britain will have to clean out their nest of terrorist fanatics and sympathizers. Good hunting, UK.

  2. 2.

    Jim Treacher

    July 22, 2005 at 1:54 pm

    I think it’s terrible that they shot a dusky-toned gentleman just because he was sprinting toward a train with wires trailing from his jacket and didn’t heed police orders to stop. Is that all it takes these days? Orwell would weep. Maybe the poor fellow was deaf, and the wires were for his hearing aid, and they were hanging loose and that’s why he couldn’t hear and he was running to the train before the repair shop closed. Ever think of that, George W. Bu$h?

  3. 3.

    Jeff

    July 22, 2005 at 1:58 pm

    I just find it humorous that if something happens and you don’t post on it within 24 hours that you then have a bunch of people emailing you to ask what you think.

    “Honey, come to bed.”

    “I can’t, damnit!!!!! Not until I know what John Cole thinks of the London Bombings!!!”

  4. 4.

    Stormy70

    July 22, 2005 at 1:59 pm

    Heh.

  5. 5.

    jg

    July 22, 2005 at 1:59 pm

    Maybe the poor fellow was deaf, and the wires were for his hearing aid, and they were hanging loose and that’s why he couldn’t hear and he was running to the train before the repair shop closed. Ever think of that, George W. Bu$h?

    LOL

    Did they blow a hole in him with a large caliber weapon or let him slowly bleed out from a small arms wound? Either is acceptable to me.

  6. 6.

    ppGaz

    July 22, 2005 at 2:39 pm

    News: Exterminator squashes bug! Government declares plague of locusts in “last throes.”

  7. 7.

    Sojourner

    July 22, 2005 at 2:42 pm

    ppGaz once again gets it right.

  8. 8.

    BinkyBoy

    July 22, 2005 at 2:53 pm

    I’m curious which provision of the Patriot Act helped them shoot the “terrorist”

  9. 9.

    Don Surber

    July 22, 2005 at 3:00 pm

    Hmm, seeing how it was in the UK, I do not believe US law applies, but I learned long ago that libs think logic and reason are too confining.

  10. 10.

    Jeff

    July 22, 2005 at 3:11 pm

    Don, give them a break. They’re disappointed nobody died and they couldn’t crack out their really good anti-Bush snark.

  11. 11.

    BinkyBoy

    July 22, 2005 at 3:11 pm

    Thank you Don, that just made my day. Your apparent inability to remotely understand humor but go on a defensive attack mode strategy is just classic.

    I would have expected that post from DougJ its so far out.

  12. 12.

    BinkyBoy

    July 22, 2005 at 3:12 pm

    Jeff, get it right, we’re liberals so we’re only happy when babies and Americans die.

  13. 13.

    Marcus Wellby

    July 22, 2005 at 3:44 pm

    Jeff,

    Does being a loathesome little prick come natural to you or is it something you work at?

  14. 14.

    Mike

    July 22, 2005 at 3:47 pm

    “I think it’s terrible that they shot a dusky-toned gentleman just because he was sprinting toward a train with wires trailing from his jacket and didn’t heed police orders to stop. Is that all it takes these days? Orwell would weep. Maybe the poor fellow was deaf, and the wires were for his hearing aid, and they were hanging loose and that’s why he couldn’t hear and he was running to the train before the repair shop closed. Ever think of that, George W. Bu$h?”

    OMIGOD!!
    George Bush SHOT SOMEONE?
    He must have, or else your comment would make you look like an idiot…

  15. 15.

    BinkyBoy

    July 22, 2005 at 3:55 pm

    Is there a lack of humor around here on Fridays or is it everyday and I’m just noticing it?

    Sheesh, lighten up people, take your meds and think before you blow.

  16. 16.

    Jimmy Jazz

    July 22, 2005 at 3:57 pm

    If we start shooting guys just because they’re dark skinned and have wires coming out of their jackets, that’s really going to cut down on iPod sales. Somebody tell Brit Hume to sell Apple short.

  17. 17.

    Richard Bottoms

    July 22, 2005 at 5:22 pm

    White folks hear a report about a dusky skinned suspect shot dead and their first reaction is good policew work.

    Black folks hear the same report and think about their last ‘driving while black stop’ or Amadu Diallo.

    I hope they shot the right guy. Heaven help them if they didn’t.

  18. 18.

    DJ

    July 22, 2005 at 6:26 pm

    White people have names like Lanny, but black people have names like Carl!

  19. 19.

    jg

    July 22, 2005 at 6:36 pm

    Is that a Simpsons joke? I’m pretty sure the guys name is Lenny.

  20. 20.

    DJ

    July 22, 2005 at 7:29 pm

    Right, I stand corrected. It was a line Homer said doing a stand-up act or something.

  21. 21.

    Al Maviva

    July 23, 2005 at 12:05 am

    That’s it. I’m going left wing for the next week.

    All my comments are going to be kneejerk leftwing stupidity for the next week. It starts right here.

    “They only shot him because he used Sony parts to build those bombs and he built them in-house, rather than outsourcing to Halliburton, which would have built the bombs using illicit OIIIIILLL! money in Barbados, with 6 year-old crippled workers chained to workbenches in a whorehouse.

    Besides, Bush lied.”

  22. 22.

    Richard Bottoms

    July 23, 2005 at 1:42 pm

    Oopsie.

    “The man shot dead by police in south London yesterday is not connected to attempted terror attacks on the capital, Scotland Yard said today.

    “For somebody to lose their life in such circumstances is a tragedy and one that the Metropolitan Police Service regrets,” said a spokesman.

    http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/23/london.tube/index.html”

    He didn’t ‘lose’ his life it was taken basically for being darkskinned and running for a train.

    Bastards.

  23. 23.

    m.croche

    July 23, 2005 at 5:52 pm

    “Several of you have asked if I have any thoughts about the new London bombing attempts or the subsequent shooting. Other than “If he was a terrorist, shoot him again,” I have nothing to offer.”

    And if he’s not a terrorist, you only shoot him once?

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