Brazilian State Visit to Great Britain

[Claverhouse]

The latest Private Eye has a good piece here:

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COURT CIRCULAR

BUCKINGHAM PALACE

March 17: The President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, today began a state visit.

The President drove down Horse Guards to Buckingham Palace where he was greeted by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.

Gun salutes were fired by The King's Troop, the Royal Horse Artillery and six armed police marksmen who, after a shouted warning to drop his rucksack, fired six bullets at close range into the President's head and torso.


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[Biff_Loman]

I'm sorry. What is this?

[Claverhouse]

How soon we forget...

Trigger Happy TV (http://www.intpcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5568&highlight=brazilian)


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[Superstring]

this is hilarious!!!


http://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/lookalikes/big/posh_corpse.jpg


Sir,
I was watching Tim Burton’s “Corpse Bride” last night and I noticed the startling similarity between Mrs Victoria Beckham and a corpse.

Yours,

PHILIP KNIGHT


Edit: This, from the same e-zine

[Ferrus]

I'm sorry. What is this?
Basically this Barziallian guy was shot by police in Britain because they thought he was a terrorist a few days after the London bombing.

[Claverhouse]

And one by one the police lies fell apart...


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[Johnny]

How soon we forget...

Trigger Happy TV (http://www.intpcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5568&highlight=brazilian)


Claverhouse :ph34r:

And how soon we judge...

If this man had fallen off a cliff, would you have ridiculed others for not having levelled it first to eliminate the hazard? Sure, and then there would be great outpouring of derision because Brazilians also fell off cliffs in Brazil often enough. British cops should know better.

Bottom line, we all take our chances and none of us are perfect. Just lucky, maybe.

[Claverhouse]

If you misidentify someone as a terrorist, there are simpler ways to take hold of them than trailing them for around an hour and then shooting 7-8 bullets into them. If I'd pulled a stunt like that back in the Third Section I'd have been reassigned to the middle of Siberia...

The police fouled up. They've never been as competent as legend has it, no police force lived up to it's ideal vision; but thanks to political correctness and the vulgarisation of social culture since Lady's Thatcher's time, they are now profoundly inept.


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[Johnny]

The police fouled up.

Of course the police fouled up...and that was one they can't take back.

Life is a constant series of risk analyses. Sure they could have just let this guy run and done nothing, instead taking a break and grabbing a snack and laughing about not being the suckers who run around chasing morons, but they instead tried to do their jobs.

You nail cops to the wall for doing jobs that entail chasing potential terrorists and risk making mistakes for accepting that job, then you don't really have anything to complain about do you? Seems to me it's your own problem now.

Just asking. I'm trying to get to the bottom of the reasoning behind all this.

[Claverhouse]

They were inefficient. Had they 'let him run' it would have made no difference since he was a Brazilian guest-worker who didn't have the remotest connection with any terrorists, let alone the 7 July bombers who were muslims from rather different ethnic groups to the victim.

Them 'risking making mistakes' didn't entail risking themselves but risking the life of an innocent man. If they are inefficient then they shouldn't be in their jobs, particularly the lying Commissioner of the Met, Sir Ian Blair, and the bungling Commander Cressida Dick who was the OC. There is absolutely no purpose in having people who protect you from the bad guys if they murder you instead whilst so doing.


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