God Save The Queen - The Fascist Regime

Thanks to the Sex Pistols for today's title.

So they've done it again. Another catastrophe by British police. First, they said the guy they shot in the head - seven times - was involved with the July 21st attempted bombing of the Tube. Then, they had to admit he wasn't. But when doing so, they had this whole big good reason the mistake happened. This poor man had apparently ran through the station, jumped the barricade, and refused to follow police commands while wearing a big heavy winter coat (you know, to hide the bomb). So he appeared to be a threat and they had to shoot him so he couldn't set off his strapped-on bomb.

Turns out that most of this isn't true. A British TV station got a hold of a leaked video and documents that show him walking casually into the station, using a ticket to get through the turnstiles, stopping to grab a newspaper, and then getting on the train. He was wearing a thin denim jacket, and also had no backpack to conceal a bomb. He was then grabbed and pinned by a one of the British cops that was following him and then shot in the head. Seven times. Plus one in the shoulder and three misses.

Have these idiots learned nothing over the years? Have they never heard of the Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four, the Maguire Seven, or Bloody Sunday and all the other innocent people that have been jailed or killed over the years by the British government? Come on, all they have to do is watch the movies In The Name Of The Father and Bloody Sunday. If they haven't, I'm sure Amazon could get them to London in a couple days. Probably qualify for a discount if you buy both movies together. It would be well worth the cost. You know, show them to new recruits and say "Don't do this".

My favorite part of this is the reason why they didn't know they had the wrong guy. Apparently it was because the guy whose job it was to confirm the identity with a video monitor had gone to take a leak. And these fucking people are asking for more police powers, like being able to hold people for three months without charge. Yea, because that's worked out so well in the past.