tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post1638854610375899471..comments2023-12-28T09:22:34.081+00:00Comments on They're Joking. Aren't They?: Unheard wordsNorth Northwesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10990919627286136085noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-12713747767925803692009-07-26T10:12:37.980+01:002009-07-26T10:12:37.980+01:00James, you posted after my reply. Am I really on L...James, you posted after my reply. Am I really on LFAT? I'll have to go and see, thanks.<br />What have you got planned for Sily Week's official start tomorrow, I wonder? Better check..North Northwesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10990919627286136085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-31009390135963511302009-07-26T10:11:06.944+01:002009-07-26T10:11:06.944+01:00Ivan. Dead man's switches are hand-held and op...Ivan. Dead man's switches are hand-held and operated - as far as I know - so that when the terrorist dies, his hand opens and boom.<br /><br />It appears that the Met and its military advisers are aware of this and calculate that an empty-handed suspect:<br /><br />A) has no such switch, but may instead have a simple trigger or detonator hidden about his person (as a precaution perhaps against being accidentally bumped into and dropping the dead man switch somewhere where there aren't enough victims and so spoiling the intended effect of mass carnage) - in which case the head shot and keep shooting till the head's gone policy that worked so well on Gibraltar would seem to be the right thing to do, or<br /><br />B) may not be a terrorist at all, which doesn't improve the armed officer's dilemma one jot, but at least doesn't make it worse. In any case, a hidden dead man's switch is no more likely than the existence of a hidden trigger, and the possibility of either or both just adds to the fun. <br /><br />It would be better to destroy and demoralize the jihadist cause in Afghanistan and Iran by other, more impressive means, and so bring despair and surrender to the jihadists here as governmental resolve did to the IRA.<br /><br />Let's hope that, in that case, the bureaucrats don't give away the farm and invite the jihadists into the heart of government as they did in Northern Ireland.North Northwesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10990919627286136085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-49179304551303807102009-07-26T10:01:07.959+01:002009-07-26T10:01:07.959+01:00It seems a reasonable principle to me to seek the ...It seems a reasonable principle to me to seek the causes and circumstances of cases such as violent deaths, and to seek to change the arrangements by which power is used and lives are led if that will in turn lead away from further bloodshed.<br /><br />Yes, I agree that that seems the more sustainable way to go. You know you're up at Letters from a Tory, by the way?James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-35542963145276361112009-07-25T21:46:59.378+01:002009-07-25T21:46:59.378+01:00It is obvious those that want or advocate a shoot-...It is obvious those that want or advocate a shoot-to-kill policy have not heard of a dead-man-switch - a simple device that requires a person using it to have concious control or it sets off the big bang.ivannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-85074473871130132872009-07-25T21:45:50.220+01:002009-07-25T21:45:50.220+01:00I feel sorry for the De Menezes family but if Braz...I feel sorry for the De Menezes family but if Brazil memorialised everyone killed by the police in the way they want Jean Charles to be remembered you wouldn't be able to walk 12 steps without tripping on one.Rosshttp://fountain.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com