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On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:16:15 +0100, Roderick Stewart <rjfs@escapetime.nospam.plus.com> wrote:

> In article <t_GdnT59ZepHk3XfRVnyiQ@pipex.net>, MrBlueSkye wrote:
>> >> If they shouted Police stop and I was in an area that was under threat of
>> >> bombing, I would stop very quickly and listen very carefully to what they
>> >> had to say
>> >> MBS
>> >
>> > Would you really stake your life on them actually being policemen if you
>> > thought you had a chance of getting away in the crowds?
>> >
>> > Rod.
>> >
>> You mean in a London tube station with the London police on full alert a
>> week after three London tube stations were bombed by terrorists I would
>> assume that three men shouting "Police stop" wouldn'n be Police? What a
>> fucking stupid question. Are you a Muslim seeking to prove something?
>> MBS
>
> In circumstances where people have recently posed as harmless or innocent when
> they are not, to devastating effect, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if
> somebody decided to pose as police. The aim of these people seems to be to
> create panic, and the police have demonstrated that their methods can be almost
> as successful as those of the bombers. If you want to cripple London, a few
> shootouts in public places would soon make many people afraid to go there, and
> you wouldn't even need to blow yourself up in the process, so you could get
> away with it several times.
>
> With hindsight we know that this wasn't such a stunt of course, but in the real
> situation I don't suppose it would be clear at all, and you'd only have half a
> second or so to decide what to do.

And it was his wrong stupid decision, and he has to live with it (in a manner of speaking).

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