DEAD RIGHT

DAMNED FACT of damned blogs is facts are so often secondary to the opinion of the blogger.  The Heretik pleads guilty.  Shoot me.  We live in the Queen of Hearts realm, some Alice in Wonderland world where conclusions count early: verdict first, trial later.  So it is in the sad case of the bi-polar passenger who tried to get off a plane and get shot for what he said.  Or for what someone thought he said. Or for what he did.  Did he have a bomb?  Is it right to shoot somebody if you think he has a bomb?  Do you wait?  Do only idiots wait?

ONLY ONE THING is certain.  September Eleventh changed everything.  Every dumbass with a blog will tell you that, this dumbass included. We can't wait for threats to emerge . . . blah, blah, blah.  Survival is the first civil right.  What civil rights do you have if you are dead?  Actually the one thing that is certain is that September Eleventh didn't change everything.

SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH IS JUST the latest thing to hang on to for people. Those who claim that dark day changed everything are looking for excuses to bring back the methods and mindset of  even darker days in the past. Because we can't afford to get hit again by others, we beat the McKrap out of all that is best in our society. What now distinguishes those who say this is the right course is the righteousness with which they claim "the facts" only support their shoot first, ask no questions before or later opinions.  Other people are simply fools to ask for time.  Some line applies here about fools rushing in.  But who has time to cite it fully?  Google it, yahoos.
 
COMPARISONS ARE MADE about what happened in to the would be bi-polar bomber and the would be bomber in the British tube Menezes. The world heard all kinds of stories then about what the British police "knew" and had to do.  Menezes was dead after the first bullet in the head, the other six were just to make sure.

TODAY THE RIGHTEOUS who shoot to kill and ask no questions may have some questions for the British.  How could you possibly charge the police in that shooting when they were only doing what had to be done?  We can't wait for threats to emerge.  Blah, blah, blah.  The Heretik cannot wait for more opinions to emerge before the facts, facts and harsh consequences we all now must deal with.  But we deal with them less than the bi polar bomber and "the Brazilian" Menezes.  Both of them don't have time to offer opinions on why both of them are dead.  Thank god for damned bloggers who have the time and the opinions to speak for them.

Comments

[Stacy]

Here's my favorite part of the article you linked to:

"The marshals say Alpizar announced he was carrying a bomb before being killed.

However, no other witness has publicly concurred with that account. Only one passenger recalled Alpizar saying, "I've got to get off, I've got to get off," CNN's Kathleen Koch reported.

No explosives were found onboard the aircraft. It was the first time a federal air marshal fired a weapon at someone since the program was bolstered after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Dave Adams, a spokesman for the Federal Air Marshal Service, said Alpizar had run up and down the plane's aisle yelling, "I have a bomb in my bag."

In other words, the guys who shot him, naturally, are saying he was a threat while everyone else seems to think he made no such threat. And of course, this administration that wouldnt know justice, ethics or morality if it fell over it, is all too happy to cover up this murder (if this is what it looks like). And the apologists use the usual tactics - fear- anything we do is justified to keep you safe. Shoot first, ask questions later.

IF the man said he had a bomb, that makes this very different, but if HE DID NOT SAY HE HAD A BOMB, that makes this murder.

[comandante agi]

Sam Alito would be happy. He likes "Dirty Harry" style cops who shoot first and ask questions later.

[Stacy]

I guess it would have been too much for the federal marshalls to approach the guy early on when he seemed agitated and try to assess what was wrong with him? Or weren't they paying attention and only noticed him when he was allegedly running up and down the aisle screaming "I have a bomb" (although no one seems to remember that happening except the marshalls)? Its not exactly news to anyone that many people get anxious and even agitated when flying and it could have been something as simply as a panic attack in a very closed in space.

[blogenfreude]

Menezes was not, it turned out, dressed like the Britpolizei said nor did he flee as they claimed. A Brazilian electrician. I hope the family names Tony B:Liar in the lawsuit.