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To: RetiredNow who wrote (242951)	7/23/2005 5:42:53 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573116

Not at all. Those were trained, undercover police officers. Days after the second bombing attack on the U.K. this guy was wearing a heavy overcoat and was running away from police who had told him to stop. How stupid is that? And what do you expect police to do in this situation? When they saw the guy run onto the train, they thought he was another suicide bomber. This is what slays me, tejek. You act so incredibly superior to all your fellow human beings. You must be the only person on earth who is perfect. What hubris! I am by no means perfect and I am just as worried as you are, but I do know when people feed their hysteria and let their demons rule, bad things happen. The guy may well have not spoken English and had been confused by the cops' behavior. We have the natural instinct to fight or flight......when the adrenalin starts pumping and the CO2 level in our bodies drop......that's what we do....defend ourselves or run. In any case, one gun shot would have disabled the guy. They needed to pump five bullets into him? I don't think so. And if intelligent, rational people yourself ignore that fact and are simply relieved, then we all will be in trouble. An apparently innocent man died because of fear. And the damage it caused to the people who saw it is not minor. It just feeds the hysteria.