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Another interesting quote about recent events.

“I actually don’t blame the cop, this is what happens when the so-called leaders of societies see tragedy as opportunity to increase their control. They have hyped up their cops, put weapons in their hands and taken off the leashes, of course this is what happens.

We have spent generations teaching ourselves that a police state is not a safe, secure or free place. A police state is a terrorist organisation. The totally unjustifiable killing of Jean Charles de Menezes is either a warning to us all, or just the first name in what will be a long roll.”
- A Networked World.

…why are we shooting to kill?

“You would think the British police would be prepared, but they are panicking and seeing everyone as a suspect.
“If you are going to have a war on terror, you have got to use brains to fight it not just brute force.”
- a relative of Jean Charles de Menezes

“Once Bush had chosen the site, there was virtually nothing the Iraqi government could do to avoid war, short of total capitulation. As a demonstration of both America’s military might and his own itchy trigger finger, Bush had decided to make Iraq his Alderaan, the hapless planet in the original Star Wars movie that was picked to show off the power of the Death Star.”
StarWars and Politics collide