London Bridge

Most of these idiots don't seem to care about living, clanless, only in doing as much damage as they can, with as much publicity that they can, before dying for whatever cause they think is worth dying for.

 

Unfortunately there are two members of the public dead and some others injured.

 

Yes, my heart sank at that news, not only for the dead, but their families.

It brought to my mind the Lord of the Kings in which King Theodon said...

"So much death, what can man do against such reckless hate?."

 

That sounds like you think the Police man shot the guy in a "casual" manner, pete
According to later reports, it appears the "Terrorist" pulled back his coat in the struggle to reveal what looked like a Suicide Vest. When the Policeman saw that he dragged off the member of public telling him and the surrounding people to get away as they could be killed by the bomb and then, to prevent the possibility of the bomb going off, he shot him. That is standard procedure much discussed and approved by the Security Forces.

 

On the floor, standing up, sitting on a chair.......he was wearing what looked like a suicide vest so he got shot.

 

Well, as far as I am concerned the people that made the decision to let this guy out on licence with a tag should collectively be charged with manslaughter and ABH.

 

Well, unfortunately, nobody really made a decision to let him out on licence. The policy is to that, these days, prisoners only serve half their sentence and, if well behaved, are automatically released on licence. Obviously, in his case, he waited for his licence biding his time, and then went out to kill who ever he could. A lot of Prison related (Do Gooder) organisations are able to decide policies on Prisons and Prison release without proper Government supervision. The Parole Board ran into trouble when they decided to put the Taxi Rapist on parole and the Government stepped in due to the massive protests, took away the Parole Board's powers to release people without that decision being questioned, and the man stayed in prison.
In this case, the Parole Board was very quick to point out that they were not consulted on the release of this man, due to him being released on Licence, which they have nothing to do with.
It is now being looked at, too late as usual, to see if the licencing policy needs amending to make sure people convicted of Terrorist acts should serve their full sentences.
This is going ensure a real tightening up of prison release policies and more supervision by the Government and the abolishing of a lot of "well meaning" prison committees. This has been a problem for both Judges and Police who have long criticised jail sentences being halved automatically after a person has been sentenced.