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Saturday 29 Nov 2008

Mumbai terrorists

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1. on 30 Nov 2008 at 12:44 am   Pascal Fervor
   
   

   Heh, heh. Maybe the Messiah will empathize with this tabloid photographer who I bet is now a former liberal:

   Sebastian D’Souza hears the gunfire at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus from his office across the street at the Mumbai Mirror tabloid. He follows the sound through the sprawling station, slipping unseen through parked trains. When he first catches sight of the young men, he doesn’t realize they are the gunmen. They look so innocent. Then he sees them shooting. “They were firing from their hips. Very professional. Very cool,” says D’Souza, the newspaper’s photo editor. For more than 45 minutes he follows as they move from platform to platform shooting and throwing grenades. Often, D’Souza isn’t even 30 feet away. The few police at the station are either dead, in hiding or had long fled.

   [Wretchard inserts:] The routine machinery of the great city fed more victims into the maw. Trains filled with new passengers disgorged yet more victims into the line of fire. Later D’Souza would reflect upon the blind panic which paralyzed the beat cops. Perhaps we shouldnt be too hard on these Mumbai flatfeet. They had probably never encountered something that shot back with an automatic weapon. In its own way the Mumbai event underlines what the NRA has been saying for years. Guns don’t shoot themselves. People are needed to pull the trigger. Without anyone willing to open fire, the police pistols which stayed in their owner’s holsters might as well have been bouquets of flowers.

   But what angered Mr D’Souza almost as much were the masses of armed police hiding in the area who simply refused to shoot back. “There were armed policemen hiding all around the station but none of them did anything,” he said. “At one point, I ran up to them and told them to use their weapons. I said, ‘Shoot them, they’re sitting ducks!’ but they just didn’t shoot back. … ‘I told some policemen the gunmen had moved towards the rear of the station but they refused to follow them. What is the point if having policemen with guns if they refuse to use them? I only wish I had a gun rather than a camera.’”

   Here is where you can read the whole account if you wish.

2. on 30 Nov 2008 at 1:16 pm   Ed Bonderenka
   
   

   It is only a technicality that he won’t occupy that office until Dec 15th, and hopefully the SCOTUS will decide otherwise.
   Whom do we look for then?

3. on 30 Nov 2008 at 11:32 pm   mts
   
   

   A conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged. Now Mr. d’Souza knows that’s not just a trite saying. A conservative is a liberal who’s had to deal first hand with people that liberals like to lionize and elevate. Not just muslims, but urban gang bangers, communists, petty revolutionaries (Che), etc.

   Mr. d’Souza finally learned the basic denominator which comes with valuing a right to bear arms. The need to control the situation, to end the bad guy’s control of it, and to end the bad guy’s ability to do bad things.

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