The SCREAM Cycle

Now that we know that on July 22, 2005, Jean Charles De Menezes was guilty of doing absolutely nothing and shot SEVEN TIMES IN THE NOGGIN, it will be interesting to check out how much the right-wing blood lusters have been willing to say "OOPSY". I mean they were all over the place proclaiming how fuckin' great it was, what say they now that the truth is out.

Seven at Imbicile Junction, including this one within a day of the event:

DARWIN AWARD [John Derbyshire]
Here come the whiners and "civil liberties" pests.

It turns out that the man so dramatically shot by British police on Friday was not a suicide bomber.

However, the following facts seem pretty well established:

---He emerged from a house that was under police surveillance for terrorist connections.

---He was wearing a bulky, heavy jacket on a hot summer's day.

---When challenged by police, who ordered him to stop, he ran from them, and tried to get on a subway train.

I don't know whether this guy deserved to be shot, but he surely deserved a Darwin Award for sheer life-threatening stupidity.

Note to self: While in London next month, if challenged by armed police, stop, raise hands above head, freeze in place, and call out in a loud clear voice: "It's a fair cop, guv'nor." Do not dive into the nearest subway train.
Posted at 10:49 AM

Of course now we know:

The documents and photographs confirm that Jean Charles was not carrying any bags, and was wearing a denim jacket, not a bulky winter coat, as had previously been claimed.

He was behaving normally, and did not vault the barriers, even stopping to pick up a free newspaper.

He started running when we saw a tube at the platform. Police had agreed they would shoot a suspect if he ran.

A document describes CCTV footage, which shows Mr de Menezes entered Stockwell station at a "normal walking pace" and descended slowly on an escalator.

The man was fucking EXECUTED and Completely innocent.

Number of posts about it today?

ZILCH!!!

The odious Jon Gibson, who wrote "Five in the Noggin" praising these murderers? Also NADA! Even by the loathsome standards of FoxNews that a-hole should be fired.


WIIIAI is absolutely right when he writes:

It’s not just that they lied, but that they knew that at least some of those lies would inevitably be exposed. They decided, in a move we Americans know all too well, to lie in order to survive the initial news cycle of the story. After that, the damage would be less, and the public is used to be being lied to. I’ll be interested to see if Met Commissioner Sir Ian Blair is hounded from public life as he deserves.

That is a brilliant summary of modern media America!