Chuckie Watch 109: A visit to Chuckiestan

Chuckie, They're Not Going to Stop 07/22/05 (my emphasis):

The world may as well go ahead and face it. There is a contingent within the Muslim world, which is dedicated to nothing less than the total annihilation of every man woman and child on the face of the earth who does not see eye to eye with them. ...

They’re not going to quit. There is no quit in these people. They are fanatics, and what we do other than totally destroy them is not going to make any difference.

It’s certainly not a situation that we want to find ourselves in but the reality of the situation is that’s exactly where we are and the only question is are we going to recognize the situation for what it is and fight it tooth and nail or are we going to pursue the primrose path of passivity and go down the drain one building and a few hundred lives at a time?

For too long the west has been content to sit back and watch Israel deal with the terrorism problem of the radical Islamists practically by themselves.

Times have changed, it’s the planet earth at large which is in danger, and our way of life hangs in the balance.

What it boils down to is, it’s them or us.

Chuckie, Al Jazeera West 07/15/05 (my emphasis):

Would the BBC and CNN like to see America cease to exist? Do they want to see America defeated in the war on terror? If that is not their purpose, then what is?

How would the BBC have felt if during the height of Hitler’s bombing of London American media had begun bashing Churchill’s every move and call the Nazis by some sanitized, generic name other than the butchers they really were.

The BBC and CNN feed the rest of the world a daily diet of anti-Americanism .I guess they think that by doing so they can affect the outcome of elections and politics in general in the U.S.A. Think again guys.

My heart goes out to the people of England who suffered at the hands of terrorist bombs recently and yet their own national broadcasting system refuses to even call the scumbags terrorists as if semantics could just make the whole thing go away.

Glenn Frankel, British Pursue Link Between 2 Sets of Bombers: Police Apologize for Mistaken Killing Washington Post 07/25/05

Meanwhile, the country's highest-ranking police officer made a public apology for the killing of a Brazilian man at a subway station Friday by plainclothes officers who mistook him for a suspected terrorist.

Many of the Brazilian's relatives and friends rejected the official explanation for the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. The 27-year-old electrician was on his way to a job when he was chased into a subway car by undercover policemen, one of whom shot him in the head five times in front of horrified passengers. (my emphasis)

Jill Lawless, Some in U.K. Shocked Over Subway Killing Associated Press 07/23/05:

Witnesses said the Brazilian was wearing a heavy, padded coat when plainclothes police chased him into a subway car, pinned him to the ground and shot him in the head and torso.

"They pushed him onto the floor and unloaded five shots into him," witness Mark Whitby told the British Broadcasting Corp. "He looked like a cornered fox. He looked petrified."

Knight Ridder:

Matthew Schofield and Laura Potts, Man killed in London subway not involved in attacks, police say Knight-Ridder 07/23/05

Police said they ordered him to halt. Instead, he vaulted the turnstiles and ran onto a train, with police close behind.

The official report simply states: "He was then followed by surveillance officers to the underground station. His clothing and behavior added to their suspicions."

According to a witness quoted in London's Daily Mail, the man "looked absolutely petrified" as he ran onto the train. The witness told the newspaper that the suspect, just a few yards away from him, fell to the ground and officers were on him immediately.

"The policeman nearest to me had the black automatic pistol in his left hand. He held it down to the guy and unloaded five shots into him."

I guess Chuckie must be proud of the London police for this one, huh?  They didn't mess around with no political correctness on this one.  No sirree, the only good terrorist is a daid terrorist, according to Chuckie.  They didn't let it go with just one bullet to the head, either.  They pumped in four more just to be safe.  In a subway car with passengers in it.

And the London cops even claim that they got this shoot-him-in-the-head-and-ask-questions-later approach from the Israelis.  Chuckie must be happy about that, too.

One thing I don't quite understand, though: Does Chuckie thank Israel's situation is the best we can do in regard to terrorism?  I mean, a lot of people might think that their overall results haven't been so good in doing away with the terrorism problem.

But there are a lot of things in Chuckiestan that I don't quite git.