| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Lack of intelligence? | |
| Posted by: | Paul Corcoran | |
| Date/Time: | 17/11/15 10:26:00 |
| Colin, he isn't. He says 'in general' would be against a shoot-to-kill policy and that he wouldn't be happy to give such an order. Nowhere does he suggest that terrorists in the process of mass slaughter should not be taken out. The shoot-to-kill policy of the British government was not confined to terrorist who were posing an imminent threat but one in which suspects were executed regardless of circumstances with no attempt to arrest them. The most notorious example of this is the judicial killings in Gibraltar. You have to put Jeremy Corbyn’s arguments in this context to understand them. He is right to be cautious at this time in my view – you only have to recall Jean Paul de Menezes to see the dangers in over reaction at this point. |