London Police Defuse Car Bombs

[RACooper]

Originally Posted by SECdomination

Agreed. London bombings do seem to occur much more often than anywhere else in the world. I'm not claiming that as fact or anything, just from what I've seen on television over the years. (FOX news, of course. Don't worry, I wouldn't waste my time on those other stations.)

You might want to... you know to actually get a clearer picture of the news.

Agreed.
Watching their friends being publicly hanged would be a much better deterrent.

Why yes that makes perfect sense... afterall 'martyring' terrorists willing to kill themselves would really teach them

Anyways it definitely didn't work with the Irish republicans since all it did was create martyrs or heroes - heroes still lauded or sung about in pubs today. Killing people ready to die for a cause is self-defeating since they and their supporters accept and expect it really... locking them up is a greater punishment really, and a greater political and intelligence asset than a dead 'martyr'.

[DeltAlum]

While I don't know this to be fact, my understanding is that at least "life" in prison really means that in the UK, as oppossed to getting 75 years off for good behavior or whatever.

If these guys get convicted, we hopefully won't hear from them again.

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by RACooper

You might want to... you know to actually get a clearer picture of the news.

Agreed. I especially like the BBC and the people they have on that like to say that Al-Qaida and Osama Bin Laden don't really exist, just decoys that Blair And Bush came up with to invade Iraq for oil (which in america we've seen so much of).

Originally Posted by RACooper

Why yes that makes perfect sense... afterall 'martyring' terrorists willing to kill themselves would really teach them

What do you suggest we do then? Give them universal health care and free college? Look at it this way, these guys want to die as martrys anyway..It's a win-win scenario, they get their glory and we get their head.