Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and this is not fiction;
A British sniper is being investigated for shooting dead an Iraqi insurgent preparing to fire a rocket propelled grenade because he did not shout a warning…
The Iraq Historic Allegations Kangaroos investigating were established under the Labour government. That they continue to exist is frankly, typical of leftist-appeasing Conservative governments.
Lets’ NOT go to Europe this time to give them back their country.
Shout a warning? Surely they mean a polite note inviting the noble savage to tea?
In other news, NASA’s mandate includes muslim outreach, and the US DoD must now consider climate change in all war plans (via Instapundit). But fear not, the Pentagon does not consider “climate change” a long-term risk. They anticipate it will go away ’round about February, 2017.
Sad thing is that PMSH didn’t even clean out enough liberals from the bureaucracy in Ottawa. Now we have pmselfie.
There’s a word for snipers that shout warnings – dead.
how many snipers can shout and be heard at 1200 meters. the only way is to use your weapon to let them know and it is obvious that is what the sniper did. And yes, the sniper lives by stealth, not shouting to his victim.
Sniper warnings:
1. The report of the rifle is the warning.
If the bullet arrives first, that’s just the law of nature, blame Allah.
2. The arrival of the British Armed Forces is the warning.
3. Move part of the trial to where the incident occurred. Have the gov’t. lawyer stand where the Iraqi terrorist was standing, while wearing a white shirt with the bright, red cross of St. George.
Then wait and see if I.S.I.S. snipers shout a warning before shooting or after.
(I think we all know the words they will shout).
4. If the U.K. government declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, the lawfare attacks on the British military would disappear. They’d be trying to present as small a target as possible.
Someone needs to remember the line from “The Bridge on the River Kwai” in which the POW camp commander tells the prisoners:
“This is war! This is not a game of cricket!”
Seems the IHAT and the British government learned their lesson well as it was taught by the Liberal Government under Chretien when the Canadian Airborne Regiment was disbanded. The Caliphate are playing the Liberals in Western Society like a bunch of marks! Import jihadists under the guise of saving refugees and at the same time eviscerate the police and armed forces by political obstruction. What could go wrong?
Britain. A stupid little country. What Canada apparently wants to be when I grows up.
And how much effort is expended investigating Rotherham and other atrocities?
Britain. A stupid little country. What Canada apparently wants to be when it grows up.
So glad my ancestors left that dump.
William Tecumseh Sherman was a famous U.S. Civil War General best know today for his “War is Hell” quote. He was a man who understood war and in fact hated it. Here are three of his quotes. They all apply to this nonsense in Britain
“War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them
all they want.”
William T. Sherman:
“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”
William Tecumseh Sherman
“If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.”
William Tecumseh Sherman
The lesson of the Vietnam war, that you can’t win a war where the people don’t support you and there is no “front” because of all the compromises you must make, was ignored in Afganistan and Iraq by G.W. Bush. The lessons of Afganistan and Iraq, that Islamic countries require dictatorial rule due to their culture was ignored by Obama (and Hillary) when they incited and supported the “Arab Spring”.
We need better leaders.
Canada won’t be growing up for a while. We have just proven that with the last election.
Just you wait until -Canadian- lawyers figure out a way to sue soldiers, if you think this is bad.
Regarding the British Army however, has there been a mass resignation by the officer’s corps? No? Business as usual then. Somebody wake me when a general tells the PM to cram it.
“O it’s Tommy this an’ Tommy that, an’ Tommy go away…”
none of you get it.
do NOT attempt to apply logic to explain this, even to the point of saying ‘this doesn’t make sense’ bla bla bla. stop thinking in those terms.
you miss (no pun intended) the point.
it’s ALL about the ambulance chasing factor.
the US has more lawyers per capita than any other country.
they need an income. it is NOT about strategy, political correctness, or bizarre logic.
it’s about MONEY. clearly the brit lawyers have finally caught on what their yank counterparts have been up to for decades.
remember the case in NYC where a breakin artist got off because it was claimed the police breached his rights of freedom of movement? it is also about those highly refined, extreme fringe exacting, intricate and complex *interpretations* of the law, where anything is possible.
and about the MONEY.
Next Canada will pardon Omar, hero of the left.
Grant him 10 million dollars for his suffering and immunity from USA court judgements.
Which is not that much different than second guessing soldiers in battle.
The idiocy of charging a sniper with “failing to warn” his opponent is mind blowing.
Textbook ignorance of sniper, job description.
The round passing thro the enemies head is generally considered warning to his comrades to keep their heads down, really the dead desert pedophile should be charged with failing to warn his fellow butchers sooner.
The people pushing these idiotic revisionist courts should be taken to the frontline and told to man the megaphones, fill your boots.All the “warnings” you can bleat.
At least their theatrics would provide the snipers with plenty of targets, as the butchers cure the libtards delusions.
Liberalism is a progressive disease.
Is it curable?
No evidence to date.
Poor terrorist bastard should have received an iPhone call telling him to listen carefully as the bullet makes a whistling sound
upon entering his brain.
I think more snipers are needed.
You have defined the issue in the Olde Mother Land well Phantom in bringing forward the “Tommie” as a descriptive word for the brave and discarded British Soldier. Mt Grandfather wounded in the Boer War and when returned to England quickly emigrated to Canada.
Getting away from the Aristocracy’s slur of “Tommie”.
When Britain declared War against Germany for All of their Colonial Possessions, including Canada, My Grandfather at the age of 42 signed up and was in the trenches near Ypres by February 1915. He was responding to the “call of Duty” not to protect the Aristocracy and their sinecures.
It is difficult to believe the British “Class System’ is still relevant; except the last Canadian Federal Election has convinced me it lives, and Survives in Canada in the form of the Supplicant society of the Lauretien “suck-up” media. The ones searching for a pat on the head by the ever reaching for recognition from Canada’s Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Robber Barons. Good Boy/Girl/Other you are well proven “Tommies”
This being well proven by the Faux Canadians, Conrad Black and Jean Cretien, Clown Princes seeking recognition in the supplicat Canadian Media including the Politiaclly Compromised CBC during the embarrassing Knighthood fiasco.
There you be “CBC & the remaining Canadian Smeredia Tommies” a Pat On the Crown of your little TETE by the Family Compact and Chateau Privelege.
What has and is happening in Britain is just another example of the Ruling class trying to hold onto their Simecure. What is happening In Canada is just a frightened group of “suck-ups” slowly realizing, as their vaunted role of (Kate’s Term) “We Who Know Better” slips frim their weakening grasp.
The current “rules of engagement” are drafted so politicians can BOLDLY proclaim they have “gone to war” … as the people demand … but are waging a kinder and gentler war … where only the REALLY REALLY bad men get killed. You know, the leaders of the Religion of depravity. The men who rape little girls and throw gays off building tops. The ROE are a counterbalance to the hawkish behavior of limp-wristed liberal politicians.
Think of the ROE like Bill Clinton’s famous quote that he smoked marijuana … but didn’t inhale. See ! He gets it BOTH ways. Identity with the doper-voters, and acceptance by the drug-free crowd.
ROEs are FOR the politicians. Nobody else.