longweekend58 wrote on Dec 16
th, 2014 at 6:55am:
red baron wrote on Dec 16
th, 2014 at 6:40am:
Paradise Lost - Australia will never be the same.
Already 'Sheik' Man Haron Monis is being labelled as a lone rogue. This may be the case however ISIS has called for an International Jihadist against Western Countries in particular. This is now living evidence that this is happening.
Australia must reflect heavily on this tragedy and decide just how we are going to approach the Muslim problem and it is a hugely growing problem.
My heart goes out to the relatives to all who were involved in this siege and to the families of those who were brutally murdered.
The cops who went in, were incredibly brave, straight into the line of fire, God bless them all.
I'll go with the cops being incredibly stupid and dumb. a single head shot was possible twelve hours earlier. the ROE need to change such that if you take hostages and you are armed that you forfeit your right to live and lethal force will be used at the FIRST opportunity. if they had done that there would be no innocent deaths. and all this has doen is shown other muslim nutters that police wont shoot first. next time, SHOOT FIRST.
perhaps the FBI needs to send its HRT quad down here to teach our police commanders that having trained snipers is no use if you don't actually use them.
pitiful police response.
Great, suicide by police. Turning Terrorists into instant martyrs.
But hostages alive!
What happens if the rig themselves with a suicide vest with a "deadman's switch"? You shoot them, the pressure is released and BOOM! Up they and everybody else goes.
Given that it has never happened here, you need some reliable evidence that it exists. Otherwise you hold off, hold off... and hostages get killed.
You're assuming they could see into the shop and that the gunman was so visible that they could get a clear shot. How do you know that was possible? Were you there? Of course bloody not. What I hate is people who were watching vicariously through their television telling people who were there what decision they should have made in hindsight, when they have no pressure and lives don't depend on their decisions. Idiot.