I return
I'm back! I doubt anyone missed me but no matter. I've been on holiday, came back worked loads of hours and done a lot of thinking. So now I'm reinvigorated and ready to face down the evil of New Labour, the Neo-Cons and the Neo-Retards of the Whitehouse. Ha! Anyway, here follows a rant that I've also posted on another site so it may not fit with the merry mood of this preamble.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4207648.stm
"...there is no excuse for terrorism"
-Jack Straw
Why do the British/American etc establishment refuse to believe or even consider the notion that people who commit acts of 'terrorism' do so because they have a genuine grievance against the state that they are attacking? Jack Straw was on the news tonight (actually yesterday, the 2nd) after the Mohammed Khan video surfaced saying that people who commit 'terrorist' acts would do them anyway even if they had no motive: they plan them and then once they're good to go they pick a cause to justify what they do.
There was a documentary/drama thingy on Channel 4 on Thursday night about an IRA ASU that brought London to its knees in 1974/75 and altho there was plenty about the carnage and death that the unit carried out there was nothing about why they were doing it; ie British illegal occupation and oppression of the Catholic population in Northern Ireland.
DOUBLE STANDARDS!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4207648.stm
"...there is no excuse for terrorism"
-Jack Straw
Why do the British/American etc establishment refuse to believe or even consider the notion that people who commit acts of 'terrorism' do so because they have a genuine grievance against the state that they are attacking? Jack Straw was on the news tonight (actually yesterday, the 2nd) after the Mohammed Khan video surfaced saying that people who commit 'terrorist' acts would do them anyway even if they had no motive: they plan them and then once they're good to go they pick a cause to justify what they do.
There was a documentary/drama thingy on Channel 4 on Thursday night about an IRA ASU that brought London to its knees in 1974/75 and altho there was plenty about the carnage and death that the unit carried out there was nothing about why they were doing it; ie British illegal occupation and oppression of the Catholic population in Northern Ireland.
DOUBLE STANDARDS!
posted by P O'Neill at 1:21 AM
3 Comments:
Isn't a terrorist in the eye of the beholder?
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One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. Altho the term "state terrorism" is very fitting both when describing the dropping of 2,000lb bombs on civilian areas and, for example, the Brits arming and giving intel to the Loyalist death squads.
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