Real or not, the timing is great if you happen to be Tony Blair.
Could have been a very bad day today. Allegedly. I tend to approach these things with deep suspicion. Big terror plot foiled. Just a coincidence that it happened at a time when Tony is in deep shit over Israel, facing opposition from his own cabinet, and the day after a Labour MP resigned over his handling of the crisis. I can't judge yet if the plot was real. But the fact is that the men who were arrested today had been under surveillance for months according to the police, and the attacks were not to be carried out today. Or tomorrow. Or in the following weeks. Apparently they acted today after recieving new intelligence. Convenient. I don't know. The problem is, after all the lies, how can we believe in anything the government or the police say?
Whatever happens people must not allow the government to use this as an excuse for more of their totalitarian "anti-terror" measures. Blair and his cronies don't seem to realise that we are not a nation of cowards. I'll risk being blown to pieces if it means retaining my liberty, and I'm sure most of my fellow citizens feel the same. Sounds impressive, but it isn't. If we were as scared of death as Blair wants us to be none of us would ever leave our homes. Compare the number of dead from terrorist attacks this year to the number of fatal road accidents. In 2004 over three thousand UK citizens died on the roads, a death toll higher than 9/11.
When I'm too frightened to cross the road maybe I'll consider ID cards and internment and all the other related bullshit as being necessary.
In any case we must be prepared. Prepared to sit through more drivel about the terrible and unprecedented threat we are facing. And how, of course, the wars in Iraq and Lebanon have nothing to do with the proliferation of terrorist extremists. That, in fact, effect does not follow cause, nothing is related to anything else, people blow themselves up because they hate freedom terrible freedom, that down is up and left is right and oh weren't we so naive for thinking otherwise.
Whatever happens people must not allow the government to use this as an excuse for more of their totalitarian "anti-terror" measures. Blair and his cronies don't seem to realise that we are not a nation of cowards. I'll risk being blown to pieces if it means retaining my liberty, and I'm sure most of my fellow citizens feel the same. Sounds impressive, but it isn't. If we were as scared of death as Blair wants us to be none of us would ever leave our homes. Compare the number of dead from terrorist attacks this year to the number of fatal road accidents. In 2004 over three thousand UK citizens died on the roads, a death toll higher than 9/11.
When I'm too frightened to cross the road maybe I'll consider ID cards and internment and all the other related bullshit as being necessary.
In any case we must be prepared. Prepared to sit through more drivel about the terrible and unprecedented threat we are facing. And how, of course, the wars in Iraq and Lebanon have nothing to do with the proliferation of terrorist extremists. That, in fact, effect does not follow cause, nothing is related to anything else, people blow themselves up because they hate freedom terrible freedom, that down is up and left is right and oh weren't we so naive for thinking otherwise.
posted by Ben at 12:28 pm
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