John Reid – your terror is his delight.

In contrast to previous reports, the official suggested an attack was not imminent, saying the suspects had not yet purchased any airline tickets. In fact, some did not even have passports.
(Source: MSNBC)

Hmmm…. curiouser and curiouser. In this rant, I suggested that Blair and his gaggle of liars might deliberately be exaggerating the terror threat.

Now it turns out that some of the people about to blow us out of the sky didn’t even have passports? Or tickets? How were they going to board the plane, by teleportation?

The article from MSNBC is centred on an alleged rift between US and UK security services. Apparently, the UK spooks have known about the “liquid bombers” for months now, perhaps even before the bombings last July. They were hanging back, waiting for more information (and perhaps more terrorists to be uncovered) before acting.

The US forced the issue and hence our lockdown last week.

Again, I’m not in any way denying there is a significant threat to Britain. After we’ve just murdered more than 100,000 Iraqis, only a fool would deny that we’re a target.

But I’m dismayed if the above report is accurate, if a UK intelligence operation was compromised because of US pressure.

I’m also appalled, but not surprised, that John Reid and his blathering, lying cronies have been pumping fear and terror into the British public as fast as they can.

Yes, this was probably a terror threat. But imminent? Not unless airport security is so lax that you no longer need a ticket or passport to leave this country.

The point of terrorism is to make us afraid. The UK response to a foiled plot is to create an unspecified period during which fliers are arbitrarily deprived of iPods, novels and dignity.

If this is a good idea now, then why won’t it still be a good idea in a year? A decade? After all, terrorist plots will always exist in potentia (can you prove that no terrorist plots are hatching at this moment?) Until they handcuff us all nude to our seats and dart us with tranquilizers, there will always be the possibility that a passenger will do something naughty on a plane (even then, who knows how much semtex and roofing nails a bad guy could hide in his colon?).
(Source: BoingBoing)

Who wants to be blown to bits by a bunch of religious nutters?

I don’t.

But who wants to live in a constant state of fear, whipped-up by politicians keen on pushing through ever more draconian laws that rob us of our freedom?

Nope, not keen on that either.

None of us know how real or invented the foiled terror attacks of two days ago were. Maybe a huge terrorist plot was foiled. Maybe the police, for a change, have arrested people who are in some way connected with terror plots. Maybe this time Blair and his government of liars and murderers weren’t exaggerating the threat in order to shore up their regime.

You see, I find it very hard to trust the boy who cried wolf. Or perhaps that should be the boy who cried WMDs. And used that lie to slaughter 100,000 Iraqis. Blair and his New Labour coterie are proven liars. They’ve lied to Parliament and to this country, dragging us into an illegal war.

Why should I believe them now?

On the other hand, I have no doubt whatsoever that terrorists are aiming at Britain.

Spy chiefs have warned Tony Blair that the war in Iraq has made Britain the target of a terror campaign by Al-Qaeda that will last “for many years to come.”

A leaked top-secret memo from the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) says the war in Iraq has “exacerbated” the threat by radicalising British Muslims and attracting new recruits to anti-western terror attacks.
(Source: Times Online)

Yes, thanks to Butcher Blair’s warmongering, we’ve now made ourselves a top target for fundamentalist Muslim terror groups. As you can see from the above, that’s not merely my rabid, lefty opinion. That’s what our intelligence service says – and they’re not known for their Commie leanings.

So, as a result of the actions of John Reid, New Labour’s Tebbit, and his support for our illegal invasion, we’re now in the sights of lunatics like Al Quaeda. That’s why I find it so utterly galling when the same John Reid makes ever more pompous speeches about how we’re all on the same side against terror and should all pull together.

John Reid, I am not on the same side as you. It was you and your government that put us in this position. It was your actions that made us all targets. And now you lecture us on how to deal with the increased terror threat that you created!

But I do believe that Britain will have another terror attack soon. And I know that it could kill me or my family in an instant, even though we’ve never harmed anyone or taken part in any wars.

Isn’t it funny that whether we’re American, Iraqi, Lebanese, Israeli, Palestinian or Britons, our situation is the same. Our glorious leaders exhort us to slaughter the enemy, to never bow down before their “evil.” To sacrifice our freedom, our children, our lives in the fight against them.

But it’s never these leaders who are in danger, is it? It’s us, the poor bloody civilians, who are getting bombed and shot, in our houses and on buses and planes.

Meanwhile, the politicians, generals, and religious leaders sit in comfort, urging us to keep on fighting.

Oh well… another huge national demo, another pack of lies from the police. Don’t they realise that the more they lie, the more they erode any remaining confidence the public may have in them? So, let me take the official police number of 20,000 and say, based on previous marches, that it felt far more like 100,000 to me. Maybe more.

There was a bit of argy-bargy outside Downing Street as people had taken along childrens’ shoes to symbolise the kids being killed in the conflict. I think they planned some kind of delivery but when that wasn’t allowed, they settled for throwing them at the entrance to Downing Street, which the cops didn’t like at all.

I thought the best speaker at the rally was Tony Benn, who emphasised the lives being lost every day in the attack on Lebanon. That was the whole point of the demonstration: to demand an immediate cease-fire from Israel. Too many of the other speakers had their own agendas, none of which I support.

I didn’t get as many good pics of the demo as usual because it was absolutely boiling and I got very knackered on the march. My hands swelled up rather alarmingly at one point, Hulk-style. Click the above pic for a full gallery (er, not of my hands, of the demo).

More here.

Images I have seen recently include a close up of a suicide bomber exploding in two, an insurgent being shot through the head by an American sniper, full scale firefights between US patrols and insurgents plus endless images of body parts scattered about in the aftermath of the latest bomb explosion.

This footage is often supported by a running commentary of “awesome” and suchlike from the cameraman who has literally strapped a digital camera onto his helmet or gun barrel and shot the video while he was shooting insurgents.

One filmmaker compared his material with a video game: “you’re stepped away from reality … you’re seeing it through the camera lens.”

Another said it was the only way he could feel proud of his work, “like a big game hunter feels proud of his kills”
(Source: The Guardian)

For “insurgent” above, read “innocent Iraqi.”

The above is an example of how to turn ordinary humans into psychopaths. A tiny minority of us are born that way, some of us are trained to the mindset. Is it surprising that we then begin to normalise and celebrate our murders, like the soldiers above?

It also shows how Iraqis aren’t even humans any more in the eyes of many of the US invaders. They’re animals to these soldiers. The soldiers invade their country, bomb their cities flat, slaughtering women and children in their “liberation” and then take video footage of the innocents they torture and kill.

And then they post these clips on the internet, to show how proud they are of their unfeeling slaughter. They find it funny or “awesome” that they’re part of an illegal invasion that’s decimated a country and left it in tatters, killing over 100,000 of its citizens. Saddam Hussein was a beginner at murder compared to the US invasion force.

If you believe at all in karma, what is the USA storing up for its future?