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Brown-skinned fellas accused of terrorism despite having no plans in place. It's only brown-skinned people that do terrorism.

Labels: Al Qaeda, terrorism, The War Against Terror

On the 6th of March Stephen Green, head/sole member of charmless bigots Christian Voice, wrote on his website, in relation to the Government getting rid of the Blasphemy Laws:

'I believe that one way or another, and by God's grace, there isn't going to be blasphemy in this United Kingdom. It is a pity that it will probably have to be stopped in many cases without recourse to the law, but obviously the Lord is calling Christians to stand up for His holiness in other ways in these God-defying days.'

Labels: Christian Voice, Fundamentalists- Christian, Stephen Green, terrorism

After Shrubya's latest crass attempt to justify torture by invoking the 7th July London bombings one of the people caught up in that,
Rachel from north London responds.

Labels: George 'Shrubya' Bush, terrorism, The War Against Terror, torture

Another white guy with a bomb who isn't called a terrorist and who the media weren't that interested in reporting.

Labels: Islamophobia, terrorism, The War Against Terror

Following up on this, here's a case of a man who actually sent letter bombs to addresses. Again, he's white. And again, the words 'terror' and 'terrorist' do not appear in the report. People of a darker hue of skin gets labelled as terrorists even when they are guilty of no crime. White people can be convicted of crimes relating to a desire to cause terror in a section of the community and don't get called what they are.

"I was hoping to achieve a bomb scare, to shut down a building, but cause no real harm to any individual," he said.

Of course, you didn't intend to harm anyone by sending fully functional letter bombs did you? You terrorist arse.

Labels: racism, terrorism, United Kingdom

Mark Thomas went to the Defence Systems and Equipment International, got countries that had always denied it to admit to torture and got turned away. The Daily Mail sent a reporter to fondle the big guns and have his photo taken with naked women. He got in. He celebrates in the glorious name of 'Robert Hardman' (Same Robert Hardman who was a chairman of Cambridge University Conservative Association? Probably not, don't mind me Lorraine, just Googling names again.)

Daily Mail readers are a funny lot. They believe, on the lack of any evidence, that scrounging Eastern European scum are coming to steal benefits from this country. They believe that the BBC are pinko subversives out to transform this country into the U.S.S.R. A lot of them seem to think that if you don't support hanging as a punishment for wearing a hoodie then you're a crazy bleeding-heart liberal. Surprisingly, they draw the line at being an arms manufacturer.

Labels: Daily Mail, DSEI, Government, Mark Thomas, terrorism

Following up on this story, the second trial of Robert Cottage has finished and he's got two and a half years for stockpiling chemicals in his house because he thought a race war was coming and he wanted to be ready.

The news of this has been as annoyingly low-key as the reports around the time that he was originally charged, so far I've seen it on the BBC and the Guardian, and even there it's already slipped off the front page. Men with skins of darker hue have been treated far worse for far less, and only last week the wife of one of the 7/7 bombers talked about how she's been treated by British society despite the fact her husband deliberately concealed from her what he was up to, only for some papers to turn around and practically call her a lying bitch.

Even the judge sounded almost as though she was apologetic for having to sentence Cottage to prison as he was obviously such a great guy: "I am satisfied it was Cottage's views on how he put it 'the evils of uncontrolled immigration' would lead to civil war which would be imminent and inevitable." Those wacky racists huh? I can only assume that this time, the court wasn't told about his desire to kill Tony Blair. As it is, he's already served half his sentence, he's lucky that terrorism would appear to be considered a brown man's game, then the Government would have preferred to lock him up without trial.

God this is depressing.

Labels: 07/07/05, BNP, British National Party, courts, Islam, media, newspapers, racism, terrorism, United Kingdom

Talking Points Memo have discovered a new bit of Fox-lunacy.

Because some of the people involved in the crap terrorist activity of the last few weeks in the U.K. were Doctors in the N.H.S, universal healthcare in the U.S. would become a gateway for terrorism in the United States!

Here, here, here...

Labels: Fox, immigration, news, stupidity, terrorism, The War Against Terror, United States, YouTube

Another case of explosives being found where they shouldn't be in suburbia but it's not considered to be connected to terrorism. I'm also going to jump to conclusions and guess that the people involved in this were white, hence the confident proclamation that this wasn't a terrorist act.

Labels: England, terrorism

Terror! Terror! Terrified yet?

The news media are finally reporting on a BNP man who stockpiled explosives in his house and fantasised about killing Tony Blair and John Prescott. Hey, we can relate... However, this has been 'news' for several months, as this man was arrested last autumn but, other than a regional newspaper's report which then got distributed liberally amongst British bloggers, there has been something of a self-imposed media blackout over this story. When the BBC were asked why they weren't reporting on what was a bona case of British men who were apparently prepared to take part in acts of terrorism they replied they didn't want to prejudice any future court case.

I'm sure Mohammed Abdulkahar and Abul Koyair could relate. They were, after all, two Muslim men arrested in a highly publicised raid by the police on a house in Forest Gate that they thought was the nerve centre of possible terrorist activity. The media devoted considerable time to this over the next few days, until the police quietly admitted that it was all a mistake and let the two men go. By this time their names and photos had been liberally printed and shown on screen, while Robert Cottage and David Jackson, the BNP men, were ignored.



Anyway, the two men complained to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, the people that decided the police were justified in shooting Jean Charles de Menezes in the head. Luckily the IPCC had stocked up on whitewash in preparation and announced that the police were fully justified in doing whatever they want because they're the police. They threw the two men two small bones, upholding piddling complaints about their food and pain killers (due to the fact the police shot one of them in the arm) and suggesting the police should consider apologising. Apparently the police training manual doesn't cover being magnanimous in victory, as according to the Daily Mail, the police are refusing to apologise to the two men. The police are claiming they've apologised three times already but none of their apologies are to the two men for arresting them as terrorism suspects and allowing their pictures to be circulated to the media.

Robert who? David what?

The Sun are reporting on the BNP plotters story but notably describes neither of these men as terrorists or would-be terrorists. Unlike some of their other news stories they aren't offering readers the chance to discuss the story either. The t-word does get used, though only once, in their report on the IPCC story, which shows how half-hearted their momentary concern about racism actually was.

Labels: BNP, British National Party, Independent Police Complaints Commission, IPCC, media, news, News International, newspapers, police, racism, terrorism, The Sun

Fingers are being pointed at 'militant motorists' after a series of parcel-bombs have been sent to various car related places over the last few days. Why them and not gung-ho greens I don't know. John Reid has urged calm and for people not to take part in ill-conceived speculation, presumably because the terrorists in this case aren't thought to be Muslim, in which case it would have been okay.

I presume the police will be scouring the newspaper columns, books and TV appearances of Jeremy Clarkson to see if he's been urging his followers to jihad against the infidels that say that driving at over a hundred miles an hour on the motorway and contributing to the destruction of the environment are not noble past-times.

Labels: bombs, cars, terrorism

Hoax Devices. [via Violet Blue]

Terrified by this, I head over to MI-5's webpage to find out what the situation is in this country. On the front page they say it's severe, when I try clicking for more information I get this. So it's a general, non-specific severe danger then. Better demand the Government take away more of my rights then. That should sort things out.

Labels: freedom, terrorism

Just in from our Not a Surprise to Anyone Outside the Labour Party desk is the news that the British wing of the 'War Against Terror' is being fucked up by Tony Blair and John Reid dancing to the tune of the tabloid press.

Sensible plans to combat terror are now being "submerged by the Government's 'electoral motives'" according to John McStatingda Bleedin' Obvious I would have thought.

The report's authors urged the Government to abandon talk of a "war on terror" and to review its foreign policy.

Yeah, that'll work. Because the Government is happy to accept a link between it's foreign policy and homegrown terrorism.

Labels: terrorism, The War Against Terror

I'm not claiming that the government deliberately let these detainees escape to divert attention from embarrassing Government fuckwittery and dodgy moves, but even on Newsnight last night the Government, with the willing help of the BBC, was framing this as being because pesky campaigners and rebel MPs weren't letting them be as beastly to people as they wanted to be. There will be changes made. Perhaps they'll use iron masks for all detainees?


It is worth remembering that David Blunkett has admitted to being clinically depressed while in office. As has Alistair Campbell. Yet it was not considered worrying that they should continue in two senior posts in the British Government at this time? Did no-one around Campbell who knew about this think it might have had an effect in the events leading up to the Hutton Whitewash?


The Times is claiming that the Government intends to punish sick people for voting against the Government. Well, what is the point of having the power if you don't misuse it?

Labels: Government, prison, terrorism

Finally! We've found them! Two men have been arrested over having the chemicals necessary to manufacture explosives, links to an extreme race-hate group and literature, along with a rocket launcher and 'a nuclear biological suit' (I think the journo means a protective suit of the kind used by nuclear or biological scientists). You'd think this would be splashed over the nations newspapers, after all, two dozen people got arrested a month ago because it was thought they were going to blow up planes flying to America (how many of those have been released now? I lost track).

Only, the two guys are white. The extreme group is the BNP. So the news barely gets picked up by local papers whilst the national news concentrates on Jack Straw wanting to see Muslim women's faces. The Sun, that bastion of support for anti-terrorism legislation (remember their huffing and puffing about the Bill to allow police to hold suspects without charges longer?), hasn't touched this story. Why?

On the Jack Straw story, it does seem as though everyone is arguing about what they think they've heard rather than what he's said. It seems to me that it's perfectly reasonable for Straw to ask a woman wearing the Niqab or a Burqa if they would mind removing it when they speak with him. I've not seen anything anywhere that says that he refuses to speak to or help his constituents if they decline. What is wrong is the attempts by him and others to turn this into a larger issue of being a stick with which to beat the Muslim community for not integrating into British society. Watching Newsnight last night I saw a white woman, who looked to be in her mid-fifties, indignantly saying something along the lines of "They've come to our country, we've accepted them, so why shouldn't they integrate with us?" (emphasis mine) Where do you start? The fact that British-born Muslims wear these clothes too? The fact that if 'we' had truly accepted 'them' then 'we' wouldn't care what 'they' wore? You could spend hours unpacking the wrongness in that one bigotted statement of belief.

In the end it seems people are more willing to read about two Asian lads who had the temerity to want to fly home by plane than two white men who were prepared to cause some genuine harm.

Labels: BNP, British National Party, Muslims, terrorism, United Kingdom, Weapons of Mass Destruction