the London bombings
Friday, 8 July 2005 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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rpeate's posting, but thought I should put it here too.)
Grrrr. Those morons! Could those al Qaeda twits be any more stupid? They want the west out of the Middle East. Understandable. I do too. Most of the Western population agrees with them -- witness the big protests and the ongoing anger at politicians who ignored the popular feeling.
Now these stupid jerks have handed the war-makers a great excuse to go in there guns a-blazing, and have reduced vastly, any support for their cause among their most powerful ally: the Western general population.
What incredible imbeciles!
I have to keep reminding myself that these are not the people who are having their rights trampled in the Western involvement in the Middle East. They are a bunch of restless, privileged, angry young fuckwits who are engaged in the same obscene action as our governments. Unfortunately both sides seem to think it is acceptable to hit citizens. Both sides think they have right on their sides. Both sides think they have a holy imperative. Both sides have religions and laws that forbid murdering bystanders.
The smarter people on the ground in the Middle East must be thinking "Oh no! These fools have just demolished our chances of peace in the foreseeable future."
...and the so we move on to the next stage in murder of women and children and other innocents.
rpeate's posting, but thought I should put it here too.)Grrrr. Those morons! Could those al Qaeda twits be any more stupid? They want the west out of the Middle East. Understandable. I do too. Most of the Western population agrees with them -- witness the big protests and the ongoing anger at politicians who ignored the popular feeling.
Now these stupid jerks have handed the war-makers a great excuse to go in there guns a-blazing, and have reduced vastly, any support for their cause among their most powerful ally: the Western general population.
What incredible imbeciles!
I have to keep reminding myself that these are not the people who are having their rights trampled in the Western involvement in the Middle East. They are a bunch of restless, privileged, angry young fuckwits who are engaged in the same obscene action as our governments. Unfortunately both sides seem to think it is acceptable to hit citizens. Both sides think they have right on their sides. Both sides think they have a holy imperative. Both sides have religions and laws that forbid murdering bystanders.
The smarter people on the ground in the Middle East must be thinking "Oh no! These fools have just demolished our chances of peace in the foreseeable future."
...and the so we move on to the next stage in murder of women and children and other innocents.
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Date: 2005-07-08 09:13 am (UTC)During the 60s and 70s I became interested in, and read about, the philosophy of terrorists. The stated aims of a lot of the terrorists back then was that they did their deeds in order to speed up the creeping power of government, rendering it visible. It always struck me how sophisticated this was (even if I thought killing people to alert people to governments restricting freedoms was rather stupid). If terrorists thought that back then (in simpler times), how has their thinking evolved over the decades?
I wish they'd evolved to the point of coming up with ways to achieve their aims without violence, but I think they have certainly become smarter morons... just like the politicians were pretty simple back then and have evolved to become more crafty, but just as dangerous.
Incidentally, did you hear that the Australian government spends more than a hundred million dollars a year on propaganda? Unlike most western nations we don't have laws to curb such misuse of money. Amazing isn't it.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/mediarpt/default.htm