Bugger.

The morning after the Olympics celebrations. The day the G8 meeting started. 8:50am, the peak of rush hour.

I don't really give a flying fuck what religion they profess to follow, what they are are evil fucks.

I will lay a bet, though, that no Iraqis were involved. Oh, they will be given as a reason, but Iraqis have other things on their plate. Just a point.


There is hope for humanity, though, in the response of the Londoners. There was no panic. There was no running around screaming. There was no getting underfoot. Those who could help, did. Those who couldn't got out of the way. Triage did its thing. The dead weren't even counted until all that could be done for the living had been. Blair gave a quick statement with as much information as he had, then got into a plane to London ASAP. George W. kept his mouth shut. The parliament did what it could. The London Emergency Services went above and beyond. Even reports of the actions of the Train drivers was that they were calm, collected, and kept people as calm as possible while evacuating the walking wounded. Maybe there's hope for us as a species yet.

The question is: Now what happens?

Oh, for the love of...

I don't know who scares me more, the evil fucks who kill people with bombs, or people like this guy.

The evil fucks are like wounded snakes: at least they are honest in their purpose. OK, so their purpose is evil, but it's not like we don't know what their intentions are.

Faris QC, though, wants to suspend all civil rights for anyone accused of 'terrorism', to intern anyone who might commit such an action, to deport any non-citizen (and retract citizenship and then deport any naturalised citizen) - thus making them Someone Else's Problem, to institute an ID card (because malevolant people never carry false papers, and anyway, ID papers don't do anything to stop the Sleepers he is so paranoid about), and generally declare war on those who he deems to be Islamic with Malice Aforethought.

And then he as much as says that if the Islamic community don't go along with his little scheme, then they are as good as traitors themselves (and have presumably put enough suspicion upon themselves to be interned, deported, &c &c). Seriously; the subtext of several of his comments are that the Islamic Community had better start handing over people right now, if they don't want to 'disappear' into internment en masse.

He explicitely compares the current spate of terrorism with WWII. This is bullshit. I'll repeat that, just to make it clear:
Comparisons of Islamic Terrorists, even Al Qa'eda, with Nazi Germany are complete fucking bullshit.

( Let me count the ways: )

Paging messers Orwell and Kafka?

Seriously, take a look at these comments.

Fucking hell, these people vote.

And another thing...

That web site from a group that no-one has ever heard of ("The Secret Al Qa'eda Jihadi Group of Europe?" "Nonono, the European Secret Jihadist Al Qa'eda Group ... splitters!") claiming responsiblity is being run with as evidence of something.

1) Anyone who has read the City Guard books of Pratchett will recognise the name 'Done-it Duncan'.
2) So, you're saying that Al Qa'eda did this? Wow! Fuck me! I would never have guessed! I thought it was the Boy Scout Association.

Of course, those dropkicks who take that website as conclusive proof of something or other are using it already in their rhetoric to prove ... well, something or other. I'm not sure what, except that taking a website that gives no actual information, and says pretty well what you would expect it to, and taking the fact that it does say what you expect it to as proof of anything only proves that some people desperately need a cranio-rectal-inversion correction. Desperately.