Time to end the London bomb hysteria
I've been calling for the past three weeks for calm and commonsense over the London bombings. The fact is, whatever might have happened; however many scary photos of nail bombs might have been leaked by the American security services to...
Posted to Politics by Natalie Bennett on July 30, 2005 06:46 AM
Learning from the British Stoic Reaction
From THE VN/VO:Shortly after the July 7th attacks on London, I emailed an associate who works downtown in the British city. Half of the reason behind the email was to make sure that...
Posted to Culture by Christopher J Falvey on July 29, 2005 06:34 PM
New sign in the Underground (London)
From Reading Politics, Government & Law: I don't know about you but where I live, those are the students going to college.
Posted to Politics by Jeliel on July 28, 2005 04:40 PM
Aussie Muslims do their part
Regarding terror, it is the job of all Muslims to root out the extremists in their midst. As a community, the onus is on them; they are being watched and though it sounds prejudicial, so be it - we are...
Posted to Politics by Mark Edward Manning on July 28, 2005 09:55 AM
Do not slay shoot-to-kill policy
LONDON, U.K. - As horrible as it was that an innocent man was shot dead at a London subway station last Friday, July 22, the police have maintained a shoot-to-kill policy.If the job of the police is to protect...
Posted to Politics by Mark Edward Manning on July 28, 2005 09:51 AM
RINGS OF STEEL
"Just like the image of the Luton four, like the frozen frame of Mohamed Atta, one of the 9/11 hijackers, as he strolls through the airport, we are confronted by the impossibility of divining evil intent. There is nothing in...
Posted to Culture by Kable on July 28, 2005 04:27 AM
Terrorism and Its Enemies - An Alliance of Civilizations
In the past, the more enlightened of us could comfort ourselves with the thought that poverty and social repression produce malcontents and terrorists. Unfulfilled aspirations of statehood were also considered as contributing factors. Even then, though, this was not entirely...
Posted to Politics by Aaman Lamba on July 27, 2005 03:43 PM (Score: 4)
RESERVOIR OF TEARS
Memo To: Jonathan Safran Foer. Subject: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Jonathan. Your words made me cry. Last night. Dammit. You made me think again. Feel. Grieve. For a world So at odds with itself. Thought of human casualties. Endless walls of posters. Of strangers missing. And missed. Epitaphs lining London's Tube. Where suicide bombers surf. On...
Posted to Books by Kable on July 27, 2005 11:46 AM
Journalists cover shooting victim Charles de Menezes' family, but not the police
Talking with the friends and family of Charles de Menezes is a record of compelling history and so it is being recorded. The 23-year-old Brazilian shot by British police last week in an Underground subway car sent money to his family,...
Posted to Politics by Temple Stark on July 26, 2005 03:50 PM
Article comments
— go to most recent comments1 - Andrew Ian Dodge
Thanks Eric.
2 - Eric Olsen
best wishes Andrew
3 - Dawn
It certainly seems to me that the left's idea of letting the terrorists alone and embracing them with hugs and kisses isn't going to do much at keeping them from trying to kill us.
This one area I strongly support Bush - it is clear that while al Quaeda might be clever, they aren't very smart.
Making enemies around the world isn't doing much for their general popularity. I hope Blair hunts down every single one of them and vivisects them and leaves their corpses rotting in the streets.
Savage motherf*ckers.
4 - Eric Olsen
appeasement is surely not the answer
5 - SFC Ski
This is terrible news, I hope the Brits will find the terrorist cells quickly and take them out.
One thing I doubt the Brits will concern themselves with is, "Why do they hate us?"
6 - bhw
It certainly seems to me that the left's idea of letting the terrorists alone and embracing them with hugs and kisses isn't going to do much at keeping them from trying to kill us.
As a lefty, I can honestly say that I've never advocated hugging or kissing terrorists, or even just leaving them alone.
But I can see now how going after Saddam has taken care of all those terrorists around the globe.
;-)
7 - Eric Olsen
we might as well just give them back Spain and get it over with
8 - SFC Ski
They want the world.
9 - Eric Olsen
couldn't we non-Islamists just move to Mars or something and let them have earth, which clearly Allah has deeded to them?
10 - Andrew Ian Dodge
The interesting irony of course is that there is a major lead-up going on to this Sunday reminding people of Londoners who stood up to Nazism and made it through the blitz. I think it might have an effect on Londoners determination to continue. (Not that bombs are a new thing in London.)
11 - SFC Ski
Well, I can only speak of the Brits that I know; I really this attack making them back down the way the Madrid attacks affected the Spaniards.
12 - Matt
As long as my iPod works on Mars, and you can get Sirius Satellite radio there, I'm game.
13 - Eric Olsen
perhaps this will encourage us all to get over whatever our political reticence is to capture and/or liquidate bin Laden
14 - Eric Berlin
Dawn -- Who on the left is "embracing the terrorists with hugs and kisses"? No one I know, in person or government or public life...
Woke up this morning to the news of the London attacks. Ever since 9/11 (when I witnessed the attacks occur from a San Francisco television station control room) I wake up every morning half-expecting to hear abominable news.
This morning I did.
15 - Nancy
Perhaps it IS time to stop being politically correct, & just start shutting down mosques & deporting muslims back to the middle east they all come from. BTW, I haven't heard a peep from any muslim news source concerning any muslim authorities or organizations whatsoever condemning this latest outrage. Therefore I infer they approve. More reasons to turn them into sheets of nuclear molten glass.
16 - Eric Olsen
I would say Dawn's message is aimed farther left than most anyone around here
17 - SFC Ski
In Iraq, the kidnappers of an Egyptian envoy released a video claiming that the killed him. Probably won't get much press due to the events in London.
18 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
hang on, though, have any of the claims of responsibility actually been verified? an hour ago they were saying that a loada fanatics and groups had claimed they were behind it, but no-one knows yet.
19 - Eric Olsen
perhaps the G8 aspect of this will actually aid the coordination between the nations in the fight against terror - the proximity to the attacks might inspire a few leaders as well
20 - Dawn
My comment is aimed directly at the apologists who think that these attacks are our fault ("our" being Western civilization) for doing what we do best: thriving and being successful.
Unless you are apologizing for that, then clearly I am not talking to you.
21 - Eric Olsen
I say coopt the fuckers even more aggressively than in the past
22 - Eric Berlin
Dawn -- ANYONE who says that is obviously on the fringest of the fringe and barely seems worthy of discussion.
23 - Dawn
Eric B. - Please - there are millions of people who say and think that way, surely they can't be ignored.
24 - Jon Sobel
"the apologists who think that these attacks are our fault"
There are such apologists, but they are a fringe. The problem is, anyone who proposes actually thinking things through and figuring out why things are the way they are - in other words, actually using their brain - is labelled immediately by the knee-jerk Right Wing as being an "appeaser" (cf. Karl Rove's recent ridiculous and offensive "therapy" comment).
25 - Andrew Ian Dodge
JS: You can try to figure out what hell is going on with Islamists without being called an "appeaser". It does help if you don't start by giving them excuses for their behaviour. Trying to understand why people do such things is fine but excusing them is not.