there are several postings in the newswire about the murderous shooting. it will be put up as a feature soon.

What can we in Britain do about this - any ideas?

it's a very dodgy subject even to try and talk about
It appears that racism is now a term basically reserved exclusively for jews, Arabs are now officially classified as some kind some sub human canon fodder... any critism of the Israelis and the world wide jewish communities that support israel brings the house down .. interesting to note that even with the mainstream media pretty much under control and very unlikely to tell the truth about what is going on in Palestine there is a well orchestrated full bore pro Israeli propaganda campaign right here on IMC UK. they certainly don't lack resources .. as far as i can see the situation is
pretty much hopeless the Palestinians plight is not going to improve in the nr fututre ...

People are very angry here in the uk, and sad. It's shocking to lose two people and in such a short amount of time. Words fail me.

Thanks IMC (UK) for coming up with an editorial on this sad issue.

But are 'the people of the UK' very angry? Hell No!
Some national papers carried this story and thats it.

As 'scram' has mentioned Arabs are considered 'cannon fodder'.
Also there is the news of war right now.
A Briton dying anwhere for any cause is (unfairly) big news at normal times.

But the racist nature of British soceity *even in normal times* I fear, would not sympathise with the high ideals Tom died for.
But then again sadly this is one death that could be used to stop countless oters happenign in the future.

> What can we do about this?

The fact that Tom is a Briton I feel someone should follow this up legally with good advice.
The law is so fucked up here that any legal action might have to follow advice that will most probably neglect the real cause Tom died for -- valuing all human life as equal.
The legal argument will definitely be on the lines of unlawful killing in a distant land ....blah..but will give focus to what Tom was there in the first place in the media.

For a long lasting solution we should really follow up the racist issue that is the real cause of all this.
Why not follow up what stopped on 9/11 ...the
'Declaration [unedited] (.pdf document)' dated 8 Sept 2001
as found at
 http://www.racism.gov.za/substance/confdoc/index.html

I believe the UK government along with a major contribution fo the US government was responsible for watrign down the para 61 . The original intent was something more noble and sent panick among the aggressors who are pushing our planet into a dangerous future.

Yes! let us not give anyone the chance to kill so easily.

Actually, I think people are dispondant rather than angry. The papers refuse to report real issues (as they are owned by pro-war bastards who don't live here), the TV regurgitates US army propaganda, and demonstrating has become an experience of being hemmed in, photographed, marinalised and lastly ignored by the papers (and thus by many people) and the government.

No, actually I'm furiously despondant if that's at all possible. Don't blame us for being this way - we live under an illegal dictatorship. Please come and free us from this tyranny.