Suicide bombers may target PM: UK
No More War | 13.07.2005 23:18 | Anti-militarism | London | World
But it just underlines criminal acts by fascist governments invading other countries. How can HoWARd claim not to be complacent on the one hand but on the other exploiting the possibility by sending more guerrillas and militants off to war in Afghanistan?
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AUSTRALIA: UK bombers are warning fascist war criminals like john HoWARd that they could become victims to suicide bombers if they continue to pre-emptively kill, maim and torture innocent indigenous people in sovereign nation states like Iraq and Afghanistan.
The stark message follows news that four Britons, raised in the regional Leeds region of England, were believed responsible for last week's terror bombings that killed up to 52 people.
Nine Australians were injured in the blasts.
Six remain in hospital, two in a critical condition and another in intensive care. Authorities have yet to account for a further 40 Australians.
In the wake of the blasts, the homegrown terror has inflamed and ignited good reasons why Australia should not attack sovereign nation states.
People get wound up and not everybody has the ability to hold back and as the example in the UK has now shown, some people can do something silly about it. And because of their frustration and anger they are tempted to take up any offer.
But killing maiming, and torturing innocent people in sovereign nation states, without counting the dead is not leading by example, surely? And this is what is winding people up, some more than others.
People who feel powerless, that is, until they meet someone who can help them.
So by invading sovereign nation states the UK bombing has cautioned yet again the hoWARd government by going to war and now again in Afghanistan, inviting a possible attack on Australian shores.
Now, HoWARd says, the terrorist threat could include suicide bombers.
"It just underlines the immensity of the problems that countries like Britain and to a lesser extent ... Australia faces," hoWARd said.
"We shouldn't complacently imagine that there aren't potentially suicide bombers in this country," hoWARd said.
"I believe the threat is less in Australia but we should not be complacent about this."
But it just underlines criminal acts by fascist governments invading other countries. How can HoWARd claim not to be complacent on the one hand but on the other exploiting the possibility by sending more guerrillas and militants off to war in Afghanistan?
Related:
AFGHANISTAN: Mixed reactions to rights watchdog report
"This report isn't just a history lesson," said Brad Adams, executive director of HRW's Asia Division. "These atrocities were among some of the gravest in Afghanistan's history, yet today many of the perpetrators still wield power."
More:
http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/8757
Back to kill the innocent
Labor's well paid losers have backed in principle a deployment to kill what party leader Kim Beazley has called "terrorism central". But who are the terrorists? Who's going where? To do what? And what is war? TERRORISM!
More: http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/8756
London terror bombings: a political crime
The criminal nature of these outrages is underscored by the fact that they occurred in a city that has been the scene of innumerable protests against imperialism and war. In February 2003, more than 1 million people marched in London to oppose the plans of the US and Britain to invade Iraq.
More: http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/8748
Where the bombers struck
It took about 30 minutes for the survivors to make it to the surface. "People were coming out covered in black soot, blood and grease. There was people lying at the side of the station on plastic sheeting," said Kabin Chibber, 24, who works in the Dow Jones building above Aldgate station.
More: http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/8745
Zarqawi: Everywhere and nowhere
He tells us that Zarqawi left the neighborhood in the early 1990s to go to Afghanistan, but that he doesn't believe he is in Iraq. Along with others in the neighborhood, he is convinced that Zarqawi was killed in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan during the US bombings that resulted from the attacks of September 11.
More: http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/8744
Labor, 'Showroom Dummies'
The Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Greg Combet says the Labor Party must stand up for the rights of workers but Labor stands up for Liberal and it has been like that for years.
More: http://www.geocities.com/publik15/archive05/Aust_Labor.html
The stark message follows news that four Britons, raised in the regional Leeds region of England, were believed responsible for last week's terror bombings that killed up to 52 people.
Nine Australians were injured in the blasts.
Six remain in hospital, two in a critical condition and another in intensive care. Authorities have yet to account for a further 40 Australians.
In the wake of the blasts, the homegrown terror has inflamed and ignited good reasons why Australia should not attack sovereign nation states.
People get wound up and not everybody has the ability to hold back and as the example in the UK has now shown, some people can do something silly about it. And because of their frustration and anger they are tempted to take up any offer.
But killing maiming, and torturing innocent people in sovereign nation states, without counting the dead is not leading by example, surely? And this is what is winding people up, some more than others.
People who feel powerless, that is, until they meet someone who can help them.
So by invading sovereign nation states the UK bombing has cautioned yet again the hoWARd government by going to war and now again in Afghanistan, inviting a possible attack on Australian shores.
Now, HoWARd says, the terrorist threat could include suicide bombers.
"It just underlines the immensity of the problems that countries like Britain and to a lesser extent ... Australia faces," hoWARd said.
"We shouldn't complacently imagine that there aren't potentially suicide bombers in this country," hoWARd said.
"I believe the threat is less in Australia but we should not be complacent about this."
But it just underlines criminal acts by fascist governments invading other countries. How can HoWARd claim not to be complacent on the one hand but on the other exploiting the possibility by sending more guerrillas and militants off to war in Afghanistan?
Related:
AFGHANISTAN: Mixed reactions to rights watchdog report
"This report isn't just a history lesson," said Brad Adams, executive director of HRW's Asia Division. "These atrocities were among some of the gravest in Afghanistan's history, yet today many of the perpetrators still wield power."
More:
http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/8757 Back to kill the innocent
Labor's well paid losers have backed in principle a deployment to kill what party leader Kim Beazley has called "terrorism central". But who are the terrorists? Who's going where? To do what? And what is war? TERRORISM!
More:
http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/8756 London terror bombings: a political crime
The criminal nature of these outrages is underscored by the fact that they occurred in a city that has been the scene of innumerable protests against imperialism and war. In February 2003, more than 1 million people marched in London to oppose the plans of the US and Britain to invade Iraq.
More:
http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/8748 Where the bombers struck
It took about 30 minutes for the survivors to make it to the surface. "People were coming out covered in black soot, blood and grease. There was people lying at the side of the station on plastic sheeting," said Kabin Chibber, 24, who works in the Dow Jones building above Aldgate station.
More:
http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/8745 Zarqawi: Everywhere and nowhere
He tells us that Zarqawi left the neighborhood in the early 1990s to go to Afghanistan, but that he doesn't believe he is in Iraq. Along with others in the neighborhood, he is convinced that Zarqawi was killed in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan during the US bombings that resulted from the attacks of September 11.
More:
http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/8744 Labor, 'Showroom Dummies'
The Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Greg Combet says the Labor Party must stand up for the rights of workers but Labor stands up for Liberal and it has been like that for years.
More:
http://www.geocities.com/publik15/archive05/Aust_Labor.html
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14.07.2005 07:40
Having said that, violence begets violence... i'd rather have politicians reduced to an irrelevency (due to lack of willing participation in the executive branch) and the wholesale rejection of dogmatic and organised religion.. flying pigs anyone? sigh......
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Lenore Leftie
14.07.2005 13:47
author: William Katz
Jul 14, 2005 06:09
How might Chris Matthews have covered the Blitzkrieg?
HARDBALL: Here it is, mid-1940. France is kaput. Britain is getting plastered from the air. What goes? With me by phone is the BBC's Lenore Leftie to sort it out. I'm Chris Matthews. Let's play "Hardball." Lenore, I hear explosions. What's the story from London?
LENORE LEFTIE: Well, Chris, there is some bother.
HARDBALL: Some bother? That's what you call it? You're in the middle of an air raid.
LENORE LEFTIE: The BBC doesn't use that term, Chris.
HARDBALL: Why? That's what it is.
LENORE LEFTIE: But it's so…judgmental. After all, one man's air raid is another man's justice.
HARDBALL: Well, the German pilots…
LENORE LEFTIE: Please, Chris. Let's not stigmatize an entire nation, the culture that gave us Beethoven and Brahms. Germany is a land of peace. There are, of course, as in any country, a few aberrant…
HARDBALL: Okay, okay, the Nazi pilots. Does that do it for you?
LENORE LEFTIE: Not really. We're talking about a belief system, aren't we? Who are we to criticize another cultural expression? Not all Nazis are pilots. Not all pilots are Nazis.
HARDBALL: Then who's bombing the hell out of you?
LENORE LEFTIE: BBC prefers to call them "hostile actors."
HARDBALL: All right, hostile actors.
LENORE LEFTIE: I'm glad to see you Americans are starting to practice quality journalism.
HARDBALL: Yeah. Oh, by the way, what does the Brit in the street – the guy getting whacked by these bombs – think of the language you use?
LENORE LEFTIE: I doubt if he thinks anything. We must do his thinking for him. Let him just clear the rubble. I went to Oxford.
HARDBALL: Right. Holy Cross here.
LENORE LEFTIE: I'll keep it simple.
HARDBALL: Now, Lenore, I hear London is reeling. Fires every night. Thousands dead. You angry about that?
LENORE LEFTIE: The BBC frowns on anger, as a barrier to understanding. We must get beyond anger and look at the root causes.
HARDBALL: Which are?
LENORE LEFTIE: Us, the Americans, and Israel.
HARDBALL: Hold on. It's 1940. Israel hasn't been invented yet.
LENORE LEFTIE: You Yanks are always sticking up for them, aren't you? We know it's your bosses in the press. And Hadassah.
HARDBALL: We'll talk about that later. So this root cause…
LENORE LEFTIE: We must ask ourselves what we did to cause the reaction of the hostile actors.
HARDBALL: So what did we do?
LENORE LEFTIE: Well, merely look at our Mr. Churchill. Did he ever once try to understand the grievances these hostile actors have? The hurt they felt after the first World War? The constant ridicule? Names like "huns" and "heinies" and even "gerries"? And the Jews complain!
HARDBALL: So it's Churchill?
LENORE LEFTIE: Put yourself in the chair of a struggling leader in Berlin, ruling a nation that makes wonderful cameras, preparing its defenses against the warlike tendencies of racist, colonialist nations that still have kings and queens. And you listen to this fat little Brit talking about fighting on the beaches and in the cities, and declaring that "this is our finest hour." Doesn't anyone else have a finest hour? Why just us? It's cultural arrogance, an indifference to the other.
HARDBALL: The who?
LENORE LEFTIE: The other, the ones we're taught to hate.
HARDBALL: I was never taught to hate the hun.
LENORE LEFTIE: You were. You just weren't aware of the cultural cues. And don't say the h-word.
HARDBALL: You mentioned the Americans. What'd we do?
LENORE LEFTIE: What didn't you do? You have this rich president who calls your uncultured nation the arsenal of democracy. Who are you to send weapons to Britain to threaten others? You do it, and we suffer.
HARDBALL: So it's our fault that those planes with swastikas are hitting London?
LENORE LEFTIE: Root cause, Chris. I'm sorry the truth hurts. And tell your president – the man doesn't know what "no smoking" means – tell him to forget these "four freedoms" of his. Who is he to prescribe the way other people live? One man's freedom is another man's agony.
HARDBALL: Yeah. Bottom line, Lenore, you want to win this fight?
LENORE LEFTIE: We at BBC wouldn't use a word like "win." It creates a hierarchal structure.
HARDBALL: But you want to survive, don't you? Wait. I just heard a huge blast. Lenore, you there?
LENORE LEFTIE: Yes, I'm here. The building next to me was just leveled. I'm coated with dust, and probably asbestos.
HARDBALL: Lenore, take cover.
LENORE LEFTIE: Why? I'm an oppressor. I see them firing anti-aircraft guns at these hostile actors. Not in my name, they don't. I refuse to fire without first trying to understand.
HARDBALL: Understand who?
LENORE LEFTIE: The Palestinians.
HARDBALL: What does this have to do with the Palestinians?
LENORE LEFTIE: It's the root cause of everything, Chris
Let's Play Hardball