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'Naming the Dead' Vigil in Birmingham 1st Feb 2006

Karen Bristoll | 01.02.2006 21:58 | Birmingham

Their was a 'Naming the Dead' Vigil in Victoria Square, Birmingham, 5.30 pm Wednesday 1st February 2006.

Speakers included the mother of a soldier from Tamworth who was killed in Iraq.

Naming of the Dead Vigil Birmingham 1/2/06 1
Naming of the Dead Vigil Birmingham 1/2/06 1

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Their was a 'Naming the Dead' Vigil in Victoria Square, Birmingham, 5.30 pm Wednesday 1st February 2006.

Speakers included the mother of a soldier from Tamworth who was killed in Iraq.

A second soldier from the 7th Armoured Brigade has been killed in Iraq.
This is the 100th British soldier to die in Iraq. Military families have
asked that the British people mark this day with protests and vigils.



Karen Bristoll
- e-mail: richardedkins@hotmail.com
- Homepage: http://www.nicelogo.co.uk


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must have taken a long time

02.02.2006 11:32

Did they name all killed during the conflict? (all, civilian 28287min 31891max, military 2342) or did they only name the brit deaths?
if only the brit deaths why is indy carrying this post?
people join the army and know they might have to kill people so why is anyone remembering those scum?

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a con that requires maximum publicity

02.02.2006 13:19

Another pro-Blair protest. I must say that Blair's New Reich agents are doing a bang-up job getting their coverage here.

Psychology... such an interesting concept. Every conman uses psychology, some instinctively, but the smarter ones through at least some active study.

What is a conman? Someone who, for a limited time at least, persuades you to WILLINGLY act against your own interests. But what on Earth would make a person do that?

There is a more important observation, however, and one that is KEY to the CON. Ordinary Humans tend to be ARROGANT and STUPID at the same time. What do I mean? Well, it is the very belief a person has in his/her self that they CANNOT be fooled that allows them to be fooled.

You see, there is that which is true, and that which you THINK is true, and the difference between the two is exactly what the conman exploits.

Of course, things are greatly complicated when the conman has the opportunity to impose FALSE TRUTHS in the first place, so that these can be taken advantage of later.

- A DEAD BRITISH SOLDIER IS TO BLAIR'S DISADVANTAGE. Sorry, where exactly did THIS garbage come from? You have the whole of Human history to use as proof of this idiotic theory, so kindly show me where this conclusion is justified.

- A HUNDRED DEAD IS A MAGIC FIGURE THAT HELPS STOP A WAR. Sorry, again who came up with this crap?

- HONOURING DEAD 'WARRIORS' MAKES WAR LESS LIKELY. Now someone really is out of their mind here. This really is a case of arguing that 'black is white'.

Now I can show a thousand times over from the history of our planet how each of the above active aid Blair, and promote his path to war with Iran. Sadly, I have known people successfully conned, even after I have explained beforehand the exact nature of the con, and they have agreed that they understand it. Flatter a person, tell them what they want to hear, and bingo, their brain gives up all idea of logic, or application of previous knowledge, and the con once again successfully plays out.

Oh, and as an aside, you will find that one of the publically exposed torturers came from the Tamworth area. His photos of torture in Iraq were the reason that MI5 ran its phoney photo story so publically in The Mirror newspaper, in a text-book perfect example of the tactic known as 'POISONING THE WELL'.

twilight


Straw Man

02.02.2006 15:33

Twilight, you claim to be an expert on so-called psy-ops techniques such as "poisoning the well". Is that why you use the technique of "The Straw Man"? Setting up a false target to demolish because you know nothing of the real issues?

In the main article where does it mention:
A DEAD BRITISH SOLDIER IS TO BLAIR'S DISADVANTAGE.
A HUNDRED DEAD IS A MAGIC FIGURE THAT HELPS STOP A WAR.
HONOURING DEAD 'WARRIORS' MAKES WAR LESS LIKELY.
????

Nowhere but in your fevered brain. So take your medication and go for a nice lie-down in a darkened room for a while, eh?

The Unknown Worrier


Keep on protesting

04.02.2006 19:02

First, Twilight is a nazi twat. His/her post on at least one other subject, where s/he implied that the 1917 Russian Revolution was the work of the Jews, was quite rightly removed by the moderators. (well done folks).

On the protest, there was a huge banner saying that 100,000 Iraqis had died, and the banners saying US/UK out of Iraq made it quite clear what side we were on.

This was demonstarting against the fact that 100 mainly working class UK troops had died in Blair's war. Some of them would no doubt have dome things that were repugnant, cos war and the military fucks up your head, but if we are going to build support from working class people then we need to have protests like the one on wednesday.

London March 18th - be there!

andy


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