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Everybody agrees that Londoners showed amazing inner strength under fire two days ago, and that all the rescue services performed outstandingly. The town's performance may well be seen as a major defeat for the terrorists. So their allies in the media have swung into action. Today's edition of the Channel 4 early evening news used every moment it did not devote to crawling admiration of the terrorists' brilliant organization and remarkably successful butchery to a lengthy set of varations on horror, disgust and grisliness. We are at war, and anyone who saw this performance will be clear that they were trying to play up the enemy's power and skill and encourage their spectators to fear them. Why this sort of abject moral surrender should take place I do not know, but it seems clear that Britain's Channel 4 News should be retitled "Channel 4 - a wholly-owned subsidiary of Al Qaida".

Date: 2005-07-09 09:34 pm (UTC)
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And Canada's Il-Liberals and Zapatero's mob in Spain both absolutely refused the mere idea of a referendum. Why? Guess what: they fucking knew they would lose it. And the Church in Spain has had a good look at what the Church in Italy has just done, and is thinking about applying the lessons learned in Italy. Mr.Zapatero is going to have an interesting time ahead of him.

Date: 2005-07-09 10:30 pm (UTC)

Date: 2005-07-09 11:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] patchworkmind.livejournal.com
What I mean by "Good" is "It is good that Zapatero & Co. are going to have an interesting time ahead" of them. I hope it is a winding, politically perilous 88-degree upward grade, accompanied by gusts of poor public opinion bordering on gale force.

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