It was only a couple of weeks ago that we appeared to be in the throes of what could reasonably be described as a low-level campaign of insurrection, aimed principally (it seemed) at the various assets and agents of the surveillance state.
Now, nothing. Not a word. What happened to it? One minute there were letter-bombs popping off in offices all over the country and next minute, well, as I said, nothing. Is it the case that the perpetrator(s), perhaps feeling that their point has well and truly been made, just decide to call it quits? Or is that case that brown packages are still erupting away in postrooms only we are no longer being told about it for fear of inspiring copycat attacks or general panic?
Nor have been any reports anywhere about any arrests, despite the fact that we have the most comprehensive and highly-equipped security apparatus of any country in the world and a truly frightening array of “anti-terrorist” powers, agents and mechanisms.
It’s almosty as if the whole episode never occured. But it did occur. We know it did. But what exactly did happen and why and who? And why has the whole story dropped off the radar like a suddenly evaporating UFO?
Maybe it’s because South London (Brixton/Clapham) suddenly seems very openly to resemble Beirut?
Actually there has been news.
#1, a false admission
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6350751.stm
#2, white power!
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Throw: to propel or cast in any way
Throe: a violent spasm or pang; paroxysm
No threats.
No credible claims of responsibility.
No stated ideological underpinning.
No deaths.
So, no news.
Or maybe its because the bombs have not been targeting London (ie Central) or government offices.
urely everyone knows the war on terror is a fabrication, which pops up at very convenient times. Blair and the gang were under serious fire over sleaze. Only an idiot could have failed to realise the War on Terror card was due to be played. And so it was. In times of heightened need, the card played is of a graver nature, and so 77 stole all the accumulated thunder being directed by at the G8 summit
Andrew K is right! After all this “Error” on Terror (you like that turn of phrase?) could be over tomorrow. All we have to do is kick Bush and Blair out, put them on trial for war crimes, right Andrew?
Oh and then put our women in sacks. After all they are throwing out “evil” waves. (It is getting hard for a male in today’s society, after all we are powerless to stop the evil female waves!) And while we are at it we need to help Iran get the bomb. No scratch bomb are expensive, we should just ask Iran who to nuke to help them out.
Yep the War on Terror is just a fabrication, right Andrew. It could be over tomorrow. All we have to do is convert to islam. Hey it is easy, “There is now Gawd but allah and mo is his final profit!” There I am a muslim now.
See if everyone takes these simple steps this this fabrication isn’t needed because we will all be at peace. Right Andrew?
Well, Cannon, since you seem to have such a clear understanding of this, maybe you can explain to us just what the end game is for knowing we have won a war against a tactical procedure. War on Terror?! If you are going to defend this war, at least have the balls to name names and not tactics.
This fantasy, (of fighting a non-existent enemy while the real enemy is never named) is a big, huge part of why it will fail. Reagan had the courage to name names. I have no such expectations from this president. Cutting corners is a hallmark of this administration. Both financial and moral. And trying to fight a war without upsetting the enemy and its supporters is just one more example. They have brought buttering their bread on both sides to a high art form.
While Andrew K’s apparent suggestion that 7/7 was a government op is absurd, your call for full scale war against a tactic (or more absurdly yet, an emotion) is some kind of metaphysical nonsense.
It’s not too late even yet, but as long as people like you keep spouting that kind of rhetorical nonsense, hope is fading fast.
I hope those who either deny the war or those who
insist we declare war against over 1 billion muslims
have stocked several million rounds of ammo and
keeping it dry. By prognosticating on this crap for
a couple of generations, by either ignoring or denying
it has put the west between a rock and hard place.
In retrospect it would have been a wiser decision to
not have opened the gates of immigration to 3rd
world barbarians.
Every body had better get busy rowing together, or
the ship is going to sink.
So let’s get this right ron.eye.mouse, you actually believe we are fighting 1 billion muslims and if we just don’t let them figure that out, everything will be okay. It’s no wonder everything is so …
I think you need another plan. Like maybe figuring out exactly who it is we are fighting in this absurdly declared ‘War on Terror’. Until you figure out who it is we are aiming the war at, quit yelling “Fire!” Remember it’s “Ready. Aim. Fire.”
Ah, Andrew K thinks all the WOT is about Blair (or evilhitlerbush).
Well, that explains the 50 bombs that exploded in Thailand last weekend.
We are at war with Al Qaeda and its allies, because they committed acts of war against us. It will be a hard and long fight. We will prevail because of numerical, moral and technological superiority.
If we try to wage war on “terror” we will also have a long and hard fight but we will never win. Just as we can never win the war on “drugs.”
Perhaps they are busy consulting with the driving and road using community prior to raids?
Ah Cannon. I can see your logic behind the concept of converting to Islam – But what flavour eh?
Whatever version you pick is eventually a loose/loose proposition, because some other flavour will then decide that, though you may no longer be a hated kuffar or kafir – and therefore deserving of “severe punishment” (in practical terms – being murdered) because it is of course not the person doing it but actually Allah of course, on account of their “doing his will” (8:17).
If you do convert you will of course be the next best thing!
Each flavour of Islam having variously declared the others to be kafirs at one point, or another, takfeer (judgement of the rejection of truth) being issued by scholars of all the sects against all other sects You only have to look at how well the Shiites and Sunnis get on. A positive love fest.
It is reported today that a man in Cambridge has been arrested in connection with this.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6375131.stm
I imagine that we find that this bombing spate comes from a single individual suffering from an irrational persecution complex. Although the targets seem unconnected to others the bomber will have a complex paranoiac delusion created in which each target wronged him.
Statistically, such bombers are highly intelligent but socially dysfunctional who will have suffered a loss of professional and social status in the last few years. People who know him (they’re almost all male), will report him angry and quarrelsome.
This story may have dropped off the radar because there probably isn’t anything of national importance here. Instead, it’s just a lone disturbed individual acting from personal grievance. The police and experts most likely realized this after the first couple of bombings and press picked up on it the story went silent.
By the way, it’s throes not throws.
Oh Midwesterner it is obvious as far as naming names is concern. And I did call them out with a little apostate (of course since I don’t believe the tenents of their little “peaceful” death cult it is hardly apostatically for me, not like it matters to any muslim.)
Ahhh but see Phil A, the beauty of my proposed course of action is that as a white male I am least affected by it. After all it is easy enough for me to grow a beard. Granted taking multiple wives might be a bit of a problem. After all who could handle the headache of more than one cursespewing battleaxes… Well I guess it is just the price to pay for “World Peace”. Now homosexuals and feminist might have a harder row to hoe under the global calphite, but if you ask those two groups I am just a bigotted troglodyte anyway (after all I am a male hetrosexual) so I actually worse than any current muslim. Go figure.
“By the way, it’s throes not throws.”
It most certainly is. Error now corrected.
The chap they’ve arrested is a school caretaker. They’re always a bit odd. Mind you, dealing with kids means their persecution complex is by no means irrational.