Tuesday 30 April 2013

Blowback

Brooks Newmark, whose business it is not, demands that Ed Miliband remove Ken Livingstone from the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party for his unremarkable remark that the Boston Bombers were motivated by American foreign policy.

A remark made on the only television station that, inter alia, reported the student demonstration in London on 9th November, which both the BBC and Sky News blacked out. That station, although still available on the Internet, has since had its British broadcasting license revoked because it is not free from overseas editorial control. Unlike Sky News. Among others available on Sky, such as Fox News, CNN and Bloomberg. All under strictly British editorial control. Indubitably.

Livingstone holds an elected position on the NEC, an election in which he topped the poll. But he could be expelled, although only by the NEC, for having brought the Labour Party into disrepute. However, it is also expulsionable to "adhere" to any non-Labour against any Labour candidate for public office. What about those who publicly endorsed Boris Johnson against Ken Livingstone?

Moreover, not only is Livingstone right, but this country currently harbours Akhmed Zakayev, to whom these bombers undoubtedly owe allegiance. The bombers of 9/11 and 7/7 made no bones about the fact that they were motivated by American and British foreign policy respectively. Of course they were. Ken Clarke warned of that in the Commons debate on the Iraq War, and he was proved right.

And of course, so were these.

10 comments:

  1. He should be kept there-as a reminder to everyone that the Left has always been sympathetic to vicious extremists (particularly Islamic) ones who hate America.

    Ken and his pals Jamaat-e-Islami, the Muslim Brotherhood and George Galloway's links to Saddam Hussein, Bashar-al and Hamas, exemplify the Left in so many ways.

    No wonder poor Nick Cohen wrote "What's Left?"

    Livingstone and Miliband-that's what.

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  2. Saddam Hussein, Bashar-al

    Assad, presumably.

    Yes, Islamic extremists. Of course.

    As for Nick Cohen...

    You stupid, stupid, stupid little boy.

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  3. Islamic extremists and mass murderers I meant to add. Apologies. Hamas has the lowest body count of the three.

    Why is Nick Cohen so surprised, though?

    It didn't start with Livingstone-from Castro to Stalin, the Left has always supported the world's worst murderers?

    Owen Jones recently praised Eric Hobsbawm, an unrepentant Soviet Union sympathiser who downplayed genocide.

    That's the Left for you.

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  4. https://twitter.com/UkipTips

    Not that you'll get the joke.

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  5. David - with all due respect, this is horseshit.

    Whatever Kens Livingstone and Clarke say, no-one is motivated to blow people up by a country's foreign policy. They are motivated by someone telling them that blowing people up is an appropriate response to a foreign policy one does not like. You further claim that they "undoubtedly owe allegiance" to Zakayev. In other words, Zakayev provided the motivation for the Boston bombing. You'd think we'd be getting some pressure from the US by now if they really believed that. Actually it's only Russia that doesn't like Zakayev, as it didn't like Litvinenko. This looks to me a bit like the "America bad - Russia good" thinking that I remember seeing through in the 80s.

    And the "they are motivated by foreign policy" is a complete moral abdication. It is a) an attempt to justify terrorism (so long as it's "anti-imperialist"!) and b) an implication that Muslims simply cannot be expected to hold back from murdering people if they don't like someone's foreign policy, an insult to hundreds of millions of people.

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  6. no-one is motivated to blow people up by a country's foreign policy. They are motivated by someone telling them that blowing people up is an appropriate response to a foreign policy one does not like.

    That's a distinction without a difference.

    In other words, Zakayev provided the motivation for the Boston bombing. You'd think we'd be getting some pressure from the US by now if they really believed that.

    Anyone at all against Putin's Russia, it seems. London is now full of such people. And Saudi Arabia was not placed under any pressure after 9/11, or if so, then to no discernible effect. Nor, really, was Pakistan. Not very much, anyway.

    These things are not peculiar to Muslims.

    America is reaping the whirlwind of backing the Islamist terrorist separatists in Chechnya. Well, we harbour the biggest one of all. And both we and the Americans are preparing to intervene on behalf of the Islamists in Syria. They won't thank us for it. Not in the long run. They never do.

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  7. Your right, I didn't get it.

    I'd have to inhabit your paranoid Left-wing Universe to think UKIP are "racist".

    Don't ask the extra-smart chap who set up that Twitter feed to name a UKIP policy that is racist.

    Then he'd have to actually think.

    When you haven't got an argument, set up a stupid Twitter feed as they say.

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  8. "Stop people with extreme right-wing views joining your party by not having policies that appeal to people with extreme right-wing views"

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  9. Oh, just for your information, you dp know Lord Tebbitt has today come out in support of UKIP, don't you?

    Thatw as after he already publicly backed us in the last Euro elections.

    They'll all come on board in the end.

    And making an enemy of Ken Clarke...now THAT has helped our cause no end!

    That old euro-fanatic is just the kind of enemy we need.

    Given him or Tebbitt, I know who I'd pick.

    Cheers, Clarke, old boy.

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  10. Tebbit is 82, and, as you say, has been supporting you for years. What a coup.

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