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“The attack was no accident: Westminster represents democracy, freedom, human rights, the rule of law”

Thursday, March 23rd 2017 - 06:29 UTC
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British Prime Minister Theresa May condemned the terrorist attack on Parliament which she described as “sick and depraved”, vowing “forces of evil” would never be allowed “to drive us apart”. Below is a transcript of the prime minister’s full speech: Read full article

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  • ElaineB

    Well said from our PM.

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 07:08 am - Link - Report abuse -9
  • Think

    TWIMC

    Ms. May says...:
    “These streets of Westminster – home to the world’s oldest Parliament”

    El Think says...:
    Only if one forgets Island's Alþingi..
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althing

    Or the Isle of Man's Tinvaal...

    Or some fifteen other examples...

    Why do the Engrish always..., even in moments of grief..., feel the need to tell aggrandizing porkies about their history...?

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 07:46 am - Link - Report abuse -3
  • The Voice

    Think proving he is a nasty little shit.

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 08:28 am - Link - Report abuse -3
  • imoyaro

    Gauchito Drink, why do chantapufis like you and your devoted partner in the “Torturer's Tango Duo,” Kamerad/Kamerad Rique, feel the need to keep pretending you are honest?

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 10:30 am - Link - Report abuse -3
  • Clyde15

    The Voice
    What do you expect from him. He doesn't give a toss as long as he can twist it round to suit his bitter little agenda. Technically he is correct BUT his timing was to cause the greatest possible offence.
    He could have waited a bit and then made his pedantic point but insults are his game disguised as a “HUMBLE” opinion.
    He professes to love Scotland but the feeling is not reciprocated.

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 10:49 am - Link - Report abuse +1
  • James Marshall

    A sad day for all (not just the 'Engrish' Think) who are not brainwashed by fake causes or blinkered by indoctrination....

    Talking of which...Think, she maybe referencing the 'Witenagemot' as the precursor to the 'modern parliaments' introduced by the Anglo Saxons into 'England' from the C7th - 11th.

    Then again who gives a shit, she was not, for example, telling 'aggrandizing porkies about their history' to steal territory and land that doesn't belong to them, like you and your ilk routinely do.

    What you failed to process in your deluded, intellectually challenged mind is that innocent people lost their lives. Where ever that occurs it is a sad event that transcends borders and countries. But you thought it more important to pick holes in sentence that had no relevance to the actions of yesterday, purely to make an anti English point, very classy.

    You would at least gain more respect if you showed the slightest semblance of empathy and humanity.

    But then, we all know you like the attention and to be honest we all like to make you look a fool, so we have a comfortable 'symbiotic' relationship. After all, they do say that some children crave attention, even bad attention.

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 10:56 am - Link - Report abuse +1
  • Think

    Lowlander Clyde15...

    You say...:
    “He could have waited a bit and then...”

    I say...:
    - I just follow the normal five stages of grief, Lowlander...:
    Denial..., anger..., bargaining..., depression... and acceptance...
    - My “denial stage” just now is refusing to believe the callous Engrish self-aggrandizement porkies in a moment of grief...

    By the way... If you want insults and disrespect to victims of terrorism..., you may wish to reread them Anglo Turnips comments in here on the articles about similar incidents that happened recently in Nice and Berlin...

    May London get over this quickly...
    Give my luuuuv to Alba...
    El Think...

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 11:08 am - Link - Report abuse +2
  • DemonTree

    What, so it's okay because people you claim to despise do the same? I guess I should have known better, but I'm disappointed.

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse -6
  • Think

    Not “the same”..., lad...
    Not even close...
    Peace & Luuv...
    El Think...

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 11:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • The Voice

    Think digging a hole for himself - its where shit belongs.

    James puts it more eloquently than me, he clearly shows this nasty mean minded troll up for what he is.

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 11:24 am - Link - Report abuse -3
  • ElaineB

    Take note how many downticks on my post praising our Prime Minister's measured and welcome message to denounce terrorists. Every person downticking supports terrorism. Remember that in the future and remind them of it.

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 11:25 am - Link - Report abuse -7
  • James Marshall

    Think, backtracking like mad....too little, too late....

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 11:36 am - Link - Report abuse -2
  • imoyaro

    @EB

    There's never been any doubt of that vis-à-vis the “Torturer's Tango Duo,” as far as I am concerned, and of course, why do you think I refer to Chopper as “Chopper?” ;)

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 11:41 am - Link - Report abuse -7
  • Think

    TWIMC

    El Think hasn't backtracked one nanometer...

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 11:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Heisenbergcontext

    You'd think by now that terrorists would've realised that trying to break the spirits of Londoner's is a waste of time,energy & resources. There are few people in the world who can exhibit the same degree of sangfroid in the face of imminent physical threat as the citizens of this city.

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 12:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    Mr. Heisenbergcontext...

    I know that you “Think” that I don't exist as a real person..., but I will, anyhow, use your above comment to express a couple of my personal humble opinions...

    1) I “Think” the terrorists realise more than you “Think”... They ain't “trying to break” anyones spirit..., matey...
    But they are succeding in provoking a constant sense of anger in a large percentage of the Worlds population...
    An anger that makes them “Think” and react in equal bestial terms as them terrorists...
    The results........? An eye for an eye......... Leaving everybody blind........

    2) London and Londonians ain't more “sangfroid in the face of imminent physical threat” that many other cities...
    Beirut..., Sarajevo..., Baghdad..., Paris... spring promptly to me mind...

    Regards
    EL Think...

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 12:47 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
  • Anbar

    So, “Thinks” first response is to ignore the tragedy and try to score political points instead.

    What a guy.

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 12:59 pm - Link - Report abuse -2
  • The Voice

    Our PM's words -

    “And we meet here, in the oldest of all Parliaments, because we know that democracy - and the values it entails - will always prevail. Those values - free speech, liberty, human rights and the rule of law - are embodied here in this place, but they are shared by free people around the world”

    And from Think, the little shit who claims to be from Chubut we hear what? A petty pathetic attempt at distraction. Not a word of empathy or sorrow. People from a dozen nations injured. Perhaps those who suck up to this odious troll will finally realise what he and many of his countrymen stand for.

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 01:19 pm - Link - Report abuse -3
  • DemonTree

    Clyde15 and James Marshall said it better than I could, Think. I'm sure you know where you can stick your 'Peace & Luuv'.

    I'll never understand these people who want to destroy the world and everything we've built, but we can't let them succeed. Terrorism is always horrible, but it's only effective if we let it be. We can't always stop them killing people but we can stop them achieving their aims, and that's what we need to do.

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 01:34 pm - Link - Report abuse -6
  • Think

    Ohhhhhh....

    What a collection of small delicate choco chip Anglo cookies we have here...

    The Anglosphere has during the last ~100 years completely messed with them Muslim countries..., directly causing the fundamentalist backlash we witness today...

    Their “Intelligence agencies” even created Al-Qaeda..., for Christ sake...!!!

    But they get all excited by a humble Patagonian dweller that points out their constant use of self-aggrandisement porkies... even in moments where grief and self reflection would be most appropiate...

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 02:27 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Heisenbergcontext

    @Think

    I'd argue that attempting to inspire anger in one of the enduring representatives of western culture - the city of London - is indeed an attempt to break their spirit and the degree of failure in the eye-for-an-eye stakes can be measured by the fact that neither Riyadh, Islamabad or Tehran is a smoking ruin.

    Beirut...Sarajevo...Paris...Baghdad:

    Paris - the spiritual home for dissidents, emigre's, exiles and fugitives inevitably attracted people instructed to kill such dissidents, emigre's, exiles and fugitive. Political and terroristi c violence is as French as Non je ne regrette rien. More French citizens were killed in the political struggle AFTER the D-Day liberation than by the Nazi's. You are confusing 'sangfroid' with fatalism.

    Beirut: those citizens who couldn't leave and weren't actively committed to whichever side they were aligned to were often in a permanent state of shell-shock. They managed to export some of that internecine hostility as well as some of the skills developed in a law & order vacuum. Lebanese gangs are notorious in Sydney.

    Sarajevo: I loved the attitude developed by many the of citizens of that city - everyone had some Jewish, Muslim and Christian ancestry. It was a Bohemians dream. But just like the rest of much of the former Yugoslavia those attitudes didn't survive the war. Just like so many others neighbours turned on each other, families betrayed family members. I have the highest respect for those who never succumbed to the pressures placed on them but they were a minority.

    And Baghdad? Please - Baghdad was terrifying before Operation Desert Storm, it was terrifying after and exponentially worse after 2003. The good citizens of Baghdad largely either participated in this state of affairs or indulged in mass consumption of tranquilisers thoughtfully provided by the state- at cost - by the state. Not much evidence of insouciance there sorry.

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 02:45 pm - Link - Report abuse -8
  • pgerman

    Argentina has deep differences with the UK over the South Atlantic but Argentina has deep overlaps with the UK for the conception of life, secularism, individual freedoms and culture. In this clash of civilizations, between the West and Islam, Argentina must be an ally of the United Kingdom

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 03:13 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
  • James Marshall

    http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/originsofparliament/birthofparliament/overview/origins/

    It appears it can be traced still further back to the C4th and C5th in Anglo Saxon England. It may have changed and morphed over the centuries in different guises, but the modern UK version has its roots in Anglo Saxon Britain. So was she telling 'self-aggrandisement porkies'? Or was it a neat excuse for you to make a few more anti English remarks.

    You seem to imply that empathy and compassion are characteristics that show weakness and are ripe to be made fun of.

    Go for it Think, after all my opinion of you cannot get any lower....

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 03:24 pm - Link - Report abuse -3
  • Think

    TWIMC

    As Tecumseh, Sitting Bull, Geronimo and many other redskinned Hollywod stars use to say...:
    “White Anglo man speaks with forked tongue.”

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 03:46 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
  • Anbar

    hey Thinko... what do the south american indians say about your genocidal campaign so that you and your chums could take over their country and claim ts always been yours?

    Oh, yeah - nothing - you killed most of them and the rest subsist in squalor - you're such a champion of justice but you're so utterly blinkered to your own past.

    You are the squatting descendent of squatters with, by your own oft touted standards, no rights at all to be in south america.

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 05:00 pm - Link - Report abuse -2
  • Clyde15

    Think
    I notice you had your first post at 08:00 UK time. That would correspond to about 04:00 in Chubut. Are you an insomniac among your other attributes ?

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 05:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • The Voice

    No, the little shit is resident in Brook Street RG Embassy.

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 05:16 pm - Link - Report abuse -2
  • Clyde15

    The correct expression is “white man speak with forked tongue”. This includes Spanish/Mexicans who were at a constant war withe the Apache and Comanche.

    I know your fixation on “Anglos” but get the quotes right.

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 05:36 pm - Link - Report abuse -2
  • DemonTree

    @Think
    Don't be disingenuous, you know what our problem with you is. There's a time and a place for your nit-picking and point-scoring, and this isn't it.

    @Heisenbergcontext
    I'm sure we can agree that if not equal sangfroid, people in many cities of the world have shown their resilience by carrying on with their lives in the face of terrorism, war, or other disasters.

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 07:56 pm - Link - Report abuse -6
  • Think

    Mr.DemonTree...

    Don't you be disingenuous lad..., you know what my problem is with PM May... There's a time and a place for her self-aggrandisement porkies..., and this isn't it.

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 08:14 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
  • The Voice

    You have a problem with Mrs May. You have a problem with the Falkland Islanders. And... everyone has a problem with you.

    Mar 23rd, 2017 - 09:30 pm - Link - Report abuse -3
  • imoyaro

    But it's always the right time and place for “ self-aggrandisement porkies” when you are part of the “Torturer's Tango Duo.” Isn't that right, Gauchito Drink? ¡Qué borracho!

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 04:54 am - Link - Report abuse +1
  • Heisenbergcontext

    @DT

    Yes, I could willingly acknowledge that resilience is commonplace in many places in the face of disaster, but since this is so self-evidently true...why mention it at all?

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 06:10 am - Link - Report abuse +1
  • downunder

    ‘These streets of Westminster – home to the world’s oldest Parliament – are engrained with a spirit of freedom that echoes in some of the furthest corners of the globe. And the values our Parliament represents – democracy, freedom, human rights, the rule of law – command the admiration and respect of free people everywhere.'

    So true.

    Well said PM May, your words echo the words of PM Churchill whose brilliant oratory rallied the British people and freedom loving people everywhere to the cause of freedom during another dark time.

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 08:31 am - Link - Report abuse +1
  • The Voice

    Think has obviously been up all night ticking himself. However if you hold different opinions to that little shit you can donate to PC Keith Palmers family here - https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/Keith-palmer

    More than £300,000 has already been raised.

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 08:56 am - Link - Report abuse +2
  • ElaineB

    @ The Voice

    And his family will receive 'death in the line of duty' payment and his comfortable pension. It is no compensation for the loss but his family will be well taken care of and not suffer financially.
    The GBP will see to that.

    Another victim died over night. Others are still critical. This is a tragedy.

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 09:07 am - Link - Report abuse +3
  • The Voice

    There a very extensive rundown on 'Masoods' life in this morning's papers. A potent cocktail of racist slurs, violence and indoctrination seems to have been behind his actions. From what I can gather Isis didn't even know who he was, they couldn't even name him. He really was a lone wolf, they just claimed him as their own. In every country on earth racial and tribal differences exist and result in intimidation of others from racist or religious nutter individuals. I don't know of any way to prevent it happening, laws don't seem to help much.

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 09:27 am - Link - Report abuse +3
  • Think

    Downunder...

    1) “These streets of Westminster - are engrained with a spirit of freedom that echoes in some of the furthest corners of the globe. And the values our Parliament represents – democracy, freedom, human rights, the rule of law – command the admiration and respect of free people everywhere.”
    - Quite true....

    2) “These streets of Westminster – home to the world’s oldest Parliament – ...”
    - Engrish self-aggrandisement porky...

    Upholding the truth is the only way to deal with the values of democracy as freedom, human rights and the rule of law that we, free people, respect everywhere...

    Also sprach el Think...

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 09:32 am - Link - Report abuse -5
  • imoyaro

    “Upholding the truth is the only way...”

    And therein lies the sticking point, eh Gauchito Drink? Fact is you are incapable of truth, and your posts are always woven out of a tissue of lies. By the way, did you stab an Afro Argentine for Christmas last year? ;)

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 09:41 am - Link - Report abuse +3
  • ElaineB

    @ The Voice

    You make an important point. The murderer was a malcontent, criminal and misfit with deep held prejudices. He was looking for something to hang his hatred on and IS was convenient. They didn't know or give two figs about him but he is exactly the type they want to attract. All extremist groups are a magnet to this type of person.

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 10:24 am - Link - Report abuse +5
  • LukeDig

    Bombing and killing more than one million innocent civilians in the middle east only in the past 20 years by NATO planes does intend to make you a target.
    Violence begets violence

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse -2
  • The Voice

    Luke I agree with your sentiment but not your vastly exaggerated numbers. Over a million British people marched in London against the lunacy of the Sadaam war started by BLiar and W, they didn't listen to the people and we are reaping what was sown. But the violence is not excuseable.

    @littleshitThink , wriggle all you like, click all you like, you show your true racist xenophobic colours with every post. Carry on Camping it up...

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 11:32 am - Link - Report abuse +3
  • DemonTree

    I agree with both ElaineB and The Voice.

    Also, LukeDig, the terrorist wasn't from the Middle East. He was born in Britain and had been convicted of several violent crimes that had nothing to do with terrorism. Most likely he was just looking for an excuse.

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 12:01 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • LukeDig

    If you look at the photographs from the war you can easily understand that any man can go insane by watching the horrors Nato caused.
    By the way photos from the war are censored by NATO governments and its allies, my country included, in order to deceive the population and avoid another backlash like the one in Vietnam.

    Not even museums or independent photography galleries publish the horrors of the war. Instead they do expositions about the Holocaust.

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 01:12 pm - Link - Report abuse -3
  • Think

    TWIMC

    Not surprisngly (with some reservations though) I agree with ElaineB, The Voice and Mr. DemonTree on the subject of IS easy & contactless recruitment of more or less disenfranchised individuals and groups all over the World... They are millions...

    Somebody should sit down and Think about it...
    Self-aggrandisement porkies don't work...
    On the contrary...

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 01:20 pm - Link - Report abuse -3
  • The Voice

    @littleshitThink, when repeating your lies and slurs doesn't work you try sucking up. We are know what YOU are, a shit stirring racist Xenophobia twat. You can repeat what you say as infinitum, no-one agrees with you and everyone can see you for what you are. What a pathetic representative of your country? Even your own countrymen are embarrassed and taking you to task! Please crawl off somewhere appropriate like a big hole.

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 01:41 pm - Link - Report abuse +3
  • Think

    Chuckle..., chuckle...

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 01:42 pm - Link - Report abuse -5
  • ElaineB

    @LukeDig

    Your attempt to blame this attack on the British Government is tenuous at best and deliberately provocative at worst. The murderer was born in and raised in the U.K.. He was, as Think describes, disenfranchised and looked to hang his issues on an extremist group. To try to shift the blame of his action elsewhere is a fraud of the worst kind. He was responsible for murder and that is where the blame lies.

    Would you blame the actions of the mass murderer Anders Breivik on the Norwegian Government? Or, if you try really hard you might be able to hold the British government responsible.

    There will always be misfits with grudges that gravitate towards extremist organisations and are exploited by them. There are some reports that the man born as Adrian Elms travelled to Saudi Arabia at one point but he was seeking justification for his prejudices. He was perfect fodder for an extremist group.

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 01:56 pm - Link - Report abuse +3
  • DemonTree

    @LukeDig
    Do you have any evidence that the photos were censored by western governments?

    But anyway it doesn't justify what IS are doing; they've committed much more horrible crimes in Iraq and Syria against what are supposedly their own people, than anything they have managed in Europe or the US, and they're not trying to hide anything - they boast about them and use it to recruit more crazies. They are not trying to build anything positive either; their ultimate aim seems to be to start World War 3 and end the world - you'd really have to be mad to support that.

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 02:00 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • LukeDig

    @Demontree

    ”Let me say up front that I don’t like the press,” one Air Force officer declared, starting a January 1991 press briefing on a blunt note. The military’s bitterness toward the media was in no small part a legacy of the Vietnam coverage decades before. By the time the Gulf War started, the Pentagon had developed access policies that drew on press restrictions used in the U.S. wars in Grenada and Panama in the 1980s. Under this so-called “pool” system, the military grouped print, TV, and radio reporters together with cameramen and photojournalists and sent these small teams on orchestrated press junkets, supervised by Public Affairs Officers (PAOs) who kept a close watch on their charges.

    “During the same period, military photojournalist Lee Corkran was embedding with the U.S. Air Force’s 614th Tactical Fighter Squadron in Doha, Qatar, and capturing their aerial bombing campaigns. He was there to take pictures for the Pentagon to use as it saw fit—not primarily for media use.”

    ”The scenes Corkran witnessed weren’t just off-limits to Jarecke; they were also invisible to viewers in the United States, despite the rise of 24-hour reporting during the conflict. Gulf War television coverage, as Ken Burns wrote at the time, felt cinematic and often sensational, with “distracting theatrics” and “pounding new theme music,” as if “the war itself might be a wholly owned subsidiary of television.”

    Only thing that is allowed now is this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7913890.stm

    There is ample bibligraphy should you want to investigate. Of course the most profilic author on it is Chomsky.

    @ElaineB

    Everything a government does affects people, you cannot be so blind to pretend that everything is as separate as an island with nothing to do (like the Malvinas with the UK). If he was “just a sick man” he would have murdered anyone, instead of attacking a government.
    You mean that 50 years of ininterrupted bombing mean nothing?

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 04:31 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
  • Think

    Mr. DemonTree...

    You say...:
    “LukeDig... Do you have any evidence that the photos were censored by western governments?”

    I say...:
    Well...
    - Here's a little video..., censured and later lied upon by a “Western Government” that came to light only thanks to a blond Aussie that..., since then..., has been forced to ask for asylum in the Ecuatorean embassy in the capital of another “Western Government”...

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0

    This Aussie's “crime”...?
    - Having unprotected sexual intercourse with an otherwise willing and consensual partner in the middle of the night...

    Watch and learn...,lad..
    That's peanuts compared with what Western Governments are doing on a daily basis to them “Sand Niggers” all over the world...

    No wonder some of them get pissed off...

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 05:11 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
  • imoyaro

    Once again Gauchito Drink attempts to deflect from his allies the Terrorists. Is anyone surprised? He was undoubtedly delighted when the AMIA was bombed. He certainly was when Nisman was assassinated...

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 06:29 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • ElaineB

    @ LukeDig

    No I am saying your attempt to shift the blame from this one man to the government is a nonsense. If what you assert is true why aren't the other 2 million adult muslims in the U.K. all carrying out acts of terrorism? You are attempting correlation which is not the same as causation.

    I think your attempt to make excuses for the murderer is rather offensive.

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 06:34 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • DemonTree

    @LukeDig
    Thanks for your reply. I looked up your quotes and further down in the article it says:

    “The U.S. military has now abandoned the pool system it used in 1990 and 1991, and the Internet has changed the way photos reach the public. Even if the AP did refuse to send out a photo, online outlets would certainly run it, and no managing editor would be able to prevent it from being shared across various social platforms, or being the subject of extensive op-ed and blog commentary.”

    So it seems they believe this particular type of censorship is no longer a problem.

    And I don't think any of us here believe that what a government does has no effect. Obviously the Iraq war was one of the main contributors to the dire state of the middle east today. But Wednesday's terrorist was still responsible for his own actions. He deliberately targeted innocent people, and with the aim not to stop the bloodshed in the ME, but to provoke more of it.

    @Think
    I don't think that was what LukeDig was talking about. They weren't trying to hide the horror of the war, they were trying to cover up for their own mistakes and carelessness.

    And I disagree with you about Assange. There are things that really should be revealed, and this video is probably one of them. But there are others that should not; some things are meant to be kept private, and revealing them does more harm than good.

    His obviously politically motivated choices of what to reveal and what to hide during the US election campaign shows he's not really devoted to telling the truth at any cost.

    Here are the real allegations:

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange-sweden

    Apparently you do not trust the Swedish justice system, but I do. If he was innocent he should have gone to Sweden and let them charge him, not skipped bail leaving the supporters who trusted him on the hook for thousands of pounds. As for Ecuador, the current government is very far from being a friend of press freedom at home.

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 06:57 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Think

    Geeeeeeeee...., Mr DemonTree...

    Didn't you read the first message in the “Collateral Murder” video I just linked you to...?...:

    ”Political language is designed to make lies sound
    truthful and murder respectable, and to give an
    appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
    George Orwell (N.A. :My kind of Anglo)

    Well... laddie... You are full of it...
    Political language..., that is...

    Ever seen pictures of the Wech Baghtu wedding...?
    Or the Deh Bala wedding...?
    And so many others...?
    Ever wonder why...?

    What about the video footage of Marine A's very own helmet camera...?
    Nope...huhhhhh...?

    Take a dee breath andThink..., boy...
    You ain't a Turnip...
    Yet...

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 07:34 pm - Link - Report abuse -3
  • imoyaro

    ”Political language is designed to make lies sound
    truthful and murder respectable, and to give an
    appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”

    Sounds just like you and your Tango partner, Gauchito Drink. ;)

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
  • The Voice

    Listen and learn from that paragon of virtue - little shitstirrer Think! Boy...Lad...patronise....Etc....Etc....

    Terrorists are so often naive malcontents groomed by fuckwits...

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 08:03 pm - Link - Report abuse +3
  • imoyaro

    “ little shitstirrer Think!”

    Apt words. Lest we forget, Gauchito Drink is the room's self proclaimed copraphiliac. ;)

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 08:36 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Think

    TWIMC...
    By the way...
    Happy Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice...

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 09:32 pm - Link - Report abuse -4
  • DemonTree

    @Think
    Which bit do you consider political language? Most of what I wrote about photos was quoting LukeDig's own article.

    And I've never tried to find photos of those things; reading the descriptions is bad enough. Wikipedia has a bunch of links to articles, so I looked through those. Most had no pictures at all (although these are archived articles so they may have had once). A few had pictures of injured children either in hospital or being taken there. One had a picture of villagers clearing up rubble. None showed dead people.

    I don't know what I expect to see though. Did they show any more when the deaths were caused by the Taliban or IS or Assad? I don't think I have ever seen photos of what the articles described - unidentifiable body parts strewn around.

    And what difference do you think it would make anyway? People are already against getting involved in more wars after seeing what a disaster Iraq was. Do you think it would make them sympathise with the terrorists? Hardly. The things IS have done are worse and were not mistakes

    As for your 'turnips', what right do you have to judge everyone in here based on a few words? I'm not particularly impressed with your judgement today either.

    Mar 24th, 2017 - 11:14 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
  • imoyaro

    Speaking of “Truth and Justice,” remember the day when this piece of paper was found in a trash container behind an apartment building, placed there by unknown hands?

    http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/b521/imoyaro/kirchner_warrant_zpsfnyob43a.jpeg

    Mar 25th, 2017 - 12:55 am - Link - Report abuse +3

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