Militant Rhetoric.
The Militant Brothers have reached agreement on raising an ‘army’ of 10,000 mercenary activists who will be paid from an initial £250,000 war chest donated by Lord Sainsbury of Turville, acquired during his years as Chief Bacon Slicer in the family firm.
‘Tis a profitable business, flogging pork to the infidels, though quite how much success he will have in poaching foot soldiers from Lord Ahmed’s ‘army’ of 10,000 Muslims remains to be seen – t’will be a terrible crisis of conscience for them – to take the pork stained shilling and join a professional and trained army campaigning against cuts in the provision of sex change operations for gender challenged Kurdish refugees, or remain within the rag, tag and tea towel battalions of Ahmed’s Halal 1st Brigade.
Sainsbury’s army is an offshoot of the ‘Movement for Change’ of which we are assured:
“The whole point of M4C is to get results. No flim-flam proposing and seconding motions that stay in a dusty draw. Oh no! M4Cers are trained in negotiating and direct action campaigning – and it’s not leftie-softy negotiating either.”
Elsewhere, the ever eloquent, but disingenuous Sue Marsh, is seeking to raise an army of:
“Hundreds of thousands of sick and disabled people […]Armed with their oxygen tanks, their callipers as shields, armies of the deaf, regiments of the blind. A raw intake of willing warriors.
To march on London in support of her belief that leaving the provision of transport to local authorities rather than automatically supplying the financial component to each and every disabled person irrespective of whether they are in shared accommodation with a dozen other disabled people will result in:
“Adults needing full time residential care and children in hospital [having] the basic right of mobility taken away from them”
– giving us the impression that these children and adults will be marooned for ever in their shared house – when she does occasionally mention that local authorities will provide shared transport, invariably buried further down in the article, she neglects to mention that this is only ‘their preference’ – where appropriate.
For a party that was apparently committed to ending the divisions in society – they employ remarkably divisive language.
The precise sort of language that many Left wing commentators claimed resulted in the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona. After the shooting, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik expressed concern that overheated political rhetoric and violence may be related, observing, “When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous.”
I don’t hear this divisive rhetoric from the right wing commentators. They talk of encouraging the unemployed to join their ranks, of helping the disabled to find whatever employment they may be capable of – of healing the rift between dependency and forced taxation.
Why then was the blame heaped on Republican shoulders for the rhetoric that led to Gifford’s shooting – and how long before we have a similar tragedy as these ‘armies’ of ‘professionally trained’ sick and disabled Muslims are encouraged to ‘rise up and fight’?
- January 27, 2011 at 16:49
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Watch your mouth Lenko, it’s running away a bit. Please stop insulting us
Americans (well, I’m dual nat), it’s completely beside the point of the blog
post.
I hang around in political circles here in the UK and I’m not hearing much
divisive language from most people, really. Only people on the hard left,
really, and most ignore them in any case, including Labour Party employees.
Nobody has been whipped into a frenzy.
Having said that, I do realize that Libertarians (myself included) tend to
be amongst the most divisive and shouty. DK, Obnoxio, James Delingpole, even.
Or maybe it’s ok to be like that on a blog or for effect whereas people like
Sue Marsh are doing it as a rallying call and as a political tactic. Does that
make it worse?
What do you all think?
- January 26, 2011 at 18:48
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Those dancing girls look nice!
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January 26, 2011 at 18:26
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“come to think of it, yes! That was the reason! We’re all a load of useless
bloody loonies!”
Or Am I Being Silly?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu7vySQbgXI&feature=player_embedded
- January 26, 2011 at 17:54
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“Why then was the blame heaped on Republican shoulders?”
Because it was mainly the Repubs shooting off their mouths with warlike and
inflammatory language, all of it aimed in the Demorcratic Party’s direction.
People like Glen Beck urging supporters onwards. Others like Arizona
politician Linda Gray, who believes the Tucson shootings were about abortion,
and nothing at all to do with the widespread availability of guns. People like
the Tea Party movement, who meet widely at gun-fairs to snatch up new bargains
to kill others with.
We tend to f0rget that back in 1492, we let all our loonies sail away. But
they’re still the other side of the pond, waiting for the second
Revolution.
I do hope to God that the British character can resist all these calls to
arms.
- January 26, 2011 at 19:36
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so glen beck urged his supporters onward did he? thats quite often what
happens in some kind of leader-supporter relationship. did he explicitly
urge his supporters onward to specifically shoot giffords in the head?
perhaps he was less specific instead merely urging them to shoot any part of
any old democrat? did he even urge anyone to shoot anyone? did he urge
anyone to harm anyone else in any physical way at all?
the shooting was
about the widespread availability of guns was it? did it happen at a pro gun
or anti gun rally? has a trial concluded that the crime was motivated by the
issue of gun ownership? was giffords against gun ownership? perhaps you mean
that the availability of offensive weapons made this crime possible? are
there more kitchen knives than guns and are these potential weapons more
easily available? is a gun the only way anyone can be harmed?
the tea
party movement meet up in order to buy guns to kill people with? thats why
they meet up? that is why they buy guns?
maybe the tribal name calling
merely gives the media and the politicians something to do. maybe the world
would be a better place if people didnt feel the need to extrapolate
responsibility past the individual in question. it wasnt a computer game
that killed in columbine and it wasnt glenn beck that killed in tuscon. it
was an individual. no need for news crews across the world to ask who is to
blame – leave it to a court to charge the individual responsible.
them
loonies had alot more sense than us losers who stayed behind. i hope to a
bearded man in the sky that there is no such thing as a collective national
character.
yours apologetically, an idiot individual
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January 26, 2011 at 20:11
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How are your anger management classes going will? Teaching you to use
capital letters occasionally?
Never said Beck urged people to shoot specifically Giffords. Get your
facts right. Glen Beck is CREDITED (I wasn’t there) with telling his
listeners — about Democrats — that “we’re going to have to shoot some of
them in the head.”
Knives can be as deadly as guns, but usually the kill is more limited.
I doubt that Loughner would have achieved the score he did using a
knife.
- January 26, 2011 at 20:35
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i dont understand why a spirited disagreement is considered a bad
thing. maybe we should all resign ourselves to passive
acceptance.
there’s very little in my diatribe of woefully
undercapitalised nonsense that could be considered anger, i was merely
challenging your reaction. im not going to resort to personal abuse – if
someone disagrees with you they dont necessarily have a problem in the
head.
i dont care what anyone who wasnt the shooter said because if
they didnt pull the trigger it isnt their fault.
an airliner in the
wrong hands can kill hundreds more in one attack than even the fastest
of guns so should they be banned? is a serial killer who strangles ten
people with his bare hands less dangerous than one gun? the shooting
happened in a car park so just off the top of my head a maniac could
have killed more people than a knife attack by running them over or
planting a car bomb – should cars be banned? prohibiting methods of
murder seems pretty complicated and ineffective. wouldnt the law be
stronger if it simply focussed on prohibiting murder rather than all the
various tools that could perhaps be used to commit such an act?
as
far as i know loughner and his gun have so far killed far less people
than dr shipman in our wonderful gun free paradise. i specifically
avoided bringing loughner’s name into the discussion because as far as
im aware he has yet to be found guilty of anything.
you had better
have impeccable writing if youre going to criticise others but i wont
hold you to account because this isnt an exam its an internet comment
thread and there isnt enough time in anyones life to write a full and
perfect thesis in response to each and every blog post.
- January 26, 2011 at 20:35
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- January 26, 2011 at 19:49
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lenko-get your facts straight, then you might have more credibility.
I’m assuming you are ignoring Obama’s admonition that “if
they(republicans) bring a knife to the fight we (democrats) bring a gun” .
No party avoided such references and indeed political posturing has always
been referenced to war-like vocabulary.
You may want to check your reference to 1492 too, from memory no yUK
loonies sailed away, but then again facts don’t seem to matter to you. And
lets not forget that those gun-loving loonies saved your sorry arses in WW2
and allowed Europe to hide under its petticoats during the cold war.
As for the miliband craziness, it sounds a lot like the beginnings of
national socialism -naziism- to me, but ultimately harmless because they
could not organize the proverbial piss-up in a brewery and it has the added
benefit of diverting funding from the liebour party. In fact I would not be
surprised if the effort only succeeded in attracting local crazies like
Jared Loughner.
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January 26, 2011 at 20:17
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Obama did indeed say that, but it was more a speech-making phrase than
anything else. What he did not do was deliberately send out coded appeals
to some of the gun-toting red-necks in the States. Whereas right-wing
radio and cable TV — particularly Fox — seem to have specialised in
it.
And “saved your sorry asses”? “Allowed Europe to hide under its
petticoats”? What kind of history books do you read? Last time I looked, a
lot of brave Yanks died, just like we did and the French did etc etc metc
etc… It may have looked like you say from the distance of Hollywood, but
take my word for it, it wasn’t like that.
- January 26, 2011 at 20:39
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when obama says it its a speech making phrase but when anyone else
says the same it is elevated to conspiracy level coded messages
subliminally targeting lazy stereotype viewers of a tv network that few
of us have direct knowledge of. fox did not instruct loughner by code to
shoot giffords. i will hazard a guess that that is a safe assumption
because it is plainly ridiculous.
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January 26, 2011 at 21:15
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lenko-thank you for confirming your woeful understanding of WW2
history, I see it compares favourably with your knowledge of what
occured in 1492. I make the assumption that you are a recent graduate of
the yUK school system, and make the necessary allowances. Perhaps you
would like to do a short study of the number of airfields built for the
USAF during WW2 and extrapolate the bombing effort that the US 8th
airforce undertook (hint they were responsible for the entire daylight
bombing effort of Europe) . Another suitable study might be aircraft or
battle-tank production comparison. Then compare infantry achievement in
the liberation of Europe. I think you will find you owe the USA ,
gunm-toting rednecks in your vocabulary (plus Canada, Australia, NZ, and
Poland) a huge debt of thanks. Of course the yUK forces fought bravely
too, when they were not hampered by donkeys like Montgomery.
I see you apply different standards when comparing hyperbole from the
democrats compared to hyperbole of (alleged) republicans, so be it, that
too is a common trait of recent education or a leftist political
position.
As for the coded appeals and black helicopter theories, I should
avoid those, that way leads to Jared Loughners actions.
As for taking your word for anything, I will decline that invitation,
I prefer to stay reality-based.
- January 26, 2011 at 22:03
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I believe you should seek help for your condition, if it reoccurs
at the same time of month. The correct medicine can work wonders.
I did indeed quote 1492 as the date I remember Columbus sailing
off. You score a point… excellent.
As to your opinion of Monty, I cannot comment — I was a baby at the
time.
Yes I apply different standards of comparison — but we all do that
— you included I daresay.
I have scoured what I wrote for mentions of helicopters of any
colour, black included, and failed to find them. I conclude therefore
that you just like to make stuff up.
- January 26, 2011 at 22:03
- January 26, 2011 at 20:39
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- January 26, 2011 at 20:50
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“I do hope to God that the British character can resist all these calls
to arms.”
Not a chance: the movement’s standard is to be emblazoned with the
facsimile of a mobility scooter along with the motto, “Don’t reverse
accelerate.” In addition, maps marking the location of Tory councils with
the walking stick and cross crutches are already in print.
- January 26, 2011 at 19:36
- January 26, 2011 at 17:32
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Maybe this isn’t a left or right thing its a british left thing
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