Jonesy on 30/6/2007 at 22:12
Quote Posted by Papy
I don't know about Great Britain, but in the US there is over 40,000 death each year because of car accidents.
It's fairly certain those car accidents you're sighting are
not deliberate, unlike cars filled with explosives, nails, and gasoline.
Paz on 30/6/2007 at 22:47
It's London's Brazilian community I feel sorry for.
DaveW on 30/6/2007 at 23:43
Quote Posted by Papy
I don't know about Great Britain, but in the US there is over 40,000 death each year because of car accidents. I guess all those people who died yesterday are not important. I guess that was not spectacular enough.
The problem with media is not "bourgeois sentimentality", it's demagogy.
Or that car-crashes are just something inevitable, accidents happen. The media reports deliberate acts of harm. By your logic the holocaust could be justified as "insignificant" because probably over the years it happened in the world the same number of people died from other causes.
Sorry to point out how needlessly picky you're being, but you're basically saying that unless every single death is reported by the media we shouldn't have it.
:thumb:
jimjack on 1/7/2007 at 00:36
I don't know, home-grown terrorists are useless. Which is good. I bet Osama is banging his head against the wall.
SD on 1/7/2007 at 01:53
These are the worst fucking terrorists in the world. They're even worse than those guys who tried to blow up trains with chapati flour. These guys are the Enchantermon of terrorists. They are more comic relief than a threat to the country.
The worst thing is that this will give the Stalinist cunts who run this country another opportunity to drive us all towards their Orwellian vision of the future. Terrorists, if you're reading this, do us all a favour and kill that Glaswegian cunt before he turns the UK into Soviet Russia.
Malygris on 1/7/2007 at 05:33
So you're down with terrorists blowing people up as long as it's someone who pisses you off, eh?
I see.
kidmystik101 on 1/7/2007 at 06:44
Quote Posted by Malygris
So you're down with terrorists blowing people up as long as it's someone who pisses you off, eh?
With this logic, we could get the terrorists to blow themselves up! Which they allready do....
nickie on 1/7/2007 at 08:35
You have my sympathies Scots, my daughter was a little too close to the London end of things for her liking. When you've been through it before, you always get a little jumpy. But having a laugh about the 2nd car getting a parking ticket and being towed away takes the edge off things a bit. I mean, we all hate traffic wardens and clampers don't we? So close . . . and yet so far.
*Zaccheus* on 1/7/2007 at 10:08
Didn't the IRA's truck bomb in Manchester get a parking ticket ?
Quote Posted by DaveW
The media reports deliberate acts of harm.
The media reports unusual events which people want to hear about.
Listening to the reactions, it's almost as if the government, police, and media all want there to be terrorism so they can benefit from the resulting public concern.
