Torture & all that
Clandestine CIA flights & secret torture camps – as far as the tofu munching ironmongery through the nose anti-war rabble go, this has now left the realms of conspiracy theory & metamorphosed into a sexual fantasy of positively biblical proportions – complete with whips & chains … if you will forgive the poor joke.
Call me trite, but I really couldn’t give a monkey’s uncle if these allegations are true or not: anything that can so scandalise the liberal left human rights peaceniks is in itself, a very very good thing. So what if Mustafa the apprentice suicide bomber is becoming acquainted with white noise, sleep deprivation & with a little luck, the odd red hot poker – he deserves no less & probably a lot more besides.
Better still, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice whose very presence on this side of the pond sends eurotrash politicians into paroxysms of fury has done an extremely through & competent job of debunking the more lurid & unsubstantiated claims that are being made. However none of that has stopped the usual crowd of terrorist appeasers making a lot of noise from what they consider to be the moral high ground. Step forward the usual suspects …
Firmly ensconced on the carbon neutral anti war jalopy Lib Dem leader Charles ‘I don’t have a drink problem’ Kennedy has been trying to scandalise his fellow MPs with tales off terrorist suspects being whisked off in the dead of night with the cognisance of HM Government, or as he put it
"co-operated in the transport of terrorist suspects to Afghanistan & elsewhere, apparently for torture purposes".
Isn’t it a crying shame that said jalopy isn’t zero emissions.
The fact that the barbarians are at the gate seems to have completely missed certain individuals. As I type this post this evening, on the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, would anyone have a problem in that instance, of a Japanese prisoner falling down the stairs during interrogation? No? I didn’t think so. It might interest you to know that the father of one of my regular commenters saw service in the Middle East during one of our nastier little bushfire wars, not so very long ago. SOPs with enemy captives was to chain them to a log & leave them out in the sun for a week to improve their cooperativeness when the gentlemen from Ashford really started to go to work on them. It happens – deal with it.
As ever the human rights organisations that are currently making so much noise on this point forget one rather important point: namely, at times & in exceptional circumstances a few of their fellow citizens have to do some pretty unpleasant things on everyone’s behalf in order to ensure that democratic freedoms that we all so enjoy, are maintained.
We live in exceptional times. These call for exceptional measures.
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And Newsnight was plugging a programme called "Allies on Trial" last night where the assembled masses try the "accused" on accusations of war crimes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4507010.stm
I look forward to the "Head-chopping islamic nutters on Trial" programme...
Posted by: nbc | December 8, 2005 10:55 AM
I do not care what the liberal EU's think, its none of their business. If you get a chance to whack a Islamofacist on the head ten or twelve times then good. The liberals in this country are as inconsequential.
Posted by: DE644 | December 8, 2005 8:23 PM
I think Europe may be a lost cause. The Islamists may soon be so powerful, and the political leadership of France, Germany and Italy so weak that any attempt to fight terrorism with the gloves off would be impossible.
Consider the brutality that went into fighting the Nazis and the Japs 60 years ago. Victory was a close run thing, the casualties were appalling, and if the stories my dear old dad told me are anything to go by then I am damn sure today's pampered nosering-wearers don't have the intestinal fortitude to fight the kind of war that will be necessary to win. Because what we had to do to win in NW Europe and in New Guinea is a mere bagatelle compared to what will be needed to stop the bastards in Paris, London - or Shepton bloody Mallet for that matter!
Posted by: Anton the Irascible | December 9, 2005 12:58 AM