
British and London authorities should be ashamed of themselves. While
1500 London police are over in Scotland, part of a 15,000-strong
policing force, watching people chant and march against the G8, they
leave their home unprotected from real terrorists.
While authorities declare the anti-terrorist "section 60" in Scotland
around the G8 protestor's eco-village in Stirling, real terrorists
rained horror in London.
Anti-terror troops were too busy doing crowd control around people who
at most throw a few rocks, and today's attack makes it clearer than ever
that political repression in the name of anti-terrorism is not making
the world safe from terrorists.
The statment from the purported terrorists, and consistently from
al-Qaeda, is very clear that this is an attempt to get British troops
out of Iraq.
Meanwhile Tony Blair attempts to evade his responsibility for the
British military in Iraq by saying the bomb blasts are "an attack not on
one nation but on all nations and civilised people" and are trying to
destory "our values and our way of life". Since some of "our" values
include stopping the imperialist occupation of iraq, just who is Blair's
"our" anyway? He could've at least waited for the Bush propagandists to
write new copy before re-using tired old line about attacking "our way
of life".
It is not, as Blair suggests, an attack on other countries or anyone's
way of life, and Blair should apologize for misusing his citizen's
grief.
If that wasn't enough disrespect, he goes on to say the terrorists timed
the attack to coincide with the G8 summit saying "It is particularly
barbaric this has happened on a day when people are meeting to try to
help the problems of poverty in Africa".
Well Tony, if you want to keep al-Qaeda terrorists from killing your
people, maybe you should try working on their stated issues, not yours.
They care most about Iraq right now, not Africa.
But Tony might be right about one thing, terrorists would be
pretty smart to choose a G8 day for their attack, because all the
anti-terrorist officers are out of town wasting their time policing
public protests and an eco village. His cute piece of Blair-ian
misdirection might cover up the fact that Mr. Prime Minister is caught
with his pants down for sending anti-terrorist troops and police away
from home in the first place.
As in the U.S., Britian tries to say that protestors are terrorists,
but by this grim example, we can see the utter nonsense of that
propagandistic attempt.
Get a clue -- terrorists use bombs and don't gather in public.
fonte: Indymedia Scotland - http://scotland.indymedia.org/