Bleah
As reported by the BBC, a Home Office minister has met with Muslim leaders to discuss the interesting situation which has arisen as a result of the London attacks.
"Some delegates, including young people, police and MPs, said the meeting was positive," says the BBC, with characteristic attention to balance. Then, with more of the same, it says, "others disagreed." This is certainly enlightening.
The coincidentally-named Ms Blears had earlier "stressed police should not stop and search people simply because they were Muslim". Apparently the police can determine a person's Muslimity before stopping them; I wonder how they manage it.
Ms Blears also said that stop-and-search should be conducted on the basis of "intelligence, not racial profiling". Soundbites, on the other hand, can safely be conducted on the basis of sheer bleary ignorance. How, if not by the use of intelligence, did the police build up their profile of the Muslim race to start with?
Meanwhile, the shadow Attorney General has come out as believing the bomb attacks to be, of all things, "explicable". They are so, he claims, because of a "deep sense of anger, fuelled by the Iraq war and despair about the Islamic world, felt by some Muslims in the UK." This is a welcome change from the Blair-Bush theology, but Ms Blears was quick to point out the grievous flaw in his logic: "People can fundamentally disagree with policy issues, foreign policy, all of that," she generously conceded. However, "I don't see any justification for people blowing themselves up and murdering hundreds of other people." Expliquer, c'est pardonner; QED.
She does have a point, of course. People have no business killing themselves when they could be valued human resources in New Labour's new Britain. If they wanted to murder large numbers of people, they should have done it properly, with daisy-cutters and depleted uranium, and from a distance which would enable them to take a full and active part in any subsequent democratic process.
blear,adj. dim, watery, blurred as with inflammation; indistinct.
Chambers Dictionary
"Some delegates, including young people, police and MPs, said the meeting was positive," says the BBC, with characteristic attention to balance. Then, with more of the same, it says, "others disagreed." This is certainly enlightening.
The coincidentally-named Ms Blears had earlier "stressed police should not stop and search people simply because they were Muslim". Apparently the police can determine a person's Muslimity before stopping them; I wonder how they manage it.
Ms Blears also said that stop-and-search should be conducted on the basis of "intelligence, not racial profiling". Soundbites, on the other hand, can safely be conducted on the basis of sheer bleary ignorance. How, if not by the use of intelligence, did the police build up their profile of the Muslim race to start with?
Meanwhile, the shadow Attorney General has come out as believing the bomb attacks to be, of all things, "explicable". They are so, he claims, because of a "deep sense of anger, fuelled by the Iraq war and despair about the Islamic world, felt by some Muslims in the UK." This is a welcome change from the Blair-Bush theology, but Ms Blears was quick to point out the grievous flaw in his logic: "People can fundamentally disagree with policy issues, foreign policy, all of that," she generously conceded. However, "I don't see any justification for people blowing themselves up and murdering hundreds of other people." Expliquer, c'est pardonner; QED.
She does have a point, of course. People have no business killing themselves when they could be valued human resources in New Labour's new Britain. If they wanted to murder large numbers of people, they should have done it properly, with daisy-cutters and depleted uranium, and from a distance which would enable them to take a full and active part in any subsequent democratic process.
blear,adj. dim, watery, blurred as with inflammation; indistinct.
Chambers Dictionary
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