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Saturday, January 16, 2010
One of Our Boys
Well, here's a thing: an upstanding member of Gordon's white working class has been rather quietly jailed for manufacturing explosives, including nail bombs and booby-traps, and for possessing a dozen firearms. He also kept notebooks in which the most reportable sentiment seems to have been: "The patriot must always be ready to defend his country against enemies and their governments". Of course, no respectable mainstream politician would ever identify itself with such irresponsible rhetoric; in the civilised world, the patriot must always be ready to send other people against enemies and their governments. The culprit in this business is, in fact, a former soldier; and it is doubtless the probability that he might have fought back, rather than his lack of a beard, a bulky jacket, a student visa or any of the other common attributes of the terroristically-oriented, which accounts for his not being shot and the apparent fact that no further civil liberties are to be abolished on the strength of his case.
Also that he lived with his mother. Presumably she "assisted the police with their inquiries" and is now recovering.
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