Remember, MI6 have never had anyone killed, their chief said so at the Diana inquest in Paris. I see no reason to disbelieve this, other than the fact that the government swore blind that MI6 agents didn't assist in torturing people at Guantanamo, and then admitted that, well, they had actually.
I wonder what made the OP enquote the word massacre in the story. No doubt he or she thinks that the inhabitants of Fallujah all died as a result of tragic accidents which coincidentally occurred during the US attack on the city (and which all strangely mimicked the effects of being shot, burnt to death or tortured).
Anyone who's seen the notorious Afghanistan episode of South Park will find this story all too plausible. 'If you're not cheering for the team, get out of the stadium' indeed. As Butters would say, 'Just what team is this exactly anyway?'
I didn't know that Saddam was in US captivity before his untidy lynching by the Iraqi puppet government. So much for Iraq being 'sovereign' eh?
One million points if you kill anyone who's actually an enemy soldier. One billion if your target had any connection whatever with the WTC attacks. And coming soon in the Civilian Slaughter Challenge series - My Lai Melee, Lidice Onslaught, Warsaw Chainsaw, Gaza Firestorm.
If this had happened on some council estate in London, the police would have turned up and kicked the sh1t out of the locals. Because it was an 'affluent area', the vigilante scum got away with their mob rule antics.
Then again, Britain has a murder rate which is a fraction of the US one, because there are very few guns with which to carry out murders.
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The Guardian could make their pages subscription-only if they wanted, and assuming anyone was willing to pay for a site run by people who sacked Mark Steel for being too common, and banned me from their comment boards.
It's a pity the situation isn't symmetrical - the Natwest Three were dragged off to US prisons without trial simply on allegations that they'd committed fraud in the US, the supine Blairite government having passed the world's naivest extradition law.
"It is not our intention to criminalise... the legal entertainment industry, the art industry or pornographic cartoons" grates the Home Office spokesbot. But we're stiill going to pass a law that does make them illegal.
She is your queen mate. If anything, the Scottish monarchy took over in England when James I/James VI came south in 1603, so we should be complaining about having to pay for your queen, not vice versa.
This issue shows up the dangers of allowing the police to control the whole DNA evidence process - gathering and analysis. It needs to be transferred to an impartial third party pronto.
Call their bluff I say. With a lesser financial incentive, the commercial types like Waterman will push off and work in factories, leaving only true artists making music. This issue is interesting, because it reminds us that, while modern capitalism allows certain creative artists a share in the surplus value they produce, they are the exception. The system can only function if most workers aren't treated the same way.
Well, I've just dug up some gold plates that say that this is a bad idea and that free speech isn't free speech if it's 'balanced' with anything. What? No, you can't see the plates. Only I can read them with this special crystal that I also dug up. Stop hatin' on my religion!
No surprise to find that New Labour have put an unaccountable 'charity' in charge of this function. They've got to keep their religious backers happy after all. (Coming soon to a hospital near you - pray-as-you-go treatment)
New Labour always try to get people with civil cases, because (a) the standard of proof is lower (balance of probabilities instead of all reasonable doubt) and (b) they can take action against the victim before the trial takes place. Eg the penalty for not having an identity card will be a £1000 civil penalty, but victims will be harassed by bailiffs for payment as soon as the penalty is issued. Basically New Labour won't allow anyone to get a fair trial if they can possibly avoid it.
I suppose the only way to fight back against this law, once passed, would be through obfuscation and 'jamming' - generating lots of confusing and misleading information to make things more difficult for the government's goons when they're fishing through your data, looking for an excuse to have you locked up without trial or remorselessly gunned down on a tube train. Incidentally this bill also gives the government power to hold inquests in secret if that's justified by 'national security'. Effectively that would give them the power to have anyone they want killed without any comeback - no more embarrassing inquests like the Stockwell one.
"The web is becoming an integral part of the computer and the basic distinction between the OS and the browser doesn't matter very much any more,'" which is exactly where Microsoft went wrong with Internet Explorer. That's why the OS-wide 'Internet Options' are on a menu inside an app, which is even more stupid and illogical than complaining that a UK website doesn't use US English.
"unfortunately the crocs have started to collect huge amounts of take-out menus and child artwork"
Faulty premise. Fridge magnets work because they stick to the fridge door. Crocodiles are not made of ferrous metal so the magnets wouldn't stick to the crocs themselves, and the menus and artwork could not be held between croc and magnet in the way envisaged by the joke.
How can a shop be private? If you invite the public at large into your shop, the law comes in with them.
But the point here is not whether or not shop owners should be above the law, but whether what the police are demanding in this case is right; and clearly it isn't, surveillance cameras constitute a blanket false accusation of wrong-doing against anyone who comes within their field of vision. I wouldn't drink in any pub that had spy cameras.
where there are no 'rebates' for converting to digital pay TV. If you want to continue watching television after the analogue switchoff, you have to pay for a converter and a subscription to 'Freeview' (and that's on top of $200 equiv a year for a TV licence).
And when you've spent your money, you find that the channels are defaced with unremovable advertising logos and interrupted by red button messages. The BBC's promotional campaign for digital pay TV has been strangely quiet about these differences.
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Remember, MI6 have never had anyone killed, their chief said so at the Diana inquest in Paris. I see no reason to disbelieve this, other than the fact that the government swore blind that MI6 agents didn't assist in torturing people at Guantanamo, and then admitted that, well, they had actually.
I wonder what made the OP enquote the word massacre in the story. No doubt he or she thinks that the inhabitants of Fallujah all died as a result of tragic accidents which coincidentally occurred during the US attack on the city (and which all strangely mimicked the effects of being shot, burnt to death or tortured).
Anyone who's seen the notorious Afghanistan episode of South Park will find this story all too plausible. 'If you're not cheering for the team, get out of the stadium' indeed. As Butters would say, 'Just what team is this exactly anyway?' I didn't know that Saddam was in US captivity before his untidy lynching by the Iraqi puppet government. So much for Iraq being 'sovereign' eh?
One million points if you kill anyone who's actually an enemy soldier. One billion if your target had any connection whatever with the WTC attacks. And coming soon in the Civilian Slaughter Challenge series - My Lai Melee, Lidice Onslaught, Warsaw Chainsaw, Gaza Firestorm.
If this had happened on some council estate in London, the police would have turned up and kicked the sh1t out of the locals. Because it was an 'affluent area', the vigilante scum got away with their mob rule antics.
Then again, Britain has a murder rate which is a fraction of the US one, because there are very few guns with which to carry out murders. -- Convert GUNNUTS to a reasonable position with GunNutSquisher [liberalforge.net]
The Guardian could make their pages subscription-only if they wanted, and assuming anyone was willing to pay for a site run by people who sacked Mark Steel for being too common, and banned me from their comment boards.
It's a pity the situation isn't symmetrical - the Natwest Three were dragged off to US prisons without trial simply on allegations that they'd committed fraud in the US, the supine Blairite government having passed the world's naivest extradition law.
"It is not our intention to criminalise ... the legal entertainment industry, the art industry or pornographic cartoons" grates the Home Office spokesbot. But we're stiill going to pass a law that does make them illegal.
She is your queen mate. If anything, the Scottish monarchy took over in England when James I/James VI came south in 1603, so we should be complaining about having to pay for your queen, not vice versa.
I am not confident in the CIA's abilities to analyse vote rigging. Organise perhaps.
This issue shows up the dangers of allowing the police to control the whole DNA evidence process - gathering and analysis. It needs to be transferred to an impartial third party pronto.
Call their bluff I say. With a lesser financial incentive, the commercial types like Waterman will push off and work in factories, leaving only true artists making music. This issue is interesting, because it reminds us that, while modern capitalism allows certain creative artists a share in the surplus value they produce, they are the exception. The system can only function if most workers aren't treated the same way.
Well, I've just dug up some gold plates that say that this is a bad idea and that free speech isn't free speech if it's 'balanced' with anything. What? No, you can't see the plates. Only I can read them with this special crystal that I also dug up. Stop hatin' on my religion!
Gone to join the sapient zats which soar through airless space, slanting their metal wings to winds of light. May Issek bless you, Fritz Leiber
No surprise to find that New Labour have put an unaccountable 'charity' in charge of this function. They've got to keep their religious backers happy after all. (Coming soon to a hospital near you - pray-as-you-go treatment)
New Labour always try to get people with civil cases, because (a) the standard of proof is lower (balance of probabilities instead of all reasonable doubt) and (b) they can take action against the victim before the trial takes place. Eg the penalty for not having an identity card will be a £1000 civil penalty, but victims will be harassed by bailiffs for payment as soon as the penalty is issued. Basically New Labour won't allow anyone to get a fair trial if they can possibly avoid it.
I suppose the only way to fight back against this law, once passed, would be through obfuscation and 'jamming' - generating lots of confusing and misleading information to make things more difficult for the government's goons when they're fishing through your data, looking for an excuse to have you locked up without trial or remorselessly gunned down on a tube train. Incidentally this bill also gives the government power to hold inquests in secret if that's justified by 'national security'. Effectively that would give them the power to have anyone they want killed without any comeback - no more embarrassing inquests like the Stockwell one.
Someone who displays such enthusiasm for prison rape is hardly in a position to pass moral judgements on anyone, even Spamford Wallace.
"The web is becoming an integral part of the computer and the basic distinction between the OS and the browser doesn't matter very much any more,'" which is exactly where Microsoft went wrong with Internet Explorer. That's why the OS-wide 'Internet Options' are on a menu inside an app, which is even more stupid and illogical than complaining that a UK website doesn't use US English.
OP assumes that Kindle users are all female, implying that only a woman would be stupid enough to shell out for such an overpriced device.
"unfortunately the crocs have started to collect huge amounts of take-out menus and child artwork" Faulty premise. Fridge magnets work because they stick to the fridge door. Crocodiles are not made of ferrous metal so the magnets wouldn't stick to the crocs themselves, and the menus and artwork could not be held between croc and magnet in the way envisaged by the joke.
How can a shop be private? If you invite the public at large into your shop, the law comes in with them. But the point here is not whether or not shop owners should be above the law, but whether what the police are demanding in this case is right; and clearly it isn't, surveillance cameras constitute a blanket false accusation of wrong-doing against anyone who comes within their field of vision. I wouldn't drink in any pub that had spy cameras.
where there are no 'rebates' for converting to digital pay TV. If you want to continue watching television after the analogue switchoff, you have to pay for a converter and a subscription to 'Freeview' (and that's on top of $200 equiv a year for a TV licence). And when you've spent your money, you find that the channels are defaced with unremovable advertising logos and interrupted by red button messages. The BBC's promotional campaign for digital pay TV has been strangely quiet about these differences.