Suicide BombersTwo of my uncles were suicide bombers. They climbed into a bomber knowing that they had a 70% chance of not coming back alive, and they didn't. That's pretty suicidal.So why did they do it? Well it wasn't because Churchill asked them to, they despised Churchill with a vengeance. No, they, along with their older brother my father, and their youngest brother Ron, went to fight Fascism. They had already been doing it in a small way, standing in the streets along with other Cockney socialists to prevent Moseley and his blackshirts invading the East End and attacking their jewish neighbours. But Nazism was the biggie, Nazism had to be stopped. They knew this because, although the establishment figures later claimed that they knew nothing about the Nazi concentration camps in 1939, curiously enough George and Bern and Beau and Ron knew all about them. Difficult not to when your neighbours are jewish refugees who've just escaped by the skin of their teeth. So off they went, and only two of them came back. Even then, George got blown up and young Ron was a nervous wreck for the rest of his life. Bern and Beau didn't wait to be called up, they volunteered, they knew their chances of coming back alive were small, and they knew that they were bombing civilians, women and children, they weren't stupid, Bern was a navigator and Beau was a radio operator, they knew where they were, they knew where the bombs were going. They climbed into those aircraft knowing all this but they did it anyway because the men who sent them promised them it would help to end Fascism, perhaps it did. So, suicide bombers? Yes that's precisely what they were, and I'm proud of them. But I was watching the Holocaust memorial programme, Bush with his sordid little concentration camps in Cuba and Iraq and Afghanistan. Blair with his tiny enclave in Belmarsh, a man who lied to his country in order to take them into a war for reasons that no sane man can comprehend. Sharon the war criminal with his wall, and his bulldozers and his hit squads, and I thought, 'if Beau and Bern could see this, if their jewish neighbours, instead of being terrified refugees were self deluding apologists for the Israeli and U.S. regimes, would they have bothered? or would they perhaps have thought the sacrifice wasn't worth it'? |
Ruth KellySo Ruth Kelly, Blair's new Minister for Education is a member of Opus Dei (Opus Dei? Think Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition, only less cerebral). Actually I am strangely unworried by this fact. Another loonie in Blair's cabinet? They won't notice, don't suppose we will either. I can see the thinking behind it though, take control of the british educational system, 'give me a child until it is seven' sort of thing. So the vatican masterminds infiltrate our Ruth (or rather their Ruth) into our cabinet. It is not of course going to work, the quaint idea that the educational system of our country has any influence on the education of our children could only be held by people educated by jesuits. You really blew it with this one lads, you'd have done better to infiltrate her into the BBC as a Blue Peter presenter, heh! I've seen her, she fits the bill. Or better still, perhaps, MTV. But are things quite what they seem? So Ruth gets outed, everybody has a good laugh and both Ruth and Ian Paisley wake up screaming in the middle of the night with the same nightmare, that she blots her copybook and gets sent to the Northern Ireland Office. But, comrades, why did Tony choose Ruth? That's the question that worries me. We know that Tony has been flirting with catholicism for a long time, we know that he is deeply mentally unbalanced, the perfect candidate in fact. Could it be that Kelly is a classic example of misdirection, and that it is in fact the Prime Minister who is the Opus Dei mole? I think the Guardian should investigate. |