"7/7: Are You Prouder To Be British?"

[Socialsmo o Muerte]

It's no secret that the news we get is full of crap a lot of the time, and I know that most of you will be taking the news you hear with a pinch of salt anyway, so don't think that I think I'm some sort of genius for posting this.

As the Daily Express asked it's readers, "Are you prouder to be British?", the BBC News was highlighting, for an unknown reason, that one of the bombs was "in a largely Muslim community". And everyday as we turn the TV on, the news stations are talking about the irrelevant bollocks as ever, "What did the people who did it look like? What are their names? Where are they from? Were they trained in Britain?"

As ever, nobody is asked the one question which matters: "Why?"

And, as we all know, without asking this question and discovering it's answer, the problem will never be solved. We'll continue to be on edge, the terror alerts will continue to be red and, let's face it, people will probably continue getting killed.

Everyday, when the British public pick up their papers, they're minds get filled up with hatred, suspicion and prejudice; never enlightenment. The average citizen doesn't have the first clue why people commit such attrocities and this is what's breeding the "Get rid of 'em all, we should never have let them in" attitude.

It's already been billed, and the film has it's name. "7/7" didn't take long to become an official media term. And they've got everyone shitting their pants. You can't even put your McDonald's bag in the bin without a "controlled explosion" being carried out on it. Not that any of us eat there.

The media has got the whole country going crazy.

[Mr Flibble]

the media likes to create scares.....and mazbe the goverment too. Scared people are easier to control

[rise_up]

Originally posted by Socialsmo o [email protected] 11 2005, 10:58 PM
You can't even put your McDonald's bag in the bin without a "controlled explosion" being carried out on it. Not that any of us eat there.

The media has got the whole country going crazy.
good point..............(go to the fight macdonalds thread)

the media think that 7/7 is a clever term.it's not.it's a just carrying on the 9-11 thing.will they keep telling us the dates of all terror attacks?

[bolshevik butcher]

Here we go, i thought in britain we were finally over all the patrionism. Evidnetly not.

[Socialsmo o Muerte]

At times of crisis, we're probablty worse than Americans. There wont be as much flag waving, but British culture is more narrow than American culture and traditions are still very stuck on society. Crises like this bring out all the xenophobia.

[bolshevik butcher]

Yeh, i've seen people on message boards blaming illegal immigratns for this already! It's terrible.

[Super Mario Conspiracy]

Interestingly, much attention is being pointed towards Muslims - yet, no one knows if it actually was these "fundamentalists" who did it. Why not some crazy Christian sect? Why not the Scientologists?

Where I lived, a news agency interviewed a man in Iraq:

Why all the media frenzy? Come to our country, and you will experience 10 of these attacks every day!

Of course, I don't support any attacks on civilians at all - may it be capitalists or communists.

[monkeydust]

The worst coverage I saw was from one of the more low-ranking BBC reporters when she said, pretty foolishly on the morning after, that "we have a skeleton service running near Kings' Cross".

In all seriousness, though, I think what's bad isn't simply that we're not publicly asking the question "why?", but that people who try to attribute reasons to matters of our own doing, especially the Iraq War, get condemnded as "unpatriotic" or "treacherous". Criticism is not capitulation; I see no reasons why we should have to avoid these "difficult questions".

Also, for those who do't know, the coverage failed to mention a great deal. To give one example, one of my friends saw a man be shot near Canary Wharf, and someone else confirmed that for me. There's quite a bit that we're not told in these matters.

[viva le revolution]

The government is just hiding behind a mask of nationalism. This sickening patriotism and national chauvinism is just as was expected here in Pakistan. I don't think the people are THAT far gone to support another war because of these bombings. As to the culprit, who knows? could be M16 after all.
this brought to mind an interesting quote: fool me once, shame on you. you fool me twice, shame on me.
p.s Bush couldn't get this quote right in one of his speeches.

[DaCuBaN]

As ever, nobody is asked the one question which matters: "Why?"

Of course not - that's dangerous talk, that is! :lol:

The simple reason this question isn't being asked is exactly the same reason as to why George Galloway, upon remarking that this is a result of US and UK imperialism in the middle east, was deemed to have "dipped his tongue in poison"; the answer is known to all, but so many refuse to accept it. It makes for bad publicity - which after all is all that any politician will ever care about - including "Gorgeous George".

We all know state socialism failed, that leninism failed, that "stalinism" failed and maoism failed. We all have our own reasons for this, and some have skapegoats. Much as I loathe to use the term, this perhaps highlights something about human nature that we are - all of us - similarly in denial of?

What is interesting to note is that the 'media' report this to have been purpotrated by "home grown terrorists". The skeptic in me sees this as yet another means to curb the few civil liberties we are granted by our oppressors. We are seeing proposals into Westminster for new laws regarding "incitiment to radicalism" - something I'm sure many of your here are similarly frightened by.

[Bugalu Shrimp]

I'm very proud to be British. We are the best.