Comments on: If this man isn’t a fake, he’s a cock

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 09:25:00 +0000

Actually, as I understand it, there are some differences between the IRA and Al Whatsit. The IRA always claimed that they could inflict massive civilian casualties, but they rarely did. The aim was to cause economic damage, so the IRA always gave warnings because they did not want to cause civilian casualties. These people do want to cause maximum civilian casualties. This lot are more barbaric than the IRA, but then again if you do not value life…

By: dsquared

dsquared — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 08:27:00 +0000

I have also been saying for years that this would happen, and now that it is, I find myself rather glad that I am not going to fucking pieces like that fool.

By: Euan Gray

Euan Gray — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 08:08:00 +0000

You mean, changed to "let's lock up all the buggers with rags on their 'eads and a skin pigmentation problem"?

Britain has suffered and survived much worse than this. There is no need for over-reaction, hysteria, hearts-on-sleeves or intolerance.

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 07:58:00 +0000

> This is *nothing* we haven't experienced before and *no reason* to change our attitudes or behaviours.

Yes, Londoners' have been through this before, and they responded by doing a deal with the IRA whereby the IRA would have their murderers released from jail and would be allowed to go on running their organised crime empire as long as they only hurt Northern Irish people and left the English alone. Now we have a killer in charge of our education system, but, hey, no worries: he's not hurting Londoners, and that's what counts. Regardless of today's bombs, Londoner's attitude to this sort of event needed to be changed years ago.