The new 'terror alert ' couldn't
have arrived at a better time for the holidaying Blair. Just as Thursday's papers
were underlining the growing labour revolt against el presidente's policy on the
Middle East a nice headline grabbing, panic peddling security threat swamps the
next day's news, drowning scores of busying backbenchers in the deluge of media
opportunities that follow and killing the cries of infamy in their wake. Enter
stage left - a solemn looking crew of cabinet ministers imploring for renewed
unity within the fractured party in the face of a common threat. Stage right?
The invigorated masses literally prowling the streets for the next Arab to deplore.
And all just at the precise moment el presidente was going on his hols. What better
way to keep the workers from plotting against you while you’re away than by directing
all their skulldugerous shenanigans into a brand new terrorist threat. Raising
the terrorist threat not to orange but to new red. The Police are transformed
from a gallery of incompetents who shoot innocent people like Jean Charles de
Menezes and Mohammed Abdul Kahar based on intelligence of dubious merit to heroes
of the realm capable of foiling 'mass murder on an unimaginable scale'. And there
bobbing rather earnestly at the curtain call? Mr John Reid as William Wallace.
Mr Tony Blair as Batman ('Yo Blair', 'thanks for busting the plot' hollers Mr
Bush) and Israel's Defence Minister Amir Peretz for his portrayal of a man given
the greatest amount of cover for broadening an even greater ground offensive in
Lebanon. By Friday we all hate Arabs again, we’re all fostering a curious fondness
for the absent Blair, we’re thoroughly indifferent toward the Lebanon and for
the airports it’s business as usual (with the exception of Scottish MP Jim Sheridan
who resigned from his post last Wednesday because of the way business was being
conducted at Scotland’s Prestwick Airport). And then came the punchline yesterday,
spoon-fed to the public via a spokeswoman for A Department For Transport amidst
the smoke and debris of our feverish imaginations: ‘The government
is now considering a complete overhaul of security systems at airports. New passenger-profiling
techniques could fast-track low-risk travellers, such as families with children.’
(Guardian). Yup. Right on cue. Just as another ‘British-born-Muslim’
terror-plot is thwarted, botched or felt hurtling from beneath a carriage at Edgware
Road tube station, another freedom scuppering, human-rights challenging surveillance
measure is brokered by our government. And again, it somehow manages to tax the
patience of the British Muslim perhaps more than anyone else. Naturally, ‘low-risk’
travellers are going to be predominantly white British families: males, females,
children, you know the score. New ‘profiling techniques’ will allow security systems
to concentrate on young dark Muslims of ill-intent. So let’s look at the
facts (what few there are). If you are a young British-born-Muslim today you face
not only the stigma of harbinging ‘terror on an unimaginable scale’, you also
face a 50-50 percent chance of being shot, being detained 28 days by the Police
without being charged, racial abuse of varying quality, and to top it all - lengthy
delays at airports. Not much fun at all, wouldn’t you say? Quite a deterrent,
in fact, especially if you have a look of ‘ill-intent’. Which could come from
either a plot to play loud music or to behave excitedly in the departure lounge.
It would certainly make you think twice before converting. Whilst conspiracy
theorists consider everything from oil and China, drug-barons and the CIA, the
Bilderberg group and the Knights Templar as somehow behind our ‘war on terror’,
there’s one thing we’ve overlooked. In fact, it seems so obvious it’s been staring
us in the face: both Mr Bush and Mr Blair don’t like Muslims. More pointedly
they don’t like Islam’s 235 percent growth rate in comparison to Christianity’s
rather disappointing 47 percent – a figure that was being exchanged as
frequently as a condom in a South African brothel prior to 9/11 when Afro-America
saw at least three of it’s heroes – Michael Jackson (defamed), Tupac
Shakur (dead) and Mike Tyson (defamed) – converting to Islam. And perhaps
even more controversially, much loved British Icon and fashion-setter,
Princess Diana (dead) - who was said to be considering a conversion
to Islam in the months immediately before her death (conspiracy theorists should
follow the leads that lead to Pakistani lover Hasnat Khan, rather than the those
of the Fayeds). And Islam doesn’t exactly sit well with the economic picture,
not when you consider that trade in Cigarettes and Alcohol is the basis of our
subsistence, underpinning the economic system with which most of the world population
now engages. Muslims also don’t dig Casinos, they don’t dig casual sex, watching
too much TV and judging by the success of the recent Alton Towers event, they
don’t really dig expensive fun parks either. Not the best of engines for ‘corporate
imperialism’ or for world economy. In fact Islam, when you look at it, is a bit
of a bummer when it comes to global trade. Quite a headache for our leaders. Especially
when the most photographed woman in the world was going to endorse it. So
last Thursday’s events? All done with mirrors I’m afraid. And who was on
hand to help? MI6 – the Magic Circle, riding on the wave of another successful
Summer Season in SW1. I think Kathleen Brick, the retired teacher they quoted
in Friday's Independent (page 2) was spot on when she said: 'It was
bedlam, a free-for-all. I swear they were making it up as they went along'. And
of course they were to a certain extent. Though of course the script was partial
enough to allow Mr Blair to escape to the Caribbean without having to go through
a more rigorous security check or having so much of an hour or so of his journey
delayed by the new emergency protocol (very forward thinking). It's a sad
state of affairs when the burying of bad news becomes commensurate with those
dead, or expected dead. And when those doing the undertaking are National newspapers.
And well done too, for your own no small part in the performance.
(wait
now for a flurry of 'martyrdom' tapes and things found in woods. Not the Dr David
Kelly kind but the kind of 'evidence' that should stave off a similar flurry of
plans to sue the governement by any of the major airlines involved for the prolonging
the whole fiasco. Which is strange in itself given the alleged context. of saving
their investments from being blown out of the air. Perhaps they too think theres
more propagganda here than plot. Why are so many things found in woods thesedays?
Used to be just old porno mags in my day) Relevant sites:
How
To Set Up A Patsy: 7/7 London Bombings
7/7
False Flag Theory Goes Mainstream
77/
Mastermind Working For British Intelligence
BBC Airlines Terror Plot
Alan Sargeant for Crud Magazine 2006©
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