Archive for September, 2005
“We define terrorism, and its precondition subversion, with care. It should be confined to those who use terror and violence or the threat of them to achieve their political objectives.” says Professor Anthony “Total” Glees in a Times Higher article. He then goes on: “universities can be recruiting grounds for those who wish to destroy parliamentary liberal democracy” — but obviously his careful definition excludes himself — a know “liberal” thinker i.e. in support of a totalitarian approach to censor Britain’s academia, as earlier articles showed (and I had myself a lengthy email discussion after accusing him exactly of that). Anthony Glees is professor of politics at Brunel University’s Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies. There is this funny use of “Intelligence” again …
MET paid for flights & accommodation for the bereaved de Menezes family to visit England … in a vain attempt to bribe them to swallow the MET’s murder of their son. But Maria de Menezes quite rightly said: “Those who killed my son, as much as the police chief who is responsible for the whole team, should be punished. They wanted to kill him. They were assassins, they were murderers. They killed him and I am disgusted.”
In a decent country the chief murderer would have resigned long ago — but this does not happen in racist Britain — of course!
I tried to phone a guy at a certain Scottish City Council (no names, no places …). Obviously he was not there, so I got through to the council’s voice mail system: “Welcome to (name withheld) City Council’s voice mail system. If you want to retrieve your messages, please put in your ID. If you want to leave a message, please put in the extension number…”
It is obviously essential that council staff can do their work efficiently. Whether I can reach the person I need to speak to seems far less important.
