Wounded Angel

Maybe we should make a video – drag everyone who is prepared to speak on camera to the BBC, stick them in front of some makeshift backcloth and get them to say what they think of things. Survivors, relatives of the dead, the emergency services, get everyone involved to say something. Stuff that grainy pathetic excuse for an atrocity back into the dust where it came from. That latest video release from AQPRD came across as a sort of perverse Queen’s speech; here I am with our boys, mixing chemicals in some remote hut, blowing a hole in the ground. It takes no intelligence to do that. It takes intelligence to persuade and manipulate the poor and ignorant believers into doing those things. Not in my name, ever.

The hatred and brainwashing is never far from the surface in anyone but for most of us it is overridden by a desire for a quiet life free from worry. The fact that the only message we can send our government is a single cross every four or five years does not make us complicit in the mistakes made by our dear leaders. We do not always vote over foreign policy. In fact I would doubt that more than a handful of people even have in mind the wider world when they reach the polling station. Penny off Income Tax? That will do nicely sir. That does not make the public a target. Being lied to – saying that July 7th has nothing to do with war in Iraq – is almost as bad. Even before the release of the two videos which explicitly linked the atrocity with UK policy abroad, we knew that was wrong. I have started using the word that in proper context indicates the illegitimacy of someone when referring to The First Lady’s husband. I cannot bring myself to write his name as it annoys me. That’s how I feel. Get over it. Bank those Tax Credits boys!