20 October, 2010
And the Sanctimonious Twat of the Year award goes to...
"Metabob", commenting on what is apparently — I've lost count — the fifth CiF article on the death in custody of deportee Jimmy Mubenga:
Well, not entirely. Perhaps we need a name for this diversionary rhetorical tactic, something similar to Godwin's Law. Howe's Indictment perhaps, or maybe Jasper's Justification, defined as the "invocation of the transatlantic slave trade to justify any negative action or failure of a Black person, however caused".
Update: WhyTheFace adds (09:53)
Further update: Lacking a substantive contribution to offer, bill40 chips in at 10:40 with an indirect Godwin.
Exciting, this, innit?
MetaBobWords fail me.
20 October 2010 9:38AM
Can I just ask everybody to reflect for a moment on the number of African slaves (roughly 2/5) who died on the crossing to your empire-building plantations, a portion of whose blood is in the biscuit or latte you're consuming right now (....)
Okay, carry on.
Well, not entirely. Perhaps we need a name for this diversionary rhetorical tactic, something similar to Godwin's Law. Howe's Indictment perhaps, or maybe Jasper's Justification, defined as the "invocation of the transatlantic slave trade to justify any negative action or failure of a Black person, however caused".
Update: WhyTheFace adds (09:53)
Any advance on seven. Do I hear eight and eighteen?PS My mistake - the SIXTH article about this man's death.
Seventh, actually. plus another seventeen non CiF news items and editorials.
Further update: Lacking a substantive contribution to offer, bill40 chips in at 10:40 with an indirect Godwin.
bill40
20 October 2010 10:25AM
Just a quick note to all you lovely BNP apologists. Nobody is suggesting that deportations should not happen, just that no-one should be killed in the process.
Thank you.
Exciting, this, innit?
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The Guardianistas seem particularly unwilling to 'draw a line' under this event, don't they ?
Rather, they seem to want to wring every last emotional spasm out of it, as if it were a comfort blanket.
To paraphrase the Doc in Fawlty Towers, there is enough material here for an entire conference.
Rather, they seem to want to wring every last emotional spasm out of it, as if it were a comfort blanket.
To paraphrase the Doc in Fawlty Towers, there is enough material here for an entire conference.
# posted by 
: 20 October, 2010 12:27
: 20 October, 2010 12:27
There is hope though -
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SoberReflection:
I'd certainly complain about the noise, if I could hear it up at the front in Business Class.
Apart from that, if I knew that a violent criminal was being deported from the UK, I'd be particularly happy and would assume that any restraint or rough treatment meted out was richly deserved.
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It's important that the Guardianista stupidity is challenged, and challenged regularly.
Keep up the good work.
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SoberReflection:
I'd certainly complain about the noise, if I could hear it up at the front in Business Class.
Apart from that, if I knew that a violent criminal was being deported from the UK, I'd be particularly happy and would assume that any restraint or rough treatment meted out was richly deserved.
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It's important that the Guardianista stupidity is challenged, and challenged regularly.
Keep up the good work.
# posted by : 20 October, 2010 17:43
: 20 October, 2010 17:43
Mention of this incident was made in....
....*drumroll*...
...an article on how we should all be more sympathetic to Mary Bale!
I'm just waiting for it to show up in a discussion about finance or education.
....*drumroll*...
...an article on how we should all be more sympathetic to Mary Bale!
I'm just waiting for it to show up in a discussion about finance or education.
Woopy do, today they've found something else to get dewy eyed over - a mobile phone video of someone else who didn't want to be deported kicking up a fuss.
No shit sherlock.
Perhaps the RAF would be a better option.
No shit sherlock.
Perhaps the RAF would be a better option.
# posted by : 22 October, 2010 19:15
: 22 October, 2010 19:15
Link for thrashing Kenyan here.
People are going to pull this sort of stunt again and again. I don't even particularly blame them for trying it on; there's a lot at stake for them as individuals. Equally, the threat of deportation must be carried through to remain credible.
But it's becoming clear that the crowded and fragile confines of a civil airliner are no place for this. The reason why the penalties for disruptive behaviour in flight are so harsh is that the danger of disaster is real.
Dedicated flights are necessary. But hideously expensive. There were some moves towards mitigating the cost through shared EU-originated repatriation flights which seem to have petered out due to liberal opposition.
And of course there was "Asylum Airways". Whatever happened to that?
People are going to pull this sort of stunt again and again. I don't even particularly blame them for trying it on; there's a lot at stake for them as individuals. Equally, the threat of deportation must be carried through to remain credible.
But it's becoming clear that the crowded and fragile confines of a civil airliner are no place for this. The reason why the penalties for disruptive behaviour in flight are so harsh is that the danger of disaster is real.
Dedicated flights are necessary. But hideously expensive. There were some moves towards mitigating the cost through shared EU-originated repatriation flights which seem to have petered out due to liberal opposition.
And of course there was "Asylum Airways". Whatever happened to that?
Ah. Memo to self: always read target article properly before posting a link. By Ayslum Airways, I was referring to the specialist Austrian firm, as reported on here by the Mail, rather than chartered deportation flights in general.
Back on the front sheet of the Guardian bogroll again today (28th).
Stand back folks, the sanctimony geyser's gonna blow once more !
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Stand back folks, the sanctimony geyser's gonna blow once more !
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