Glob-a-log

You know what they say about terrorists. That they hate us and our way of life. That if you’d give any of those warped little people the power to kill all of us by pushing one button, he or she would happily do so. All of that may well be true but the fact is that none of these lunatics have such a button, so all they can do is kill some individuals here and there and/or blow stuff up.

Of course, any time that they succeed in this, it is devastating for the victims and their loved ones. However, on a societal level, the things they do will never be much more than somewhat annoying – and the only reason that they seem to be relatively successful is that dimwitted and vainglorious politicians like Bush and Blair and a few others overreacted by quite ludicrously claiming that these blood-thirsty clowns formed some serious threat to our societies.

Which is utter bullshit, of course.

You know how many bombs fell on London during World War Two? Neither do I but let’s say these bombs, on average, did a ‘Twin Towers’ per week. Maybe it was a bit more, or a bit less but that’s unimportant really. The point is, the Londoners cleared away the rubble and buried their dead and got on with things.

And if you need reminding, Hitler and his planes and his armies did not manage to win that war. So, to think that some jokers with bomb belts or a few hijackers would succeed where the whole might of the Third Reich failed is too moronic for words.

That Bush and Cheney and the other (neo)cons lied their country into a war with Iraq and fed the flames of fear for their own perverted reasons is one thing. That Blair went along for the ride, knowing full well that these delusional jihadists had no ghost of a chance of even seriously disrupting business as useful was an outrage – a true insult to all the victims and survivors of the Nazi bombardments (or the far more serious and longterm campaign by the IRA, for that matter.)

Anyway, those terrorists will never be able to do our societies as a whole any serious harm – unless ‘we’ do their work for them by overreacting, like our political leaders have been doing since those Twin Towers came down.

There is, on the other hand, a far more nefarious force, that is doing serious harm to us on a daily basis. Yes, I’m talking about those political correctness and Health & Safety nuts. In a very short time they have infected our societies and political establishments with their own demented fears and hysteria. We can’t eat what we want, or drink what we want. Smoking is outlawed. You can’t play conkers or have veteran soldiers’ marches. You can’t fly a pirate’s flag in your garden or burn autumn leaves.

They are killing our societies stroke by stroke by stroke – like the old Chinese death of a thousand cuts. Every bloody day they are at it. Every dreaded day you can read about a dozen or so more assaults on our way of life. Like this one:

A CHILDREN’S story based on the Three Little Pigs has been snubbed for a Government award — for fear it might offend Muslims.

The classic fairytale was reworked as the basis for an animated CD-Rom called The Three Little Cowboy Builders. But it was turned down from Government agency Becta’s annual awards after judges warned using pigs “raises culture issues”.

They said they rejected it because they “could not recommend this product to the Muslim community”.

Muslims consider pigs unclean and are banned from eating pork. Becta also claimed the story in which pigs play the cowboys might offend builders.

Yes, terrorists may hate us and would love to kill all of us – but those foul commandos and footsoldiers of the PC and Health & Safety army are actually getting away with their particular brand of terrorism.

Far worse, they are winning the war.

Gods, if only these PC and Health & Safety clowns were as pathetic and inept as your more regular brand of terrorists, then ours would be a much, much happier world. Alas, you only read about their disgusting victories – and, more’s the pity, never an uplifting story like this one:

A WOULD-be suicide bomber fell down a flight of stairs and blew himself up as he headed out for an attack in Afghanistan, police say.

It was the second such incident in two days, with another man killing himself and three others on Tuesday when his bomb-filled waistcoat exploded as he was putting it on in the southern town of Lashkar Gah.

Yesterday’s blast was in a busy market area of the eastern town of Khost, a deputy provincial police chief said.

The would-be attacker tripped as he was leaving a building apparently to target an opening ceremony for a mosque that was expected to be attended by Afghan and international military officials, said Sakhi Mir.

“Coming down the stairs, he fell down and exploded. Two civilian women and a man were wounded,” Mir said.

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