Tom,

It'd be good if you could give us a link to your enquiry.  Also see: http://www.weoweittothem.com/.  Thanks

The end result is what's seen in US blog politics, where centrist Democrat bloggers wondering why the people they voted for haven't ended the war yet are portrayed as frothing communists by right-wing loonies who, usually in the next breath, advocate bombing Iran.

Our liberal overlord Atrios refers to us as "DFH bloggers" - dirty fucking hippies.  How we managed to be right about everything David Brooks and Bill Kristol were wrong about I'll never know.

You can always rely on the BBC to cynically exploit a tragedy in the most vulgar way imaginable. They really are a shameful travesty.   Even the mildest criticism of our political/corporate elite has them frothing at the mouth and invoking the usual demonology of Maoists and robotic communist hordes. It's frankly hilarious. The smallest challenge to privilege and power is transformed into an attack on the very basis of civilization itself. Meanwhile, a million dead Iraqis are of less editorial concern than speculation on the political significance of  David Cameron's metro-sexual coiffure.These  bastards could have taught the old guard at the Johannesburg country club a thing or two about managing the 'natives.'

Cassandra

If anyone goes to a poltician with a justifiable problem that the politician does not want to get involved in, then any tricks go, to make sure the aggrieved citizen is sidelined and left without help.

 I have had dealings with numerous MP's re: a breach of Democracy, which to anyone's thinking is not a constituency issue. The MP's concerned gave such ridiculous excuses for not wanting to get involved, in such a simple to understand case. They are most certainly not there to defend DEMOCRACY at all, their whole stance has been to protect the government authority which blatantly overthrew DEMOCRACY.

 Michael Howard for instance thinks that a breach of DEMOCRACY is a matter for the individual involved, and nothing to do with him. This obviously suggests that there can be no such thing as DEMOCRACY, if it does not protect the individual, from blatant aggression by government authorities.

 I can most certainly prove that all EU legislation which is supposed to guarantee the rights of the individual, in reality does exactly the opposite. The EU, even at the level of Barroso refuses to have anything to do with my case, even though they accept that the judgment cannot be correct.  

Apparently, a citizen who is denied the basic right to fair legal advice due to secret NAZI legislation, is not having their Human Rights abused, the privilege of legal representation is only bestowed on criminals as a right.  

I have been an increasingly active member of the NO2ID campaign. I recently wrote this in response comments made in an ID discussion. The commenter was wondering why people don't seem to be engaging. I replied in mind that there is a greater significance to the campaign against than the single issue we are fighting for, that is the removal of this ubiquitous, unnecessary, and repugnant NIR:

It is for us, the free people of this nation to ensure that a situation like this does not happen. We can be nothing less than absolutely committed to ensuring the situation goes no further than it has and never approaches what is postulated. The process is simple, it's been clearly defined in NO2ID, it's approach is truly the most democratic one that I have experienced in a while. Because this organisation is broadly non-partisan and it's aim is to remove from a position of influence, any MP that supports ID it is perhaps the single most important movement that has ever been in existence since the days of powerful unions. In some respects it is greater than that because this right to say no transcends social modelling and falls with ubiquitous fury on all this nation. from this position, from here in this organisation, we have the single most important task of recent history in this country. It is our task, our mission, to raise the people of this nation to a point where they can clearly understand that they still have the right to say no, they still have the right to remove from power those that wish for nothing but power for the sake of power. This, to my mind, is the fight for democracy now.

The chap sending letter bombs had another option, he could have joined the rising ranks of people willing and capable of saying no. I consider that if this campaign against ID is successful then there would follow a shift from us being scared of the Government to the Government being scared of us. A true state that a democracy should be in.

It is important that it is acknowledged that this campaign is not a few people with an axe to grind, desperately  trying to find someone to listen to a half baked idea that wrong has been done. This is about as real as it gets, the Government cannot or will not supply anything approaching a valid reason for this database. It makes no empirical statements to justify itself, it uses words like terrorism, illegal immigration, and benefit fraud in vaguely ambiguous incorrect assertions. These assertions are easily de-constructed with fact, to the point that they have to acknowledge that all the asserted problems cannot be dealt with by the NIR.

I urge those that value themselves as free thinking free people to look into what is proposed, look at what this insidious legislation will practically involve and take a decision on whether you want it or not. Doing something about it if you don't want it is very easy, just write to your MP and tell them that you will not vote for them at the next election if they are either supportive or neutral about the NIR, then go tell your friends about what you have seen.

Saddam asked Bush for $1bn to go into exile...

http://tinyurl.com/2jm62e

IMPORTANT TESTIMONIES from Israel

Dalia Karpel

http://tinyurl.com/3594cw

The soldiers spoke freely to Nofer, who served with them in the same ASHBAL platoon 20 years ago; They disclosing their innermost emotions about the horrendous crimes, in which they took part: Murder, breaking bones of Palestinian children, actions of humiliation, destruction of property, robbery and theft.

http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22525

George

It is with supreme irony that Saddam was seeking to come in from the cold at the time of his removal, alas playing the oil market the way he did was considered sufficient opportunity to implement the PNAC agenta for the mid-east. Hindsight is a bitch.

ttfn
Allende's ghost

"It is with supreme irony that Saddam was seeking to come in from the cold at the time of his removal"

GameTheory

He should have ask Colonel Gaddafi how to do it.

I quote Greenspan:

Saddam got in trouble because one moment he would cut production to support the Palestinians and the next moment he would pump the maximum allowed. Up and down movements in prices are destabilizing events for the oil industry. Palast reports that a Council on Foreign Relations report concludes: Saddam is a "destabilizing influence . . . to the flow of oil to international markets from the Middle East."

He didn't even down a plane like old Muammar he just pi**ed the money men off which, by a quirk of fate, dovetailed nicely with the PNAC agenda. Bad timing, very bad timing.

"He didn't even down a plane like old Muammar."

"None or one of these theories is correct?"...

http://tinyurl.com/2ohkke

I apologise, point conceded. Follow the money.

Robert Fisk: Do you know the truth about Lockerbie?

Eating humble pie.