A repellent bit of rabble-rousing from the Telegraph, which spends more than 20 paragraphs building up a horror-story of undetectable, infallible, superhuman Islamic terrorists in our midst, before in a short final paragraph attempting to justify the use of torture by British police of terrorist suspects.
The author, one Con Coughlin, ought to be ashamed of himself.
If there is anything worth defending against ‘terrorists’, whomsoever they may be, it is the set of British principles which holds, among other things, that there are measures to which we are too civilised to resort.
Whether Mr. Coughlin does not know this, or whether he simply does not care about it, is not clear.
Like Idries Shah wrote about the legions of fake “Sufis” and swindle gurus that western enthusiaists for “new” forms of spiritualiity seem to attract, on some level surely /we/ are getting the “terrorists” (and constitutional ruination!) we deserve, through all the made-for-Tee Vee press absurdities and hocus-pocus. Sadly, it has come down to yet another government industry, catering to the entertainment and prestige needs of the manic form of the police personality. I am no foe of the uniformed harness bull on the beat. It’s these kinesthetic gangs of SWAT teams and “Special Squads” that are so obviously full of undiagnosed and not-medicated Schwarzenegger-cases.
Does this imply that there’s a ‘depressive’ form of the police personality?
Isn’t it amazing that whenever government ministers are about to be sunk by sleaze allegations, there is a spate of arrests of alleged terrorists.
And if that doesn’t work, well, I guess another celebrity dies.