Once again I am obliged to reminisce.
The Independent announces that
Two hundred schoolchildren in Britain, some as young as 13, have been identified as potential terrorists by a police scheme that aims to spot youngsters who are “vulnerable” to Islamic radicalisation.
Now when I was at school there wasn’t anything like ‘radicalisation’. They simply explained that we [...]
Archive for the ‘terrorism’ Category
Racism: damnable
Posted in terrorism, tagged terrorist qualifications on 28 March, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Terrorist plan competition
Posted in terrorism, tagged plans on 24 March, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A fine piece From the barrel of a gun, about how utterly crappy and amateurish the current crop of agent-provocateur-trained ‘terrorists’ are.
The Cynical Libertarian obviously shares my old gunsmith’s view of the AK-47. Shortly after the Hungerford ‘incident’, it being clear what was about to happen, I went to see him. He was grinning.
“I don’t [...]
Overqualified
Posted in terrorism, tagged terrorist qualifications on 16 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New meme, everybody! Thanks to Bishop Hill for this invaluable re-employment checklist. Could I be a Terrorist?
▪ Support for minor parties like the Libertarians and UKIP
[tick]
▪ Talk of “New World Order” conspiracy theories
[no tick; talk of Occam-compliance clearly doesn't count]
▪ Opposition to the Bank of England and support of the gold standard
[er, tick]
▪ Opposition to [...]
Nice little earner
Posted in terrorism, tagged airline baggage on 12 March, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
What I tell you three times is true.
[Carroll]
For the third time, then: Ian Parker-Joseph:
In a judgment announced yesterday, the European Court of Justice has ruled that a secret list promulgated by the European Commission, specifying items to be prohibited from airline carry-on baggage, cannot be [...]
Not proven
Posted in terrorism, tagged IRA on 8 March, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I am as disgusted as everyone else (exhibits A, B and C) at what has occurred but have to say that on the basis of the evidence so far I remain completely unconvinced that it necessarily represents a sudden resurgence of Irish Republican terrorism.
Forty years ago nobody would have doubted it for a moment; but [...]
Terrorist training camp, fond recollections of (Vol. I)
Posted in terrorism, tagged public school on 20 February, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Blogging will be scanty for a while owing to circumstances.
Old Holborn remarks upon this story in the Telegraph, which commences in fine Outraged-of-Virginia-Water style thus:
We report today that, as part of the Government’s strategy to fight “violent extremism”, schoolchildren are being encouraged to imagine they are terrorists plotting the July 7 atrocities. … it is [...]
Reproduced without comment
Posted in terrorism, tagged Section 44 on 7 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bishop Hill has found some interesting statistics, which he reproduces in their entirety without comment, as shall I:
Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 allows the police to stop and search people. In 2008:
• Number of people stopped nationwide by British Transport Police using s 44: 160,000
• Number of people stopped in London by [...]
Simply don’t onnerstand the sittyation
Posted in terrorism, tagged compensation, Northern Ireland on 28 January, 2009 | 5 Comments »
There was a chap on the wireless this morning with a thick Northern Irish Protestant accent who was going on and on and on (speaking very slowly, with elaborately flowery language, apparently in the hope of talking-out the interview) about how the £12,000 which is, we are told, to be awarded in each case of [...]
Exploding ostriches*
Posted in terrorism, tagged Tom Sharpe on 13 December, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Trooper Thompson refers to this ‘terrorism’ story from the peculiar Infowars.com which says that
…FBI informants were the key figures behind the operation and that the accused, six foreign-born Muslims, were merely bungling patsies.
I am always reminded by all of the present ‘terrorism’ business (for business it undoubtedly is) of Tom Sharpe’s Riotous Assembly, which is [...]
Here are my papers. They are in order
Posted in terrorism, tagged passports on 16 November, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Once upon a time in the 1980s I worked for a huge American company, on whose behest I went to the USA and some places in Europe. When I arrived at Stuttgart airport a chap in a peaked cap looked long and hard at me, and wouldn’t give back my passport until they had all [...]
