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his be linked to anything plans by an alliance of rightwing extremists and football hooligans to exact revenge on muslims after last week s bomb attacks are being monitored by police the guardian has learned that extremists are keen to cause widespread fear and injury with attacks on mosques and high profile anti muslim events in the capital and so another unfortunate spoke is added to the growing cycle of violence but beneath the predictable roar of indignant outcry it behoves us all to take the time and trouble to examine the plight of the native british working classes a plight which is all too often trodden underfoot in the wholesale rush to judgement over the last few decades the british working classes have had to endure the indignity of watching their homelands colonised by foreign settlers while oppressive zero tolerance policing and so called anti social behaviour orders have made them virtual prisoners in the few dwindling communities that remain to them at the same time their jobs have been exported abroad while the trade unions that used to promote their interests have been politically neutered thus despised impoverished and persecuted is it any wonder that some of their activists have taken it into their hands to strike back nor should it be forgotten that they have no guns no helicopters no batons no dogs no infra red detectors no cs gas sprays no tazers or other quasi military means of defending themselves instead they are forced to use what few pitiful resources they do have in a despairing bid to restore some dignity to their lives of course violence should not be condoned because it actually further damages the patriotic cause but the victims of that violence would learn a great deal from an honest reflection of what role they may have played in driving these patriotic campaigners to such desperate measures few it seems are prepared to face up to the simple truth let alone articulate it instead there is likely to be a chorus of demand for more security measures such as surveillance cameras id cards and oppressive police powers all of which will merely add fuel to the fires that rage within the activists reinforce their sense of hopelessness and humiliation and virtually guarantee further patriotic operations in the future we can all agree that the violence has to stop but in order to achieve that end we must urgently and sincerely address the legitimate grievances of the patriotic community july 15th 2005 114 comments comments are closed it s yesterday once more david carr london arts entertainment i can only assume that michael moore was too busy nearly four years after the collapse of the world trade center oscar winning director oliver stone will direct a film based on the story of two police officers who were trapped in the rubble on sept 11 2001 and in that rubble the two stricken men will miraculously find proof that the 9 11 attacks were carried out by a cia halliburton zionist bushhitler conspiracy but the evidence will all mysteriously disappear after thay hand it in and some snarling unidentified suit with a texan accent will warn them to keep their big mouths shut july 9th 2005 17 comments comments are closed hot or not david carr london uk affairs i have just had my attention drawn to this rather startling claim preliminary reports from a source inside the pentagon indicate that one of the operatives involved in this morning s bombings in london was recently released from the prison at guantanamo the link is to a us website called northeast intelligence network are they really high level security operatives or just a bunch of wannabes and is this pentagon source actually some filing clerk with deep throat pretensions even assuming that these people are the genuine article how can they possibly know this after just a few hours as far as i can tell there is no mention anywhere in the uk press about the identity of the suspects at all on the other hand the british security services are notorious for a culture of secrecy and if the story is true it is typical of them to bury it at least for a while and in some cases for years i lean towards the view that this is fabrication the chaff from the grinding wheel of the rumour mill but can anybody else shed any light july 8th 2005 40 comments comments are closed as evening falls david carr london uk affairs the official casualty roll from this morning s attack now stands at 37 dead and 700 injured to varying degrees it now appears that there were four separate explosions three of them on undergound trains at aldgate kings cross edgware road and one on a bus in woburn place near to russell square the bbc website is carrying some photographs of the chaos many of them taken on the spot with camera phones july 7th 2005 10 comments comments are closed london 07 07 continuing david carr london uk affairs the german magazine spiegel on line is reporting that something calling itself the secret organisation of al qaeda in europe has claimed reponsibility for this morning s attacks on london allegedly the triumphal claim was made on a website the article does not link to the website but does include an apparent screenshot of the relevant posting this is all unsubtantiated and could be complete bunkum who knows update i have just had a call from a friend who has been stuck down in aldgate all day he was on his way to work when the attack occured but was unscathed apparently the police are now allowing people to travel home from central london the cops he has spoken to have told him that the death toll is now 45 but this is unconfirmed july 7th 2005 38 comments comments are closed london 07 07 unfolding david carr london uk affairs for anyone who may be worried about relatives or friends in central london the police casualty bureau hotline number is now open on 0870 1566 344 update 33 fatalities now confirmed i hope this figure does not inflate but i rather fear that it may july 7th 2005 9 comments comments are closed update london 07 07 david carr london uk affairs things look pretty normal round here but then i am stuck in the north london burbs and the carnage is all concentrated around central london and the west end my mobile telephone appears to be working just fine but the public transport network has been shut down entirely the msm is still reporting 2 fatalities which seems mercifully low given the timing location and nature of the attacks maybe this figure will rise as the day passes but i profoundly hope that it doesn t tony blair is winging his way back to london from the g8 summit in edinburgh and george bush is about to make a statement more later update unconfirmed reports that death toll has risen to 10 another update the msm is now reporting many fatalities but no numbers either they genuinely don t know or do know and won t say july 7th 2005 54 comments comments are closed be still my beating heart david carr london sports three cheers and hip hip hooray for london will indeed host the 2012 olympics sing halleluiahs and hosannas for mere prosaic words alone cannot even begin to express the happiness that courses through my heart like a swollen river my cup runneth over and my soul doth soar like a lark ascending the azure cloudless sunlit summer sky if only another miracle would open up a hole in space time through the next seven pointless dreary years so that i could this very day cast my eyes upon the blazing towering olympic torch as it shines like a beacon of hope over my home town while i fervently pray from below that i may be touched by just a few humble rays of that glory then my life would surely be complete i want to jump for joy i want to dance till dawn i want to reach out my hands to every single one of my fellow human beings gather them all into my arms and hug them like long lost children i want to capture the stars leap over the moon and fly along the milky way but before i do any of those things i must quickly dash into the toilet and vomit my guts up excuse me july 6th 2005 14 comments comments are closed stewed prunes tonight your favourite david carr london uk affairs even in this era of intense news management and political spin a public figure will still occasionally and often inadvertantly let a few morsels of truth slip out for the past two decades or so and by every standard that can be accurately measured participation in the established political process has been in steady decline voter turnout is consistently lower than it was in the 1970 s and membership of the main political parties is but a fraction of what it was in the 1950 s not surprisingly this has resulted in a hubbub of worry among the political classes with attendant brow furrowing and hand wringing over what should be done about it some of the more foolishly optimistic or perhaps just ill advised politicos have launched themselves into toe curlingly embarrassing campaigns to get down with the kidz only to hurtle smack dab into a wall of indifference the less exhibitionist among them have been uttering dark murmurings about compulsory voting in the fullness of time and as the disillusion spreads like sea fog i expect that those murmurings will become a demanding roar in the meantime the first member of the cabinet former defence minister geoff hoon has added his somewhat more audible murmur to the compulsion lobby i am not going to use this article to examine the arguments about compulsory voting except to say that i am against it more interesting to me for the moment at least is mr hoon s choice of words mr hoon said my fear is that as the older more regular voters die we will be left with a significant number of people for whom voting is neither a habit nor a duty is that how mr hoon thinks of voting as a habit as a duty where is the call to democratic arms where is the sizzle of enfranchised excitement where are the glamourous invocations of citizen empowerment all long gone is the inescapable truth instead we are left with habit and duty if i were being charitable i might suggest that mr hoon chose his words for convenience rather than accuracy and that it would be unfair to second guess him on this basis but i actually think that mr hoon was being honest furthermore i am prepared to extend to him the rare honour of actually speaking for the nation or at least that significant chunk of it for whom voting has become a sullen and thankless obligation rather like slopping out the bedpan of an infirm and elderly relative while trying not to succumb to the guilt upon contemplation of the unspoken resolution that it would be better for everyone if they would just quickly and peacefully die small wonder it is why young people don t vote anymore july 5th 2005 23 comments comments are closed is the luftwaffe still operating david carr london civil liberty law regulation uk affairs only this past week i found myself in a polite but rather pointed political discussion with one my elderly clients about the issue of id cards she was all in favour of them because we had them during them war and everyone was fine with them to which i retorted we had rationing during the war do you want that brought back too little did either of us suspect that minds infinitely superior to ours blah blah blah every individual in britain could be issued with a personal carbon allowance a form of energy rationing within a decade under proposals being considered seriously by the government under the scheme for domestic tradeable quotas dtqs or personal carbon allowances presented to the treasury this week everyone from the queen to the poorest people living on state benefits would have the same annual carbon allocation this would be contained electronically on a ration card which could be the proposed id card or a carbon card based on supermarket loyalty cards this is a way that enables us to make the necessary annual changes without radical adjustments to our lives it is about making the small changes year by year it won t stop us going on holiday but it might constrain how many times we fly for some time now there has been a hubbub of grumbling among the chattering classes about the vulgarity of cheap air travel with its attendant and intended benefit or in their eyes problem of modest earners being able to jet off to all manner of exotic destinations at the drop of a hat but it s destroying the planet they all exclaim this is not i should add a charge which is ever levelled at the organisers of global rock concerts for africa despite the fact that just distributing the various members of the rockocracy to their appointed warbling posts consumes enough energy to light up a medium sized land mass but saving the planet is not the point or the object the real cause of this latest drive for forced austerity is the abundance of something that only a few short years ago was an expensive luxury enjoyed by the privileged few but when tattooed builders single mothers and lowly clerks can spend several weeks a year wallowing on sun kissed south east asian beaches or sampling the epicurean delights of tuscany then they are obviously living far better lives than they deserve and something must be done to curtail them but it s decidedly tricky to wrench people s luxuries and pleasures from without a good reason so enter good reason global warming if the masses can be persuaded that the future of mankind depends on their austerity then not only will the meekly surrender their wordly goods they will clamour to hand them over and humbly thank their lords and masters for being so benevolent wise and caring given that so many modern activities involve energy consumption the political classes need only play their cards right and saving the plant can be developed into a tool of legitimisation for almost complete social control but i m sure that they wouldn t dare go that far july 4th 2005 18 comments comments are closed older entries who are we the samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily 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