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A Letter To The Terrorists, From London July 07, 2005

What the fuck do you think you're doing?

This is London. We've dealt with your sort before. You don't try and pull this on us.

Do you have any idea how many times our city has been attacked? Whatever you're trying to do, it's not going to work.

All you've done is end some of our lives, and ruin some more. How is that going to help you? You don't get rewarded for this kind of crap.

And if, as your MO indicates, you're an al-Qaeda group, then you're out of your tiny minds.

Because if this is a message to Tony Blair, we've got news for you. We don't much like our government ourselves, or what they do in our name. But, listen very clearly. We'll deal with that ourselves. We're London, and we've got our own way of doing things, and it doesn't involve tossing bombs around where innocent people are going about their lives.

And that's because we're better than you. Everyone is better than you. Our city works. We rather like it. And we're going to go about our lives. We're going to take care of the lives you ruined. And then we're going to work. And we're going down the pub.

So you can pack up your bombs, put them in your arseholes, and get the fuck out of our city.

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http://www.lnreview.co.uk/news/005167.php

Now.

Lets replace the relevant words:

A Letter To The Terrorists, From Baghdad
July 07, 2005

What the fuck do you think you're doing?

This is Baghdad. We've dealt with your sort before. You don't try and pull this on us.

Do you have any idea how many times our city has been attacked? Whatever you're trying to do, it's not going to work.

All you've done is end some of our lives, and ruin some more. How is that going to help you? You don't get rewarded for this kind of crap.

And if, as your MO indicates, you're an us-Neocon group, then you're out of your tiny minds.

Because if this is a message to Saddam Hussein, we've got news for you. We don't much like our government ourselves, or what they do in our name. But, listen very clearly. We'll deal with that ourselves. We're Baghdad, and we've got our own way of doing things, and it doesn't involve tossing bombs around where innocent people are going about their lives.

And that's because we're better than you. Everyone is better than you. Our city works. We rather like it. And we're going to go about our lives. We're going to take care of the lives you ruined. And then we're going to work. And we're going down the coffee house.

So you can pack up your bombs, put them in your arseholes, and get the fuck out of our city.

Hmmmm.

That is precisely what angry people in Baghdad will have been thinking for the last ten years. Horror is horror is horror. No innocent in any city should be bombed for any reason, ever. If we start from there, then reciprocal violence cannot even begin.

Do you need the standard disclaimer and testimonial about how much I love London and this great country? If you read this blog regularly, then the answer is 'no', so I wont waste your time with it.

Londoners who have their brains switched on were terrified when other people's proud cities were bombed, because they knew that we were going to get it next. Look at how angry and scared everone is because of six bombs and fifty lives needlessly taken. Now imagine the whole city of London blasted to pieces and 100,000 murdered. Imagine the depth of anger that would produce. Imagine how many families are related to 100,000 people, and the consequential suffering they must be enduring.

You can get an idea of the reprocussions of such a slaughter by how the British remember the bombing of London in WW2. The bombing changed this country forever, and that was during a true war with clear causes, enemies and goals. Imagine what it must be like for people who are being mass murdered, without provocation, soley for money and oil.

If you can imagine that, then you understand the level of emotion that drives people to do what was done here and in other cities. That level of anger is in itself a frightening thing.

Bliar says in his doublespeak that:

Ultimately, the government had to protect people but "the underlying issues have to be dealt with too in terms of trying to get rid of this dreadful perversion of the true faith of Islam."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4666311.stm

This has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam. The membership of ETA is Christian. No one in Spain says that their problems with ETA are to do with Christiantiy. This problem is 100% about the interference of the UK/USA in other peoples countries, and the people who are being harrassed in those lands fighting back either personally or through proxies. It is not a clash of cultures. It is not about the system of government that exists in "Middle East' countries. It most certainly not, as some deluded people are saying, the acts of people who 'hate our way of life' and who 'hate freedom'. Those are the most absurd of all the false reasons trotted out to explain these events. You know those reasons are not the case. This problem is soley the result of hurting people on a massive scale without provocation.

I will digress for a moment. I am going to describe what having 'a problem with Islam' really looks like. You live in a city. You and half the city do not follow Islam. The local council is controlled by followers of 'Strict' Islam. The council decides to split the bus service into two; one set of busses for males and the other for females. You now have to wait twice as long for any bus because they are segregated.

That is having a problem with Islam. That is the very real and practical problem that Nigerians have to face in towns where the Christians and Muslims live where the local council is secular.

When Bliar talks about the "dreadful perversion of the true faith of Islam" he is talking about something that in reality has nothing to do with him and the UK at all. Those 'problems' are happening in other countries and not the UK. The people in Riyadh have no desire to tell joe blogs not to go down to the pub and get pissed every night, and anyone who thinks that they do, is utterly confused.

The UK government needs to address its own problems, and only its own problems. This means garbage collection, traffic congestion, UK illiteracy and UK poverty. These problems are unglamourous but important. The ructions over veils, females driving, systems of government and everything else the muslims bicker about in their own lands are not the business of the UK government. Get out of the business of other peoples business and all your problems will melt away.

Who in their right mind would deliberately engineer decades of future surprise bombings after having settled the IRA problem once and for all? We are looking right at them; Bliar, Straw-Man-Straw, Dumbo, Blindkid - collectively 'The Murder Inc. Franchise'. So desperate to make their personal marks on history that they have plunged the UK into a quagmire of revenge murders and disruption. These men are the direct cause of all of our problems. They are the direct cause of this avoidable and pointless outrage.

Finally, nothing is more sickening than the ribbon sporting and date conjuring invented by the americans and now stupidly aped here. Refering to an event after the date on which it happened (you know which ones) implies that the two events are somehow linked in this false 'war on terror'. They are not. This event should not be refered to with numbers, nor should ribbons be flaunted; all focus should be on the root cause, whcih must be stamped out once and for all, and these symbols and words distract from what that root cause is, and how it needs to be finally and fully addressed.

The only 'Letter To The Terrorists' that should come from London should come from Number 10 Downing Street, and it should read, "Via con Dios. You will never hear from us again.". We will all then be free to argue about garbage collection, traffic congestion, beer and pubs, and everything else civilized people discuss day in and day out.