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July 8th, 2007 — counterterrorism, fighting back, global culture war, how we live now, plain talk, the anglosphere, the correction
Sir Alan West, Britain’s new security minister, redefines Britishness for the 21st century:
“Britishness does not normally involve snitching or talking about someone,” he said in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph. “I’m afraid, in this situation, anyone who’s got any information should say something because the people we are talking about are trying to destroy our entire way of life.”
It will be interesting to see how a “start snitching” campaign*** cast in this light—i.e., yes we’re British, but this is war—goes over in Britain. While this is the same country whose population accepts the presence of millions of surveillance cameras for security and other law-enforcement purposes, West’s exhortation is yet another acknowledgment that Britain is on a war footing at home.
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*** I last wrote about snitching in mid-June.
May 18th, 2007 — the anglosphere
There was a moment, as Prime Minister
Tony Blair of Britain and President Bush stood together in the bright sunshine on Thursday for their last joint appearance in the Rose Garden, when the shouts of antiwar protesters gathered outside the gates of the White House threatened to drown out their words.
Mr. Bush ignored the uproar. But Mr. Blair, whose support of the American president and the war in Iraq has brought him derision at home, addressed the dissent head on.
“I can’t make out the words that they’re shouting over there, but I bet they’re not totally complimentary to us,” Mr. Blair said, easing the tension before he began an impassioned defense arguing that “history will make a judgment” about Iraq.
Indeed. And when it does, I would like to still be around. Meanwhile, I enjoyed reading this bit:
As the protesters shouted in the distance, Mr. Blair spoke with characteristic eloquence, winding up to a big finish: “One thing I know is that what we represent coming here today, speaking in the Rose Garden to you people and getting your questions and being under your pressure, that is a finer and better way of life than either a brutal, secular dictatorship or religious extremism. It’s a better way of life and it’s the way of life, actually, people anytime they are given the choice, choose to have.”
Yes siree Bob. That is a fact. But push will have to come to shove before more people take a stand of that way of life
