Guardian writer calls for Bush assassination..

[Filuwaúrdjan]

In all fairness to the Guardian it's not reknowned for an... er... efficient... editorial process and this little article came from the TV guide not the main newspaper.
I think the last paragraph was intended as a "joke" (not very funny though) not as a serious suggestion.

As for news content, the Guardian isn't that bad (the editorial line gets irritating at times, but it's not as bad as it used to be) and if they get stuff wrong they actually own up to it (unlike certain other rags) and they don't publish deliberately biased polls.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

yes....and he too is a limey, tea swilling, crumpet munching, boy buggering, lunatic fringe feckless crapweasel

That is EXTREMELY OFFENSIVE YOU RACIST PILE OF FETID DOG sh**t. I would like you to be banned.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

A spanish conservative European Commissioner said something very similar about Castro a few days back.

The same whacko that ranted about Gays [how ironic... if he ever gets appointed he'll be on the same Commision as Mandy] and Single Mums?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The European left is so sick. If Americans- in positions of power or in the press- called for Schroeder's death, I cannot imagine the outcry.

*sigh* It was almost certainly intended as a joke. It's not funny and is insulting, and if the Guardian was edited properly (this won't happen 'cos of Tradition) it would not have been printed.
The article was published in the TV Guide on Saturday.

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I'd expect that from a Nazi like you

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I just think it's annoying that some miseducated limey thinks he should have any say with regard to US politics.

Xenophobe

[Filuwaúrdjan]

1. The use of the word "limey" does not offend me (other than the fact that my family has never had anything to do with the Navy and wants to keep things that way).
This is what Shankbear said: "and he too is a limey, tea swilling, crumpet munching, boy buggering, lunatic fringe feckless crapweasel"
Hmm... y'know I think that *is* racist (and to Goldie: what do you define a race as? Do certain biogical things make black people inferior to white people? As you like Duke, Le Pen and Griffin I guess the answer is yes)

2. O.K, o.k maybe calling Goldie a Nazi was going to far. Fascist is certainly accurate... segregationist probably is as well...

3. I think Goldie has a serious attitude problem. According to him everyone and anyone who disagrees with him is variously "Stupid, Mentally Ill, [a] Freak, Asshole or Miseducated". There's probably a few words I've missed.

4. I complain about racists and xenophobes over here as well (for the record I handed out Anti-BNP leaflets at a local council by-election a few months back. Goldie will see this as evidence that I am a "Commie". I was also disgusted at how well the Xenophobes did in the Euro Elections this year)

5. I can't remember what to put here. Oh well. Ah... yes... Khirkhib's right: insults are bad

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Screw 'em.

Let's elect Kerry (or better yet, Badnarik), and crawl back into our nice, isolationist shell.  We can spend our entire military budget on keeping the terrorist bastards off our soil (maybe divert a good chunk to Israel so that they can do the same), and let the rest of the world deal with the problem themselves, if they're so keen on seeing the US out of world affairs.

Eventually, they will see that the civilized world is faced with being overrun by barbarians with no respect for human dignity, and whose goal is the Talibanization of the world.  Then maybe, 15 years from now, when all of North Africa, the Middle East, Greater Persia, Central Asia, Turkey, half of the Balkans, the Sudan, and the Phillipines are run by Taliban regimes, where women are forced into burkas and treated like property, and people get their hands cut off for stealing ... Taliban regimes with Nuclear F**king Weapons ... maybe then Europe will wake up, get their heads out of the sand, and DO something about this, rather than b*tching and moaning that the US are the only ones that want to deal with the problem.  Of course, by then, they'll be looking at WWIII, but that's not our problem.  We'll be "stronger at home, more respected abroad."  Or, at least, "stronger at home."

You may think I'm joking, but I'm serious.  I'm tired of the US and a handful of other heads of government being the only ones who want to handle the greatest threat facing the world since Hitler, and the rest of the civilized world acting like we're a bunch of rotten imperialist meanies for keeping them safe.  Until the rest of the world decides to take responsibility for global security, I say let's resign our commission as the World Police.

Preach it, brother. I too have grown very weary of the idiotic anti-Americanism I've seen in Europe. What planet are they on, anyway?

The same one as you two. Just because someone has different views (besides, I think there's a slight possibility that the U.S.S.R was more dangerous than a bunch of neurotic wierdo's with bombs. Not to devalue the terrorist threat y'understand, but over here terrorism is something we've had to get used to. IRA bombings in Manchester/Brighton/London, UVF/UDA/Etc. bombings in Dublin, Sectarian killings in Belfast/Londerry [a compromise. I'm a neutral over the NI/Ulster mess and writing Londonderry/Derry or alternating the two gets annoying very quickly. Besides it's how bureaucrats name councils an stuff... and if it's insulting at least I'm insulting both sides equally], ETA in Spain, Corsican nutters in France, various weirdos in every bloody other country...
I'm not defending knee-jerk anti-americanism. I think it's stupid. However so is knee-jerk anti-europeanism and knee-jerk islamophobia.

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British people crying racism and xenophobe...that's rich.

Meaning?

Dave

Just found it funny/ironic that citizens of the land that brought us the white man's burden are shouting xenophobe.

But at the time of imperalist, xenophobic, racist, capitalist bastardish, morons were running the U.K none of my ancestors could vote, and many were working down pits when they were little kids.

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Speaking of terrorism, there have been NO terrorist attacks in the UK mainland since March 2001 (outside the BBC, no-one hurt, Real IRA responsible) and no one killed in a bombing since 1999.

Yes... most strange... the Coppers seem to be preventing Terrorist attacks... not normal...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The IRA and related separatist/nationalist type terrorists, dispicable as they are, do not target children.

Not true. Children were targeted in the Omagh bombing

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No... the mob waits 'till the kids leave school before attacking them

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Children were murdered and mutilated in the Omagh bombing, and several others. Children were terrorised by Loyalist Nutters outside a school in North Belfast only a few years ago. Petrol bombs were thrown.

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True

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The Dublin and Omagh Bombings disagree with this

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Mad Dog Adair did/does. The Real IRA does. ETA does.

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And radical Loyalist, Republican, Basque...

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The only terrorism in the British Isles are the British and their terrible history of repressing the Irish. Disgusting.

That's no way to refer to America's staunchest allies! Yes, the British were rather ruthless in Ireland.

Dave

I don't blame the everday british person for the brutality in Ireland. I blame the government. Most brits I know are cool.

Actually most brutality in Ireland is Irish people killing other Irish people...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The only terrorism in the British Isles are the British and their terrible history of repressing the Irish. Disgusting.

That's no way to refer to America's staunchest allies! Yes, the British were rather ruthless in Ireland.

Dave

I don't blame the everday british person for the brutality in Ireland. I blame the government. Most brits I know are cool.

Actually most brutality in Ireland is Irish people killing other Irish people...

Care to discuss the Irish Potatoe Famine? The British COULD have fed the Irish.

Wasn't there a really long discussion on the Potato Famine a while back?
Basically the result of letting ideology getting mixed up into famine relief...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The only terrorism in the British Isles are the British and their terrible history of repressing the Irish. Disgusting.

That's no way to refer to America's staunchest allies! Yes, the British were rather ruthless in Ireland.

Dave

I don't blame the everday british person for the brutality in Ireland. I blame the government. Most brits I know are cool.

Actually most brutality in Ireland is Irish people killing other Irish people...

Care to discuss the Irish Potatoe Famine? The British COULD have fed the Irish.

By many scholarly accounts, the Irish could have fed the Irish.  Grain was exported from Ireland during the famine.  The blame for the famine lies with C. Trevelyan, Lord John Russell and other political economists who saw the famine as a good way to reform Ireland's backward economy.  Malthusian and Utilitarian philosophy run amok. The blame also lies with Irish and Anglo-Irish merchant classes who exported grain for greater profits to Britain.  Also blame lies with the absentee landords who evicted starving people off of the land.  Ireland's loss was Americas gain because the famine immigrants had a large role in building this country.

Like I said, ideology got in the way of famine relief.
Interesting that two big waves of immigrants to the U.S were the result of Rural crisis (Enclosures in the C18th and the Potato Famine in the C19th).