July 2005

“Yes there is a shoot-to-kill policy. But it’s a shoot-to-kill-to-protect policy. We only shoot-to-kill-darkies for their own good!

Remember this famous picture, the one the government, police and press used to demonise every brown-skinned person in the country before establishing guilt or innocence through due process?

It’s kept me awake at nights. I asked myself, could Muslims born in this country really have committed the first UK suicide bombing? Indiscriminate killing of civilians, descending to the level of the troops in Iraq? Could Muslims sink that low? Well the answer to the latter question is - there are bad people everywhere, and no creed makes you good. However, no creed makes you necessarily bad either, and that is my point.

So I lay awake. And I thought about Occam’s Razor. And I asked myself, could there be another reason why these guys are wearing camping rucksacks? I asked myself this daft question because suicide bombers tend to strap bombs to their chests. And of course, much has been made of heavy jackets. And one would not need heavy jackets to conceal bombs if the bombs were in one’s camping backpack.

Then I awoke with a start. At least two of the men, Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, had apparently been white-water rafting at Wales recently. I wondered if in fact, using Occam’s Razor, these men were pictured “happily” because they were doing exactly what four men with camping rucksacks might normally do - going camping - or some other outside activity.

Certainly, the carrier bag carried by the man second from front was strange. If you’re off to kill yourself and a bunch of Londoners, what’s the carrier bag for, lunch? Xymphora put it brilliantly - dubbing it the “Sandwich for Allah”.

Then I thought, why has no other footage, especially of Kings Cross been released? There must be hours of the stuff. We are the most CCTVd city in Europe, where is all the stuff? All this was gnawing away at me because I was almost convinced that the more recent “failed suicide bombing” (funny, most of the world can be considered a failure at suicide!) “attempts” were just a sand-in-the-eyes ploy to distract all those making headway on the 7/7 case, which we all know is impossible to put together sensibly.

The next evening, I found what I was looking for. The picture, in my opinion, and I could be wrong, is composited.

Look carefully at the following picture, which is a portion of the original blown-up 4x.

The man at the back is allegedly Mohammad Siddique Khan. Of course, positively identifying him from this shot is next to impossible. But look carefully at his head. Look at the outline of his cap. You will see a distinct black fringe. this is a give-away that the image has been extracted from another photo and pasted on.

Another give-away - look at his left arm. It disappears behind the first horizontal railing from the bottom. This is of course, physically impossible. Another point is that the top railing from the right side as we look at it is embedded into his head.. Again, clear sign of Photoshop-style messing around. These first three points were spotted by other bloggers.

I spotted a couple of other things. Like - where the fuck are his legs? You should see them somewhere in the picture. The perspective is all wrong. If you look at the man in front of him, well, “Khan’s” left leg should appear somewhere below his left elbow. None of his lower body is visible. That doesn’t make sense. Another thing that I’ll point out tomorrow is from another portion of the image.

I didn’t doctor this image. Look for the original in reliable news sources if you don’t believe me. And I urge you not to believe me. Even if I’m wrong, I don’t care, I will happily admit it, I want the truth. Let’s find it. We should unite. We mustn’t divide. What sense is there in being divided by the fascist state machinery of the press, police and parliament? They don’t work for us anymore. They work against us all. We were waking up, all of us, together. Remember how we all marched against the wrong war in Iraq, side by side? They sensed our togetherness, they sensed our power, and they didn’t like it. They are trying to divide us through terror and lies. Don’t let them win.

The image is wrong.

I took a huge rucksack to the office today. At least nobody sits next to me so I always get loads of room on the bus now. I know my writing can be incendiary, but this really is ridiculous.

A friend of mine said that things had changed: Prior to 7/7, when he left the mosque he would be called “fucking paki”. Now he gets called “fucking murdering paki bastard”

The Sun, The Mirror, The Express and The Mail obviously paid heed to the following:

“Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.”

Tony Blair must have paid heed to the following:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

And both Blair and the press, pretty much all of them, in their attempt to demonise pakis must have had this in the forefront of their thinking:

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over”

Which points?

1. Suicide Bombers!
2. Evil ideology
3. Kill The Bombers

Careful my beloved Britain. We are treading a dangrous path. All of the quotes above are by Joseph Goebbels.

8 bullets. Seven to the head. 1 to the shoulder.

Seven bullets to the head. From point blank range. Explain that to me please.

The pace at which we have moved from a seemingly decent state with decent process of law to one where a man is executed for wearing the wrong coat has been breathtaking. Much of this has been seemingly driven by the media. Vile headlines baying for blood, misguided editorials and imbalanced views of hatred and suspicion are spewed in to the minds of the weak and the unthinking. It’s not all media-driven though. The state, which surely has more evidence, more knowledge, has been acting on the same assumptions; that in spite of Sir Ian Blair’s statements where he has expressed strong reservations about there being any suicide bombing; that in spite of the lack of evidence for any suicide bombing; that despite the hysteria about the more recent “failed suicide bombers”; the police has escalated the war on Muslims (pakis to the Sun-readers) to the point where anyone running, or wearing a heavy coat, or rucksack, or listening to music with headphones, is subject to being murdered.

Murdered for what? For being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Think Britain, think. Muslims are not your enemies. Muslims are British too. Pakis have been here for decades, we have never quite been accepted into the mainstream of society, even the ones who have succeeded beyond anyone’s wildest imagination in integration, even though we love this country and consider it our own. Why are all Muslims and all pakis being put on trial and found guilty? Why are you treating us now as infidels? Why are you on the road to treating us the way the Jews of Nazi Germany were treated? This is our home - but you would send us back - where - to our graves?

Now, as for the police’s ability to catch murderers and the courts’ ability to prosecute them, I thought it would be a good exercise to remind ourselves of the pertinent facts:

By the year 2000, attempted murders had trebled from 1980, to 15,737. Only 1825 were convicted. That’s 13%. The figures for conviction have fallen from 30% of reports to 13% in that 20 year period.

I’ll say it again. By 2000, only 13% of attempted murderers ended up convicted.

Then they’d serve a prison term, or not.

But in 2005, we shoot people in the head for what? Suspicion of attempted suicide bombing based on a man leaving a block of flats under surveillance wearing the wrong jacket.

What have we come to Britain? Why are you so scared of us pakis? What did we ever do to you? Why were you so quick to believe that all 1.6 million of us were ready to bomb our own country?

Tell me, if the police and courts can’t get even 1 in 5 attempted murderers behind bars after the due process of law has been diligently applied then why were we so quick to believe, I mean only hours after the event, that all of the guilty had been found, and had died?

What about what the nearest eye witness, Bruce Lait had to say?

“The policeman said ‘mind that hole, that’s where the bomb was’. The metal was pushed upwards as if the bomb was underneath the train. They seem to think the bomb was left in a bag, but I don’t remember anybody being where the bomb was, or any bag,” he said.

No group has stepped forward to claim responsibility. Don’t you ask yourself why? Didn’t the IRA always claim responsibility through known channels if it was them? Recall: Even those who come forward to confess a crime are not immediately taken at false value. They are often summarily rejected as suspects by the police.

The police have actually been quite good in not proffering bags of false evidence. They could have produced a statement. None has been made, and they, to their credit (though I shouldn’t have to thank them for this) haven’t fabricated one.

None of the suspects (and they unfortunately, aren’t available for questioning, some might say, rather conveniently) left a suicide note, tape or video, as is the norm. Not a single one

We don’t find many murderers and bring them to justice. Given that there is no admission of this attack, and no suicide notes were left and given that we usually fail to bring murderers to justice, shouldn’t we be careful not to jump the (loaded with 8 bullets) gun?

Why are there no pictures of the suspects from 7/7 at or anywhere near the scene? Or anywhere in London on the day? And why has no CCTV footage been released from Kings Cross? None. Why are we being lied to, again and again and again and why, as a nation, are we so easily divided? Why do we go back to Big Brother and Celebrity Tit-Fuck and boozing and pissing in our neighbours gardens instead of holding ourselves up to a higher standard of truth, integrity and justice?

Why are there no pictures placing the men tried by the kangaroo court of the British media and found guilty in absentia placing them in London on the day? Why? Why is it that only bloggers are interested in finding out what really happened and why are so many people happy to blame pakis and Muslims as if they were waiting for an excuse?

Why are there no pictures?

Why?

Perhaps it is difficult to Photoshop that much garbage?