Weeble Leaders

Welcome back. I had a great weekend, because I got to spend a couple of days with my daughters, but it ended pretty horribly.

I’m not a political reporter as my regulars will attest, I just write what I feel and of course, my feelings are not always shared by others. I noted with a grin a comment asking me not to swear so much. I found that amusing.

So, what has the Met Chief been saying about the carnival? Or should we call it Operation SaveArse?

Sir Ian said: “The community has been very much behind the Metropolitan Police after the events of 7 and 21 July and I think this is a very good example of that.

“I am really sending out the same message to the terrorists as I have been all along which is that London will endure and prevail and it will continue to endure and prevail.”

(Find the original BBC story here.

Does this weeble moron actually think the people who went to the carnival were there to give the police moral support? And as for the message he claims to have been sending out, there are a couple of things that need to be said.

First, the only message you’ve been sending out Sir Ian, is that you can conduct ritual executions of ordinary citizens with impunity and not only get away with it, but have a large proportion of the populace back you on the principle of “shoot-to-kill-to-protect” in toto. That’s right, a lot of people would gladly be executed by statzpolizei for their liberty. I’ve heard of dying for freedom, but this is ridiculous.

Second, the whole “Blitz spirit” thing is utterly inappropriate. What kind of a city would we have if 7 million people couldn’t function after the death of 50? It’s an insult to the people of Basra, Falluja, Baghdad, Belfast and yes, New York and Tel Aviv, to compare our suffering with theirs. I say this without ruling out the possibility that the same people are responsible for all of the “terrorist incidents” in all of the cities in all cases above. And I say this whilst utterly condeming terrorism of all kinds, but especially the kind executed by the state, and with the masque of hypocrisy stitched onto a two-sided face with multiple forking tongue.

It’s despicable that a liar like Sir Ian can use the jingoism bullshit to try and bolster support for his flagging reign. It’s a shame, because it’s quite possible the guy is essentially decent, but has been dragged into an unholy mess not entirey of his own making. There’s good reason now to suspect that the police weren’t entirely responsible for the cold-blooded execution of Jean Charles de Menezes. In which case, why isn’t there a full public enquiry that looks into the role of all the people involved? Is it possbile that the leaks were deliberate, in order to placate those who were getting a sniff of what might have been the real story? Another smoke-screen on top of a storm of smoke-screens? When there is so little truth, one starts to look at really extreme ideas. Remember Holme’s maxim:

If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how unlikely, must be the truth.

We’d do well to remember that when we are floundering looking for a “reasonable” explanation and none exists.

An IPCC investigation is restricted to investigating the police only. It’s a nice little diversion. The group that executed Jean Charles de Menezes wasn’t entirely police it seems and so the IPCC remit is not broad enough. This will all be lost by the time the results come out, possibly around Christmas when everyone will have long since stopped giving a damn about that poor man’s family and his right to liberty, so disgracefully snatched away. His memory is besmirched by the derisory blood-money offer of £15,000 made by the police and by the fickleness of the public, so quick to reject a fellow Londoner, their loyalty and real Blitz spirit so sadly lacking.

Don’t the values of freedom and accountability mean anything anymore? Don’t our leaders have values? Or have they all become weebles?