Corporate folly
Crunches the crop of summer
Credit where it’s due
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A softography of all of the titles I’ve worked on from 1983 to 2003 - with all the gory truth I can remember about them.
I’ll talk about partners, villains and even the ones who wrote the cheques - including how deals used to get done.
I won’t be shy - if the game is shit (and most of them were) I will say why they were shit, why it got made, and why it was made the way it was (usually money)
I might even include a “Glorious Failures” section.
If you notice this page before I start building it, feel free to begin a dialogue on this very page!
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All my work, written, recorded, is copyright (c) 1997-2006 Shahid Ahmad and protected by the Creative Commons license agreement. Particular details available on request. Here are some of my songs from this period.
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The police offers who executed Jean Charles de Menezes are back on active duty. It doesn’t surprise me.
The officers from SO19 in question saw the threat of a man who might in the wrong kind of lighting have passed for a paki with heavy clothing and a rucksack with wires hanging out. They decided to put several bullets into his head and now they are free to do that again.
Their behaviour is not as difficult to explain as we might think. People ordered to do things by an authority will frequently violate all the norms of “decent” human behaviour. If you don’t know about the Milgram Experiment, you should certainly look it up. It partly explains the behaviour of the Nazis who were “only following orders”. Its conclusions are certainly not palatable. It also teaches us a very important lesson - be very careful with civil liberties. If we allow our governments to erode them, then the execution of Jean Charles de Menezes will not be the exception; worse still, in the future, it will again be possible for such killing to be justifiable by the powers-that-be.
There are a million things that went wrong. Nobody is going to answer for them. That’s democracy today.
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