july 21, 2005
Britain: So
I Guess There is an al-Qaeda Threat?
Where are all the Brits who used to make fun of the al-
Qaeda threat? They seem to have disappeared. Would it
be a cheap shot for me to bring up the fact that right
up to the first London Bombing, the British left and its
allies, radical Muslims--including those who say they
oppose terror but who want to make Britain an Islamic
state-- were saying that the terrorism threat and
the war on terror was a White House-created fantasy
to facilitate the expansion of the American empire?
Here are but two examples. This one from the London
Guardian on May 23 is one of the milder versions
of the mantra:
“President George Bush has done more than any other
man to discredit his own ‘war on terror,’
by adopting extravagant and often irrelevant security
measures in the U.S., partly in pursuit of a personal
political agenda as a ‘war president.’”
And here’s a classic from an event I attended in
2003, an anti-Bush rally in Trafalgar Square. We were
rolling our camera when Dr. Azzam Tamimi of the Muslim
Association of Britain yelled, "And they keep
talking about al-Qaeda . What is al-Qaeda? Any of you
(sic) know what is the dimension of al- Qaeda? Isn't this
a phenomenon created by George Bush and Tony Blair?"
Most Americans do not know that for years, the British,
French, and German media regularly made fun of America’s
colored terrorism threat levels. They thought it
was hilariously stupid, but also admitted that it must
also be an effective way to control most Americans, who
they also view as hilariously stupid, in the President’s
ongoing secret campaign to take away freedom and justify
what some of them called his criminal war in Iraq. In
an article in the June 13 issue of Germany’s Der
Speigel Magazine titled “ANTI-TERROR ABSURDITY IN
AMERICA: Hemorrhaging Money for Homeland Security,”
the article begins, “Fear can be a lucrative business…”
I noticed Der Spiegel
is now doing pieces about the terror threat facing Germany.
Nice tap dance…
