The current UK "Anti Terrorism" Bill has been "disembowelled" and "kneecapped" by it's "naeive liberal" opponents - namely, the House of Lords. ummm. Suddenly and according to Funkett, there might be a terrorist attack on London around Christmas. Arse.
In the uk, you could always whinge to your MP via a satisfyingly automatic way http://www.faxyourmp.com/ I got a reply on creme paper, in a nice creamy warm beige kind of way.
"Of course, our usual disclaimers apply to anything which involves identifying yourself both as a terrorist and potentially more embarrassingly, as an "electrohippy". Nonetheless, if you want to make a token protest against the "war on terrorism (and/or those pesky civil liberties which make today's intricately interlinked industrial societies so irritatingly vulnerable to sabotage)", the ANTI-TWAT CAMPAIGN are continuing to hold would-be denial-of-service "sit-ins" at the Home Office website next Mon and Tue 2001-12-10 & 11 - plus a special action when the current Anti-Terrorism, Security and Crime Bill becomes law. Basically it's the same Javascript repeated-reload "attack" used by the pro-Zapatista Electronic Disturbance Theater back in 1998, though this time you're encouraged to register with the Home Office as a potential terrorist cybercriminal beforehand - like you're not on their "known subversives" database already.
http://www.fraw.org.uk/ehippies/action/twat_brief.html
- vs http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23255.html
http://www.ntk.net/index.cgi?back=1998/now0123.txt&line=161#l
- no good will ever come from Javascript
http://www.ri.ac.uk/Christmas/details2001.html
- this year at the Royal Institution: What Am I? Where's Kevin?"
from //www.ntk.net/
----- Original Message -----
From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 22:40
Subject: Re: opinion
> Nope, Candice
>
> the implication is that the swing to the _open_ expression of right-wing and
> racist opinions has been sanctioned by the swing to the right in the US,
> aided and abetted that by the pusillanimity of the majority of its writers,
> a quality that is equalled in Britain, and the constant bombardment of
> mindless violence as a desideratum that objects such as Hollywood pump out.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
>
> David Bircumshaw
>
> Leicester, England
>
> Home Page
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> A Chide's Alphabet
>
> Painting Without Numbers
>
> www.paintstuff.20m.com/index.htm
>
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Candice Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 10:27 PM
> Subject: Re: opinion
>
>
> > "Everybody's looking for somebody to blame..." (Tom Waits).
> >
> > If the implication here is that Leicester anti-Somalianism is down to US
> and
> > not a by-product of venerable-traditional Brit prejudice against anything
> > and everything non-WASP, then this yUKy post must derive from the same
> > tradition (shame on you, Dave!).
> >
> > Candice
> >
> >
> >
> > > here detention without trial is being legalised, as is interception of
> all
> > > private e-mail, while the tv (just) was showing a programme that
> portrayed
> > > Britain (of all places) as being beset by armed criminals. For this
> reason,
> > > the show opined, soon we will have to become like America, with the
> police
> > > routinely armed. People I talk to, day to day, are swinging further and
> > > further to the right. It's all the immigrants' fault, they think (people
> in
> > > Leicester are apt to go on strange diatribes against Somalis, as urban
> myth
> > > has established hereabouts that armies of Somalians are being pampered
> by
> > > the state, they get free tv's, cookers, suites, carpets, I'm told)
> Myself
> > > I've never seen a Leicester Somali, but the tale is peddled.
> > >
> > > But I think the key-point is the US, a country that supposedly prides
> itself
> > > on its democratic traditions but in reality is totally corrupt, in its
> arts
> > > and letters as well as its social organisation, it is poisoned and it
> wants
> > > its poison everywhere else too, by the standards of some of the
> right-wing
> > > rhetoric that comes out the States (which rhetoric has some very strange
> > > bedfellows) even the social critiques of The Simpsons would be a
> subversive
> > > act if committed in poetry.
> > >
> > > Best
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> > > David Bircumshaw
> > >
> > > Leicester, England
> > >
> > > Home Page
> > >
> > > A Chide's Alphabet
> > >
> > > Painting Without Numbers
> > >
> > > www.paintstuff.20m.com/index.htm
> > >
> > > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm
> >
>
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