i'm remembering Jack Straw justifying the UK involvement in plans and action upon plans to invade Iraq uttering the wonderful sentence:
we are taking these steps because words must mean what they say
cris
On Sep 19, 2011, at 8:33 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> We have a local council in S D England about to clear _travellers_ from a
> place where they have been for ten years
>
> I have little allegiance to the position of either side but for different
> reasons
>
> I am however listening to how they express themselves. One says it is
> ridiculous to say they have broken the law because they are catholics.
>
> & I just listened to the man in charge of the clearance:
>
> _Let's be clear, this is about the legality of the situation. And let's be
> clear that if this operation begins, and it will, then it will end_ And
> *that was it.
>
> What was he talking about? (rhetorical question)
>
> I am now listening to a man who is talking out of the same orifice about
> destruction of planning regulations - in response to an argument that a
> proposed new law will endanger the countryside he has just said _no, no,
> you're just complicating it_ and *that was all he said
>
> The BBC broadcasts this spluttering as news
>
> L
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