Comments on: John Reid: Appeaser http://www.chickyog.net/2006/08/14/john-reid-appeaser/ The weblog of Brighton-based writer Justin McKeating Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:00:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: redpesto http://www.chickyog.net/2006/08/14/john-reid-appeaser/comment-page-1/#comment-19710 redpesto Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:32:27 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2006/08/14/john-reid-appeaser/#comment-19710 Each time I see Reid making his latest <strike>PR stunt</strike> terrorism announcement, I keep wondering: what odds would I get on him having a nice big Martial Law/State of Emergency trainset to play with before the end of the decade? (All the summary justice Blair could want...and then some.) Each time I see Reid making his latest PR stunt terrorism announcement, I keep wondering: what odds would I get on him having a nice big Martial Law/State of Emergency trainset to play with before the end of the decade? (All the summary justice Blair could want…and then some.)

]]> By: Larry Teabag http://www.chickyog.net/2006/08/14/john-reid-appeaser/comment-page-1/#comment-19647 Larry Teabag Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:41:14 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2006/08/14/john-reid-appeaser/#comment-19647 Terrific stuff. Wasn't Dubya just the other day talking about how freedom and liberty are the great weapons we have on our side in TWAT? And Reid wants to modify them so that they no longer work properly, just like melting boots and knackered guns. Terrific stuff. Wasn’t Dubya just the other day talking about how freedom and liberty are the great weapons we have on our side in TWAT? And Reid wants to modify them so that they no longer work properly, just like melting boots and knackered guns.

]]> By: N http://www.chickyog.net/2006/08/14/john-reid-appeaser/comment-page-1/#comment-19547 N Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:25:27 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2006/08/14/john-reid-appeaser/#comment-19547 <blockquote>Why not just go all the way and announce a short period of Sharia law if keeping us safe above all things is the overriding consideration?</blockquote> <a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1219289.ece" rel="nofollow">As life imitates satire</a>

Why not just go all the way and announce a short period of Sharia law if keeping us safe above all things is the overriding consideration?

As life imitates satire

]]> By: paul http://www.chickyog.net/2006/08/14/john-reid-appeaser/comment-page-1/#comment-19534 paul Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:33:15 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2006/08/14/john-reid-appeaser/#comment-19534 "Peace dividend". Now there's a phrase you don't hear anymore. “Peace dividend”. Now there’s a phrase you don’t hear anymore.

]]> By: Simon C http://www.chickyog.net/2006/08/14/john-reid-appeaser/comment-page-1/#comment-19476 Simon C Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:04:19 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2006/08/14/john-reid-appeaser/#comment-19476 That "we're all normal" quote wasn't even Arthur Lee's - he adapted it from Peter Weiss's <i>The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade</i> That “we’re all normal” quote wasn’t even Arthur Lee’s – he adapted it from Peter Weiss’s The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

]]> By: Cloned Poster http://www.chickyog.net/2006/08/14/john-reid-appeaser/comment-page-1/#comment-19468 Cloned Poster Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:49:39 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2006/08/14/john-reid-appeaser/#comment-19468 Cameroon is strangely (ya right,) silent on the Terra/Lebanon debacle. Cameroon is strangely (ya right,) silent on the Terra/Lebanon debacle.

]]> By: ziz http://www.chickyog.net/2006/08/14/john-reid-appeaser/comment-page-1/#comment-19466 ziz Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:05:58 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2006/08/14/john-reid-appeaser/#comment-19466 John Reid <strong>"PM in waiting - Our Saviour and our Strength)"</strong> "<i>Except it isn’t evolution Reid wants.</i>" ... no it's revolution - principally aimed at launching his bottom into the hot seat at the Cabinet Table at No 10. with Peter (The Man with the Tan from the Can)Hain alongside him. Even Lord Stevens (of that Ilk) ex Met top cop and investigator of Royal murders could be found in the pages of the News of the World this weekend singing his praises of Reid and his tough , no-nonsense, sensible, straightforward, direct, up front hard nosed methods. (The article by him has curiously disappeared from the NOW website although still headlined. His 2 pronged assult includes dissing his fellow Scot and non ex-Communist Gordie Brown and his publicising the 21/ 1/17/25 (take yer pick) defendents by freezing their assets. There is no doubt that Rpert's Rags are swinging into line behind the crazed Stirling Commie - in what the NOW this weekend described as "The Summer of Terror". THis story will run an run. J Reid to be next Leader of Labour Party at Betfair 4-1. (down from 25-1 4 weeks ago) John Reid “PM in waiting – Our Saviour and our Strength)”

“Except it isn’t evolution Reid wants.” … no it’s revolution – principally aimed at launching his bottom into the hot seat at the Cabinet Table at No 10. with Peter (The Man with the Tan from the Can)Hain alongside him.

Even Lord Stevens (of that Ilk) ex Met top cop and investigator of Royal murders could be found in the pages of the News of the World this weekend singing his praises of Reid and his tough , no-nonsense, sensible, straightforward, direct, up front hard nosed methods. (The article by him has curiously disappeared from the NOW website although still headlined.

His 2 pronged assult includes dissing his fellow Scot and non ex-Communist Gordie Brown and his publicising the 21/ 1/17/25 (take yer pick) defendents by freezing their assets.

There is no doubt that Rpert’s Rags are swinging into line behind the crazed Stirling Commie – in what the NOW this weekend described as “The Summer of Terror”.

THis story will run an run.

J Reid to be next Leader of Labour Party at Betfair 4-1. (down from 25-1 4 weeks ago)

]]> By: Justin http://www.chickyog.net/2006/08/14/john-reid-appeaser/comment-page-1/#comment-19462 Justin Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:41:39 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2006/08/14/john-reid-appeaser/#comment-19462 <i>Arthur Lee who wrote “We’re all normal and we want aour freedom” also said “Oh the snot has caked against my pants”</i> I couldn't agree more. I've had 'Forever Changes' on constant rotation for the last week or so and 'Live And Let Live' always pops up to ruin an otherwise beautiful record, like a dog turd on a barefoot walk in the grass. Arthur Lee who wrote “We’re all normal and we want aour freedom” also said “Oh the snot has caked against my pants”

I couldn’t agree more. I’ve had ‘Forever Changes’ on constant rotation for the last week or so and ‘Live And Let Live’ always pops up to ruin an otherwise beautiful record, like a dog turd on a barefoot walk in the grass.

]]> By: Quinn http://www.chickyog.net/2006/08/14/john-reid-appeaser/comment-page-1/#comment-19461 Quinn Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:30:27 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2006/08/14/john-reid-appeaser/#comment-19461 Another thing, as an aside; while I think I share your admiration for <i>Love</i>, the same Arthur Lee who wrote "We're all normal and we want aour freedom" also said "Oh the snot has caked against my pants". A valid point of course, not to be dismissed, but perhaps not something to write on a placard. Another thing, as an aside; while I think I share your admiration for Love, the same Arthur Lee who wrote “We’re all normal and we want aour freedom” also said “Oh the snot has caked against my pants”.

A valid point of course, not to be dismissed, but perhaps not something to write on a placard.

]]> By: dsquared http://www.chickyog.net/2006/08/14/john-reid-appeaser/comment-page-1/#comment-19457 dsquared Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:28:21 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2006/08/14/john-reid-appeaser/#comment-19457 <i>Sometimes we may have to modify some our own freedoms in the short term in order to prevent their misuse by those who oppose our fundamental values and would destroy all of our freedoms</i> I am very tempted to say that when it comes to life-or-death struggles against those who would destroy all our democratic freedoms, we have beaten John Reid's side once and will prevail again. Seriously, the worst threat since the Nazis? How dare he try to sweep under the rug his own participation in a similarly awful totalitarian threat? Sometimes we may have to modify some our own freedoms in the short term in order to prevent their misuse by those who oppose our fundamental values and would destroy all of our freedoms

I am very tempted to say that when it comes to life-or-death struggles against those who would destroy all our democratic freedoms, we have beaten John Reid’s side once and will prevail again.

Seriously, the worst threat since the Nazis? How dare he try to sweep under the rug his own participation in a similarly awful totalitarian threat?

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