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A basic and immediate human response leads us to express unequivocal solidarity with the victims of such atrocities and with their loved ones. Such instincts motivate the search for democratic socialist solutions to conflict the world over.
Any political movement, for the perpetrators seek to create such a movement, which wilfully targets innocent civilians must be exposed and opposed. However they and their apologists portray themselves they are not radical or progressive but instead represent the barbarism against which we must test our socialism.
And we have a responsibility for the political and moral hygiene of the British "left". There are those who, by their equivocation, effectively regard such victims as "legitimate targets" in their idiot's war against "imperialism". They and their allies have no place in our movement.
Posted by UAT at August 3, 2005 10:44 AMWell said, Simon. Without a doubt some of the British "left" are prime candidates for the roles of "useful idiots" (a la Vladimir Lenin) to fundamentalist, extremist Islam, as are certain political movements such as the International Solidarity Movement.
Posted by: Sue Vogel at August 7, 2005 12:09 PMI am a proud capitalist! I have also joined. I sure do wish we could exclude politics from this. This is a bloody war to the end. The sooner everyone understands this small fact, the better we shall all be! (Small is a sacarstic description of what we face. lol.)
Posted by: Rosemary at August 7, 2005 12:55 PMAgree, this has nothing to do with Politics though some politicians do think so.
Posted by: Michael Woolf at August 8, 2005 04:11 AMMichael,
I dont understand how you think this has nothing to do with politics. What else is it if not politics? The trouble is that those who see the world as divided into Muslems and others have the wrong politics!
Agreed: this has everything to do with politics.
Posted by: Popsensible at August 8, 2005 06:22 PMCan't you stick Peter Tatchell's statement up here for comments?
It's ripe for ridicule.
Posted by: Godfrey Hampton at August 9, 2005 04:39 AMI was born, grew up and was educated in Northern Ireland. Terrorist violence accounted for over 3600 deaths between 1969 and 1999. About 800 of these were military responses to the situation. Most of the people killed were totally innocent, ordinary people going about their very ordinary lives. If the "justification" were to be described as part of an "armed struggle" for "freedom" (the usual 'cop-out' for the charge of "murder"), my response would be - and always has been - that not one square inch of earth is worth a human life. Ghandi and Martin Luther King showed that you can transform societies using non-violent means. Perhaps the explanation for these murders lies in the realms of psychiatry and not in the political arena.
Posted by: Brian Dodds at August 14, 2005 10:13 PM