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Add Me to the List, Mr. Blair
The terrorists are winning. Gradually but perceptibly- the USA and the United Kingdom (UK) are shedding their liberal democratic veneer- axing their traditions- reinterpreting their constitution ( Contd...
Both the US Patriot Act- recently extended by Congress and Tony Blair/' s newly acquired powers to exclude and deport not only active terrorists but also people who disagree with his foreign policy suspend long-standing and hard-won human and civil rights. The right to privacy has been all but eradicated in both countries.
Blair and Bush exercise self-defense through moral suicide. Visitors to the UK as well as residents and naturalized Britons must adhere to Britain/' s set of values and observe them- thunders the former. Presumably- it is the same set of values that Blair is so bent on bending and ignoring. And as for Bush - remember Guantanamo and Abu-Ghraib.
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The UK will maintain a registry of undesirables. Please add me to the list- Mr. Blair. I believe that the terrorist attacks in London were a desperate and criminal response to your own war crimes throughout the world and- lately- on a monstrous scale- in Iraq. Terrorism is deplorable and red in tooth and claw. It should be fought with determination and imagination - not with oppression and slaughters of the innocent.
Your mother should have taught you that hanging around bad company invariably ends badly. Evidently- she failed in this particular respect. You cast your obsequious lot with a narcissistic- thuggish- gun-toting- trigger-happy- bible-thumping- and dangerously violent nation- the United States of America. Violence breeds counter-violence and profound contempt. You found yourself on the receiving end of both in ample doses in July 2005. The taste of one/' s medicine is always bitter.
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