tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post2696483525738742298..comments2024-03-27T18:34:28.763+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: AN EYE FOR AN EYE. FUNDAMENTALIST BRITAIN.call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-51903540496151123172009-08-08T17:35:40.679+01:002009-08-08T17:35:40.679+01:00I can only impersonate which I hope will be not to...I can only impersonate which I hope will be not too harshly judgedcaesars wifenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-39505774908279323852009-08-08T12:48:13.815+01:002009-08-08T12:48:13.815+01:00The funny thing is, Mr caesar's wife, that I u...The funny thing is, Mr caesar's wife, that I understand every word you write, how does that happen?<br /><br /><br />It is, as you say, Mr DL, the disparity as much as anything, which rankles, a working-class blagger gets thirty years and Fred Goodwin gets sixteen million pounds for larceny on a much grander scale; I wonder how many old folks, older than Jack Mills was, have had their lives ruined by spiv banker-knights; the whole legislature ransacks the public purse and, Oh Fuck me, the system which allowed them to do so must be changed,it was the system which was criminal, whilst they go unpunished; the warmongers smarm and slither trough oceans of blood and guts to pensions and peerages but the main thing is we must punish Ronnie Biggs unto death and probably. if Simon Billy Bunter Heffer had his way, post mortem, too, dig the bastard up, like Oliver Cromwell.<br /><br />We are a nation of Ragged Trousered Philanthrapists, more ready to turn on and savage our own than to utter a word against our tormentors; but in its pursuit of an eighteenth-century status quo skymadeupneswandfilth behaves abominably.<br /><br />I thought, Mr Edgar, that Straw's behaviour was so characteristically opportunistic as to not need mentioning, here, really, we've done him at length, only, unfortunately, not to death but yes, his public agonising over what was a straighforward ethical judgement does define the fiddling while Rome burns posturing of the whole shower of filth.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-6081092524494971742009-08-08T12:10:35.472+01:002009-08-08T12:10:35.472+01:00I agree, Ishmael. Funny thing in Britain, you can...I agree, Ishmael. Funny thing in Britain, you can kill your Granny and you get 3 years but rob some money particularly from the state and you are banged up for years.Dark Lochnagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09086636653505467565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-89725122153110627052009-08-07T23:43:02.055+01:002009-08-07T23:43:02.055+01:00rock llyods , still on economic blood letting pati...rock llyods , still on economic blood letting patient death trial , RBS not so hungray in 3 years tripartate failure leech should fall off into condo in bahamas , public will cheer as ruin celebrates , gods miracle , of turning work into debt at wedding in corporate bilderberger HQ .<br /><br />jack straw helps nation thing bank robbery not so bad by letting real bank die in blighty and hopes people will not demand death penalty for ecnomic ruin policescaesars wifenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-24542607812053636882009-08-07T23:27:53.120+01:002009-08-07T23:27:53.120+01:00Another weary-old-head-shaking feature of this fia...Another weary-old-head-shaking feature of this fiasco has been Jack Straw's efforts at gauging 'public opinion'. Reminds me of nothing so much as a particularly clumsy child's efforts to 'pin the tail on the donkey.'<br /><br />Unfortunately for little Jackie, the country is so fucked-up that no-one can tell the head from the arse any more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com