tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post112129991368159844..comments2023-10-18T16:25:13.593+01:00Comments on Famous for 15 megapixels: Waiting for the evidenceStefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01467757421113856218noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-1121349404182081112005-07-14T14:56:00.000+01:002005-07-14T14:56:00.000+01:00@NM: I hear you, really. But, let's be honest here...@NM: I hear you, really. But, let's be honest here, you can get a similiar, though not identical vibe in Tottenham, Stonebridge Park, Camberwell or Brixton. You don't have to travel more than a few miles from where the bombs exploded to see exclusion and resentment.<BR/><BR/>Like I said, I hear what you say but there's a world of difference between being excluded and resentful and killing yourself and blowing people up.<BR/><BR/>I've just cut this out of the BBC news site ...<BR/><BR/>"He was proud to be British," he said. "He had everything to live for. His parents were loving and supportive.<BR/><BR/>"He was a very kind and calm person. He was respected by everyone."<BR/><BR/>Neighbours described the graduate, who studied at Leeds Metropolitan University, as a "good Muslim". Others said he was a "nice lad" who could "get on with anyone".<BR/><BR/>One friend said they played sport together only last week. "He's the type of guy who would condemn things like that," the friend said.<BR/><BR/>"We all knew them but I wouldn't say I knew them well. They were just a very nice family"<BR/><BR/>"Yet, for all the tributes, it appears Shehzad Tanweer detonated a bomb on a Circle Line train between Aldgate and Liverpool Street stations which killed seven people, including himself, and injured over 100 more."<BR/><BR/>Does that make sense? Or how about a 30 year old man, married to a Hindhu with an eight month year old child and another on the way who works as a teacher for kids with special needs? Does he sound like the kind of bloke who would travel down to London to slaughter people, joking with his fellow murderers twenty minutes before the bombs went off?<BR/><BR/>I could scream.<BR/><BR/>What's makes this worse for me is that I was dead set against the levels of migration that have taken place over the last few years. Not for any racial reasons but because I didn't believe we could culturally assimiliate so many people, so quickly. Tony Blair was up for it though. Big time.<BR/><BR/>Now I find myself furious at the bile he, other policians and the entire media are coming out with. The same people who were lecturing the likes of me about being xenophobic and racist are preaching the most insanely paranoid crap and showing the cultural sensitivity and understanding of a bunch of Nazis.Stefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01467757421113856218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-1121337341200641252005-07-14T11:35:00.000+01:002005-07-14T11:35:00.000+01:00I was chatting with a Flickr buddy, Andy, about th...I was chatting with a Flickr buddy, Andy, about this yesterday and he said something similiar ...<BR/><BR/>'I took a photo of one of 'missing' people on monday (sad to say she's just been confirmed killed). Can't bring myself to look at it, never mind 'think' of putting it up on Flickr, it would be too sick.'<BR/><BR/>I've never seen anything like this in London before and it's like something from Central America in the days of the death squads.<BR/><BR/>It's happened because the police are taking so long to identify the victims. In an era of DNA testing that's another aspect of this business that leaves me suspicious.<BR/><BR/>This weekend?<BR/><BR/>Personally, I'll be out and about in London both days and attending an Italian street festival on Sunday. I will not be glaring at any Muslims. I will be opposing any more fascism our government tries to heap on our lives in the name our safety, with every fibre of my being. However ineffective that being might be.Stefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01467757421113856218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-1121330168814764202005-07-14T09:36:00.000+01:002005-07-14T09:36:00.000+01:00Your description of the missing people posters sto...Your description of the missing people posters stopped me in my track. You should deffinately take photos, but I guess it's not like taking a photograph of the missing cat posters in your own neighbourhood.<BR/><BR/>I was planning a trip to London this weekend, but think I might give it a miss for now.Sparklinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04334915032148361564noreply@blogger.com