Galloway says murder of Blair would be 'justified'

[Annie]

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Galloway says murder of Blair would be 'justified'
By Oliver Duff
Published: 26 May 2006
The Respect MP George Galloway has said it would be morally justified for a suicide bomber to murder Tony Blair.

In an interview with GQ magazine, the reporter asked him: "Would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber - if there were no other casualties - be justified as revenge for the war on Iraq?"

Mr Galloway replied: "Yes, it would be morally justified. I am not calling for it - but if it happened it would be of a wholly different moral order to the events of 7/7. It would be entirely logical and explicable. And morally equivalent to ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Iraq - as Blair did."

The Labour MP Stephen Pound, a persistent critic of Mr Galloway during previous controversies, told The Sun that the Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow in east London was "disgraceful and truly twisted".

He said: "These comments take my breath away. Every time you think he can't sink any lower he goes and stuns you again. It's reprehensible to say it would be justified for a suicide bomber to assassinate anyone."

The Stop the War Coalition criticised Mr Galloway: "We don't agree with Tony Blair's actions, but neither do we agree with suicide bombers or assassinations."

Just hours after four bomb attacks killed 52 people on London's transport system last July, Mr Galloway said the city had "paid the price" for Mr Blair's decision to go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Ten thousand Osama bin Ladens have been created at least by the events of the last two years," he told MPs in the Commons that day.

Mr Pound said at the time: "I thought George had sunk to the depths of sickness in the past but this exceeds anything he has done before." The Armed Forces minister, Adam Ingram, accused the Respect MP of "dipping his poisonous tongue in a pool of blood".

Mr Galloway yesterday made a surprise appearance on Cuban television with the Caribbean island's Communist dictator, Fidel Castro - whom he defended as a "lion" in a political world populated by "monkeys".

Mr Galloway shocked panellists on a live television discussion show in Havana by emerging on set mid-transmission to offer passionate support for Castro. Looking approvingly into each others' eyes, the pair embraced.

The Respect MP George Galloway has said it would be morally justified for a suicide bomber to murder Tony Blair.

In an interview with GQ magazine, the reporter asked him: "Would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber - if there were no other casualties - be justified as revenge for the war on Iraq?"

Mr Galloway replied: "Yes, it would be morally justified. I am not calling for it - but if it happened it would be of a wholly different moral order to the events of 7/7. It would be entirely logical and explicable. And morally equivalent to ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Iraq - as Blair did."

The Labour MP Stephen Pound, a persistent critic of Mr Galloway during previous controversies, told The Sun that the Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow in east London was "disgraceful and truly twisted".

He said: "These comments take my breath away. Every time you think he can't sink any lower he goes and stuns you again. It's reprehensible to say it would be justified for a suicide bomber to assassinate anyone."

The Stop the War Coalition criticised Mr Galloway: "We don't agree with Tony Blair's actions, but neither do we agree with suicide bombers or assassinations."

Just hours after four bomb attacks killed 52 people on London's transport system last July, Mr Galloway said the city had "paid the price" for Mr Blair's decision to go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Ten thousand Osama bin Ladens have been created at least by the events of the last two years," he told MPs in the Commons that day.

Mr Pound said at the time: "I thought George had sunk to the depths of sickness in the past but this exceeds anything he has done before." The Armed Forces minister, Adam Ingram, accused the Respect MP of "dipping his poisonous tongue in a pool of blood".

Mr Galloway yesterday made a surprise appearance on Cuban television with the Caribbean island's Communist dictator, Fidel Castro - whom he defended as a "lion" in a political world populated by "monkeys".

Mr Galloway shocked panellists on a live television discussion show in Havana by emerging on set mid-transmission to offer passionate support for Castro. Looking approvingly into each others' eyes, the pair embraced.

[Ally]

Crikey, first decent thing that's come out his mouth for a while.

[blackcat]

Annie

Could you post the link to that article please? I want to pass it on to other forums and need a reference. Thanks.

[Annie]

Hi blackcat

Here's the link:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article601356.ece

Regards

Annie

[Banish]

Yes. Isn't it amazing that nobody of importance is ever targeted by suicide bombers.

Bush and Blair at the G8 in Scotland, suicide bombers leave Leeds and plant some bombs on trains and a bus in London. My bs detector went off the scale.

I dont believe a word about suicide bombers. Here, Iraq, Afghanistan...

[johnnyhotshots]

Blair doesn't deserve to die; just throw him in solitary for life and leave the light on all day and night.

And Jack Straw? Watch your back!!

[johnnyhotshots]

We could ring him up on the the radio to ask his opinions; He's on Talk Sport (1053-1089 am or on digital tv) on Saturday and Sunday nights, 8-10pm.

[paul wright]

George confirms himself as a most dangerous character, precisely the kind of stalinist fellow-traveller he portrayed in BB, and actual best friend to Blair and his backers, whilst hobnobbing with the dictators of the now subsumed oppositional trend

What a * farce
Confirming a valid role for suicide bombers, who would be an ultimate life-denying force if they were other than a carefully constructed myth, sometimes conveyed into reality by cretins taken in by the myth

[kbo234]

"Vengance is mine sayeth the Lord."

"Love your enemies" ....Jesus Christ.

Blair might deserve to suffer. Have faith. He will. His own God-created soul will demand it of himself.

Anyone who says that it would be morally justifiable to assassinate him is coming from somewhere I do not understand.

Morality is not about feelings.

If that were the case I would probably murder seventeen people every fortnight.

It is about our highest ideals surely.

[paul wright]

[stateofgrace]

withdawn

[paul wright]

Menses Ambrosia Campbell is a freemason who is well in the mix

[kbo234]

The issue of 'feelings' is very significant, I believe. Over the last decades there has been an ever-increasing strain of subtle propaganda (as I see it) to emphasise the primacy of a person's feelings....to the point where it is almost expected that a individual's first duty is to serve them.

It may well be that this type of developement is a natural partner to the demise of religion and spirituality in general. However, although there are some good aspects (society is more accepting of difference and abberations of every kind) there is also a serious downside.

Feelings are not given to us that we might serve them. Feelings are surely a signalling system designed to inform us of the condition of our own souls.
Emotions, the outpouring of feeling, exist to communicate this condition to others.

We are called on to be "perfect as our Father in heaven"....not to be satisfied in our error. This is a very tough call for all of us but surely this yearning for the ideal (or God, as some of us call it) is the notion from which all true spirituality and morality proceeds.

By our distraction and over-engagement with 'feelings' we become easy prey to the manipulators of the media, the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, political parties and the rest.

Do you work in an environment where the modern management frenzy has taken hold (almost any school or hospital or big business for a start)?

The justification of any new initiative always sounds oh so human, oh so sensible, oh so conducive to the common good.....so much so that you fail to notice the fact that you are being managed to pointless exhaustion, that everyone is in fear of falling short on a whole range of created measures, that your life is actually being made miserable by this stuff, that its effects ARE, MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT WAS INTENDED (e.g. educational 'standards')......That you don't have time to think about what's really important, never mind to try and pursue it.....that you have absolutely no measureable input into any system you work in unless you swallow the fundamental idea of all this bs in the first place.

Of course, most really important inputs into any system cannot be measureable. There is no MKS unit for the love in your heart or the truthfulness of your soul.

[blackcat]

[Banish]

It's all here in black and white.

http://deoxy.org/wc/wc-nurem.htm

[Dr Hemp]

[PercyPenguin]

Those LibDems who wanted to replace Kennedy with Ming Campbell now look pretty daft, although I have to say I thought Kennedy was scared of appearing too radical on the War - he wanted to oppose it, and support it!

True liberal fence sitting!

[andyb]

I thought Ming would be a good bet but he has been terrible.

Dr Hemp, not sure on your theory that Kinnock should have won? Surely if that was the plan why did the Sun run the 'Could the last person put the lights out' headline?

[xmasdale]

[Dr Hemp]

I'm still convinced that the Tories never expected to win in 92 and that the electoral system enables those with their own agenda to manipulate who gets into power. In any case, the Thatcherite agenda has carried on, with Bliar being able to get away with perhaps more errosions of our civil liberties than the Tories would have been able to get away with. I still remember the battle of the beanfield, so it will take more than a bicycle totting toff talking about green issues to convince me otherwise about them.

I wouldn't be surprised if Charles Kennedy was replaced by Ming to make sure the Lib Dems didn't hold the balance of power after the next general election, so that Blaireron gets in with a Parliamentary majority. It seems strange remove someone who people have at least heard of, and replace him with someone who looks like he belongs in an OAPs home.

I hope I'm wrong about Cameron, but I just don't think that an old Etonian who has been an MP for just 4 years, gets to be leader of the Tory Party, unless other people behind the scenes have something already planned. I don't have much faith in any of the buggers, though I suppose nothing could be worse than Mr Bliar, but I once thought that about Mrs Thatcher, and Bliar came along to prove me wrong on that. I bet Murdoch switches to Cameron at the next election, if he does, then we will know for sure that all the new bicycle riding green Tories are a crock of *.

[Dr Hemp]

[andyb]

I posted on another thread regarding Camron and the Bilderbergers as Bliar went to a meeting prior to becoming PM. Someone posted that Cameron has been to a meeting so it does look like he's being groomed. Does anyone have any info on this? Bliar is going to run Labour into the ground and make the Tories the only alternative in the general publics' eyes. Why else would he not sack Prescott(apart from having a deputy leadership vote which may provide an opportunity for a stalking horse in a leadership battle) Anyway, the Tories are 5/6 at Paddy Power to win the next election. A good way to almost double our funds!!

[Eckyboy]

On a recent Question Time on BBC1. Menzies Campbell (still do not know why he likes being called Ming!) Stated that there should be an inquiry into 7/7 like the 911 Commission did with 911. To anyone with half a brain cell this was the most blatant whitewash report of all time and it makes me wonder if poor old Ming even bothered to read it and check his facts before he came out with this nonsense comment. What a plonker.

[flamesong]

[Eckyboy]

Im scottish as well and I have never met anyone called Menzies or Ming. I dont remember anyone calling the retail chain John Ming. Fail to see the point in taking the time to correct me. Last time I checked this was the 911 Truth site not True prounciation of Scottish Names site. The man is still an idiot whether he is called Ming or Menzies.

[alwun]

OFF TOPIC but there you go..
Mr. eckboy, you demonstrate a quite unwarranted lack of politeness and respect towards a longstanding poster, one who has contributed greatly to this forum. That you should reply in the manner you did to someone who tried politely to inform you on a subject which you your bonnie wee self actually raised finds me, at least, less than endeared. Not, I'm sure, that you give, as we say in my country, a monkey's ****. [/b]

[flamesong]

[paul wright]

[Eckyboy]

I meant no offense to flamesong nor did I feel I was rude alwun. I agree Flamesong has contributed plenty to this forum and was not calling him an idiot. However my topic was not about prounciation nor did I bring the subject up I merely commented on it in my post. I stand by what I said as I was simply stating in my experience the prounciation makes no sense. That is in my opinion which I still believe I am entitled to. I do happen to care a Monkeys whatever that is why I am on this site in the first place.

[orestes]

I always thought it was suspicious that the scandals regarding the other contenders both turned up at the same time, therefore leading Ming the Hopeless with a clear run. Gennedy was clearly suffering with the drink though, it was visible in his face, his manner and his failure to turn up at appointments. I can't help suspecting that someone ensured that Ming would get the nod by releasing information they had been gathering for a while. Whether that is because they thought Ming was rubbish or because he was more right wing I don't know.