I work nights and sleep days. This morning, while I was laying in bed trying to get sleepy, I was watching MSNBC. The talking head was a thin gal with long dark hair. She seemed to be reporting the upcoming Israeli-Lebanese creasefire in a fair fashion, so I thought, "Good. Nothing to anger me. Maybe I can get sleepy watching this."
I know. I know. Stupid Fishgrease!
More on the flip. Go ahead. Nothing can amaze you any more. Admit it.
So after a commercial, she breaks to London, saying they have reports that the thwarted British/Pakistani terrorists planned on using their own babies as decoys. Wait. What did she just say? Did they decode that from the intercepted plans or orders from Al Qaeda? Okay, there's this British guy that reminds me a lot of Lewis Prothero, Roger Allam's Bill O'Reillyesque character in
V for Vendetta. Says he's MSNBC's London correspondent. Got a gloomy backdrop (London Bridge in fog?) behind him that actually looks like it IS out of
V for Vendetta.
She asks him about this terrorists sacrificing their own babies business. Surely they've got some solid source for this! Right?
No. British tabloids. The Lewis Prothero fucker holds up a British tabloid. He basically says that "they" think that "because" two of the alledged terrorists were man and wife, and they had an infant child... THEY WERE GOING TO USE THE BABY TO GET ON THE PLANE! That's it. That's all they got. Gotta baby? Obviously you're going to sacrifice that baby to blow up an airliner! Here. Read THIS PIECE OF CRAP
One senior Government security adviser warned of a race against time to identify individuals who might pose a threat.
The adviser said: "It may be beyond belief, but we are convinced that there are now women in Britain who are prepared to die with their babies for their twisted cause. They are ruthless, single-minded and totally committed."
The nightmare is that mums carrying tiny tots would provide "very good cover" and not raise suspicions among even the most alert security guards.
The threat was identified along with an additional warning that as many as two dozen terror cells may still be active in Britain.
The source added: "We believe all the known players involved in last week's plot have been detained. Our biggest concern now is all the unknown players who may be out there."
"And that includes mothers who are ready and willing to see their little ones die. It is a race against time." Women around the world have carried out suicide attacks in the past.
Two female Chechen terrorists blew themselves up on separate flights in Russia two years ago.
An intelligence source said: "Al-Qaeda specialises in attempting the unexpected. What could be more unexpected in Western eyes than women willing to die with their babies?"
I'm not even going to begin to list all the problems with that. Suffice to say, this is not responsible journalism. So then the MSNBC gal says (from my memory, of course there's no transcript),
"I can only imagine what they would do to us if they were willing to kill their own baby!"
FUCK! Now Ima never going to get to sleep! Might as well watch a loop of HeadOn commercials! Well I did get about three hours of fitful V for Vendetta-like sleep. So far tonight, I've not seen the story repeated anywhere besides on Drudge. It's off the TV news. I'm certain some of you heard of the same story and that you had the same reaction.
What if. What if your're a law-abiding Muslim British citizen and you see this crap. They didn't accuse YOU of being willing to sacrifice your beautiful baby in order to blow up airplanes... or did they? How is this helping? How is it helping anything?
When you spew stuff out of British tabloids as news, how does that help?
V!