Monday, August 20, 2007

Totally unbiased article

A one-page story in Friday's Diana Daily Express caught my eye "Extremist yobs hijack airport demo in plot to cause mayhem" phew that's a long banner.

Gangs of anarchists plotting...The extremists... the thugs
So what have these extreme yobbish anarchist thugs done? Um turned up at the protest - hanging's too good for them.

"If we frustrate them then they will go for confrontation because they are anti-state" said Commander Jo Kaye, um yes they're anarchists although why that would automatically lead to confrontation is beyond me - 'We can't let these democrats in, as soon as we tried to do something they'll call for a vote'

Anyway it gets funny as this article was obviously written for those with a poor retentive memory or who can't put two apparently disparate pieces of information together.

Paragraph 2: "among the hundreds of law-abiding protesters"
Paragraph 13 "policing the illegally-occupied site"

Okay tell me how these law-abiding protesters are illegally occupying a site?

Now apparently they were planning on causing Heathrow problems by dressing up as passengers and infiltrating the terminals; now I'll go with Frankie Boyle's take on this from "Mock the Week" in which he suggested the best way to cause disruption at Heathrow was to actually book a flight and try to catch it.

On a similar note Obsolete: Anarchy in the UK?

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