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Wednesday, August 06, 2008

saying the unsayable with doctor heelers

A month ago the radar system inexplicably shut down for several days at Dublin airport.
By "inexplicably," I mean no one has offered an explanation as to why the radar system at Dublin airport would, could, or should, ever shut down in such a fashion, when it has been specifically designed not to do so, with the most modern back ups, and widgits, and whosees, and whatsits, and so on.
A report into what caused the shutdown has been suppressed.
The Phoenix magazine speculates that the report was suppressed due to embarassment at the failure of new technology.
No newspaper or broadcast media outlet covering the story has mentioned the possibility of an Islamist infiltration at Dublin airport.

Two weeks ago there was an explosion in the hold of a Qantas airliner.
The plane made an emergency landing in the Philippines. By the grace of God, nobody died.
In the aftermath of the explosion, the plane was checked for explosives by sniffer dogs from the Philippino bomb squad.
I wish to suggest that allowing the Philippinos to check the plane for explosives is tantamount to not really searching for explosives at all.
Without saying anything negative about Philippinos, I wish to state categorically that they have a third world bomb squad.
The cockpit voice recorder from the Qantas jet involved in the incident has been erased.
I wish to suggest that the erasure of the cockpit voice recorder is a deliberate attempt to conceal evidence which might indicate the presence of a Muslim terrorist bomb on the aeroplane.
Officials from Qantas now say there was no terrorist attack and that an oxygen cylinder exploded in the hold of their jetliner.
They have checked the plane for explosives using Philippino sniffer dogs. They have erased the cockpit voice recorder.
I do not believe their explanation.
Within several days of the explosion on board this Qantas plane, two other Qantas planes were forced to make emergency landings: One when its door opened in flight; The other when fuel began leaking along the wing.
During copious international media coverage of the three downed Qantas aeroplanes, not one report mentioned the possibility of an Islamist infiltration of Qantas or its maintenance crews.

Three days ago an Al Qaeda group attacked China. The Al Qaeda group killed sixteen Chinese police officers. The attack took place in China's Muslim province of Xinjiang. The Al Qaeda group attempted to hack to death with axes several wounded police officers at the scene. At first satelite broadcaster CNN managed to report this attack, as did most other media outlets, without once mentioning Al Qaeda. Sky News seemed reluctant to report the story at all. I waited for hours and nothing came through. In subsequent days, Sky remained doggedly determined not to make the story its lead on any news bulletin. Many of the major international news outlets initially reported the attack without even mentioning the peaceloving religion of Islam. I have to ask you. Is it possible that CNN, Sky, NBC, CBS, ABC, Channel Four, the BBC, the Irish Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post, et al (Particularly Al; I hate him!) is it possible they are all so mired in denial that they are desperately trying to prevent the general public from forming any perspective on current events that might even vaguely corroborate President Bush and America's heroic actions in the war on terror? Sixteen dead police officers is a big story, even if it did happen on the far side of the world. It's a positively huge story with five days to go to the Olympic Games opening ceremonies in Beijing. And it's a positively humongous story given that it means Al Qaeda has now openly made war with communist China, as well as with Russia, India, Europe and the United States of America.
Yet most newspapers downplayed the story, devoting only scant paragraphs to it, and surprise surprise, all but ignoring the Muslim angle.

Memo to the journalists of the free world:
When reporting Islamic attrocities or conspiracies against the rest of humanity, whatever you do, don't mention the Muslims.
I mentioned them once but I think I got away with it.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

ah James. loved catching up on your blog from Italy....except this one, Lil may move out!

10:48 AM  
Blogger heelers said...

Who the hell are you?
(Please imagine me saying this in Mr Burns' voice from The Simpsons.)
J

12:26 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fiona and the Barn! ....maybe I shouldn't have admitted that. :_) blast these Italian keyboards èé

9:50 PM  
Blogger heelers said...

Fiona!
Who the hell am I?
J

10:11 PM  

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