Steyn on Blair (w/ Bonus Driscoll on Paco)
On Britain’s disenfranchised South Asian masses, yearning to vote free:
Tim Blair provides a fine example of why The New York Times is an unreliable guide to the ways of the world:
In July 2005, four suicide bombers killed 52 people on London’s transit system, and another set of attacks failed two weeks later, bringing home to Britain fears of homegrown terrorist attacks among its disenfranchised South Asian population. Witnesses said the two men in the Glasgow attack were South Asian.
My dictionary defines “disenfranchised” as:
to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity; especially : to deprive of the right to vote
The “South Asian population” are British subjects with as much right to vote as Tony Blair or Gordon Brown. If the Times is merely using the word to mean more generally “deprived”, the July 7th bombers didn’t exactly hail from the ghetto: Shehzad Tanweer rode around in his dad’s Mercedes. Omar Sheikh, who’s supposed to have plotted the kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl, was an English “public” (ie, private) schoolboy and a London School of Economics alumnus. The four would-be suicide bombers who attempted a follow-up Tube carnage on July 21st 2005 were discovered to have “more than £500,000 in benefits payments” from the bountiful British welfare state in their bank accounts.
Speaking of which, as Graham (see post below) commented during our chat this morning, who are these “South Asians” they keep talking about? Are they refering to the grave threat to the west posed by Hindu and Sikh extremists? h/t Driscoll, where the great Paco of Blair fame is getting some bounce.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:29 am on Monday, July 2, 2007
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July 2nd, 2007 at 12:29 pm
All hail the Paco! The Paco is great!
And has he got a deal for you!
July 2nd, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Preening Artists Consistently Oppressed always cry out for attention.
July 2nd, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Gee, Jules, thanks for the good word! And I’d just like to say that my autograph is available at a very reasonable price.
July 3rd, 2007 at 2:02 am
Oh dear. Pretty soon, his fedora won’t fit!