Do we really need reminding the world is a bit sh*t?
This weekend is probably going to go down as one of the watershed weekends of 2011 for some, and it would be without a doubt for mostly the wrong reasons.
Before we address the real ugliness of human behaviour that occurred in Norway and also to some extent the media coverage of the tragic events, this weekend we witnessed live the emergency services carrying away the body of Amy Winehouse, who was declared dead aged 27 on Saturday afternoon.
While a post-mortem was carried out today and so far has not come back with an official cause of death, pretty much the odds are unfortunately, that she was back on the Lemsip with a swift pint or 34.
It pretty much sums it all up when various famous folks paid tribute as stating what a terrible waste of talent, something which was echoed here on this site from many moons ago but of course, at the time she was still very much with us.
Russell Brand took time out from being a bearded eccentric gimp to write for the Guardian yesterday about the woman who basically rose up and then fell apart.
Remarkably, it was so graceful, elegant and thought provoking in it’s delivery, to underpin the problem of drug addiction and the effects, that you would forget this was the same prat who had that wonderful time leaving naughty voice mails about smutty grand-daughters for the News of the World…I mean old actors to pick up. People, perhaps can indeed change.
The world has lost another talent which will be missed.
Though it seems other talents are vary much still alive and was in full force to see over in Norway, though this particular talent would have been better off never being brought the light of day.
In the aftermath of Friday’s twin attacks, when a bomb was set off in Oslo, and then a murder spree on an island filled with young people, which is run by one of the political parties of the country, in which detailed accounts of the horror have been given by those fortunate to survive, endless amounts of questions have been asked about how something like this could possibly happen and how soon can we blame Al-Qaeda?
Well the how was quite easy to answer as an online document posted by the calculating demented b*stard, Andrex Bullsh*tter Bellend (who we have no doubt will now use his court appearances to further his own agenda as this document did, when every news organisation was quoting from it over and over again over the weekend) basically gave a detailed account of motivations, actions and timeline to the whole sorry affair.
The blaming on Al-Qaeda clearly took the Sun newspaper (Look out for that Sunday edition soon folks!) all of three seconds to come with, as demonstrated on the Saturday edition produced, though the information was still only coming in slowly at that time, as the pace of events were such a blur that no-one had a clue what was going on, not even the experts who expertly were wrong that it was Al-Quadbike’s works.
As it emerged that a home-grown nut-job had committed the crime, that whole theme of Islamic fundamentalism pretty much faded to the background, but was thankfully reinforced by the UK Foreign Secretary and Dick Tracy villain, William Hague who stated:
It remains the case that the single biggest terrorist threat to this country remains al-Qaeda, or people inspired by al-Qaeda, but what has happened is a reminder that it is not the only source of violent extremist or terrorist attack.
Or given the events that took place, you could read it as “Oh b*llocks, one bloke can still f*ck up our security and there’s nought we can do about it. But let’s remember that the Islamic terrorists are still about with their hi-jinks and dilly-dallying and forget about that one bloke. Please?”
The sad fact is, that there will always be people who seek to hurt fellow human beings for their own ends, be it political as was in this case, it was about Norway’s immigration policy (I think) or just for the fact that they are about as mentally stable as a chronically depressed lemming.
Even worse, the events will ensure that Norway will change it’s behaviour in how it deals with security around key areas, just like the UK did when 7/7 occurred, with installations of barriers and police carrying guns around them.
Either way, the saying of “The terrorists will never get us to change” always turns out to be complete rubbish, as an act of terror, no matter who is behind it, is out to achieve an upheaval in the status quo and with every life lost, society does alter for the worse.
We lose a bit more freedom in exchange for the feeling of security and in the end the same thing happens again, even with the extra measures. No-one can account for events like this, and it would be a shame if somehow the sick bugger’s actions did achieve what he wants, as no doubt there will be a full review of policies by the Norwegian authorities and the motives given by the nutter may be enough for them to review the areas he criticised publicly.
And then others will see that violence and fear is the voice of change, not debate and reason.
And to end on a upbeat note; Andrex looks like he f*cks pigs and squeals more than they do. Too harsh a comment considering his offences?
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