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More Enemies of Humanity

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Such are our ways with dynamiters. These men were not Britishers, but aliens who came over in time of peace to perpetrate outrages, which if committed by soldiers in time of war, would ensure them short shrift after trial by drumhead court-martial … This case further illustrates what I have said about dynamiters and their crimes. In war the guns of an enemy would no doubt spare an astronomical Observatory, for none but savages would wish to injure an institution of that kind ; but these fiends are the enemies of humanity. And this Bourdin was an alien anarchist who was living here only by the courtesy of our law, or, I should be rather disposed to say, by the criminal apathy with which our law is administered.

(Top Cop Sir Robert Anderson writing in 1910 about North American and French “dynamite outrage” cells committing terror acts in the UK during the Late Victorian era.)

5 Responses

  1. Dez says:
    2005-07-28 at 10:11:12

    you still have those body fat ads…

  2. mike says:
    2005-07-28 at 10:11:12

    Don’t knock the bodyfat, every click pays for more bandwidth!

  3. Dez says:
    2005-07-29 at 10:11:12

    Couldnt you make it a bit more sexy or do you have a say in this, I take it ( google ) bases the ads it places on the site on the content so as stories about Iraq dont really sell , next best thing?

  4. Anonymous says:
    2005-07-29 at 10:11:12

    Where is the international human rights commission now? Where is the trial?
    Oh, it’s France doing it. Never mind.

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    France Removes Citizenship and Order Expulsion of Islamic Preachers

    Yesterday France announced the summary expulsion of a dozen Islamists between now and the end of August. A tough new anti-terrorism package was unveiled by Nicolas Sarkozy, the interior minister and a popular centre-Right politician. Imams and their followers who fuel anti-western feeling among impressionable young French Muslims will be rounded up and returned to their countries of origin, most commonly in France’s case to its former north African colonies. Those who have assumed French citizenship will not be protected from deportation. Mr Sarkozy said he will reactivate measures, “already available in our penal code but simply not used”, to strip undesirables of their adopted nationality.

  5. mike says:
    2005-07-30 at 10:11:12

    I hope they go after the Tyrolians next. Those enemies of humanity have had it coming for a long time. And the librarians!

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