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G001v- The Undercroft
"What world and time...
...am I living in that I'm happy when someone has been shot dead?"
Mel, London
BBC website cites this reflection on the Stockwell seizure with maximum prejudice.
What world and Time? The West anytime in the 21st century. When we are glad to have bladerunners on our trainstations and at our airports. And when to be muslim or to look Asian or middle eastern is to invoke unease - at the very least - and increasingly to draw hostility. The look and then the sit elsewhere move. The look and the go back to whereever you came from expression. Originally, that is.
And the heartsinking knowledge when some dim-witted boy fluffs his moment and leaves a carriage full of startled people, a bit of acrid smoke and a 'forensic bonanza' where he should have checked in for jihad glory, that there are more. Always. Ranks and colums of them. God's idiots and their mentors. That 'they' are as convinced they shall prevail as 'we' are that they shall not.
That there is no surrender. Or quarter. War in the East means war in the West. The bladerunners aren't always lucky: sometimes websites attribute 'victorious attacks against the infidel' to previously unheard of groups with absurd names like the Abu Hafs al Masri Brigade. But the occasional surrounding or storming of a mosque is good for public morale. And our bladerunners are very, very good.
There goes another one....
... Andrea Dworkin , feminist writer & civil rights activist.
So, who did you vote against....
"This is not simply a question of geographical distance, but a feeling of social and political isolation."
Oh My...
This may not look much like a revolution. But there is a growing sense out there among the gods of blog that it could well be the start of something really big: the arrival of cit aps (citizen applications) as a true force for democratisation in an all too often a-democratic world. Or rather the arrival of it 'over here'...
Think of it as an unstoppable, rolling voice. Blogging by ordinary people from the scene of less than ordinary events. The site is Korean and has been running for nearly four years at this stage in the Korean language. It's getting more self-confident by the moment...thanks to the involvement of the aptly named 386 generation - people in their 30s, educated in the 1980s and born in the 1960s. These were in the streets in the 80s fighting against the military dictatorship. Now, 20 years on they are ‘combat-ready’ AND blog savvy. OhMyNews has already seen off one president. And now there's even an English service. So that others whose Korean is a bit ...lacking can follow the fun.
The site has a professional staff of about 40 and 23,000 "citizen reporters" who send in news reports on just about anything. It also has more than 2 million readers a day.
Can you imagine the impact a truly mass media like that could have in Europe and the US during the smoke, fire and mirror moments of, say, the Iraq War? Or a general election campaign... Wowser!!!