The Good Guys Win One (British MP Jenny Tonge is sacked for pro-suicide bomber remarks)

BBC ^ | Friday, 23 January, 2004, 15:11 GMT | Anonymous BBC story monkey

[alnitak]

Sanity prevails (for once).

[ken5050]

I, for one, wouold LIKE to see her become a suicide bomber...

[RandallFlagg]

Isn't Dan RATher retiring soon?

[KantianBurke]

"Kenneth Collins, a former chair of the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities"

There are Scottish Jews? Wonder how their bagpiping skills are when it comes to Hava NeGila :>

[KangarooJacqui]

Sanity prevails (for once).

And rightfully so.

[j_tull]

I wonder where the good doctor stood on the Northern Ireland issue.

[Kirkwood]

Na, na, na, na...
Na, na, na, na...
Hey! Hey!
Goodbye!

[theFIRMbss]

>"I was just trying to say how, having seen the violence and the humiliation and the provocation that the Palestinian people live under every day and have done since their land was occupied by Israel..."

REG:
They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers.

LORETTA:
And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.

REG:
Yeah.

LORETTA:
And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.

REG:
Yeah. All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return?!

XERXES:
The aqueduct?

REG:
What?

XERXES:
The aqueduct.

REG:
Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.

COMMANDO #3:
And the sanitation.

LORETTA:
Oh, yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like?

REG:
Yeah. All right. I'll grant you the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things that the Romans have done.

MATTHIAS:
And the roads.

REG:
Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads--

COMMANDO:
Irrigation.

XERXES:
Medicine.

COMMANDOS:
Huh? Heh? Huh...

COMMANDO #2:
Education.

COMMANDOS:
Ohh...

REG:
Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.

COMMANDO #1:
And the wine.

COMMANDOS:
Oh, yes. Yeah...

FRANCIS:
Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left. Huh.

COMMANDO:
Public baths.

LORETTA:
And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now, Reg.

FRANCIS:
Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it. They're the only ones who could in a place like this.

COMMANDOS:
Hehh, heh. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.

REG:
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

XERXES:
Brought peace.

REG:
Oh. Peace? Shut up!

[pabianice]

I see from her photo that her sex reassignment is almost complete...

[B Knotts]

She should have held her Tonge.

[Riley]

Life imitates art. Nomination for post of the week!

[ScudEast]

Wonder how their bagpiping skills are when it comes to Hava NeGila :>

LOL - I'm sure I read somewhere that they had bagpipes in the bible so it's not as strange as you may think :)

On the subject at hand, I saw this lady saying this on BBC Parliament and my jaw hit the floor. I have a suspicion that Mr Kennedy agrees with her too, despite his protestations to the contrary. I would have hoped that this would result in the Liberal Democrats becoming even more irrelavent at our next general election but I've a feeling that these sentiments are shared by a lot of people in my country. Whether or not any of them will vote at the election is another matter, of course.

[Prodigal Son]

"She is giving the green light to terrorism at a time when we should all be urging peaceful negotiations to end the tragic conflict in the Middle East."

This is probably the most pertinent point here.

It is a known fact that terrorism would not exist were it not for the media. Terrorism would be totally ineffective were it not for the fact that killing loads of people constitutes 'news' and that by doing so a group gains an instant world stage.

What this MP has done is worse than treasonous. She has encouraged suicide bombers everywhere. This is the kind of propaganda the terrorist is willing to kill for. Here they have won a willing convert.

[thoughtomator]

"Dr Tonge has drawn attention to the root causes of terrorism"

Indeed, the root causes being the Leftist press which gives terrorists the favorable press coverage which is the primary goal of terror.

[highlander_UW]

"I was just trying to say how, having seen the violence and the humiliation and the provocation that the Palestinian people live under every day and have done since their land was occupied by Israel, I could understand and was trying to understand where [suicide bombers] were coming from," Dr Tonge told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

Apparently she isn't aware of Britain and the UN's role in setting up Israel if she believes it's some form of occupation. And apparently Israel isn't allowed to defend itself against repeated attacks by it's neighbors in the various wars against Israel as well as the current suicide bombing attacks.

[highlander_UW]

I, for one, wouold LIKE to see her become a suicide bomber...

Do you suppose she's a member of a religion where they only assurance for salvation is to blow one's self up? The left is so flamingly ignorant regarding Islam and the motivations of the terrorists it's horrifying.

[Seruzawa]

Well Jenny, that's what happens when life, to you, becomes all one big gray area.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

"Dr Tonge has drawn attention to the root causes of terrorism. "

Yeah. Palestinians.

[js1138]

I wonder how many of these bleeding hearts would have aggreed with Hitler? After all, Germans were starving as a result of oppressive sanctions imposed after WWI.

What's the difference?

[blam]

It looks like Dr Tonges' 'tongue' got here more trouble than she bargained for...Good riddance!