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The Sunday Times run this story, and to be honest I don’t think anyone expected them to face charges. However, there must be some people wondering just how accountable the officers involved actually are, and whether if the defence is poor intelligence anyone higher up the food chain will face action. What seems to me to suggest that the officers acted incorrectly is the false statements issued by the Metropolitan police to justify the attack.

The statements - suggesting that ‘his [de Menezes] clothing and his behaviour at the station added to [the officers’] suspicions’ - seemed to acknowledge that even with intelligence fed through to the officers by radio, before lethal force was used the officers’ had to have some further justification. However, the statements were false, and the scene now revolves around a exceedingly normal person sitting on a train being jumped on, forced to the ground and repeatedly shot. The officers have no personal justification in shooting de Menezes, instead they have to admit that although they had been given ‘intelligence’ during the pursuit, they still had to make a judgement call based on their own professional experience, and that they got it badly wrong. A man has died and someone must take responsibility for this, if the officers involved are not charged, then someone else must face charges for false intelligence, or perhaps a failed order handed down without enough evidence that lethal force was neccesary. Conversely, if no-one senior to the officers is charged in this way, and that any orders or intelligence handed down to the officers was given based on interpretation by the officers when confronted by de Menezes, then the officers’ must face charges.

The justification of ‘just following orders’ was not good enough for Nurembourg, and it shouldn’t be good enough here either.

Tony Blair, complete and utter nonsensical twat (abbreviated to CUNT), continues to push the boundaries of unbelievable hypocrisy, and continues to smugly grin in ignorance. The subject is becoming a favourite for the international messiah: Iran. Blair’s comments basically assert that Iran is responsible for preventing progress in the Middle East because:

the regime is doing things that are completely unacceptable in the international community — like supporting terrorism, like meddling in Iraq, like trying to have a nuclear weapons program…

Sorry? ‘meddling in Iraq’, ’supporting terrorism’, having a ‘nuclear weapons program’? Is it me or is this exactly the same thing that America and Britain are guilty of? What is the difference Tony? Is it that Iran are trying to get nuclear weapons, whilst we are simply in the progress of upgrading them, is it that Iran may be sending small arms into Iraq, whilst we send in the heavy bombers, is it that they support the wrong kind of terrorism?

Surely there must be some kind of distinction between Iran and the UK for you to make that statement. But there is not, you made the statement because you are a joke, you live in a fantasy world, a world that simply does not exist.

That in this world you somehow run a country is an even bigger joke.

Whilst the storm troopers prefer the Sun for it’s brash xenophobia, racism in short easy to understand words - and tits - the higher echelons of the modern National Socialism phenomenon prefer something a little more highbrow; but nonetheless obvious.

The sports section is surely pretty innocuous in any newspaper? Or is it… this little gem courtesy of Football365’s ‘Mediawatch’:

United’s Right-Wing (Get It?)

The various rags perused by Mediawatch this morning offer a variety of reasons for Manchester United’s ongoing crapness, ranging from a lack of confidence/team spirit to the simple observation that a midfield trio of Fletcher, Richardson and Smith is, by definition, utter toss. Only in one place was one man willing to actually confront the problem:

‘No more pussyfooting around. No more Europhile posturing…there is absolutely no evidence that Carlos Queiroz has the slightest idea which ingredients go into a traditionally rip-roaring United team. To hell with the thinking man’s game, and if that means unseating the Continental professor at Old Trafford, then so be it.

‘United have been marching to the beat of a different drummer. The thunder of Ferguson’s sound and fury have given way to the slower, less insistent lilt of his assistant’s native fado. Here is Scottish rage diluted by Portuguese melancholy.

‘Queiroz seems unable to recognise, let alone stimulate, that quintessential way of playing which has been the basis of United’s half century of glory.

‘Not for nothing is Ferguson known as the Godfather of Premiership managers. He had called for a revival of the cavalier spirit. Still the dead hand of Queiroz was on the sterile tactics and tempo.

‘Unless Ferguson takes action without pity, Queiroz will drag him down with him’.

The man? Jeff Powell. The newspaper? The Daily Mail. The problem? The foreigner.