The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158525   Message #3749826
Posted By: Jim Carroll
10-Nov-15 - 11:37 AM
Thread Name: BS: Jingoism or Commemoration
Subject: RE: BS: Jingoism or Commemoration
Just had this removed (censored) from the sanitised thread so I'll put it up here
Today's Times carries a article declaring that tourists can now go on sightseeing trips in London on an Abbott 17 tonne tank - it includes a photograph showing a group of them doing so on Westminster Bridge, withing five minutes walking distance of The Whitehall Cenotaph where a wreaths were laid honouring the dead a couple of days ago.
It seems that not only do we have the jingoists glorifying wars and hypocrites laying wreaths with one hand while signing export licences    for weapons to be sold to feudalistic tyrants, death-dealing military equipment being used to make a few bob for some entrepreneur
What next - pubs decked out like air-raid shelters with drinks served by staff dressed as ARP wardens, stretcher bearers and nurses!!
This killin' lark really is good for a larf - innit
Jim Carroll