A Flag Of Racial Pride?

The Grauniad has a comment piece today, written by those most rare of creatures, a female, black England fan. Her experiences are, well, not too surprising:

"Born and brought up here, I've always considered myself black British, while remaining proud of my Jamaican heritage. But I found myself having to justify my right to be among the fans who flocked to an outdoor screening of England's opening World Cup match.
Joining the throng at Canary Wharf in London's Docklands, I was greeted by a group of young, white males in England shirts, draped in Saint George's flags, their faces painted red and white. "What are you doing here?" one of them demanded. Thrown, I replied: "I'm here to watch the football. What are you doing here?" "I've got a right to be here. I'm English," he said. "You're not."

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Hate To Say I Told You So

My World Cup post has obviously caused a lot of upset. I've been called a "racist", a "sweaty sock" and a "plastic paddie".

I called the English fans racist and chauvinistic. This was wrong, it seems. It looks like a percentage of them are in fact fully blown Fascists:

Two England supporters have been arrested for having their bodies painted with Nazi insignia at the side's opening World Cup game.

Ah well, who knew?

The Beginning Of The End: Again

So a rather insignificant man, who's "influence" was largely a product of the fervent imagination of the Western MediaGovernment, is, we hear, dead.

Yes, all round bogey-man and bearded genius, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, has been killed in a heroic American bombing operation. The brave freedom-lovers dropped a 500 pound bomb on a house near Baghdad, and then dropped another one just to make sure no one made it out alive. Amongst those not to survive were a child and a women who were living in the house alongside the evil-doers. But, then again, who really cares? The Brown Eyed Devil is dead, and now, asks the BBC hopefully, will this mean an end to the insurgency?

Um, no. For a couple of reasons:

1) The Iraqi resistance largely disliked Zarqawi and his small band. The resistance is 95% Iraqi, and this Jordanian upstart was something of a nuisance, not a "Leader".

2) The resistance arises from the Occupation, not the "Jihadist" ideology of Al-Qaeda. Only an end to the Occupation can bring an end to the resistance, and only the resistance can bring an end to the Occupation. The resistance is self-contained. If it fulfils its purpose, it will disappear. If the Americans and their stooges continue to massacre, rape and pillage their way around Iraq, the Iraqis will continue to struggle against it.

Indeed, a more realistic outcome of this death is that the resistance becomes more united and national. He was largely a divisive figure, so this may bring the Shia and Sunni groups resisting the occupation closer together. That would be an irony indeed, and the best answer to the crowing of the belligerati and supine Media.





Victory To The Iraqi Resistance!

The World Cup

Further to this, I want to add my own two cents on the World Cup. It's pretty simple - here it is:

I want England to get beat. I want them to be humiliated. I want them to be embarrassed and disgraced. I want everyone who's flying the St. George's Cross to be bitterly dissapointed. I want the little kids with the flag painted on their face to be distraught and cry so that the paint runs down their little cheeks. I want it to be as painful and excruciating as possible. I want to see Beckham crying. I want to Rooney get injured really, really badly. I want to see them torn to shreds. I want to see their chauvinistic, fat, ugly, racist support, each and every one of them, deflated and looking as pathetic as possible.

And then I want to see Brazil or Germany win.

That's all I want.