From Timesonline
Don't ban the lyricist
When Samina Malik is sentenced today, the judge should bear in mind what she has done, not thought
Shirley Dent
The law is an ass? No. Today it's a helpless and headless chicken, frightened of its own shadow.
Witness the case of Samina Malik, the WH Smith clerk and erstwhile “lyrical terrorist”, convicted on November 8 and due to be sentenced today, under Section 57 of the Terrorism Act, for possessing material “likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism”. The evidence against Malik boiled down to various documents harvested from websites, including weapons manuals and The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook.
Documents downloaded were compounded by documents uploaded - namely the jaw-droppingly dreadful poetry that Malik posted on various websites under the moniker “Lyrical Terrorist”. And that's it. No plot revealed. No terrorist network uncovered. Just some embarrassing and juvenile fantasies about jihad and beheadings, laid bare to the world.
Yet bewilderingly, every legal representative involved in the case - judge, prosecutor, defence - joined in the wide-eyed credence given to this idiotic young woman. They should have known better.
The prosecutor Jonathan Sharp said of her poetry: “These communications strongly indicate Samina Malik was deeply involved with terrorist related groups.” How, exactly? Is al-Qaeda out to poison the poetic bedrock of Western civilisation with crass imagery and poor scansion? No better sense from the defence counsel, John Burton, who compared Malik's poetry to Wilfred Owen's, telling Old Bailey jurors that, like Owen, Malik's poetry was “stark and deliberately shocking”. Malik's “Chop chop head of kuffar swine” an equal of Dulce Et Decorum Est? Get a grip.
And then we come to the judge, Peter Beaumont, QC. He told Malik: “You have been in many respects a complete enigma to me.” Your Honour should relax. She typifies no one but herself. You may, like me, find it hard to understand the nihilism that drives a 23-year-old to pen such verse, but nihilism isn't a crime and there's a lot of it about nowadays - not just among wannabe jihadists. What you cannot do is convict someone because of their nihilistic fantasies.
And this is why what happens to Samina Malik today really matters. This Government wants to climb inside your head, see what's going on and tell you what's right. In all of this we are being sold the lie that there's a thin line between thought and action. Wrong. It's a thick line. Our reason - as individuals and as society - can confront and judge all sorts of crazy ideas. We have got to allow people to think and say the unthinkable, because sometimes the unthinkable turns out to be true.
To lock her up because you don't like what she thinks and says is not only cowardly. It is an affront to society.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Today: Terrorize Your Lyrics
Today we are joining Clattery MacHeniry's campaign: Terrorize your lyrics.
We are downloading al-Qaeda Manual. We are publishing those terrorist pictures.
But, as we are part of the 'terrorist' world, we preferred to compare our "terror" to the "civilized" world's achievements:
Come on guys; hail the LIBERATING troops
We are downloading al-Qaeda Manual. We are publishing those terrorist pictures.
But, as we are part of the 'terrorist' world, we preferred to compare our "terror" to the "civilized" world's achievements:
Come on guys; hail the LIBERATING troops
hail the CIVILIZED nations
hail the great DEMOCRACY worshipers
We thank the civilized world for liberating us
Friday, November 23, 2007
Tomorrow, let’s all go and kill someone with her poems
From gotpeotry forum
Update on The Lyrical Terrorist
Can you be convicted for your convictions? Ask Samina Malik. Not too long ago, Samina Malik was convicted and jailed in London under a law meant to protect against terrorists. When I first posted about this in our news section, I made a point of recognizing that Malik was NOT convicted for writing and posting her poetry, but that the news headlines implied that her conviction was for exactly that. I had a hunch then that we'd be hearing more about it, and indeed, we are. In convicting and jailing Malik, the UK courts have turned the girl into exactly what she dreamed of being - a martyr for the cause. Her story has sparked netwide controversy about censorship, thought policing and the nature of freedom and terrorism. In the Saturday's Times Online, columnist Matthew Parris wrote:
Quote:
It's about thought crime, isn't it? It's all about that dividing line, so fragile and disputable yet so precious to those who believe in liberty, between what we may say, write or think, and what may be so directly linked to action as to deserve the name of action. One is the proper preserve of the individual; the other the rightful business of the police. Where we draw that line is critical and can only be a matter of opinion. But we drew it wrongly in Ms Malik's case. He goes on to suggest that had Malik been a white suburban girl rather than a young Muslim woman the outcome of her trial would have been different - that her lawyer would probably have convinced the court that she was just "going through a silly phase". Chances are he is quite right about that. What he's got wrong is the part about Malik being convicted for writing terrorist poetry. She was actually convicted for possessing what is described as "a library of terrorist training manuals". According to one of the original reports on the conviction,
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Malik, who worked as a shop assistant airside in a branch of WHSmith at the airport, also owned an Al Qaeda encyclopaedia of Jihad, a Mujahideen poison handbook and a 'terrorist handbook' which explained how to make bombs.On the hard drive of her computer police found a copy of a sniper rifle manual, a firearms manual, anti-tank weaponry, a document entitled How To Win Hand To Hand Fighting, and pictures of weapons. Nor was it her writing that attracted the notice of the police - not her poetry, at any rate. It was an email that she wrote to someone referred to as a "terrorist suspect". Her poetry, however, was used at her trial to demonstrate her beliefs and her political leanings. She may not have been convicted of writing bad poetry, but her poetry was certainly used to help convict her of a very questionable crime - owning "dangerous" materials.Malik was convicted under the UK's Terrorism Act 2000, which makes the following criminal acts:
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* inciting terrorist acts* seeking or providing training for terrorist purposes at home or overseas* providing instruction or training in the use of firearms, explosives or chemical, biological or nuclear weaponsI haven't read the entirety of the charges against Malik, but I do know that she was not convicted of inciting terrorist acts. The charge of which she was found guilty is quoted as "possessing materials "likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism"". I haven't read a thing about any evidence presented that she was disseminating this material, that she owned any weapons, that she had made attempts to purchase any weapons - nothing to hint that she was anything more than a 23 year old girl with strong beliefs that are out of sync with the place where she lives. She was reading. She was writing. She was convicted, in short, for having a fantasy life in which she was a martyr for her cause. And in arresting and convicting Samina Malik, the courts and legal system have brought her fantasy to life without her having to do anything but download some stuff from the Internet and write some bad poetry about her fantasy.What scares me about this is the way that her poetry was used. What if someone were to take your poetry into court as evidence against you? Would Patricia Smith be convicted of hate crimes for writing Skinhead? Could my son be "indefinitely detained" because he writes that he would like to "burn this city to the ground"? Will the government decide that I am shouting fire in a crowded theater if I write that anyone who assassinates Bush should be awarded the Medal of Freedom - especially if I own a copy of Civil Disobedience and an instruction sheet on how to make a potato gun? Even worse, will the person who reads what I wrote and likes it enough to save it to their hard drive end up jailed for possessing "materials that could be useful to terrorists"?At Clattery MacHinery, Rus Bowden advocates for a World Samina Malik Day, stating that writers must be allowed to write what they feel without fear of being imprisoned for their words. While I believe the issue is broader than that - she was imprisoned for what she read - Bowden makes some interesting points:
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Tomorrow, let’s all go and kill someone with her poems. We’ll print them out, and drop them onto people’s heads from rooftops. We’ll roll them into balls and throw them at passersby. We’ll roll them into tubesticks and hit people we approach over the head with them. We’ll get bad breath and recite them.I wish I had written that. I'd have put line breaks into it and called it a poem.P.S. - Rus also includes LOTS of links to other blog entries about Samina Malik's situation from around the world. Some of them are worth reading.
Update on The Lyrical Terrorist
Can you be convicted for your convictions? Ask Samina Malik. Not too long ago, Samina Malik was convicted and jailed in London under a law meant to protect against terrorists. When I first posted about this in our news section, I made a point of recognizing that Malik was NOT convicted for writing and posting her poetry, but that the news headlines implied that her conviction was for exactly that. I had a hunch then that we'd be hearing more about it, and indeed, we are. In convicting and jailing Malik, the UK courts have turned the girl into exactly what she dreamed of being - a martyr for the cause. Her story has sparked netwide controversy about censorship, thought policing and the nature of freedom and terrorism. In the Saturday's Times Online, columnist Matthew Parris wrote:
Quote:
It's about thought crime, isn't it? It's all about that dividing line, so fragile and disputable yet so precious to those who believe in liberty, between what we may say, write or think, and what may be so directly linked to action as to deserve the name of action. One is the proper preserve of the individual; the other the rightful business of the police. Where we draw that line is critical and can only be a matter of opinion. But we drew it wrongly in Ms Malik's case. He goes on to suggest that had Malik been a white suburban girl rather than a young Muslim woman the outcome of her trial would have been different - that her lawyer would probably have convinced the court that she was just "going through a silly phase". Chances are he is quite right about that. What he's got wrong is the part about Malik being convicted for writing terrorist poetry. She was actually convicted for possessing what is described as "a library of terrorist training manuals". According to one of the original reports on the conviction,
Quote:
Malik, who worked as a shop assistant airside in a branch of WHSmith at the airport, also owned an Al Qaeda encyclopaedia of Jihad, a Mujahideen poison handbook and a 'terrorist handbook' which explained how to make bombs.On the hard drive of her computer police found a copy of a sniper rifle manual, a firearms manual, anti-tank weaponry, a document entitled How To Win Hand To Hand Fighting, and pictures of weapons. Nor was it her writing that attracted the notice of the police - not her poetry, at any rate. It was an email that she wrote to someone referred to as a "terrorist suspect". Her poetry, however, was used at her trial to demonstrate her beliefs and her political leanings. She may not have been convicted of writing bad poetry, but her poetry was certainly used to help convict her of a very questionable crime - owning "dangerous" materials.Malik was convicted under the UK's Terrorism Act 2000, which makes the following criminal acts:
Quote:
* inciting terrorist acts* seeking or providing training for terrorist purposes at home or overseas* providing instruction or training in the use of firearms, explosives or chemical, biological or nuclear weaponsI haven't read the entirety of the charges against Malik, but I do know that she was not convicted of inciting terrorist acts. The charge of which she was found guilty is quoted as "possessing materials "likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism"". I haven't read a thing about any evidence presented that she was disseminating this material, that she owned any weapons, that she had made attempts to purchase any weapons - nothing to hint that she was anything more than a 23 year old girl with strong beliefs that are out of sync with the place where she lives. She was reading. She was writing. She was convicted, in short, for having a fantasy life in which she was a martyr for her cause. And in arresting and convicting Samina Malik, the courts and legal system have brought her fantasy to life without her having to do anything but download some stuff from the Internet and write some bad poetry about her fantasy.What scares me about this is the way that her poetry was used. What if someone were to take your poetry into court as evidence against you? Would Patricia Smith be convicted of hate crimes for writing Skinhead? Could my son be "indefinitely detained" because he writes that he would like to "burn this city to the ground"? Will the government decide that I am shouting fire in a crowded theater if I write that anyone who assassinates Bush should be awarded the Medal of Freedom - especially if I own a copy of Civil Disobedience and an instruction sheet on how to make a potato gun? Even worse, will the person who reads what I wrote and likes it enough to save it to their hard drive end up jailed for possessing "materials that could be useful to terrorists"?At Clattery MacHinery, Rus Bowden advocates for a World Samina Malik Day, stating that writers must be allowed to write what they feel without fear of being imprisoned for their words. While I believe the issue is broader than that - she was imprisoned for what she read - Bowden makes some interesting points:
Quote:
Tomorrow, let’s all go and kill someone with her poems. We’ll print them out, and drop them onto people’s heads from rooftops. We’ll roll them into balls and throw them at passersby. We’ll roll them into tubesticks and hit people we approach over the head with them. We’ll get bad breath and recite them.I wish I had written that. I'd have put line breaks into it and called it a poem.P.S. - Rus also includes LOTS of links to other blog entries about Samina Malik's situation from around the world. Some of them are worth reading.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Elgrino Rumbero: Justice for Samina Malik
From Elgrino Rumbero:
Justice for Samina Malik!
Samina Malik is a 22-year-old Muslim Briton who was convicted yesterday under the U.K.'s Terrorism Act of 2000 for "owning terrorist manuals" ("articles likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism"). Evidence presented at her trial included poems she wrote. Apparently she is a prolific poet. Here's one of the poems the prosecutors presented at the trial:How to BeheadHold himTie the arms behind his backAnd bandage his legs togetherJust by the anklesBlindfold the punkSo that he won't hesitate as muchFor on seeing the sharp pointy knifeHe'll begin to shakeAnd continuously scream like an eedyatAnd jiggle like a jellyTrust me – this will sure get you angryIt's better to have at least two or three brothers by your sideWho can hold the foolBecause as soon as the warm sharp knifeTouches his naked fleshHe'll come to know what'll happenNo evidence was presented at the trial to prove that Ms. Malik had actually committed or was even planning any violent actions against anyone. She was convicted for possessing certain types of literature and writing certain types of poetry. In other words she was convicted for merely thinking certain types of thoughts.But I'd like to suggest that she was also convicted for thinking certain types of thoughts AND being the child of Asian Muslims. I have written much more violent poems than this one -- one of which was actually published in my High School literary magazine. It's hard for me to imagine that there are no other 22-year-olds in the U.K. who have written violent poetry and/or are in possession of books like "The Anarchist Cookbook" or "Guerilla Warfare" (Ernest "Che" Guevara). Ms. Malik was singled out because of her race and religion.But never mind the issue of Racism for a minute since the dominant discourse disavows the existence of Racism in the world today. What about FREEDOM -- for which these English and U.S. imperialists claim to be committing genocide in the Middle East? And where is Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch? How come I have been able to find only one article defending Ms. Malik's right to freedom of thought? Has our new motto become (thanks Stephen Colbert) "'live free or do whatever it takes so I don't die"?
Justice for Samina Malik!
Samina Malik is a 22-year-old Muslim Briton who was convicted yesterday under the U.K.'s Terrorism Act of 2000 for "owning terrorist manuals" ("articles likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism"). Evidence presented at her trial included poems she wrote. Apparently she is a prolific poet. Here's one of the poems the prosecutors presented at the trial:How to BeheadHold himTie the arms behind his backAnd bandage his legs togetherJust by the anklesBlindfold the punkSo that he won't hesitate as muchFor on seeing the sharp pointy knifeHe'll begin to shakeAnd continuously scream like an eedyatAnd jiggle like a jellyTrust me – this will sure get you angryIt's better to have at least two or three brothers by your sideWho can hold the foolBecause as soon as the warm sharp knifeTouches his naked fleshHe'll come to know what'll happenNo evidence was presented at the trial to prove that Ms. Malik had actually committed or was even planning any violent actions against anyone. She was convicted for possessing certain types of literature and writing certain types of poetry. In other words she was convicted for merely thinking certain types of thoughts.But I'd like to suggest that she was also convicted for thinking certain types of thoughts AND being the child of Asian Muslims. I have written much more violent poems than this one -- one of which was actually published in my High School literary magazine. It's hard for me to imagine that there are no other 22-year-olds in the U.K. who have written violent poetry and/or are in possession of books like "The Anarchist Cookbook" or "Guerilla Warfare" (Ernest "Che" Guevara). Ms. Malik was singled out because of her race and religion.But never mind the issue of Racism for a minute since the dominant discourse disavows the existence of Racism in the world today. What about FREEDOM -- for which these English and U.S. imperialists claim to be committing genocide in the Middle East? And where is Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch? How come I have been able to find only one article defending Ms. Malik's right to freedom of thought? Has our new motto become (thanks Stephen Colbert) "'live free or do whatever it takes so I don't die"?
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Forum: Samina Malik inspires western youth
This is from a discussion forum cubed3:
L62 Metal Sonic:
In light of the near mortal wounding of free speech in the case of Samina Malik (in England), dig deep into the evil and twisted side of yourself and discuss who you would like to kill (or group of people), why they deserve it and how you would do it. Keep in mind MI5 and the CIA/FBI are probably reading this, so be careful. Also, if you are an American, don't talk about killing the President, it will land you in court. I am not an American, so I am going with the killing of President George Dubya Bush. If there is one person on the planet right now who deserves to die, it is him. Of course, I am a pacifist, so I would never commit an act of violence - but he could tempt me As George is just a puppet for the real bosses he reports to, I would have to kill a bigger number of them, when they are consulting and instructing him. With the responsibility of thousands of dead Iraquis to start with, there is plenty of reasons. Torturing prisoners is another good one. Killing the planet for profit is another. Being elected through vote rigging, twice would also be high on the list, especially when he lectures others on democracy. I wouldn't want him to die quickly, that would be too easy. I would ensure that I knew the places most likely to have him and his puppet masters. Remember, this is fiction and of course, I couldn't access the required materials. I would plant bombs with depleted uranium in a number of these locations and wait for the right time, months of waiting if necessary. Assuming the bomb didn't kill him (which is the plan), then the fallout from what is effectively, a dirty bomb, would riddle him with disease so that he suffered a long and painful death - plenty of time for him to talk to his god. So, who is in touch with their dark side? Who are we secretly fantasising the death of? Who is brave enough to tell? PS: quick one - Uwe Boll, for making such awful films should be sleep deprived and made to keep watching his own work, over and over until he dies of exhaustion and guilt.
L27 Outworld Ninja:
Hitler. Someone seriously needs to stop that guy.
L44 Nuriak Warrior:
My brother. If anybody ever deserved a Meat Cleaver in the head.... Meh, I'd probably hire a hitman to do it for me.
L34 Invisible Keese:
The guy that invented computer viruses. And the guy that invented homework. I would kill them by MP44 machine gun or a trenchgun.
Golden Torizo:
The Daila Lama. Goes around the world, one day he's in Germany, the next in Thailand, then the USA, in an AIRPLANE, burning huge amounts of kerosine, telling politicians and other peorple we should "be gentle with the earth"! What a hypocrite.
Quick Edit.
L100 Eternal Master:
Sonic The Hedgehog- for being formerly really awesome, and then ruining all that with a string of rubbish games. Or the CEO of Sammy. Either.
L25 Sharpclaw Biker:
Every single one of my brother's noisy friends. With a bullet through their head. Quick, easy, and no more noise.
L57 Jeigan Knight:
I'd like to kill you, yes you reading this right now. I'm gonna sneak up on you when you least suspect it and guts u like a fishy! mwhahahahaha! Hey, and leave Hitler alone, did u not hear what Mel Gibbson said? ITS THE JEWS FAULT!
L91 Metamorphic Being:
The Queen or any member of the "royal" family.
L100 Eternal Master:
Jade Raymond. She's only got a job at Ubisoft so that they can use her in the advertising, as some sort of 'object of desire', and make pathetic nerds feel that if they buy her game, they somehow get closer to touching her. She earns her living via being pretty. Nothing else. Which enrages me some what. It must be infuriating to be a programmer working on 'her games'. You get no credit. I hope she becomes horribly-scarred and dis-figured in some sort of house fire, or getting slapped about by her boyfriend. She'll not only have the misery of not being beautiful anymore, but she'll also lose her job, as Ubisoft will have no use for an ugly bit of gash. That's not death though, I suppose.
L86 Fierce Diety:
Prostitutes around the Ipswich area. EDIT - My original was linked to more recent news, but I think everyone would take it too seriously, PM me if you wish to have a laugh over it...
L62 Metal Sonic:
I'm thinking about one right now Come on Jacob, lighten up, get in touch with your dark side. My one was a stream of conscious thought, I hadn't planned what to say until I typed it - I am that twisted You're a Christian, you guys have world's best practice in this game - the inquisitions, holy wars. Don't you want to go all biblical on someone? Just read the bible again for inspiration. There has to be a Sodom out there somewhere you want to smite.
L86 Fierce Diety:
Be afraid...very afraid.
L29 Wolfos:
I'm not a pacifist, I don't have problems with anybody...yeah right, I would kill my Biology professor, wich is also my school councelor. I thought many ways to do it : -I would take a toad and threw it by her mouth. -Plant a mine under her desk. -Throw her by the stairs [in fact they're three long ones in school ] -Would stomp her until dead. You want to know why? She dumped me 7 times with the psychologist only 'cause I said on a school camp trip: "Hey I'm bored, lets kick someone until dead *laughts*" as a joke and she thought it was real!
L62 Metal Sonic:
In light of the near mortal wounding of free speech in the case of Samina Malik (in England), dig deep into the evil and twisted side of yourself and discuss who you would like to kill (or group of people), why they deserve it and how you would do it. Keep in mind MI5 and the CIA/FBI are probably reading this, so be careful. Also, if you are an American, don't talk about killing the President, it will land you in court. I am not an American, so I am going with the killing of President George Dubya Bush. If there is one person on the planet right now who deserves to die, it is him. Of course, I am a pacifist, so I would never commit an act of violence - but he could tempt me As George is just a puppet for the real bosses he reports to, I would have to kill a bigger number of them, when they are consulting and instructing him. With the responsibility of thousands of dead Iraquis to start with, there is plenty of reasons. Torturing prisoners is another good one. Killing the planet for profit is another. Being elected through vote rigging, twice would also be high on the list, especially when he lectures others on democracy. I wouldn't want him to die quickly, that would be too easy. I would ensure that I knew the places most likely to have him and his puppet masters. Remember, this is fiction and of course, I couldn't access the required materials. I would plant bombs with depleted uranium in a number of these locations and wait for the right time, months of waiting if necessary. Assuming the bomb didn't kill him (which is the plan), then the fallout from what is effectively, a dirty bomb, would riddle him with disease so that he suffered a long and painful death - plenty of time for him to talk to his god. So, who is in touch with their dark side? Who are we secretly fantasising the death of? Who is brave enough to tell? PS: quick one - Uwe Boll, for making such awful films should be sleep deprived and made to keep watching his own work, over and over until he dies of exhaustion and guilt.
L27 Outworld Ninja:
Hitler. Someone seriously needs to stop that guy.
L44 Nuriak Warrior:
My brother. If anybody ever deserved a Meat Cleaver in the head.... Meh, I'd probably hire a hitman to do it for me.
L34 Invisible Keese:
The guy that invented computer viruses. And the guy that invented homework. I would kill them by MP44 machine gun or a trenchgun.
Golden Torizo:
The Daila Lama. Goes around the world, one day he's in Germany, the next in Thailand, then the USA, in an AIRPLANE, burning huge amounts of kerosine, telling politicians and other peorple we should "be gentle with the earth"! What a hypocrite.
Quick Edit.
L100 Eternal Master:
Sonic The Hedgehog- for being formerly really awesome, and then ruining all that with a string of rubbish games. Or the CEO of Sammy. Either.
L25 Sharpclaw Biker:
Every single one of my brother's noisy friends. With a bullet through their head. Quick, easy, and no more noise.
L57 Jeigan Knight:
I'd like to kill you, yes you reading this right now. I'm gonna sneak up on you when you least suspect it and guts u like a fishy! mwhahahahaha! Hey, and leave Hitler alone, did u not hear what Mel Gibbson said? ITS THE JEWS FAULT!
L91 Metamorphic Being:
The Queen or any member of the "royal" family.
L100 Eternal Master:
Jade Raymond. She's only got a job at Ubisoft so that they can use her in the advertising, as some sort of 'object of desire', and make pathetic nerds feel that if they buy her game, they somehow get closer to touching her. She earns her living via being pretty. Nothing else. Which enrages me some what. It must be infuriating to be a programmer working on 'her games'. You get no credit. I hope she becomes horribly-scarred and dis-figured in some sort of house fire, or getting slapped about by her boyfriend. She'll not only have the misery of not being beautiful anymore, but she'll also lose her job, as Ubisoft will have no use for an ugly bit of gash. That's not death though, I suppose.
L86 Fierce Diety:
Prostitutes around the Ipswich area. EDIT - My original was linked to more recent news, but I think everyone would take it too seriously, PM me if you wish to have a laugh over it...
L62 Metal Sonic:
I'm thinking about one right now Come on Jacob, lighten up, get in touch with your dark side. My one was a stream of conscious thought, I hadn't planned what to say until I typed it - I am that twisted You're a Christian, you guys have world's best practice in this game - the inquisitions, holy wars. Don't you want to go all biblical on someone? Just read the bible again for inspiration. There has to be a Sodom out there somewhere you want to smite.
L86 Fierce Diety:
Be afraid...very afraid.
L29 Wolfos:
I'm not a pacifist, I don't have problems with anybody...yeah right, I would kill my Biology professor, wich is also my school councelor. I thought many ways to do it : -I would take a toad and threw it by her mouth. -Plant a mine under her desk. -Throw her by the stairs [in fact they're three long ones in school ] -Would stomp her until dead. You want to know why? She dumped me 7 times with the psychologist only 'cause I said on a school camp trip: "Hey I'm bored, lets kick someone until dead *laughts*" as a joke and she thought it was real!
I wonder if those young people are going to be convicted?
Strange Stuff: Lyrical? Terrorist?
From blogger Strange Stuff
Lyrical? Terrorist?
While I was away on my secret underwater Caribbean volcano island base (every eeeeevil capitalist gets one, didn't you know?) Samina Malik was convicted under the Terrorism Act 2000 because she wrote bad, tasteless poetry. Many people write bad, tasteless poetry but to say that this is the same as deliberate killing of dozens of innocent people would be stretching poetic licence to breaking point (in most cases anyway) and if reading extremist websites is a sign of being an extremist then David T or Charles Johnson must be up there with Osama Bin Laden himself.OK she had some dodgy files on her computer, but she did not act on them. There is no evidence at all that she ever intended to act on them either. She was causing no harm to anybody nor was she even likely to cause harm to anybody. Then because the state did not like what she was thinking, it put her in jail. By putting Samina Malik in jail the state probably did more to recruit real terrorists than any amount of bad poetry that the lyrical terrorist could have ever penned. These are people looking for a justification for Islamic Rage. They are seeking reasons to claim that they are being oppressed so that they can see themselves as freedom fighters rather than the murderous bastards that they are. And the state just handed them a good one.
Lyrical? Terrorist?
While I was away on my secret underwater Caribbean volcano island base (every eeeeevil capitalist gets one, didn't you know?) Samina Malik was convicted under the Terrorism Act 2000 because she wrote bad, tasteless poetry. Many people write bad, tasteless poetry but to say that this is the same as deliberate killing of dozens of innocent people would be stretching poetic licence to breaking point (in most cases anyway) and if reading extremist websites is a sign of being an extremist then David T or Charles Johnson must be up there with Osama Bin Laden himself.OK she had some dodgy files on her computer, but she did not act on them. There is no evidence at all that she ever intended to act on them either. She was causing no harm to anybody nor was she even likely to cause harm to anybody. Then because the state did not like what she was thinking, it put her in jail. By putting Samina Malik in jail the state probably did more to recruit real terrorists than any amount of bad poetry that the lyrical terrorist could have ever penned. These are people looking for a justification for Islamic Rage. They are seeking reasons to claim that they are being oppressed so that they can see themselves as freedom fighters rather than the murderous bastards that they are. And the state just handed them a good one.
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