Andrew Marr's introduction this morning:
Good morning A simple hire car. A knife - and they're not hard to buy. And a deranged man who fits no easy pattern. Isn't the truth that sometimes it is completely impossible to stop acts of terrorism, and we need to learn to live with that unhappy fact?
Do we know he was "a deranged man"?
"a deranged man"... sounds like some sort of mitigation on behalf Khalid Masood of from Marr. Thomas Mair on the other and was quickly labelled as a "white supremacist" or as" far-right". The question must be asked, if "a deranged man" can be applied to Khalid Masood, then why not to Thomas Mair.
ReplyDeleteThe answer goes to the heart of the BBC disparity. Thomas Mair represents all that the BBC seek to distance themselves from: White, English, Northern, Racist, probably a Brexit voter etc. Khalid Masood is patently in a different category, and we must all tip-toe around the subject of his motive:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39396101
"We must all accept that there is a possibility we will never understand why he did this. That understanding may have died with him, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said.
I assume Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said rather more than that, but that was the only part of his statement the BBC chose to quote.
Delete'Deranged man' ... yes indeed. He was a Mohammedan.
ReplyDelete"Fits no easy pattern".
ReplyDeleteTroubled, violent criminal who was converted to Islam in prison. We've seen that pattern before! But Marr is one of the blind who will not see.
They're using the fact that he is older than the usual suspects and from Kent rather than a city starting with the letter B to distract from the point that all other factors are fairly typical: converted to Islam, radicalized in prison, known not exactly lone wolf.
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