I caught the BBC Radio 4 News headlines at 6.30am this morning and noticed that the “Save The Guantanamo Six” campaign has now kicked off, following the news that the US intends to try six men, including alleged plot mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, with plotting the events that led to the mass terror attack on 9/11. The BBC are foaming at the mouth about this story because it combines several of their innate leftist prejudices. The Bush regime (bad) is going to take Guantanamo inmates (innocent, in the wrong place at the wrong time) to a military commission (always bad) and if they are convictedthey could face – gasp – the death penalty (double bad) The first comment came from the UN Rapportuer on torture Manfred Nowak(Remember, Gitmo bad) who was given free reign to imply that the poor Jihadi might not get a fair trial. Indeed I was entertained to hear the BBC reporter explain that he had “broken the news” to Manfred (who was on a ski-ing holiday, natch) that the Gitmo inmates could now face the death penalty. How interesting that the BBC thinks that the first person to speak to after this breaking news is a representative of the morally bankrupt UN which has consistently opposed the war on terror. Here’s a hint for the BBC – why not get in contact with those who lost loved ones on 9/11 and who crave that justice be done? The BBC has been a constant echo-chamber for the anti-war lobby who knee-jerk that Guantanamo be closed and that if there is evidence against those interned there, then bring them to trial. Now that the US is doing just that, they are even more upset because it’s the wrong sort of trial and as all good Beeboids know, there is no justice in the USA, right? (OJ apart) I look forward to the trial and conviction of these alleged Jihadi and hope that they will made their fate – and the death penalty seems about right to me. The world is divided into September 10th and September 11th people – the BBC remains resolutely stuck in September 10th 2001.
THE SEPTEMBER 1OTH PEOPLE.
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So what should the BBC be loyal to? Yes, it operates in Britain. It also operates in the European Union. It operates in the world of journalism and journalistic principles. It operates in the world. To show loyalty to Britain is to privilege national loyalty over other loyalties. Is that not in itself a blatantly partial position?
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Angry Young Alex | Homepage | 16.02.08 – 10:17 am |
So what should the BBC be loyal to? Yes, it operates in Britain. It also operates in the European Union. It operates in the world of journalism and journalistic principles. It operates in the world. To show loyalty to Britain is to privilege national loyalty over other loyalties. Is that not in itself a blatantly partial position?
Dude, it’s in the BBC Charter.
Royal Charter: Incorporation and Purposes, Section 4: “The Public Purposes”, subsection (d):
“representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities;”
and subsection (e):
“bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK;”
This bit is one of the major reasons why the original John Reith was able to get the Corporation formed in the first place.
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Does the EU pay for the BBC? No. Why should the BBC show loyalty to the EU?
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It shouldn’t. The BBC shouldn’t show loyalty as loyalty is not impartial.
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Angry Young Alex | 17.02.08 – 11:00 am |
It shouldn’t. The BBC shouldn’t show loyalty as loyalty is not impartial.
You’ll have to tell that to the Trust, the DG, and the original Lord Reith. It’s in the BBC Charter.
Give it up. You’re just going to have to disagree with the the BBC on this one.
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