Monthly Archives: March 2012

B-BBC contributor Alan writes… 


” We serve nored-coats here.”

The BBC no longer bother to provide links to most of its output on the Todayprogramme…..however they seem to find the energy and time to link to storiesthey themselves ‘connect with’ intellectually and emotionally….here SarahMontague interviews Dr Margaret Evison whose son died in Afghanistan and who isall for withdrawing the troops from there.

The BBC has been relentless in the past few days since the death of 6 Britishsoldiers in pressing the case for the troops to be withdrawn. It has dragged inevery known opponent of the war and limited the voices of those who say weshould finish the job as best we can.

The BBC is essentially using the bodies of the dead soldiers as politicalfootballs, props in their war against the War. Coffins used as soapboxes topush a political agenda. I don’t think that the dangers and struggles of theaverage squaddie in Afghanistan ever crosses the mind of the well paid staff ofthe BBC…except when they make a mistake…then suddenly the BBC is onto them,hounding them and condemning them from their comfortable studio with its coffeeand croissants and the Guardian for the quiet moments.
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‘Yes, makin’ mock o’uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an’ they’re starvation cheap.’

Yesterday we had the Today presenters drew on the spirit of the old BBC ’68ers’manning the barricades and fulminating against the war….one on the TodayProgramme actually came up with the old Vietnam call to surrender…’ becausehow do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam?’ updated forAfghanistan.

Today Sarah Montague plumbed new depths inferring that Margaret Evison’s son’slife was wasted on a lie…she asked at the end ‘Do you think his life wasthrown away?’

An insensitive question to ask a mother whatever the mother might think….butespecially because you might have the suspicion that Sarah Montague has not asingle concern about the death of any soldier what so ever.

Such suspicions might be why most soldiers have the profoundest disregard forthe BBC and their coverage of Iraq and Afghanistan, that being expresslyagainst the wars and the way they have been conducted by the troops.

An ‘Tommy ain’t a bloomin’ fool – you bet that Tommy sees!

The BBC’s coverage has scared politicians away from making the essentialdecisions and prevented them sending in the necessary amount of troops andequipment to complete the job quickly.

Far from preventing casualties that coverage has increased deaths and injuriesand turned the war into an endless stalemate as politicians are pressured intonot making an all out push to finish the job.

Dr Margaret Evison might want to ask why her son did not have the resources orthe troops to support him in sufficient numbers? The answer is media pressurenot to escalate the war.

In other words the likes of Sarah Montague, as with the US media duringVietnam, are intent on producing defeat out of victory.

After we left Afghanistan to its own devices when the Soviets withdrew the samemedia filled the airwaves and the pages of the Guardian and New York Times withtales pointing the finger of blame for the Taliban takeover at the West forhaving ‘abandoned’ Afghanistan.

Today the same media demand we ‘abandon’ Afghanistan….and quickly.

‘How little the world would look moral without forgetfulness. A poet might saythat God made forgetfulness the guard he placed at the threshold of humandignity.’

In the BBC world where terrorists are freedom fighters and British troopsmurderers, where locking someone up in Guantanamo bay is a human rights crimebut cutting off Ken Bigley’s head is an act of self defence against Westernaggression, where burning the Koran justifies multiple murders but the Biblecan be thrown in the bin and Christianity mocked and derided…..forgetfulnessis a convenient tool to maintain the pretence of common decency and humanitytempered by rationality and reason….when the reality is the BBC have slumpedinto a morass of immoral judgements and self debasement based on the newcultural ‘relativity’ combined with the malignant guilt about being white andWestern.

It would be fascinating to see a study on the detrimental effects of the BBC’scoverage on the war and any resultant casualties that could be attributed tothat coverage just as we might like a similar study done to cover the conflictin the Middle East and the resultant anti-Jewish sentiments that arise becauseof the enormous negative reporting about Israel from the BBC….ah, yes, we’vehad that haven’t we…it’s called the ‘Balen Report’….only for some reasonthe BBC don’t want you to see it.

So how many Troops and how many Jews have died because of BBC News?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9703000/9703995.stm

‘Dr Evison said she saw the cultural and social pressures as well as “therevenge culture” in Afghanistan and “realised what British Army areup against”.
She said that her son “died for his soldiers” but “the largerpolitical picture is more complex”
“A soldier’s death should be for a just cause”, she said, “andpeople are doubting whether there is a just cause”.’

 ‘Tommy’ 2009 version, which acknowledges Rudyard Kipling, ends:

O then we’re just like ‘eroes from the army’s glorious past.
Yes, it’s “God go with you, Tommy,” when the trip might be your last.
They pays us skivvy wages, never mind we’re sitting ducks,
When clerks what’s pushing pens at ‘ome don’t know their flippin’ luck.
“Ah, yes” sez they “but think of all the travel to be ‘ad.”
Pull the other one. Does Cooks do ‘olidays in Baghdad?
It’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, know your place,”
But it’s “Tommy, take the front seat,” when there’s terrorists tochase

. An’ the town is full of maniacs who’d like you dead toot sweet.
Yes, it’s “Thank you, Mr Atkins,” when they find you in the street.
There’s s’pposed to be a covenant to treat us fair an’ square
But I ‘ad to buy me army boots, an’ me combats is threadbare.
An’ ‘alf the bloody ‘elicopters can’t get in the air,
An’ me pistol jammed when snipers fired. That’s why I’m laid up ‘ere.
Yes, it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, “We ‘ave to watch the pence”;
Bold as brass the P.M. sez, “We spare them no expense.

But I’ll tell you when they do us proud an’ pull out all the stops,
It’s when Tommy lands at Lyneham in a bloomin’ wooden box!.

Some helpful advice here on the BBC for female journalists how to ‘be safe’ in Muslim countries – by staying covered and staying fit enough to outrun the rapists.

Today ran an item this morning marking the 75th anniversary of the publication of Orwell’s “The Road to Wigan Pier” (8.22am). As you may gather from images used on these pages I am a fan of Orwell’s work  but was surprised to hear one of the two gentlemen being interviewed claim that conditions in the working class parts of the north of England are NOW as bad as they were in the 1930’s. What? Big Brother ruthlessly using a literary event to pursue a political agenda.