If an IRA bomb had killed the 96 at Hillsborough do you think the BBC would have so enthusiastically campaigned for an enquiry?
We’ve looked before at the BBC’s decidedly lacklustre approach to the thought that there should be more inquiries into the Birmingham bombing, it’s almost as if they didn’t want any IRA killers to be caught and prosecuted.
It seems that wasn’t a one off interview and that this tone of indifference to IRA murder might be ‘institutional’ as Kathy Gyngell reports…
The BBC sank to a new low yesterday (Weds) morning. Its Today Programme coverage of the Birmingham pub bombings inquest resumption left me as angry as I can remember feeling.
We were told that, after more than 40 years, the survivors and families of the victims of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings were to find out if their request for the resumption of the inquest into the deaths of 21 people would be successful – without which the perpetrators of this shocking terror attack could never be brought to book.
So was the usually victim-charged BBC celebrating this ‘win’ for justice?
No. The mood in the studio was unenthusiastic. In fact they set out to put a damper on it. They invited Chris Mullins, a former MP and the ‘investigative journalist’ instrumental in freeing the six men wrongly convicted of the Birmingham pub bombings, to comment. And none too sympathetic was he.
Humphrys had already set the scene. The ‘real’ shocking miscarriage of justice had been to the freed Birmingham Six.
Insensitive did not even begin to describe it.
IRA killers, Islamist killers, Palestinian murderers, terrorists of all creeds and colours welcomed and given a platform to help them explain away their murders by the BBC.
As said many times, it is the BBC that is one of the biggest dangers to our society as it consistently supports those who use bombs, bullets and street thuggery to thwart the democratic process.
The BBC cheerleads for terrorists and murder.
Contrast it with their views on Bloody Sunday which was just 2 years before. Goggle it and you see article after article about Bloody Sunday going back years and the main are negative towards the British soldiers Birmingham pub bombing and it’s all the six and very little mention of the IRA or the actual victims. I think the real clue is for a broadcaster with British in title it hates everything British, people,country and old fashioned values,
An Enquiry can use evidence that wasn’t used in the Trial at the Old Bailey in 1975. It can quote and consider all available information.
The re-trial in 1991 was confined to using the evidence used in the 1975 trial.
For instance, surveillance evidence was never used in Criminal Trials in the 1970’s even though it existed.
Everyone knows that the IRA bombed with ‘compassion’, always giving their mates at the BBC a call before the bang.
The real villains are the West Midlands Police who didn’t act on the warnings and who prosecuted the wrong people. Oh, and ‘Thatcher’ who ‘radicalised’ the Irish, forcing them to take to the gun and bomb.
Sorry, I find that I put on my BBC spectacles by mistake!
I’M just surprised that SF/IRA haven’t sued BT for corporate manslaughter. That’s if we can believe the murderous scum had phone problems stopping the warning from being called in with enough time to evacuate the bars they had put the bombs in.
The BBC seem to have reversed Stalins maxim of the rules for mass murder.
“One death is a tragedy-a million deaths is a statistic”.
So the death of a few Brummie boozers is a by-product of the IRAs righteous war on the Brits…whereas the death of 96 football supporters from Liverpool is now a tragedy for us all to emote with.
Sporting martyrs of Thatcher and the Pigs of South Yorkshire in one case-lumpenprole chavs with flares who probably didn`t march after Bloody Sunday being the other.
Well-what else would a communal collectivist compliant beehive brained Blob of self righteous liberal rectitude do, but mourn the Mass of dead bodies…but step gaily over the few in a smoky Birmingham tavern or two.
Some deaths are worth more than others-not equal in death, never “square with the House” as far as BH are concerned.
We see here the march of the zombies to Gramscis rattling bones…never ending revolution and agitations as long as its the liberal left causes that get the newsfeeds…Orgreave, Blair Peach(Hanratty-less so these days).
And the beat goes on-Oxford Prof Louise Richardson was on having a chinwag with Kirsty Young on the Good Rebellion that she sought after Bloody Sunday…and she`s not changed…and the BBC like their Rebels like her.
Get into St Andrews Golf Club, you go girl…but bypass the squaddies funeral if you`d be so kind.
The BBC is riddled atrophying leftdom-hope to God we bury the corrosive fuckers after June 24th when they can get their Lifetime Riefenstahl Prize as and when they become the New Eurovision Channel for Brussels-and decamp there forthwith.
As long as we`re left with Jonathan Meades and Melvyn Bragg anyway…
I had to read the Kathy Gyngell quote several times before I understood it.
I kept reading: “Humphrys had already set the scene. The ‘real’ shocking miscarriage of justice had been to the freed Birmingham Six”
as: “Humphrys had already set the scene. The ‘real’ shocking miscarriage of justice had been to free the Birmingham Six”, and I couldn’t see what was wrong with it – although it didn’t sound like the Humphrys I used to listen to.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the campaign for an enquiry into the Birmingham pub bombings isn’t about exposing the people who planted the bombs (who cannot be prosecuted anyway) but about how warnings were ignored – how the police and the state failed those who died.
Sound familiar? Hillsborough?
Alan, whilst the disasters are different, the nature of the enquiries are the same, but you choose to see things through your own polarised mind-set.
In both cases the police are the centre of attention, in which case I cannot see how the BBC can be biased. In fact, surely the BBC are complicit in the cover-up of the failure of West Midlands Police to protect the people of Birmingham if you so adamantly believe the BBC have been intentionally ‘quiet’ on this issue.
Also, where did you find that picture? Is it a Tracey Emin by any chance?
I think you’ll find the BBC are generally very supportive of the Police in their reporting. Probably why many injustices are waved past.
Its a picture of the aftermath in the Bataclan in Paris. These are the people Alan cares so much about that he uses a gratuitous picture of their murders. And its used in pursuit of his lie.
Nice guy our Alan.
You are of course not compelled by law to ‘uniquely fund’ Alan, even when he is accurate. However…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236209/BBC-reporter-tweets-photo-injured-Gaza-girl-actually-child-Syria.html
The BBC has a patchy record on both get it about right at all, and with sensitivity.
Which not nice.
‘ You are of course not compelled by law to ‘uniquely fund’ Alan’
Oh, well that’s alright then.
I think if you go back to November 2012, you’ll find I commented about Donnison’s tweet on this Blog given you think its relevant here.
I see Donnison apologised for posting that picture and corrected it. Shall we expect Alan to meet that standard? But then as you’re not funding him, you’re fine with that. Keep fighting the good fight!
The thought occurs that going back almost four years to a specific post would require access to a database archive and time few individuals are likely to possess.
Which brings one to relative comparisons between people and organisations that would make even Mishal Husain blush.
Whilst he and his employer remain secure in the belief that putting ‘views my own’ everywhere confers invulnerability from any consequences, he is the paid employee of a paid national broadcaster who claims trust. So really I don’t place Alan in the same category.
There is also the small matter of accuracy. Jon Dennison was not, and seldom is. He was serving a narrative and was as inept as you doubtless found him tasteless. A rather key difference.
However, as you are gratuitously motivated, here’s something more current you can pursue with vigour:
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jun/06/sky-news-somalia-fgm-alleged-footage?
A taste/offence/sensitivity/exposure dilemma so taxing, it seems the Graun has spared its readers a CiF.
Oh, and as you are on a ‘but Sir, Carruthers Minor did it too’ fighting good fight kick and telling me what I am fine with, you may like to get over to the Graun and tick them off on this as well:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jun/06/sun-attacks-bbcs-diversity-ads-but-takes-part-in-similar-scheme?
Again no comments. Maybe someone might point out slagging off The Sun for positive discrimination to match the BBC would be a bit silly.
Do share how it all works out.
Guest,
Good post ! It has been said before but why are the “sisters” generally so quiet about FGM ?