Soren in drag?  Something deeply Freudian in that.  What do you think, Karnal?

Brian Ross wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2021 at 9:47pm:



Oh Bwyannnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

Ye have stooped to a new low, below even that which I though you possible.

Siding with the freak Anal k?

You are deeply troubled are you not, brother?

Douglas Murray
The fatal flaw in ‘see something, say something’


The official review into the Manchester Arena bombing was published this week [late June]. Four years after 22 mainly young people were killed at a pop concert, the review by Sir John Saunders reveals a catalogue of failings, as such reviews always do. Yet one failing stood out in particular.

On the night in question the bomber, Salman Abedi, had been standing around the exits to the stadium for over an hour and a quarter. You would have thought that in that time, the sweaty young man with a rucksack might have attracted some attention. And you would be right. A number of people, including security guards hired to protect the venue, expressed alarm about the man struggling to walk because of the weight of his rucksack, which was packed with a 32kg bomb. One, called Kyle Lawler, had the honesty to tell the inquiry about his reaction. He said that he sensed that there was ‘something wrong’ about Abedi. He said that Abedi had ‘a slightly nervous reaction’ when people looked at him and that he ‘seemed fidgety’. Lawler admitted that he wasn’t sure what to do and that although the national terror threat level was at ‘severe’, he knew nothing of any ‘potential attack’.

The report goes on: ‘He [Lawler] stated he was fearful of being branded a racist and would be in trouble if he got it wrong.’ It might be easy to castigate Mr Lawler here. But in truth he only made the same calculation almost any sensible person would make in a similar situation.

One of the mantras of the age of terrorism has been ‘See something, say something’. But as I have often pointed out, if you do ‘see something’ in modern Britain [or Australia], you would be utterly mad to say something. What sort of thing might you see? A dodgy-looking person fitting the profile of an Islamic suicide bomber? And what would you say? That there’s a dodgy-looking person fitting the profile of an Islamic suicide bomber? Good luck with that, chum.

As Jonathan Hall QC, the government’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, said this week: ‘The Manchester Arena attack wasn’t about a failure to combine information. It was a failure to see what was actually there.’ Sometimes, he went on, ‘stopping terrorism is about seeing what is there in front of you’.



But it is now racist and verboten to believe your lying eyes. So 22 young people died.

Yadda wrote on Jul 4^th, 2021 at 9:47pm:


Very good answer, yadda, and a very good question.

Christians KNOW that they will never live up to the ideals yet they see that thriving for them is the only meaning there is.

Hubristic Brians have no sense of their shortcoming precisely because they have no idea of something ideal and therefore something they can come short of.  And they are militant about their willed lack.

Yadda wrote on Jul 4^th, 2021 at 9:47pm:


You don't know?  How unzealot like of you the chief zealot...   

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I am not an athiest, Yadda, I am an agnostic.  Is there a problem with me being an agnostic of good conscious instead?

Yadda wrote on Jul 4^th, 2021 at 9:47pm:



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Brian Ross wrote on Jul 4^th, 2021 at 10:30pm:



It is clear, that brian, in his 'posting identity' on this forum,     ....is 'a flag in the wind.'

ON THIS FORUM,     ....with every new circumstance/argument,
brian changes      THE narrative,     in his posts.






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Yadda said....
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1622286009/119#119
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brian said....
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1622286009/128#128
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I think brian may have a schizophrenic personality.                    

      .....that from one day, to the next,
brian doesn't know, if he is in the mind 'Arthur', or in the mind of 'Martha'.            

One day he DECLARES that he is an atheist.

And then a day or two later brian is DECLARING that he is an affirmed agnostic.


Tsk, tsk.  brian.

Brian Ross wrote on Jul 5^th, 2021 at 1:24pm:

Yadda just demonstrated that you do not know what you think. Don't  try to pretend you missed the point.

One week you are agnostic, then atheist. You either don't know or you are lying - that is pretty much your guiding principle in every discussion. Put that in your signature.