The Right State

These people are sick. BBC has a ‘comedy’ called “Time Trumpet” which features “Terrorism Awards.” In this ‘parody’ they show airlines crashing into Parliament, a suicide bombing in Israel, and the assassination of Tony Blair. None of these are funny, not even a little bit.

“The clips have to be seen in the context of the whole series,” said a BBC spokeswoman. The show begins on BBC2 this Thursday, with the terrorism episode scheduled for week three. “It is a satire. The scenarios are so ludicrous that anyone who complained would be making a fool of themselves.”

I guess the BBC would think marching Israelis off to gas chambers would be funny too. I would imagine they would also consider seeing American soldiers killed at the Normandy Invasion funny. I don’t consider any of these worthy of a parody, its too close to what actually happened.

What more, they can not be trusted to tell the truth. You think Dan Rather is biased, the BBC is CBS on steroids. They are ultra liberal and seem to love Islam, even when, or maybe I should say, especially when, when Islamic terrorists kill people. I do not understand why the BBC is still around other than the money they collect in taxes every year from each and every household who owns a TV.

The BBC, in some prehistoric media logic, is supported by a tax paid by every British household that owns one or more televisions. This compulsory tax, paid by the rich as well as the poor, arrives every year as a bill for £116 ($183). If you don’t pay it (and only 7 percent fail to pay it), the BBC can put you in jail. The tax, which like all taxes is always going up, raises as much as £2.5 billion for the BBC every year (and because there are always more households, every year it raises more). Since the BBC itself collects it, nobody in government can reapportion it or redistribute it—the BBC, unlike every other public-broadcasting system in the world, is not only well funded but well protected from politicians.

Can you imagine what this country would be like if CBS had a virtual monopoly on the news and collected taxes from all TV owners to pay for their biased vitriol? With this virtual monopoly, the BBC can say and do just about anything they want, even to the point of being extremely insensitive to victims of terrorism.

Hat tip: Michelle Malkin

Tags: Terrorism, Bias, Culture by Chuck
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I’ve stated before that the UN is an outdated dinosaur whose time has come and gone. UN officials are so interested in political correctness; they can not even call terror organizations what they are, terrorists. Sharon Kehnemui Liss writing for Fox News nails the issue.

U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown may want to stick to reforming his own office and stop criticizing member states, a State Department spokesman said Wednesday.

Malloch Brown was quoted in a British newspaper Wednesday suggesting that he does not think that Hezbollah, the Syrian- and Iranian-backed group currently fighting Israeli Defense Forces, is a terrorist organization.

“It’s not helpful to couch this war in the language of international terrorism. Hezbollah employs terrorist tactics; it is an organization, however, whose roots historically are completely separate and different from Al Qaeda,” he said, according to a transcript of an interview.

What does al-Qaeda have to do with Hezbollah? They are two different organizations united only by their religious affiliation with Islam. Both employ terror to achieve their goals, but just because Hezbollah is not al-Qaeda does not mean Hezbollah is not a terrorist organization.

Brown is the same UN official who criticized the US, Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News for misleading Middle America over all the good the UN does in the world. What good? It looks to me like its not middle America who needs an education on the benefits of this world body. As a very vocal critic of the UN, it was not Fox News or Rush Limbaugh who convinced me of the unreliability of this decrepit organization, but their own feeble actions in the wake of worldwide problems. What have they been able to accomplish for world peace other than standing in the way of countries wanting to defend themselves?

Like so many liberals, Brown, instead of focusing on the issues, he attacks the messengers. The UN has problems, major problems. Like its failed predecessor, the League of Nations, the UN is a weak organization who will fall short of their goals of achieving world peace if they do not change. One of the first things this organization needs to do is to quit trying to placate the terrorists and call a spade, a spade. Any organization who engages in terror is a terrorist organization. This is a group the US will eventually have to deal with, even if the UN does not.

The UN at this point has a decision to make, either get on board against terrorism, or get out of the way and let those who are willing to make the tough choices like the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and Israel make the world safer. But sitting back safely behind their ivory towers and playing niceties with terrorists does nothing about the dangers of terrorism. Then these same UN leaders wonder why we do not like the United Nations.

Tags: Terrorism, Corruption, War by Chuck
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