Irony
Written on July 17, 2005
Never take the piss as you’ll always be proved right. There really is a Make Terrorism History campaign!
A Who Is search reveals the domain was registered from the the House of Commons by the Labour Friends of Iraq. Who they? The ones who did bomb it? The ones who didn’t? The ones who shoe-gazed and looked the other way?
As Joe points out this is Astro-Turfing, especially when you look at the number of celebrity sign-ups. Have the broadsheet columnists really got their fingers on the blogging pulse for once? Don’t think so.
My guess is that this is a campaign against a particular definition of
terrorism. i.e. Hamas/Iraqi insurgents = terrorism; US backed action in
Iraq/Columbia/Israel doesn’t.
Filed in: Notebook.