Friday, June 09, 2006

Keystone cops

...the whole point of Operation Mazhar, launched
by Scotland Yard and MI5, was to demonize the
internet and portray it as a cesspool inhabited
by “al-Qaeda” terrorists clutching bomb
blueprints, thus an out of control medium in need
of regulation, or at least a large dose of
monitoring.

As usual, we are expected to ignore the
inconsistencies and irrationality of the details
and focus instead on scary Freddy Kruger Muslims,
running around in the woods, sporting camo,
plotting to abduct prime ministers and chop off
their heads in Abu Musab al-Zarqawi fashion.

Read.