It only counts if you are killed by a professional
Apparently, it only counts, or at least counts much more, if you are killed by a “sophisticated” or “top-grade” professional, certainly not by someone whose tactics are “amateurish”. Otherwise, things in London are fine. Here are selected quotes from the NYT on London:
the technology behind two thwarted car bombings in central London seemed to be amateurish…they didn’t go off because there were not top-grade people putting them together…some experts have questioned the level of sophistication involved in the devices…the construction of the devices left in central London early on Friday morning “does not look very professional”…a private research group, said the “amateur construction” of the devices and the way they were placed “suggest the plotter or plotters have no connection to a major militant organization”…Ken Livingstone, the London Mayor, declared today: “I think people are completely safe to walk about the streets of London today and tomorrow.”
Apparently, it only counts if you are killed by a sophisticated, top-grade professional, which seems such an odd spin for the MSM to sell, given that the MO of the enemy has always been brutality and bloodlust, not professionalism and sophistication. Perhaps they’ve watched too much TV and too many spy movies.
Possibly of greater interest in the Times story was a rationale for the timing of the bombs: “The fact that Thursday night at Tiger Tiger was a ‘ladies night’…recalled an earlier conspiracy in 2004 in which British-born bombers said they wanted to attack women at a nightclub.” That fact might be actual news appearing in the NYT.
UPDATE
Meanwhile, more “amateurish” and “unsophisticated” attacks are being carried out by people who are definititely not “top-grade” at Glasgow airport. Nothing to worry about in these car attacks, ladies and gentlemen, just some chaps who came down with SJS, that’s all.
UPDATE II
Would the NYT have ever covered lynchings (which in total numbered over 3000 in the USA) by the KKK and others of innocent men, women and children by referring to the events in even one sentence or phrase as “amateurish” and “unsophisticated,” and not the work of “top-grade people”?
June 30th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
I’ve heard the same thing being said about the men who were plotting to blow up the fuel lines to the NYC airport: they were too old, too unsophisticated, not professional, and on and on.
June 30th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Exactly the same thing would have been said about the magnificent 19 had they been found out on September 10. Trying to hijack airplanes with box cutters? No way. And how mucch less professional can you get that Tim McVeigh, Lee Oswald, or Gavrilo Princip?
These comments by elite speakers are very revelatory of their outlook. Having risen to important positions in the conventional huirearchy, they scout the amateur. He hasn’t MY skills or resume, therefore he is unimportant.