The terrorists aren't all bad
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I read the news today. There's a big trial going on in London about some men who are alleged to have been plotting to blow up planes, possibly with bombs made out of fizzy drinks. Infantacide, I think might be the term for that kind of murder. I think they're the blokes who are responsible for making airport security checks take even longer than they did before. So in some ways they were quite successful, as crap terrorists go. Anyway, a line in the report that caught my eye was this: Richard Whittam, prosecuting, described how Mr Ali was watched speaking in "hushed tones in a foreign language" on taking a mobile phone call. The prosecution obviously wants to make Mr Ali's behaviour seem sinister. But I don't think I'll be alone in saying that in fact, he should be commended. So few people speak quietly on their mobile phones these days that anybody who shows this level of consideration to others ought to be given a medal. In fact, if everyone was a terrorist, going out in public might be slightly less annoying than it currently is. We'd never again have to listen to people yelling "I'm on the bus". And the teenagers wouldn't be playing music on their phones, because isn't music forbidden to terrorists? Along with anything else that might make them think life was worth living? Of course, I suppose that if everybody was a terrorist we may have to put up with far more bombings than we're used to. It's swings and roundabouts, like so many of today's issues. This is why I shouldn't read the news. |
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