No More "War"

Morgan Maher
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The terms "Islamic terrorist" and "war on terror" will no longer be used by the British government to describe attacks on the public.

The Director of Public Prosecutions said: 'We resist the language of warfare, and I think the government has moved on this. It no longer uses this sort of language."

The decision comes as an effort to ease tensions, quell Al Qaeda recruitment and reduce links between religion and war.


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Comments

Hm...

Submitted by wanderlust on Fri, 01/04/2008 - 00:57.

So, now those running the death cult are calling those pawns in their chess game members of a death cult---finally, some honesty!

 

Anyway, I prefer the phrase: "War Of Terror".

(Or War on Terra)

wanderlust

 

Newseed

Submitted by Morgan Maher on Sat, 01/05/2008 - 17:37.

Perhaps there is a vague whiff of "Newspeak" here, but more than that, this is a seed planted. A seed that prominently recognizes language as a way to shape the world.

I think more than anyone is or has ever been terrified - they're more so utterly tired of the whole thing and it is time to move on.

Clarity in 2008 and beyond.

Peace

New-Labour-Speak

Submitted by Thom K Evans on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 06:47.

The change of wording is largely to distance themselves from unhappy memories of the Blair and Bush in bed affair. For Muslims, the UK remains a police state.

 

The current British government is quite possibly putting the nails in the coffin of the democratic illusion here. We have had the first run on a bank in over a hundred years, the pissed off police force seeking strike powers, secret party funding revelations, and, oh yeah, the loss of 25 million peoples (half the population) personal bank details, national health numbers, addresses etc, in the post - and they still plan to force us to accept an id card that will centralise all personal (inc. biometric) data...

 

No thankyou, and off with their heads.

 

 

Scent of War

Submitted by Ariel M on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 15:01.
Hmmm... can anyone else smell that? What is it?? Oh, why that would be the stench of denial floating over from British parliament! Not calling it what it is, well, that's just being naive. You can call it whatever you want, but it is still a huge problem and whether you use the "language of warfare" or not, you are still talking about the same thing and I think that having the government set this example, they are being very childish and are pulling a classic "ignore it and it will go away". Guess what? it's not going anywhere until people get up and say "It doesn't matter what you call it, it's still a huge problem and people have to change."