Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Nazification of England II
The Times reports here with comment here on David Blunkett who as "Oberführer" Prisons apparently "ordered" the machingunning of rioters presumably as some kind of solution to the situation of the riots at Lincoln Prison in 2002.
From the article: "Mr Narey said that he would take the prison back as quickly as possible, but would not risk staff or prisoners’ lives.
“He shrieked at me that he didn’t care about lives, told me to call in the Army and “machinegun” the prisoners and — still shrieking — again ordered me to take the prison back immediately. I refused. David hung up,” Mr Narey said. "
I've never liked Blunkett, in fact I don't think there has been a Labour Home Secretary of any praiseworthy note since the Blair regime began, but this episode if true (Blunkett has of course denied it) shows us the state of mind we can expect from people at the top of the Labour hierarchy.
Clearly the rioters were out of order, and I always believe a tough, strong and vigorous response is best, but clearly here there is no need to kill anyone, the prison is secure, no one is going anywhere, wait till you get sufficient resources to retake the areas concerned and then deal with the rioters through the use of legal sanctions.
This is the basic problem with people who believe in the "rightness" of their ideology and political ideas, the idea is right so anyone who opposes that idea or who acts against you is merely a problem to be solved and I think this reveals the sort of solutions they have in mind.
From the article: "Mr Narey said that he would take the prison back as quickly as possible, but would not risk staff or prisoners’ lives.
“He shrieked at me that he didn’t care about lives, told me to call in the Army and “machinegun” the prisoners and — still shrieking — again ordered me to take the prison back immediately. I refused. David hung up,” Mr Narey said. "
I've never liked Blunkett, in fact I don't think there has been a Labour Home Secretary of any praiseworthy note since the Blair regime began, but this episode if true (Blunkett has of course denied it) shows us the state of mind we can expect from people at the top of the Labour hierarchy.
Clearly the rioters were out of order, and I always believe a tough, strong and vigorous response is best, but clearly here there is no need to kill anyone, the prison is secure, no one is going anywhere, wait till you get sufficient resources to retake the areas concerned and then deal with the rioters through the use of legal sanctions.
This is the basic problem with people who believe in the "rightness" of their ideology and political ideas, the idea is right so anyone who opposes that idea or who acts against you is merely a problem to be solved and I think this reveals the sort of solutions they have in mind.
