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By Tess Lawrence, published 10/5/2011I had not thought death had undone so many...You! hypocrite lecteur!-mon semblable,-mon frere!
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'One finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States. Moreover they do not as a rule condemn violence as such, but only violence used in defence of western countries,' as Orwell wrote (speaking of Pacifists, but the broad point applies to today's Left just as fittingly).
At least some still have the guts to speak truth: Brendan O'Neill at spiked-online wrote that, 'the chattering classes’ ‘uncomfortable feeling’ with the killing of bin Laden is underpinned more by moral cowardice than political principle ... because much of the ‘uncomfortable feeling’ over the killing of bin Laden is really an ‘uncomfortable feeling’ with, if not outright disgust for, ‘them’, the people who make up America, and for the ideals of modern America itself.'
Or Nick Dyrenfurth, who wrote, 'last week the world learned of the death of a misogynistic, homophobic, racist mass murderer who supported a theocratic, neo-fascist ideology posing as a liberation movement ... no self-respecting social democrat mourned his death. And yet, had one's daily reading habits been confined to sections of so-called "progressive" opinion, bin Laden's death was a matter of profound regret.'