terror

Is a terrorist just someone who uses terror?  It would seem so as the three men accused of plotting to attack the EDL are being held on terrorism charges.  The IRA were criminalised by the British, not given political status but considered as common criminals.  Now it seems that even common criminals are being called terrorists.  I thought that the notion of terrorist was something to do with a plot against the state?  Is the EDL a state organ or is political activity allied with violence being lumped as terrorist?  Where will this take us?

 

i asked which bit he was doing (iv)

Driving back with the kids they asked “Can we go and see Phlegm?” So we did and two of them came out to see what was going on. A man was there wearing a mask, or with it round his neck, a protection mask for spray paint.  I asked which bit he was doing. The pipes he said. Are you Phlegm I asked. Yes he replied.  I thanked him for the wonderful artwork he leaves around the city. It is so generous I said. We chatted a while, the children asking what is this and what is that and who did this and who did that. Phlegm started back to work looking for all the world like a renaissance muralist up there on his ladder.  The work remains unfinished. I’ll go back tomorrow. It is a hard one he said, it is collaborative, and he doesn’t like to be more that four days or so at a painting.