tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post5856249357701637464..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: Mail Pundit Bemoans End Of EmpireTim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-92231886872915593932013-02-22T21:53:40.444+00:002013-02-22T21:53:40.444+00:00I am not one for politicians' apologies for th...I am not one for politicians' apologies for things that they have not done. But, ever the Heir to Blair, David Cameron is. Why, then, no apology at Amritsar?<br /><br />Perhaps he has been informed by that Olympic standard social climber and name-dropper, pseudo-aristocratic Kentucky Fried Chicken heir, and stalwart both of the Henry Jackson Society and of the pro-apartheid Springbok Club, Andrew Roberts.<br /><br />Roberts's books are much admired by the noted polymath, George W Bush. They contain repeated misspellings of the same place names. They assume that historical figures with the same name were the same person. They repeatedly refer to the Red Army marching eastwards across Europe.<br /><br />And they not only defend the Amritsar Massacre (as well as the pioneering concentration camps during the Boer War, which I doubt that he mentions to his Vorsterite restorationist associates), but even suggest that Amritsar itself is in the south of India.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-52902140037673390762013-02-21T17:13:03.048+00:002013-02-21T17:13:03.048+00:00Off on a bit of a tangent, I'll admit, but I&#...Off on a bit of a tangent, I'll admit, but I've always been inclined to argue that the project begun by Thatcher was essentially just applying the Imperial method - i.e stealing resources or appropriating them for a fraction of their value, then selling them off and pocketing the difference - to the homeland.bluepillnationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12034896270917574622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-29937323953993133122013-02-21T16:50:22.636+00:002013-02-21T16:50:22.636+00:00We could also mention the The massacre at the Qiss...We could also mention the The massacre at the Qissa Khawani Bazaar in 1930, when non-violent followers of Badshah Khan (Muslim pal of Ghandi) approached British guns and pulled their shirts open inviting fire, an invitation the British soldiers were unable to resist. 400 dead. But why trifle? What about the role of the East India Company in the Bengal famine of 1770, which killed 10 million? Wallerstein added all the barbarities of European colonialism together and estimated the death toll overall in the 100s of millions. Any apologist for even a smidgeon of that is, in my mind, an ignorant monster.Yakoubhttp://www.steampunkshariah.info/blog/noreply@blogger.com