Due to the fact my sound system in the car is a little flakey, I’ve been listening to Radio 4 on the way home. Which is generally okay, because the BBC knows what fair and balanced means, and is generally not a mouthpiece for right-wing arseholes who make me want to punch them in the face.
However today it read out a few comments from the “PM Mail Bag” (which is the PM Program, not David Cameron’s Mail Bag).
“When in all the political and moral hand wringing will someone say what is obvious to the nation - WHO CARES?”
“They were terrorists so why do we care if they’re dead?”
“They had it coming and good riddance”
First - I am not sure one person can speak for “the nation” - if only because that one person was definitely not speaking for me so I can only assume they were probably not speaking for a bunch of other people.
But - that aside - here’s the message I would like to send the people who are saying “who cares” “fuck ‘em” “bunch of terrorist twats” etc.
Imagine it was your son, your nephew, your brother, your cousin, your daughter, your sister, your niece.
Would you care then, you ignorant windbags?
Would that make you sit up and take notice?
If the government had deliberately and purposely decided your daughter, your son had to die and had blown them up, would you still say “who cares?” and “Good riddance?” Would you still laugh about it with your mates down the pub and praise the papers who are calling this a good and right thing?
Or would you get off your ignorant arses long enough to realise that this is actually quite an important thing and that there are very, very serious questions to answer?
If you can answer that - honestly - then I will gain more respect for you. Which won’t be hard, given how little I have now.
