None so Blind

December 3, 2019 Longrider Civil Liberties, General News, misanthropy, Political, sophistry 12

While I have immense sympathy with David Merritt, he is talking bollocks.

The father of London Bridge terror victim Jack Merritt has paid a heartfelt tribute to his son and urged politicians not to use his death ‘to perpetuate an agenda of hate’.

Writing for the Guardian on Monday, David Merritt said his son would be ‘livid’ if he could comment on his death.

‘He would be seething at his death, and his life, being used to perpetuate an agenda of hate that he gave his everything fighting against,’ he said.

Who, precisely, is engaging in an agenda of hate here? The vile Islamist who went on a rampage committing murder, or the politicians who, quite rightly, are commenting on how this should have been dealt with? We are in the middle of an election campaign – what fool would expect them to just ignore it? We, the public, want to know what their reaction is to this and how they plan to prevent further atrocities. The only agenda of hate here is the one being spread by Islamic Jihadis who hate our way of life and despise the kaffir.

The reality here is that ideological terrorists should serve their full sentence. It is perfectly reasonable to say this. Although, as one wag commented recently, a dead terrorist tends not to re-offend and this one won’t. The other reality is that our perpetual politeness and easy going attitude will be the death of us. These people are poison. Their ideology is pure evil. A vigorous and uncompromising approach to dealing with it is necessary. And, yes, in the middle of the election campaign, I want to know what the politicians’ take is on the matter is.

Boris Johnson told supporters at a Tory rally in Colchester on Monday evening that, if put back in Downing Street, he would be ‘stopping the early release, the automatic early release of serious and violent offenders and terrorists’.

So Boris Johnson is right to comment – and this comment was perfectly reasonable – and Merritt is being a fool here. The hatred comes from the Islamic nutters who want to impose their evil ideology on the rest of us by force, not from Boris Johnson whose reaction has been perfectly rational.

But Dave Merritt said his son would have been ‘livid’ at the political reaction to his death.

Wouldn’t make him any less wrong, though.

12 Comments

  1. If he believes this will be some sort of “Jo Cox” moment, methinks he will be sadly disappointed.

    But it won’t be up to him will it?

  2. If his son had survived the attack, he would have had an opportunity to reflect on his kumbaya approach. He might even have realized that evil does exist and certain approaches do not work.

  3. The father of London Bridge terror victim Jack Merritt has paid a heartfelt tribute to his son and urged politicians not to use his death ‘to perpetuate an agenda of hate’.

    The problem here is that it is the dads fault that the son was involved in this program in the first place. So no doubt feels a certain amount of guilt about effectively placing his son in a position to get killed by an Islamic nutter.

    A certain amount of “acting out” is understandable and in previous decades he wouldn’t have been let near either a newspaper, radio or tv station for that very reason.

    Grief is a very human aspect.

  4. The next action by the parent will probably to forgive his murderer. This is why we are such a soft touch.

  6. The problem is that some people do not recognise that there are some truly evil villains in the world. Whether they are doing it for a warped religious purpose, or for personal gain of some sort, they will literally stop at nothing . They have no pity or care for others. Some evil doers can be redeemed, the clever bit is identifying which ones.Until there exists some way of distinguishing which is which,prudence dictates that they should stay locked up.

    • Nope. Albert Pierrepoint had it about right. Give ’em a hempen rope “short drop and a sudden stop”. Let whatever comes after sort ’em out.

  7. The father should be reminded that if Khan had served his full sentence his son would be alive now. He would have been released in 9 years and killed another do-gooder.

  8. There seems to be a tendency for those on the left to draw the exact opposite conclusion from the one that all the evidence suggests. Orwell seems to have spotted this as he had his war is peace, slavery is freedom, ignorance is knowledge, type stuff in 1984.

    The son in question had the total wrongness of his ideas proven to him in pretty irrefutable terms, and yet his father is still insisting that he was right.

    • As mentioned above, some people are redeemable. It’s just working out which ones.

      I don’t favour John Galt’s solution. Giving the power of life and death to the state is not one I want to grant – not least given the propensity of the state to prosecute and convict innocent people along with the likelihood that any power granted to the state will, sooner or later, be abused.

  9. I agree. Boris is just being sensible. Personally I would have the 23,000 or whatever number it is executed but that’s in my name.

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