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The Australian Prime Minister isn’t backing down:

John Howard has declared that the terrorist bombings in London will not change Australia’s stance on sending more troops to Afghanistan, its commitment to Iraq or his plans to travel to Britain to meet Tony Blair.

Labor’s Kim Beazley is similarly defiant:

Federal Opposition leader Kim Beazley today condemned the London bombings as cowardly, labelling the perpetrators “sub-human filth”, who must be “captured and eliminated”.

But the best recent line comes from George Psaradakis, driver of the London bus blown apart by a bomb:

“We are going to continue our normal lives. We are not going to be intimidated.”

As Alan R.M. Jones writes: “Just fifteen words, from a bus driver, says it better than anyone; certainly better than Alan Ramsey’s 1,370 words. Actually, after removing 947 quoted words, Ramsay wrote just 423. He must have one hell of a Rehame bill.”

Posted by Tim B. on 07/09/2005 at 04:44 AM

  1. Is sub-human filth worse than arseholes?

    Posted by blogstrop on 2005 07 09 at 06:29 AM • permalink

  2. Hail to the London cobbler, shown on tonight’s ABC news: having heard that some ‘Islamic website’ had described London as ‘burning with fear’, he has hoisted a St. George Cross flag outside his shop, with the superscription; “Burning with fear - my arse”

    Posted by cuckoo on 2005 07 09 at 06:55 AM • permalink

  3. “Is sub-human filth worse than arseholes?”

    Oh, a lot worse. Andrew Jaspan, that sensitive guardian of good taste, will be on to Mr Beazley.

    Interesting that Mr Beazley is now in favour of capital punishment. That’s what I presume he means by ‘eliminated’.

    Posted by walterplinge on 2005 07 09 at 07:46 AM • permalink

  4. Heh, even Bush uses “brought to justice”, Beazley wants them wiped off the face of the Earth. Gotta say I agree.

    Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 07 09 at 08:37 AM • permalink

  5. “We are going to continue our normal lives. We are not going to be intimidated.”

    The bane of the transnational left and their maddrassa-mates: An agenda thrashing firsthand statement that is too concise to be parsed into postmodern rubbish.

    Posted by monkeyfan on 2005 07 09 at 01:13 PM • permalink

  6. Poor Mr. Psaradakkis…. he’s so sadly lacking in nuance…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 09 at 01:16 PM • permalink

  7. By the way. this was bus driver Psaradakkis’ first day back on the job after a heart attack.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 09 at 03:31 PM • permalink

  8. I’m glad it was not-so-lil’ Kim that talked about the terrorists being sub-human filth. If Howard said it, we’d hear no end of comparisons with nazis.

    Posted by Andjam on 2005 07 10 at 11:07 PM • permalink

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