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This is interesting:
An International Committee of the Red Cross spokesman explained that a photo of a damaged Red Cross ambulance, which was said to have been hit by the Israeli Defence Force during the Lebanon conflict, was removed from the ICRC website following allegations of a hoax by a blogger “in order to keep the moral high ground on the issue”.
- I withdraw my statement that I never drunkenly pawed my sister-in-law’s tit at Christmas, in order to keep the moral high ground on the issue.Posted by Mike G on 2006 09 21 at 10:21 PM • permalink
- “in order to keep the moral high ground on the issue”.
From the time you aided and abetted firing Katyushas into Israeli cities you never had it Slick.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 09 21 at 10:24 PM • permalink
- That must be why the ICRC never answered my letter on this subject…..to show that they have the moral “high ground”.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 09 21 at 10:29 PM • permalink
- #1 I withdraw my statement that I never drunkenly pawed my sister-in-law’s tit at Christmas, in order to keep the moral high ground on the issue.
Don’t you mean withdraw the picture Aunt Bessie took of you groping your sister-in-law’s tit?
But, she had copies made, and it’s on the internet, so you may be screwed.
- If they want the moral high ground, or to regain some semblance of it, they’ll have to do more than just remove that pic…
Why don’t they take a closer look at some of the shenanigans going on in their Lebanese chapter, or whatever they call the national aligned bodies of the ICRC…
The dodgy Red Crescent types operating in the occupied territories are probably beyond redemption, having quite obviously just become a fast courier service for arms and ammo when a stouch is on….
- An International Committee of the Red Cross spokesman explained that a photo of a damaged Red Cross ambulance, which was said to have been hit by the Israeli Defence Force during the Lebanon conflict, was removed from the ICRC website following allegations of a hoax by a blogger
Is it just me, or is this a subliminal attempt by the writer, to sway otherwise politicaly unengaged readers, into from here on out, associating hoaxes with bloggers?
It just seems to be worded oh too so.
I’ll concede that I may be over-reading things, as result of a low-grade, deep-seaded, political-paranoia of late.
Between Chavez and Ineedablowjob, its been a long couple of days.
- “in order to keep the moral high ground on the issue”.
That statement represents the current zeitgeist.
Evidence is like a chess piece, to be moved at will in order to support the greater cause.
Two points, First; Is it any wonder that the Left can justify many and varied atrocities when convenience trumps truth?
Secondly; How did they align themselves with radical Muslims, the most dogmatic narrow people on God’s earth? I guess one has to refer to point one.
- ‘…one of those is Cornelio Sommaruga. As former head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Sommaruga spent 12 years ensuring that the only nation on earth to be refused admission to the International Red Cross is Israel. The problem, he said, was its symbol: “If we’re going to have the Shield of David, why would we not have to accept the swastika?”’
You ICRC boys can take your “moral high ground” and pound it up collective ass.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 09 21 at 11:18 PM • permalink
- Anyone got a link to the IRC so we can congratulate them?Posted by Susan Norton on 2006 09 21 at 11:22 PM • permalink
- Thomas, I feel the same way.
This week seems to have been a very long and tough week to swallow.
I’m glad that at least there weren’t any terror attacks, except in Iraq. But the statements and actions of moonats worldwide has been jaw-dropping. What happened at the UN is appalling. Chavez and Ahmadinejad belong in a loony bin. And France is trying to coddle up to Iran in exchange for a massive oil contract.
Sickening.
- #12 Susan, thanks for the link. I have sent an email to the ‘Donations’ contact address explaining why I will be making no further donations to the Red Cross. Let’s hope someone at the ‘Donations’ section reads it carefully.
IMHO, the ‘taking the high moral ground’ obfuscation used by the ICRC was just as evil as the fraudulent publication of the image in the first place.
- #17 Jeebus! That appears to be a legit paper too.
Wonder what the dowry was? Hope they had a gift registry at Pen, Barnyard & Stable.
It should also be pointed out that under Islamic law once you have had your way with an animal its meat is considered tainted and must not be eaten. Comforting to know that in the middle east the only person to have rooted your meat is the chef.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 09 22 at 01:16 AM • permalink
- It’s a moral outrage that this man had sex with a goat before they were married.Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 09 22 at 01:28 AM • permalink
- Jeez I would have thought someone would have told me before now that keeping the moral high ground was this easy. I thought you had to be honest and hard stuff like that.
I won’t be paying much tax this year, I’m just removing income and keeping the high moral ground. Cool!Posted by the nailgun on 2006 09 22 at 01:48 AM • permalink
- #26 – I think I understand. It is not permissable to offer your ass to a neighbour if it has previously been screwed. You may however offer your ass to a stranger if they are unaware your ass has been screwed.Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 09 22 at 02:50 AM • permalink
- O/T But Kambalda where I am located has just had an underground fatality. Man pinned under a slab of rock. Doctor attended, then police, mines rescue team stood down (Im a member) after the doctor reached the patient.
I wont give out any other details, as far as I know the blokes family hasnt been informed.Bugger.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 09 22 at 02:59 AM • permalink
- It seems the high ground the ICRC is occupying is high only because of the number of corpses they’ve helped to create. And they’re calling it “moral”, huh?
Now about that goat: These men need to free up their women. Immediately.
They’ve got a lot of nerve complaining about Western culture being debached.
- Shouldn’t he have been presented to the goat’s family to get their approval before the marriage?Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 09 22 at 03:44 AM • permalink
- #30 – I can just picture the world under the rule of these Muslim women-hating animal lovers. Imagine walking along Darlo Road and some haggard looking goat in ripped fishnet stockings, dusty high heels, with smudged red lipstick, a fag hanging out of its toothless mouth and a needle hanging out of one of its skinny junkie legs, staggers up to you and says, “Hey, Achmed, lookin’ for a good time?” Or you could pop into the Love Machine to watch goat pole dancers and their world famous snake act….shudder….nowhere to go but the moral low ground….
- Thanks, EliotNess. No way I can sit down to an evening meal with that mental image running loose inside my skull.
Straight to the liquor cabinet…Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 09 22 at 04:38 AM • permalink
- The high-res image of the ambulance can be considered evidence. The ICRC removed that evidence from their website (i.e., they tried to hide it) once it became public knowledge that the picture didn’t depict what they were claiming it depicted.
Sounds like an attempt at obstruction of justice by computer illiterates to me. No high moral ground there. About as much high cleverness ground too.
I think gubba at #9 has it. The ICRC has demonstrated its partiality. It is an organ for the purveying of propaganda.
- The sad part is in a few months, we’ll have forgotten about this.
For as long as the ICRC is allowed to exist it will continue to be an overt aid to our enemy while simultaneously acting as a trojan horse in our midst.
Why? Because we are all too weak and frightened to actually do anything effective about it.
We’ll ask our soldiers to stand up for us, we’ll say nice words about them, maybe even send them goodies in the mail, but when it comes to taking apart the targets forbidden to them by our own feckless need to be liked … nope. Too far. Wont go there.
- #28 frollickingmole, condolences to the family and your good self. 🙁Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 09 22 at 05:38 AM • permalink
- I always thought that the Red Cros was a Christian organisation – but the symbol is directly from the Swiss flag. I think it is a great organisation – but clearly it takes on some of the flavour of the local staff. We need to be careful not to write off the whole organisation just because it looks like some of the Lebanese local staff are dodgy.
- I lost patience with the Australian Red Cross when I heard of the misappropriation of cash from the various appeals that have been launched, e.g. cash meant for bushfire victims was being spent on “refugees”, the list goes on.
CEO Red Cross, Robert Tickner, former Aboriginal affairs Minister, is a lefty stooge. if I recall correctly he was the gullible dunce who accepted the ludicrous “secret women’s business” at Hindmarsh Island and ruined several businesses in the process.International Red Cross just revealed itself as willing to censor the truth if it assists its own agenda and bias. A once highly respected organisation, now recognised as liars and opportunists. Farewell.
Not another cent, ever again, from me.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2006 09 22 at 06:14 AM • permalink
- #28 – frollickingmole, saw this on the second read-through. My condolences.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 09 22 at 06:27 AM • permalink
- The goat is obviously a CIA assassin that needed a new identity.Posted by Some0Seppo on 2006 09 22 at 07:09 AM • permalink
- A lady in Wyoming caught her husband in flagrante delicto with a sheep.
The wronged and insulted woman immediately filed for divorce. In the course of the final hearing in the proceedings, the judge asked the wife for details about the precipitating incident.
“Judge”, she said, “it was one thing to see my husband carrying on like that with a sheep. But what tore it for me was when that sheep bent her head around and kissed him right on the lips!”
“Well, ma’am”, said the judge “the good ones ‘ll do that.”
- #45 peterTB
I didn’t know you were running for next SG of United Nations – why else always seeing the “good side” of bad organizations. Like ElCid says (#14), they’re a fine group, as long as you don’t start talking about Jews. And that’s not just the Lebs, it’s 50 years of blatant anti-semitism. Magen David – baaad! Muslim crescent – gooood! Where is Orwell when we need him.
Posted by rampisadmukerjee on 2006 09 22 at 07:31 AM • permalink
- </i>/end italPosted by Some0Seppo on 2006 09 22 at 07:40 AM • permalink
- sorry for the italics – sticky fingers!Posted by rampisadmukerjee on 2006 09 22 at 07:41 AM • permalink
- What it basically boils down to is this.
If it supports the enemy, it’s also the enemy.
Any good it might do can be replaced by something that’s not the enemy.
The object of war is to destroy the enemy in all its manifestations. Anything short of that is weakness. Weakness will be exploited and is the single greatest precursor to defeat.
Equivocation is the first step along the road to capitulation.
- Mikhail Suslov and Lin Biao must be spinning in their graves. Neither lived long enough to see ostensibly Western institutions airbrush history and seize for themselves the mantle of ‘correct thinking.’
This whole ratbag circus of unelected NGO hustlers, ‘activist’ con men, grievance industry charlatans, corrupt UN/EU bureaucrats and newsroom propagandists is hopelessly compromised.
While the IRC unilaterally declares itself in possession of ‘moral high ground,’ us little people get branded bigots for complaining about Islamofacist violence and bullying, or bloodthirsty murderers for defending our homes against intruders.
They write the rules. They decide what is moral. They decide who is not.
Without this war, we’d have sleepwalked until the day much of the world had been delivered over to the authority of these totalitarians. It may yet still happen.
- Jiminy cricket, there is a lovely analysis from the US of the Sarah Smiles piece in the Age ‘proving’ the ambulance story
tough love
- The ICRC made the allegation against Israel. They supported it with the photo. They subsequently removed the photo from its web site.
Accordingly, they should remove (i.e., withdraw) the allegation. Since they have not done so, they are actually in a lower position on the moral high ground than before. It’s a topographical issue.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 09 22 at 12:41 PM • permalink
- ICRC is a logistical and propaganda support outfit for whatever enemy is opposing the west in general or the US specifically.
It is only coincidental that they do any actual “aid” stuff along the way.
They have made themselves the enemy and the day is not far off when their employees will be considered viable targets in the “choice” catagory.
- #8 & #15—Remember That Was the Week That Was? Oh, what they coulda/woulda done with a week like this one. As far as I’m concerned, the only one currently occuping the moral high ground is Pope Benedict.
Condolences to the miner’s family, ‘mole. Tradgedies like this are very hard also on the would-be rescuers—keep the faith.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 09 22 at 01:22 PM • permalink
I guess this is the NGO equivalent of hiding from monsters by pulling your sheet over your head.
It’s a scientifically proven fact that monsters cannot see you through 100% cotton percale sheets.
Posted by nobody important on 2006 09 22 at 05:03 PM • permalink
- The Red Cross in the United States is also well known for making massive appeals after major disasters, and then putting that money into their general fund. They do a lot of good out of that general fund, but also pay their top people very nice salaries.
As for Khomeini on the subject of sex with livestock, his rulings on that matter are the only things that were interesting enough to remember out of the entire little green book of quotations from him.
- Ah’m gonna destroy the ev’dence t’keep the mo’al hah ground…
Bill Clinton for President of the International Red Cross!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 09 22 at 07:59 PM • permalink
- Sorry to depart from goat love, but this is great reading.Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 09 22 at 10:08 PM • permalink
- Thanks for that story Infidel Tiger.
Nice to see some positives for a change.Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2006 09 22 at 10:57 PM • permalink
- # 76. No surprises there. When I was a spotty chocko back in 1991, most of my regiment wanted to go to Iraq (or Kuwait I suppose) and kick the tar out of Saddam. I was most annoyed that the Fat Bastard of Defence, one Kim Beasley, sent a frigate instead of us. If you are silly enough to volunteer for the infrantry, then you are also mad enough to want to run around poking people in the guts with a bayonet at the first available opportunity.
As an aside, Beasley looks utterly ridiculous in cammos. He pottered around one day when we were out on an exercise and I hadn’t seen something so out of place since that photo of Dukakis in a tank. Pity we didn’t have digital cameras back then.
[There were formatting mistakes in this comment that were screwing up the page. I removed them. Please stay away from the formatting buttons if you don’t know how to use them. The Management.]Posted by mr creosote on 2006 09 22 at 11:26 PM • permalink
- Dear Management
Those that are picky about formatting will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Posted by mr creosote on 2006 09 22 at 11:49 PM • permalink
- Infidel Tiger – you are absolutely correct – that IS GREAT reading!
I envy all the young women who get to be around those sleek military men…*sigh*…had no such thing around when I was single.
Anyone have a time machine??? Please…?!
Posted by Sharon_Ferguson on 2006 09 23 at 12:05 AM • permalink
- Thanks for that, Tiger. A ripping read.
Totally unlike most of the crap I read in the Dailys. Most of the time they really get my goat…ummm, metaphorically, of course.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 09 23 at 12:45 AM • permalink
- The difference between goats and asshats is, you don’t expect goats to be smart enough to do anything thatstupid.Posted by mythusmage on 2006 09 23 at 02:27 AM • permalink
- Dminor, wasn’t Davros from Skaro?Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 09 23 at 07:32 AM • permalink
- Does “high ground” include “castles in the air”?
Yes, paco, and we now know that THAT was where those ‘large rockets’, ‘small arms’, or was it secret, instantly disappearing ordnance of the nefarious Israelis was fired from, so accurately but so undamagingly right through a ventilation hole….
No, I recall it now, the firing came from large flying pigs…
- #86 Sorry S Ferguson. The TARDIS has been entrusted to me
to keep clean, waxed, and vacuumed.It’s available only for OFFICIAL BUSINESS. (looks in the direction of RebeccaH, kae, and nilknarf, recalling their shopping trips to the bazaars of Babylon)Same goes for:
* orbital space station
* photon laser cannon on said space station
* weather machine with missing operator manual
* Alpha moon base
* fleet of black helicopters, mostly comprised of Cobras and Apaches
* fleet of specially armored Humvees, all painted in pleasant vibrant colors, especially red and yellow.We do have a spare Scion you can use. If that would help.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 09 23 at 11:19 AM • permalink
- OK, I’m gonna say this once, and let this be the end of it. I took that shopping trip to Babylon at the Dark Lord’s behest in order to get those special candied dates he’s so fond of, and that’s all, and no jokes about what kind of dates I’m talking about either.
And if I happened to pick up a few personal items on the way, well, Lord Rove likes to keep his minionettes happy. A happy minionette is a productive minionette.
- Talk about flogging a dead horse. How ‘bout some biting analysis of the hand wringing going on in Israel about what a botch up they made of their six times six day war?Posted by Miranda Divide on 2006 09 23 at 03:12 PM • permalink
As for Khomeini on the subject of sex with livestock, his rulings on that matter are the only things that were interesting enough to remember out of the entire little green book of quotations from him.
I came across the Green Book in a library years ago, and skimmed through it out of curiosity. He has a whole chapter on the subject. I remember thinking, “Gee, he’s given this matter a lot of thought. In most cultures the subject hardly ever comes up.”
- wronwright… make it the Scion XB. Don’t want him getting excited.Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 09 23 at 04:29 PM • permalink
- Heh….Miranda ought to know all about flogging!Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 09 23 at 06:23 PM • permalink
- #96 Ernie,
And when it does come up in civilized cultures it does so as jokes about hicks in the boondocks, not serious comments by the highest legal authorities of the land. To get a comparable case in the USA you’d have to have Justice of the Supreme Court Stephen Breyer writing about goat felching.Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 09 23 at 08:06 PM • permalink
If that’s all that’s been locked away, then I call dibs on the Molecular Discombobulator!
Also, I’d like to reserve next Tuesday even from 6PM to 10PM on the Celestial Orbital Body Generator.
(looks at what I had thought was a electric can opener and a clothes hamper, nods in understanding now, gets out Dyna label maker)
Grimmy, you can’t use those unless you either elevate to the full member level, you’re at least a henchman 2nd class, or you were given orders to carry out a mission, like Rebecca laughingly claims. Ha! I saw those bolts of ancient Chinese silks and Egyptian linens!
Posted by wronwright on 2006 09 23 at 10:57 PM • permalink
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