Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Irony r us

In a stroke of sheer ironic genius the Iranian Government has issued a statement advising the British Government to exercise restraint in dealing with rioters and recommending that an independent human rights organisation be allowed to investigate the killing of Mark Duggan.

Just so we don't forget here's how Iran's theocratic and corrupt leaders deal with people protesting on their streets, to be clear not stealing and looting, just expressing their opinion. (Note it's a disturbing video, showing the end of someone's life, don't watch it if you're easily upset)

Its not just the Iranians jumping on the band wagon either, there are other countries that clearly have axes to grind,

The times of India are fretting about the Olympic games in a similar tone as UK papers did over the last Commonwealth games in Delhi, fair enough I suppose; if Seb Coe is convicted of corruption then they may have a good point, until then not so much.

Russian paper Pravda called the riots "divine justice", no more need be said about them.

China had a dig about Internet freedom in a kind of "told you so" way, a question of out of sight out of mind no doubt and a subject already covered on this blog.

I wait poised with satirical ill-intent for what our traditional European antagonists say, you all know who I mean my fellow anglais ;)

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