Hey Wankers, Get Your Own History!

You know, I understand that we export our history in the form of entertainment, and that like it or not, the whole world loves it, and just like us, they believe it, but sometimes I have to take exception. It is especially painful when my precious, precious Guardian botches things. In case you guys missed it while they were raiding away in Canada and nabbing some terrorists for real (people can gripe all they want about how the homosexual community has co-opted the word 'gay,' but imagine how Wes Craven feels when some nitwit straps C-4 and nails to himself... "I'm THE REAL Terrorist! I created Freddy!!!" Talk about a gyp, him and Clive Barker never even got to use the word), the MI-5, bane of 007 and his vaunted MI-6, raided a couple houses in Eastwestham, or Westeastham, I'm as mixed up as they are, anyway, they might have ended up raiding the wrong house.

Well sorry, but shit happens. I have no problem with the constabulary acting sincerely on a tip they thought was legit. It might not have been exactly true, of course. But if you read here at all, you know what I dislike. Yeah, the tipfarm we've got going over here thanks to the NSA and our friends, the telcos. But that's another post, I swear (I really don't want to keep talking politics, honest). What I want to talk about is what the limey lawyer said about the raid, which not only was directed on possible innocent folks, but actually went through some completely different innocent folks' business. Their metaphorical business, not their real business.

Anyway, somebody apparently took a machinegun butt to the noggin. He's right pissed, and rightfully so. And in a way, even if everything went off according to their maybe flimsy plan, he still, innocent though he remains, probably would have taken that butt to the brainpan. It's a tough, tough situation.

But what doesn't help the situation is that his lawyer says it was "like the old west." Really? How's that? Doesn't England have ANY history that parallels? Ghandi prolly thinks so. Hell, right or wrong, there's a lot of Irish guys that think so. How about "It was like Belfast in 1980." Take that one for a spin, England. See how that one fits.

It just feels sort of weird that for once we had nothing to do with a fuckup, and somehow we're still the standard. Was the Wild West all that great? No. Not as bad as the Wild, Wild West, but yeah, absolutely not too good. And you know what. I know we glorify it. But I think Bobby Brady learned his lesson about Jesse James (better than Sandra Bullock did). Can we atone for glorifying our brutal, violent past with one episode of The Brady Bunch? Probably not, especially since we have pretty much continued to idolize some pretty bad people. But just because there aren't a ton of movies about the rest of the world's bad shit doesn't mean none of it happened.