Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY

British author Robert Harris nails exactly what is wrong with the leaders of The West today, as they bark orders at us about how we should fear the terrorists, but not let them change our way of life, while the war they started has changed everything :

“That’s something I’m against, morally, the way that our leaders are swaddled in security, with bomb-proof cars and pampered and ferried around like dictators until the day they die, while the rest of us, on the tube or whatever, are liable to be blown up in their wretched war on terror. It seems to me to be morally wrong.

“There was a time when princes leading their people into battle were on the front line, not cosseted like this. They’re the only people who are safe! There’s something profoundly wrong about it, and leads to their isolation….I felt during the last years of Blair that it was like being led by someone from outer space.”

Exactly. We’ll hide away behind ten layers of ultra-security after we helped turn Iraq into the murder, kidnapping and terror capital of the world, and you plebians can take your chances on public transport.

The full story this quote comes from is an interesting profile of Robert Harris, the author of Fatherland, discussing his new novel, a not-so-well disguised ‘fiction’ about Tony Blair and the British relationship with the United States in the age of war and terror.

Note : The headline above, for those not familiar with those words, comes from the best anti-war song ever written - War Pigs by Black Sabbath. Excellent video of it right here. Remember, turn it up. Loud.

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