fascist rag 2

The Mail's letters page contains a few messages of support for the summary execution of Jean Charles de Menezes on the tube last Friday. 'This is a war', says one 'and in war mistakes are made.' Fair enough. Just don't start complaining when the U.S. air force drops a bomb on your house, under the mistaken impression that it's the headquarters of the Middlesex branch of Al Qaeda.

The other letter points out that if the immigration service had been doing its job, it would have noticed that de Menezes' visa had expired and deported him, so that 'he wouldn't have been here to be shot'. Yes, and if you'd been run over by a bus last week, you wouldn't have been able to write this pointless letter, it wouldn't have been published in the Mail, and I would never have been irritated by it. Which is, surely, an equally valid argument.