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To: Sully- who started this subject	11/16/2003 7:01:10 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

FOMENTING CHAOS IN BRITAIN: It's lockdown time in London. The anti-war left, who let the visits of Mugabe and Assad pass without much protest, is galvanizing to bring the country to a standstill during Bush's visit. The BBC is in the vanguard of anti-Bush hysteria. A British reader (an ex-pat American) writes: It's really bad here. Yesterday Radio 4 PM Programme they had an American 'expert' commenting on the American failures in Iraq. Of course it was some guy from the Clinton administration. Channel 4 had Americans who hate Bush and showed them preparing for their protest. Will Michael More be joining them? It wouldn't surprise me. The BBC is working the country into a frenzy regarding the upcoming Bush visit. Personally, I would love to go up to London and hold a placard welcoming the President but I fear for my safety. The Mall looks great with all the flags but I have no doubt it will all be trashed. We're getting reports that anarchists will storm Buckingham Palace. The papier mache effigies of W are nearly complete. (Don't these people have jobs??). I can't get any break from it. I was on a school inspection this week in Southampton and a weedy member of the inspection team cornered me and starting in on Bush and how she had marched against the war, etc. This was not the time nor place to express political views of any type. I simply informed her that I was a New Yorker and that my sister and brother-in-law had lost eight neighbours in the World Trade Center and I wholly support President Bush and the fight against terrorism. Silence. Your column this morning is absolutely right - these people have forgotten 9/11. After 22 years in Surrey we're looking to move to America. My column next week is a 3,000 word defense of the president and will run in the Sunday Times this Sunday (Inside Dish subscribers will receive it this weekend - click here to subscribe). I don't believe that the Brits are, as a whole, that hostile either to the war or to Bush. The minority who hates him appeals to the ignorance of those who condescend to him. And the BBC has whipped up anti-Americanism to fever pitch. But my native country isn't renowned for its common sense for nothing. I have faith that the majority will eventually see through the propaganda to the truth. - 2:06:55 PM CHURCHILL ON THE BBC II: Another wonderful tidbit from the greatest Briton: Churchill's doctor, Lord Moran, favored continuing the BBC monopoly. When he questioned Churchill about it, the great man exploded. "For eleven years they kept me off the air. They prevented me from expressing views which have proved to be right. Their behavior has been tyrannical. They are honeycombed with Socialists - probably with Communists." True again today. They no longer have a monopoly - but they still force Brits to pay for propaganda. This nugget can be found in "Diaries of Lord Moran: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965," page 417. (Thanks to a reader.) andrewsullivan.com

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