- Images and consent?

John Thow, 10 Nov 2005 09:43:01

This might seem a bit off-topic but is an interesting counterpoint to
the debate on images and consent. A very interesting article:

"When Tuesday's Sun featured one of the iconic images from 7/7 alongside
the headline 'Tell Tony He's Right', the implication was clear: the
victim backed the PM's tough anti-terror measures. There was just one
problem: John Tulloch doesn't. In fact, he tells Ros Coward he is
angrier with the politicians than the bombers 'Up to now I have been
fairly sympathetic to most of the ways the media have used me. I'm all
right about those Prince Charles pictures' 'Far more than feeling angry
with the bombers, I feel angry with the political leaders. I see the
bombers as victims of greater forces' "

http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1638838,00.html


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Paul C. Dickie, 10 Nov 2005 11:26:21

In message <43731690.8040009@petml.com>, John Thow
wrote:
>This might seem a bit off-topic but is an interesting counterpoint to
>the debate on images and consent. A very interesting article:
>
>"When Tuesday's Sun featured one of the iconic images from 7/7 alongside
>the headline 'Tell Tony He's Right', the implication was clear: the
>victim backed the PM's tough anti-terror measures. There was just one
>problem: John Tulloch doesn't. In fact, he tells Ros Coward he is
>angrier with the politicians than the bombers 'Up to now I have been
>fairly sympathetic to most of the ways the media have used me. I'm all
>right about those Prince Charles pictures' 'Far more than feeling angry
>with the bombers, I feel angry with the political leaders. I see the
>bombers as victims of greater forces' "
>
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1638838,00.html

I also see them as "victims of greater forces" and regardless of whether
or not they really were suicide bombers. They'd visited London on a
previous occasion and that's interpreted now as a 'dummy run', but it
seems to me that they could just as easily have been delivering books or
pamphlets on *that* occasion and expected to be doing the same on 7/7.

Remember, they bought return tickets as if they did not expect to be
coming back as freight and there is no way that a family man fits the
usual psychological profile of a suicide bomber.

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