Do not speak ill of the dead, we\u2019re told.<\/p>\n
Why not?<\/p>\n
The dead are beyond the reach of my slings and arrows. More dangerous, to my mind is the whitewashing of misdeeds done by the recently deceased.<\/p>\n
I will agree that Westboro Baptist style celebration at the death of young men and women taken too soon is offensive to the grieving family. It is insensitive and hateful.<\/p>\n
But if a person dies in the fullness of time, and that person\u2019s acts were harmful to many, I don\u2019t see why a little fist pump is so bad a thing. If an old, miserable dick dies, I think it\u2019s fine to be happy that our world is a bit less dickish.<\/p>\n
Margaret Thatcher began her reign of evil by abolishing free milk for schoolchildren aged seven to eleven. Turning back Vietnamese refugees, because of \u201cconcerns\u201d about the number of Asian immigrants, demolishing labor unions, privatizing services, making the first cuts to the NHS, and the utter tone deaf awfulness of her response to the crisis in Northern Ireland all show a callus disregard of basic human dignity and needs of anyone not wealthy and English.<\/p>\n
I won\u2019t shed a tear at the end of a life, when countless thousands of more innocent lives were destroyed or made harder by policies she championed.<\/p>\n
To show my UK friends that it\u2019s not a matter of national identity, I assure everyone I\u2019m shining my tap shoes for dancing on the graves of Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney as well.<\/p>\n
So I will happily accept criticism of my comments and attitude, while echoing the sentiments of Labor MP George Galloway who tweeted \u201cTramp the dirt down.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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