let'em eat amotal

[Dennis Jones]

>John, you wrote:
I do note the difference between strategic weapons and terror weapons.  
>That noted, I still find it hard to accept that the British gov't would 
>actually _try_ to redirect the V2s _into_ one of the more strategically 
>important parts of the city. Until I can get my hands on a map showing 
>the actual distribution of the impact points, though, a lot must remain 
>speculative.
>
>
> I had written:
>
>>Given the level of outrage expressed on both sides by such deliberate,
>>vandalic breaking of the rules of the game, can we really express 
>disbelief
>>at the suggestion that those wielding the poison pens should quietly 
>choose
>>to put heritage before humans when the choice was presented to them?
>
>Which, alas, I'm too dense to unravel.  Could you restate it more simply?
>-----------------------    
 Yes, sorry, not very elegantly put I can now see. British governments have 
a long and pretty disgraceful record when it comes to secret decisions 
affecting the lives of its subjects and others. In a wartime context just 
one example might be the decision not to bomb railway lines leading to death 
camps they had long been aware of. When I say governments I'm really 
referring to a dyed-in-the-wool elitist status quo which seems to have 
always been in charge here (I mean, there) and to whom I personally have no 
difficulty in attributing such dirty tricks. Given a choice of having 
rockets fall and destroy the symbolic heart of the nation or re-directing 
them to working class residential areas to the south and east of the city 
(areas incidentally already earmarked for post-war redevelopment), I suspect 
they would have considered their decision perfectly justifiable.  
>                               d.j.
P.S.
        Is it really true that the CIA automatically opens a file on anyone 
going around in public saying the CIA are after them? ;-)