Throwing high tech under the bus won’t work for cowardly ‘world leaders’

Fresh back from what Daily Mail scribe Richard Littlejohn described as an event that looked as if the ‘world leaders’ in attendance “were about to break in to the ‘hokey-cokey’”, at Sunday’s “Je suis Charlie!” rally, British Prime Minister David Cameron is due in Washington, DC today where--incredibly--he is looking for security tips from the “hokey cokey” AWOL Barack Obama.

Cameron is looking for security in all the wrong places. “David Cameron will seek Barack Obama’s support this week for a push to improve co-operation between intelligence agencies and technology companies such as Twitter and Facebook, warning the president that public safety is at stake.” (Financial Times, Jan. 15, 2015) “Warning the president that public safety is at stake” has gotta’ be the biggest “hokey cokey” laugh of all time. Not only does Obama know that “public safety is at stake”, he -- who keeps opening the doors of Guantanamo Bay, and who trades off as many as five top Taliban generals at a time for one American soldier, leaving at risk his own southern border -- is a big part of putting “public safety at stake”. As one of many Western leaders whose lax immigration laws lead to nations that are overrun by jihadists, it is quite disingenuous of Cameron to lay the blame for public safety being at stake at the doors of technological companies such as Twitter, Google and Facebook. The prime minister has previously said that companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Google have a “social responsibility” to tackle extremist content online and report suspicious activity to authorities.

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One hand scratches the other when it comes to the Obama/Cameron ‘Little Boy Selfie Club’

Wonder what he calls his and Obama’s? The CEOs of Facebook, Twitter and Google likely have the experience that when when they do report suspicious activity to authorities, NOTHING is ever done about it. Millions would say that the prime minister and other hokey-cokey world leaders have an even bigger “social responsibility” to protect their people from radical Islamic terrorist attacks. Stealing the show at what was intended as a massive grassroots “Je Suis Charlie!” rally, where word leaders reportedly joined in singing former Beatles John Lennon’s song "Imagine", does zip to standing against Islamic terrorism other than to give evil Islamic terrorists a belly laugh. One thing Islamic terrorists know for sure is that world leaders, including the simpatico Obama won’t even allow their people to identify Islamic terrorism for what it is, while they themselves instead resort to absurd and cowardly descriptions such as “workplace violence”. Any protesters who dare take to the streets without 40 linked-arm ‘leaders’ behind them are automatically branded as “racists” and “ bigots”, including in Germany where German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s response to PEGIDA was to turn the lights off, leaving them in the dark. It seems that after last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris, Mr Cameron wants new laws to stop people being able to communicate on such platforms without the government being able to read their messages. Problem is, Mr. Cameron, well-funded agencies of governments like yours and Obama’s spend the lion’s share of their time reading the messages of law-abiding citizens rather than those of any jihadists. Cameron pompously asked in the Commons on Wednesday: “Are we prepared to allow in future, as technology develops, safe spaces for terrorists to communicate? The principle I think we should adopt is that we are not content for that to happen.” The prime minister is particularly keen to promote cyber security companies, with the president looking to tighten up online security and privacy laws as part of his State of the Union address next week. One hand scratches the other when it comes to the Obama/Cameron ‘Little Boy Selfie Club’ Writing a joint article in The Times newspaper on Thursday, the two leaders say: “As we meet today at the White House, we reaffirm our belief that our ability to defend our freedoms is rooted in our economic strength, and the values that we cherish — freedom of expression, the rule of law, and strong democratic institutions.” More empty words published by The Times even though they’re never backed up by action. “The prime minister is travelling to Washington on Thursday for what is intended to be his final overseas trip before the UK general election, hoping that two days of meetings and photo calls with the US president will give him an electoral boost. (Daily Mail Jan. 15, 2015) And therein lies the rub. Cameron heading toward a May election needs the electoral boost bound to come from the photo ops with an American president, one of whose first moves after arriving in the White House was to get rid of a bust of Winston Churchill.