Thom Yorke called for Tony Blair's resignation, but then removed anti-Blair post

err, this was on the music slut days ago.

Wow, bashing the entire music industry and now DEMANDING the Prime Minister to quit...Thom has become the new "Bono"

somethings people do need to stand up against and say something.

tre, get a life.

Bono is a creep.

Why the Bono hatred?
who have you lobbied to drop 3rd world debt or increase AIDS relief recently?

looks like yorke is working for the clampdown.

I would have never expected Thom Yorke to support terrorists.

CoreyK, if you define 'terrorists' simply as an organization that attacks civilians, right now the government and military of Israel are bigger terrorists than Hezbollah.

Yorke for PM!!

didnt his post cause much of a bigger hype by the fact that it was removed. what a brilliant man.

Hey anonymous poster addressing CoreyK, if you define 'terrorists' simply as an organization that attacks civilians, that would make the U.S. one of the biggest terrorists in history by virtue of dropping the atomic bomb on the civilians of Pearl Harbor...Israel didn't start this episode any more than the U.S. started World War II.

more mop water from an insane asylum, just like his solo record.

thom can have an opinion just like the rest of us. something tells me 'supporting terrorists' is the last thing on his list of priorities.

Getitright, we don't disagree. I'm just saying CoreyK is wrong to call Hezbollah "terrorists" if CoreyK does so only because of what Hezbollah has done to Israel so far in this war (cross the border to attack and to take a couple of soldiers prisoner, then launch rockets at Israel). As far as I know, Hezbollah have never been accused of training and equipping suicide bombers or planting explosives among civilian populations.

I'm just as opposed to left-wingers calling Republicans 'Nazis'.

"dropping the atomic bomb on the civilians of Pearl Harbor"

The U.S. may indeed be guilty of innumerable attacks upon civilians and an imperialist foreign policy that can easily be defined as "terrorist" but no one dropped any atomic bombs on Pearl Harbor, you idiot. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor (but with old fashioned non-atomic bombs) and the U.S. dropped a-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What the U.S. is apparently also guilty of is the destruction of its educational system and the lowering of the global IQ curve...

and the dropping of those bombs was wholly justified given the immense task of invading Japan... more civilians were killed in conventional bombings in previous months than in the atomic bombings.

The point is that the U.S. has also targeted civilians...and while it's not a pleasant thought, sometimes it's a necessary evil.

If leaders resigned every time someone disagreed with a stance they took, there would be no more world leaders. Calls for resignation should only come when a leader has done something that one could argue is illegal.

Regardless, fuck you Thom Yorke, I always thought you and your band were massively overrated anyway.

Well, I for one don't like Thom Yorke's music so I'm calling for his resignation from the music industry...I expect the chances he'll listen to me are about the same as the chances Tony Blair will listen to him.

Actually, Hezbollah *has* used suicide bombing as a tactic. Actually, they sort of invented it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah#Documented_use_of_suicide_attacks

I think all you Thom Yorke-haterz should resign from the living.

Actually, Hezbollah *has* used suicide bombing as a tactic. They sort of invented it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah#Documented_use_of_suicide_attacks

Actually, Hezbollah *has* used suicide bombing as a tactic. They sort of invented it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah#Documented_use_of_suicide_attacks

I don't trust Wikipedia entries about controversial subjects or subjects that provoke passionate responses.

O.K., I found a different piece that quotes someone calling Hezbollah terrorists... and it's on a progressive Web site:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073106A.shtml

Granted, the guys quoted talking about Hezbollah were probably hawks, but I can't believe someone would say, "[Hezbollah] has killed more Americans than any other terrorist group before September 11th" without any facts to back it up. Furthermore, I now remember that the Iran part of the Iran-Contra scandal was the Reagan administration's effort to gain friends in Tehran by secretly violating the arms embargo against Iran with the ultimate aim of getting the Iranians to get their client, Hezbollah, to free American hostages they had seized in Lebanon.