Whether the stabbing of Stephen Timms was a Good Thing

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8110447/Website-used-by-woman-who-stabbed-MP-encourages-further-attacks.html

I wonder if Stephen Timms would vote to invade Iraq again if he could turn back time. Not very clever of him as his constituents are mostly Muslims. Not the brightest bulb in the box then, but then that is the typical profile of lobby fodder in the LibLabCon. Why are the stupid who don't even know how to look after themselves in charge of the ship of state? Why does the government always insist on stupidity and spinelessness as qualifications to be an MP?

Let me clarify my position very very carefully.

1. I am delighted that lobby fodder Stephen Timms got his come-uppance.

2. If he had died it would have made a better story because it would have put the fear of God into these lobby fodder MPs.

3. Their fear of further attacks on their numbers would bounce them into recanting and expressing remorse and regret to avoid a similar fate.

4. Loss of support for the war amongst more than half of the House would have a significant impact on the conduct of the war.

5. It would mean the withdrawal of British troops *sooner* rather than later, and the reduction in the numbers of lives lost on both sides.  (This would of course be a Good Thing for both Muslims and non-Muslims, Britain and Afghanistan.)

6. Do my views make me complicit in the stabbing of Stephen Timms? No.

7. Was the stabbing of Stephen Timms a Good thing? Yes, because it demonstrates that violent acts (such as voting for a dishonorable and unwinnable war just because your leader said so) begets violence.  There is a philosophical argument that the morality of an act (eg stabbing a politician) can only be judged by the intended consequences of that act (eg the prevention of further lives being lost unnecessarily on both sides in the prosecution of a dishonorable and unwinnable war, sooner rather than later). 

8. Would his death have been a better thing? Of course, because it would result in the war ending sooner rather than later because of the haemorrhaging of support for the war amongst our politicians, if not an actual stampede to denounce it, especially if there were further attacks on other MPs.

9.  Would I be pleased if another MP were attacked?  No, because there is no need for anyone else to be hurt if they are already earnestly discussing the best way of dealing with the situation.   But are they though? 



I hope this is all reasonably clear.  

The very real physical dangers of being lobby fodder

Stephen Timms, stabbed Labour pro-war MP for East Ham

""I am an MP and I am lobby fodder. Lobby fodder are stabbed in the back by their whips and leaders or by their constituents in the front. Lowlife scum with no principles and no conscience with shit for brains deserve nothing better."

Even when you think you are playing safe by doing exactly what you are told by your leader and your whip, you are not safe.  

If we are to die or just get stabbed for anyone, let it not be for a warmongering leader whom we unquestioningly obey.

There were 395 MPs who voted for the war.  There must be one near you now even as you read this, conducting a surgery and fearing for his or her life.

I imagine that a public statement of remorse and also a declaration of support for Peter Bone's House of Commons Disquaification Bill whose Second Reading will be on 10 December 2010 would assist in getting them off the rather long list of those who would wish to stab them in their surgeries. 

http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/houseofcommonsdisqualificationamendment.html

Will Stephen Timms be supporting it?