David Miliband: "Terrorism is OK - if I Support the Cause"

David Miliband has caused a bit of a stir - not by going on national radio to defend, no, exalt, radical Marxist and murdering terrorist Joe Slovo, a member of the militray wing of the ANC (Umkhonto we Sizwe), but by letting slip something we might have known anyway:

Miliband stated:

“Yes, there are circumstances in which it is justifiable, and yes, there are circumstances in which it is effective.”
“The importance for me is that the South African example proved something remarkable: it looked like a regime that would last forever, and it was blown down.”
“It is hard to argue that, on its own, a political struggle would have delivered. The striking at the heart of a regime’s claim on a monopoly of power, which the ANC’s armed wing represented, was very significant.”

This statement has rightly sparked some condemnation from the conservative newspapers, but this does not surprise me in the slightest.

These are the true colours of the government which Miliband, himself a Fabian, serves in:

Why is it so hard for us to see what is right in front of our noses? Last week, the one-time Trotskyist and perpetual student Alan Milburn (he still hasn’t finished his PhD), in a ‘commission’ set up by Gordon Brown (a student hard Leftist himself), launched an apparently bone-headed assault on the professions and the great universities.

Can Mr Milburn really be as stupid as he sounds? Or is there another motive here? What sort of Government is this really?

Just days ago we learned that the latest Defence Secretary, in his 30s, attended an unknown number of meetings of the secretive, pro-IRA International Marxist Group, an episode he flatly refuses to discuss further.

Given that this Government did in fact grant ‘Victory to the IRA’, as the IMG demanded, it seems relevant to me. One of his forerunners, the menacing ‘Doctor’ John Reid, was an adult member of the pro-Soviet Communist Party.

The most powerful Minister in the Government is Peter Mandelson, once a member of the Young Communist League. Tony Benn, who ought to know, maintains that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, was also an active Trotskyist and levels a similar allegation against Stephen Byers, once a prominent member of the Blairite inner circle.

We all know that such radicals do believe in terrorism and violence - as long as it is in their cause, ever further 'progress'. This is the only moral compass which such Leftists have; will their twisted, perverted utopian ideals be served by bloodshed?

If so, then it is permitted, as it was in South Africa. But it's OK - everything has turned out so well there since!

The Leftist has his own moral compass, as Miliband demonstrates; clearly he is qualified to judge whether or not a cause is worthy of killing civilians for (just as his colleagues were qualified to judge that Britain should give away all its nuclear weapons whilst the Soviets kept theirs, through the KGB shills at the CND).

The only thing I'm not sure about is whether or not Miliband meant to be quite so honest about this.