FKN Newz 2006-11-11
Transcript
Hi, I'm barely human. Welcome to the fucking news. In the news this week, Saddam Hussein found guilty and sentenced to hanging were so much better than that evil, tyrannical murderous regime we replaced. Yes, after we killed our way into the country, murdered 600,000 innocent men, women and children, we captured the one man who we supported and found it all the way through to 20 years of killing.
We captured him and sentenced him to death. We're so civilized. Yes, we're the good guys. We really are the nice ones there.
We sent him presents this, then we killed our way into his country, and now we're gonna string him up. In America, the Republicans were hoping they'd see a swing in the election for this good news. But it didn't happen. And they got a thumping.
And this leads to a new direction, in politics in America, and the war in Iraq. And the new direction is, well, we used to shoot the people over there. But now we're gonna shoot people over there. It's a new direction.
In the UK, imaginary terrorists were convicted of a more imaginary crimes. In the case of several men who had detailed written plans of terrorist acts, they plans to carry out once they've got the money and the stuff someone else to agree to help them. But apart from that, they were ready to go. Yes, they're all tooled up with their imagination, imagining, and one quote from
us. Imagine the chaos of a bomb going off in America's financial district. For this, these people received 14 years in jail for imagining the chaos.
I'm imagining the chaos right now. Today, the 11th of the 11th at the 11th hour, people all over the world or at least in the bid that appears on your news gathered to remember the day he was gone past and conflicts off today. Yeah, I had two minutes silence for the millions of conscripts ordered to go and die on behalf of their despotic tyrannical regimes. Right, that's America and Britain, mostly.
Millions of young men and women you've died for the king of our country, Your Majesty any practice, so remember them conscripts. In the UK this week, laws on hate speech may have to be reviewed after a British National Party leader or was not convicted of hate speech or crimes against humanity, for voicing his opinion that Islam was a wicked religion. Which ministers are considering tightening up the laws which may make it impossible in the future to say the following so I shall say it now.
All religion is evil you're evil motherfuckers nevermind Islam, Chuck has landed with the Jews, the Christians and the rest of the fucking nutters on the planet. The Mormons the Jehovah has every single one of you an evil fascist fucker. There I'm glad I got that off my chest before freedom of speech is made illegal in this liberal and civilized world in which we live. Yes, because men are so much better than they are.
And our people are so much freer, and our civilization is so much more civilized. Meanwhile, we are not under the oppression of an evil fascist Corporation a roof over sold with an iron fist. Nobody's making you buy that shit from China, where the people are forced into the mines with no unions, no safety guidelines, where the children are made to work 16 hours a day with their delicate little fingers sewing in the stitching in your training shoes and footballs and replica tops.
How fucking dare you claim you're oppressed. Enjoy it while you can. Thanks. Now the weather the planet sparked.
It's your fault and it's getting worse. Have a nice weekend.
Themes in this episode
Analysis essay
This episode follows the week of Saddam Hussein’s conviction on November 5, 2006, when an Iraqi court sentenced him to death for crimes against humanity. Days later, the U.S. midterms produced a Democratic victory, driven largely by anger over Iraq, and Donald Rumsfeld resigned. In Britain, Dhiren Barot and others connected to terror plots were being sentenced or discussed in court, feeding Deek’s continuing “pre-crime” theme. The Remembrance Day setting also matters: November 11 lets him attack the sentimental ritual of honoring war dead while ignoring the systems that send them to die.
Deek’s Saddam parody is built on moral reversal. The West claims civilization because it tries and executes a dictator, but Deek reminds viewers that Western governments had previously supported Saddam and then invaded Iraq with catastrophic civilian casualties. The “new direction” after the Republican defeat is bitterly circular: shooting people over there will be replaced by shooting people over there. The UK terror trials are mocked as prosecutions of imagination, where plans, fantasies, and “imagining chaos” become enough to justify long imprisonment.
The recurring FKN themes are hypocrisy, empire, fake justice, anti-war rage, anti-religion, and capitalist exploitation. Remembrance Day becomes not patriotic reverence but mourning for conscripts sacrificed by monarchs, states, and “despotic tyrannical regimes.” The hate-speech section attacks both religious extremism and the liberal state’s urge to police speech, with Deek using offensive overstatement to defend blasphemous freedom. The final turn to China-made consumer goods links Western comfort to hidden labor oppression: people claim freedom while buying products made by exploited workers, then return to pretending the planet is not burning.