That has made me chuckle. Keep up the good work!

The list of your fans is a lot longer, even if not all of us are so well known as your enemies!

I would consider myself a success if I were to have a list half as long as yours filled with such loathsome scum. Congratulations; may we all aspire to be so disliked by such as they!

“That really is a collection of deeply unlovely people”

“unlovely”…I can think of many more words that could be inserted in the above sentence.

Talking about Blair…Does anyone know how much money he has got his blooded hands on since he left No 10?. I only ask as I often wonder if he has passed the £100 million mark yet?…

http://tinyurl.com/chxzg5

Sickening,thats a word…

Definition…”sickening adj. Revolting or disgusting; loathsome: a sickening stench. Causing sickness. sickeningly sick’

In the olden days, when I was young and innocent, I used to have a soft spot for Jerry Rawlings because he seemed a rather enlightened rascal.

Regarding Blair, is it true that his recent conversion to Catholicism has rather a lot to do with his ambition to becime President of the EU (Lord help us)?

Tony Blair may have the ambition, but who would support him? And how would the arrival of Obama affect the issue – in terms of how the EU would see Tony Blair’s suitability? I’d love to know what Obama thinks of Tony Blair. I’m not aware of any indications. I feel queasy just looking at him – Blair, not Obama.

dreoilin:

I fear it is only a matter of time before you start to feel queasy looking at Obama also…

With the Spanish national courts now investigating seven Israelis for potential crimes against humanity (after relatives of the dead in the 2002 bombing of Gaza made a complaint to the court), I can only wonder how long it will be before some relatives of the dead in Iraq make a similar complaint against Blair.

Does this also mean that, as Britain tends to be the jurisdiction of choice for defamation cases (due to its oppressive laws against free speech), that Spain will become the de facto jurisdiction for human rights cases?

Sic a parcel o’ rogues in a nation.

In the immortal words of Claud Cockburn: “Roars of applause are nice too, but there is historical evidence for the belief that you get, in the end, better service out of a sound piece of denunciation and insult by some properly accredited reviler.”

Craig,

I have only recently stumbled across your blog via another bloggers recommendation and I can say that in that short time, I have come to the conclusion that you’re a reasonable and honest person.

The list of those who ‘dislike’ you only confirms my original assessment.

Keep doing what you do….because it clearly upsets the truly unlikeable as mentioned in your list…..and anything that hacks them off, can’t be bad.

Kudos to you! )

Well, you must be doing something right.

PS nice to see SilentButDeadly here.

“To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing,… since it proves that we have drawn a clear line of demarcation between the enemy and ourselves.” (May 26, 1939); Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong.

Or as David Aaronovitch famously repeated on university challenge: “Trotsky”.

You can indeed judge a man by the enemies he makes, and you can rightly take pride in the roll of yours.

Sandwiching Blair between Karimov and Rawlings strikes me as both elegant and thoroughly appropriate. It wouldn’t do to class him with important miscreants.

An impressive list, and one to be proud of…..I recommended your blog to some Free Palestine protesters today, hoping you’d be fine with that?

Just finished the book. Well done.

And if I went to my grave having hacked off that list above, AND published both books, AND still had this blog going, I’d be more than happy.

Honesty is very scary to those who seek power and money.

“Spain will become the de facto jurisdiction for human rights cases?”

I somehow don’t think so…

http://tinyurl.com/b8y2ew

Craig Murray,

I think you are a lovely human being, and I often quote you and your website when I post in America

Thank You

Why Should We Idly Waste Our Prime?

Robert Burns

Why should we idly waste our prime

Repeating our oppressions?

Come rouse to arms! ‘Tis now the time

To punish past transgressions.

‘Tis said that Kings can do no wrong –

Their murderous deeds deny it,

And, since from us their power is sprung,

We have a right to try it.

Now each true patriot’s song shall be: -

‘Welcome Death or Libertie!’

Proud Priests and Bishops we’ll translate

And canonize as Martyrs;

The guillotine on Peers shall wait;

And Knights shall hang in garters.

Those Despots long have trode us down,

And Judges are their engines:

Such wretched minions of a Crown

Demand the people’s vengeance!

To-day ’tis theirs. To-morrow we

Shall don the Cap of Libertie!

The Golden Age we’ll then revive:

Each man will be a brother;

In harmony we all shall live,

And share the earth together;

In Virtue train’d, enlighten’d Youth

Will love each fellow-creature;

And future years shall prove the truth

That Man is good by nature:

Then let us toast with three times three

The reign of Peace and Libertie!

All well and good Craig, but who’s the particular gilipollas who harassed you on the phone yesterday?

Judge a man by his enemies – always more telling than by his friends.

Well done.

Keep upsetting the bastards. I admire your courage and persistence.

its nice that they are pissed.

Lets look forwards to seeing them flayed and boiled in quicklime.

Does you credit.

Johan,

Oh just a creepy libel lawyer hoping I’d be scared (yawn).

Craig,

I hope you told the creepy lawyer that you were considering reporting him to the cops and subsequently suing his arse off for making harrassing phone calls. I’d have further told the pillock to a) put his threats in writing and, b) to to get his writ on my desk just as soon as he possibly could.

Craig, you are too modest; I know that list to be full of plenty more unlovely people most of whom are rather smaller household names other than across the breakfast tables of the staff of the University of Dundee

Take care

Frank

Mr. Murray,

I don’t know if you’re old enough to remember this, but back during Richard Nixon’s administration, he put out an enemies list. Many progressives were absolutely insulted and appalled to have been left OFF of the list.

Cheers to you, and thanks for your work.

From across the pond.

The Dirty Dozen.

An interesting exercise is to try to list them in order of unloveliness.

You get one list if you list them in order of personal malevolence or the number of people they have personally ordered to be tortured or killed.

But if you list them in order of the number of deaths their actions are ultimately responsible for, then Blair – at over a million – is surely top of the list. Can’t we get the Spanish prosecuting judge on his case?

Mr Murray,

Anyone who opens their mouth and says something other than the approved script will be hated. Even a nobody like me. But my haters are penny-ante scum. But yours are truly bottom of the barrel! Slime green with envy me…

The list, while impressive, could do with a few extra names like

Jaqui Smith

Tessa Jowels and her husband

Silvio Berlusconi

Vladimir Putin

Nicolas Sarkozy

and last but not least Dick Cheney.

david

for Dick Cheney Craig is probably just a friend he hasn’t shot in the face yet

MJ wrote “Regarding Blair, is it true that his recent conversion to Catholicism has rather a lot to do with his ambition to becime President of the EU (Lord help us)?”

…or failing that Pope perhaps? (I wonder which would be more lucrative…)

SUHAYL SAADI wrote:

“Don’t lose heart, John! Vigorous discourse – with those whom we disagree or partially agree or even with those with whom we almost entirely agree – is a sign of internal strength.”

And trying to behave like King Canute, attempting to hold back the tide is a sign of insanity. The British people are accepting total surveillance of their lives, and this is symbolic of things generally.

The government wants to spend £12 billion OF OUR MONEY on building a centralized database on all our electronic communication activity, and no one is saying or doing a damn thing.

I spoke to one ISP that keeps a record of their users’ activity – the e-mails they send, the Web sites they visit, etc. – and they said they have received a number of police requests that they have REFUSED because they were trivial.

This is why the people in government want to spend £12 billion of our money, so that they can access all our records without any oversight or court order – that’s how it looks, and only someone born yesterday would think otherwise. And no one should fool themselves that the contents of their e-mails, etc., are safe. The software inside black boxes has been kept secret, and this extra information has, in some cases, been found to be siphoned off – and don’t think it was by accident either.

There should be outrage that government departments, local councils, health care providers, police, and others, will soon be able to snoop on our private lives any time they want without any accountability or oversight. This is NOT about fighting crime or terrorism. This is about total control of our lives. This is about those in power considering themselves the supreme beings to which we must all defer and justify ourselves.

All aspects of our lives are increasingly being regulated via surveillance, from driving our cars, building extensions to our homes, to how we behave in the street – and this control will soon be extended to the Internet.

The French wouldn’t even stand for a database on their politicians’ online activity, let alone one on tens of millions of ordinary citizens.

When I’ve tried to explain this to others, they say, well, we’re being spied on already, so what does it matter? They don’t see the difference between intelligence services doing a “bit” of eavesdropping for fighting terrorism, with a government that wants to hold a record of everything every citizen does online and off, and make this information available to numerous government departments for purposes completely unrelated to terrorism.

“Struggle has never been easy.”

There is no struggle going on in this country.

“Don’t give up!”

I haven’t given up. The British people have, and, as I said, I would be insane to think I’m capable of achieving that which King Canute could not.

Obama does one “good” thing, and even Craig Murray now thinks he’s a genuine guy.

Those in government are the nice guys, the caring guys, while us, the public, are vermin, incapable of working out who is nice, who is nasty, and what is in our best interests.

Even Craig criticised me when I made some negative posts about Britain – when I was feeling somewhat depressed – and he said all I do is complain, or words to that effect. I don’t trust anyone involved in politics – I think that’s a sensible stance to take.

“I also mentioned some time ago that at this time political websites would be infiltrated en masse by organised pro-Israeli elements…”

My problem is with the British. All our freedoms are being taken away, and, soon, I won’t even be allowed to be critical of anything. I don’t want to live in a country like this, I don’t want to live like this – in an open prison! So, I’m concentrating on emigrating one day, and not wasting my life on politics, which is a very dirty, evil, business.

People on here, for example, have said that Britain should not be joining the U.S. in its criminal foreign policy, as if we are the good guys. Britain had an empire – we have never been the good guys abroad. It was Britain, for example, that wanted the Shah installed into power so that the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (BP) could keep taking Iranian oil under an agreement that impoverished the Iranians. But Britain was forced to enlist U.S. help after Mossadeq kicked the British out, suspicious that something was afoot – as, indeed, it was.

But thanks, Suhayl Saadi, for the friendly response to my post. You’re clearly not a politician.

Good post, Other John, but it isn’t true that “no one is saying or doing a damn thing”. See:

http://www.modernliberty.net/

Add a second voice to Suhayl Saadi, Other John.

Politicians are like arseholes, they follow you every where you go. So leaving one political slave colony (a nation state) to go to another is no escape.

Freedom is as much psychological as physical, probably more so. You can never be physically free until you believe you are.

Having said that, at least I have discovered ‘nobody’ from these – Craig’s ‘comments’ section – and his blog. I cherish those small oasis’ of sanity in an insane world.

The predatory perverts of politics will continue their egotistical holocaust against humanity (with the financial backing of big business) and all the powerless can do is oppose it as best they can in their own individual way.

Lord Taylor of Blackburn is one small facet of the terrorism of greed.

As for the masochistic masses as long as they refuse to see what is in front of them there is little you can do to save them. They prefer to be abused by the sadistic elite to being responsible – such is human history.

I don’t see anhilation on the horizon – just the continuation of that history.

As for Obama, he is going to be about as radical as my backside. Being black means nothing. He is another President, the forty-forth. If he were genuinely radical he would never have made it through the selection process for the job – systems are self-sustaining.

Still, if you find a utopia out there make up a spare bed, mate. I don’t even know if this will get ‘published’ or pulled for being to bleak. My view of reality scares off most people.

Either way, good luck for the future, wherever it may be. Later.

Hullo Mike, too kind by half. And ‘sanity’ mate? Do you understand nothing? I’m not sane in a mad world. I’m mad in a sane world. I say this because only a mad man would think the former is true. And I’m certainly not that!

Oh dear, did I just disappear up my own clacker? Damn.

Otherwise, Other John, perhaps you should come to Australia. And as you walk out of Sydney airport and are met by the lorikeets hanging upside down in the paperbarks, you can take a deep breath and ask yourself, ‘Could it be? Is this my country?’ And in doing so you will have instantly become like every other Australian asking precisely the same question.

Just beginning to try and understand all this Thanks Craig, for the books with believable facts. If John Major can get away with openly profiting from armaments, war, why should’t Straw, Taylor etc.?

Hi nobody

“Do you understand nothing?”

When I was young I thought I understood everything; when I was older I thought I understood nothing; and now I think nothing is understandable.

“I’m not sane in a mad world. I’m mad in a sane world.”

I can beat your hand – I’m mad in a mad world!

Clackers ahoy!

Mr Murray

In your list you missed the previous and current ambassadors of Uzbekistan in London and their political advisers who, especially previous ones, played a significant role in pressing on Foreign Office and getting you sucked from your job.

Anyone know what Aaronovitch said about Craig? He’s my fave (IE: Most despicable new labour zionist toady) journo of the Decent Left. Nick Cohen a close second.

I shall continue to recommend this blog on Guardian CiF ; Craig– you seriously shame the majority of so-called journalists .

How long before you do a Shayler/Icke and declare yourself the Son of God?

I love the use of the word ‘broadcaster’ at the top of the blog. Is this presently the most pretentiously used word in the English language? The moment I heard someone use the phrase ‘The broadcaster, Vanessa Feltz’ I thought that had topped it, but then I saw your blog.

Keep drinking the Kool-Aid.

if the comments here represent those that “like” you as opposed to those that “dislike” you, i would like to make this observation……………..whilst those that feature on your list may take exception to your viewpoint, they are still eminent and learned people who deserve respect, unlike those who appear to support your position. they seem to be a motley crew of the usual suspects. when your “like” team reads along the lines of your “dislike” team i will pay more attention. right now you seem to be a goofball and a crackpot with a tendency towards grandiosity.