Their hearts' blood dyed its ev'ry fold

Much more alarmed this afternoon, and naturally our buffoon of a Mayor is to blame. Apparently, the cold-blooded slaughter by a brutal totalitarian regime of some 2,600 Chinese hunger-strikers, along with the injuring of some 10,000, is somehow comparable with the control of a riot in Trafalgar Square initiated by violent anarchists. Perhaps Mr. Livingstone genuinely believes that the generally non-lethal use of a few riot police vans and mounted policemen in the face of some 200,000 protesters represents an equivalent exhibition of the crushing repressive power of the state to a massacre wrought by the declaration of martial law and the use of tanks, infantry and flamethrowers. But he is surely an idiot if so. Perhaps he's been talking to Alan Moore. Or perhaps in his addled morality, the abominations of Communism are mitigated for having been performed in the name of the state?

On a side note, this story is barely mentioned on the BBC. Funny, that.