On 15 November, Colour Sergeant Krishnabahadur Dura of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles was killed in action in Afghanistan.
Defence News, part of the Ministry of Defence, said, "He was rated as one of the Army's best snipers attaining best student on his Snipers' course. He was highly respected by all." C. Sgt Dura was killed by a Taliban bomb which injured two male colleagues and one female officer, who lost her leg.
C. Sgt Dura, 36, leaves two daughters and a wife. He had served in the British Army since 1992.
But the purpose of this article is not to recount his years of selfless service, nor to sing the praises of his heroism in Afghanistan. It is to draw attention to the most appallingly callous, bureaucratically pig-headed mindset Machiavelli has so far encountered. Because the Home Office is currently threatening to deport the wife and two little children of C. Sgt Dura.
Brown, Straw and CO have talked about British values ad infinitum (and ad ultimate boredom), but in my opinion, British values, if they are to mean anything at all beyond an empty shell, dictate the obvious answer in this case.
Again, I'll repeat: deporting the family of a brave soldier killed in the service of our nation, how much lower can you get?
(Via Machiavelli the Prince )
2 comments:
Shameful and sickening.
These are the same people who delight in allowing Afghan hijackers and other undesirables to remain but then pretend to act "tough" by deporting those we would actually be proud to have in our country.
There has always been a hierarchy amongst the Brits, with ethnics just below the working classes. Even good Irish people like yoursel are not quite right for the British club unless you have proved yourselfs at killing foreigners in Britains wars and even sometimes your fellow Irishmen who dare to fight for their own nation(silly fools. ;¬))
You only have to look at the way the Gurkha's have been treated to show the mindset.
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