They’re really making my blood boil over at the Guardian online. Not the reporters. The commenters. Take a look at these shallow, moronic insights into the murder of freelance journalist Steven Vincent:

Why go half way across the world and then comment on corruption in the Iraq police? Is there no corruption among US police forces? Learn to clean up your country first, before talking in a patronising way about other cuntries. During saddam’s time there was less democracy. But at least the state was functioning,. Now nothing works.

People are watching foreigners in Iraq. Who they talk to, who they meet. Some journalists are not straight forward. They could be spies. If they are freelance people are wondering. How do they survive on a daily basis? How do they pay their meals? Their accommodation? Who are they working for? Are they CIA agents in civilian dress. Do they work for the State department? Do they work for the Defence department. Some people have suspect background. They are beig watched. The killings are not random. Some are targetted because people are wondering what they are doing there. Even you wear a head covering and try to pass off as a local it won’t work. Looks at the blogs he wrote about wome? He was just applying US standards to Arab behavious? Even though he stayed in Basra there was no understanding Iraq from the local perspective. Most of his articles were highly critical of Iraq way of life. They are all sorts of armed groups out there. They read the blogs. The Iraqis are among the most educated Arabs. How much do you think they can tolerate?

I’m not going to paste any more in here. You can take a look at them yourself here. Some people, eh?

UPDATE: I notice the Guardian closed the comments on the post. They were becoming extremely obnoxious.