What is the world coming to?

Things we thought we would never see:

When Red Ken Livingstone defends the police.

The mayor of London defended the police action on Friday.
'If you are dealing with someone who might be a suicide bomber, if they remain conscious, they could trigger plastic explosives or whatever device is on them,' Ken Livingstone said. 'Therefore, overwhelmingly in these circumstances, it is going to be a shoot-to-kill policy.'"

Europe cracking down on hate preachers
With varying degrees of commitment, of course.

Michael Jackson's father's birthday party in Berlin a flop
Sorta. The main thing is that the Jackson glamour for Germans is tarnished, despite those assiduously courted demented fans who get an all-expense paid trip to the U.S. to cheer for an accused pedophile. Really, do you begin to see German mafia all over this??

Thomas Friedman quoting the Wall Street Journal

Iqra [an Islamic bookstore in Leeds] not only sold hatemongering Islamist literature, but, according to The Wall Street Journal, was "the sole distributor of Islamgames, a U.S.-based company that makes video games. The video games feature apocalyptic battles between defenders of Islam and opponents. One game, Ummah Defense I, has the world 'finally united under the Banner of Islam' in 2114, until a revolt by disbelievers. The player's goal is to seek out and destroy the disbelievers."

Oh wait. It doesn't take him long to find moral equivalence to terrorist training materials and a graffiti message written by a distraught Jewish settler whose home was confiscated. I knew it was too good to be true.