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mandragorasmug, sanctimonious git!
Just caught his performance regarding the detainees at Guantanimo Bay on the BBC News at Ten. I found him to be deeply repellent. It's rare that I react with such hostility to a politician (they have a job to do and I recognise that even if I don't like what they're saying). But to see that bastion of privilege and wealth crap on about how the detainees are not 'common criminals' but are terrorists who will stop at nothing to attack 'us' if they're released made my blood boil.
Where's your proof? Why haven't these people had access to legal advice and been tried in an impartial and properly appointed court of law? As a lawyer I can't begin to express how much the denial of these people's basic rights offends me.
Some of them may well be terrorists, who should be locked up in punishment for their crimes for a substantial period of time and to protect the public from their actions. But the point is that we don't know that they are because they have been denied all access to justice.
It stinks.
To quote TH White "Might does not make right". Pity that the present US administration seems to be unaware of this.
Just caught his performance regarding the detainees at Guantanimo Bay on the BBC News at Ten. I found him to be deeply repellent. It's rare that I react with such hostility to a politician (they have a job to do and I recognise that even if I don't like what they're saying). But to see that bastion of privilege and wealth crap on about how the detainees are not 'common criminals' but are terrorists who will stop at nothing to attack 'us' if they're released made my blood boil.
Where's your proof? Why haven't these people had access to legal advice and been tried in an impartial and properly appointed court of law? As a lawyer I can't begin to express how much the denial of these people's basic rights offends me.
Some of them may well be terrorists, who should be locked up in punishment for their crimes for a substantial period of time and to protect the public from their actions. But the point is that we don't know that they are because they have been denied all access to justice.
It stinks.
To quote TH White "Might does not make right". Pity that the present US administration seems to be unaware of this.
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Re: The UNpatriotic Administration
Date: 20 February 2004 11:41 (UTC)Oh, heck, haven't you heard? THEY (definition of THEY being a certain over-privileged, arrogant administration) no longer need proof.
Sadly, yes, I'd heard about the Patriot Act. And was devoutly grateful that I don't live in the US. That Act sends chills down my spine and it seems that from being one of the most open nations the US is slowly making itself into one of the least. It makes me want to weep.
Apparently 5 British detainees are (finally) going to be released from Guantanimo Bay. I'm agog with curiosity as to how they'll be treated once they get back home, as under British law they cannot now be tried - they've been denied access to justice for too long. However I wouldn't be surprised if the Government attempts to weasel their way round the legal restrictions somehow.
Plus, there are still 4 British detainees remaining and God knows what will happen to them. I'll be cheering you on at the Presidential election this year. Fingers crossed that Bush loses.