Lies, Damn Lies

Craig Murray.

Did anyone hear about this? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3750370.stm

The guy got fired for, get this..... telling the UK government, repeatedly, that the information used there was being gotten from torture. From fucking torture! And they got annoyed at this, and fired him, essentially.

Their rationale for this is the classic rationale of any post 9/11 government. Apparently, the world changed on 9/11 (other than our leaders attitudes, it really didnt), its now more dangerous (bullshit. Terrorism is ridiculously unlikely to kill you. If you're looking for a massive threat, the short supply of oil is the real one. Which might be one reason for a war on Iraq. Sorry, if you suggest that you are apparently crazy), and we have to deal with terrorists (well.... yes, yes we do) by any means necessary.

We do not. The whole point of us being a democracy, and all that pointless stuff that critics of the government keep mentioning, is so we are NOT the same as the terrorists. We capture or kill them, yes, but we do so by just and fair means. We do not remove peoples humans rights if we feel like it, and we do definitely never, ever torture someone.


OK, here we haven't got the information by torturing ourselves. But we are condoning torture by this, and it something that no really fair nation should ever do.

posted by Mr K @ 4:56 pm