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Celebrating Guantanamo Bay at Five
posted Thursday, 11 January 2007
The legacy of the war
We have traded our liberties for a chance to make our democracies our Big Brother. We have terrified ourselves that air travel is now the joy of masochists, the appearance of a gloved hand is the pleasure of an intrusion of a different kind.
We decried their assault on our way of life and then housed their brothers out of the reach of due process, they got a new name and what is the Geneva Convention when you can offer a Pentagon Conundrum.
Then for holiday photos with inspiration from the house in
The only detail they haven’t asked of us is how many pints of blood course through our veins, but it would not be long before your life is The Truman Show to every peering voyeur that works for that government agency that your taxes fund.
Privacy is word that means your government is the custodian of confidential matters with which they dictate your place in society, if you deviate from the script you are a terrorist to be hunted down in a fashion that hounds would find humane.
There is a war, a war on terror, a war that presents greater terror to our peace than the terrorists every imagined.
Did, Benjamin Franklin not say - Those who would give up essential
Of all we have given up, we have a party to attend – Camp Delta - Guantanamo Bay is 5 today, let us celebrate our bondage in the quest for safety, we are indeed free to be bound. Let’s Party! However, below are your directions - The Road to Guantanamo
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The Gambia: They need a sane President
Saturday, 24 May 2008
The President of The Gambia is out with another of his stupid pronouncements, last year, it was the cure for AIDS, now he is asking all homosexuals to leave The Gambia or be beheaded.
Zimbabwe: Mugabe's epitaph by a little girl
Wednesday, 2 April 2008
With bated breath and great anticipation we wait for a new dawn in Zimbabwe.
After every vote is counted, the man must know that his time is up and time has now passed him by.
Dogged by Goth prejudice
Thursday, 24 January 2008
A Goth couple are hounded off buses in Yorkshire because one of them is on a dog leash.
Concerns about safety are one thing but when prejudice is expressed in hurtful words - we have another matter at hand.
PAWIAK!
Saturday, 11 August 2007
A museum documenting man's inhumanity to men seeking freedom and self-expression in a repressive and totalitarian state. History is repeating itself around the world today.
Deserving neither liberty nor safety
Monday, 2 July 2007
The terror threats in the UK leave us losing our liberties for temporary safety.
Gorilla in the midst
Saturday, 19 May 2007
A gorilla breaks out of a zoo enclosure, time for people to break out of rotten governance and seek their freedoms and real self-determination.
Stripping the "Great" out of Britain
Wednesday, 4 April 2007
This UK-Iran crisis did nothing to affirm the great in Great Britain, instead we were out-manoeuvred at every turn as the Iranians chose the tempo of events.
The US does not torture
Friday, 19 January 2007
It would appear my concept of torture is hardly coercion in the eyes of those at the forefront of the war on terror in America. Judge for yourself as we have been told, the US does not torture.
Celebrating Guantanamo Bay at Five
Thursday, 11 January 2007
The symbol of our freedom and the loss of the high moral ground that gives us the means to sue for peace. Guantanamo Bay is rotten monster of a child at five.
Being fooled out of my liberty for temporary safety
Wednesday, 15 November 2006
I had to appear in person with my identity papers and scribble my signature at a branch of my bank - if I did not within 10 working days, my account would be blocked.
Beyond the veil
Tuesday, 17 October 2006
In my view, the whole raucous about the veil in the UK is about ease of communication curtailed by the foreign cultures that take advantage of freedoms to create separate societies in a host culture.
An admission in remission
Friday, 8 September 2006
Admitting the CIA secret prisons did exist leaves one wondering how many more admissions would completely destroy the last ounce of respect America can show.
Ahmedinejad-Bush coming to your television
Tuesday, 29 August 2006
The Iranian doctor of engineering invites a one-time failed oil businessman to a debate about world issues. I want a front row seat, who is selling the tickets? bin Laden might also already be dead so what fuels the war on terror?
I take this opportunity
Sunday, 27 August 2006
This was the preamble to an invitation to the high table of a 50th Birthday party I attended and I think I am a lot less Nigerian than I thought I was.
Made in America - just in your backyard
Friday, 25 August 2006
Unexploded cluster bombs supplied by the US to Israel are found in Lebanon - Let us see how Condi Rice tackles America's image from all perspectives.
The terminal decline of air travel
Friday, 25 August 2006
With all the scares and diversions, air travel is becoming too much of an inconvenience we might as well not bother travelling to save the earth.
Back to James Blake and Rosa Parks - 1955 to 2006
Friday, 25 August 2006
Black students are asked to give up their seats for white students 51 years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. America, we've got a serious problem.
The end to presidential voyeurism
Friday, 18 August 2006
A judge has declared the unwarranted surveillance of American citizens illegal. That is one big win for civil liberties all around the world, in my view.
The American-Israeli tinderbox that Hezbollah lit up
Tuesday, 15 August 2006
If America was already privy to Israeli plans to attack Lebanon long before the kidnap of the 2 soldiers in Israel on July the 12th, the whole truth of this matter does not augur well for the new world order at all.
A large body count with no ease as war ceases
Monday, 14 August 2006
The people who lost the most from the Israeli-Lebanon conflict are those who were sacrificed in the proxy war between American and Iran, neither Israel nor Lebanon have gained anything - rather they would have to talk to each other.
Not leaving on a jet plane soon
Sunday, 13 August 2006
The number of planned terror attacks have been foiled, we are told, with that comes greater paranoia from the United States than the terrorists themselves could have intended. It you as much as have any liq
Daytime television a cure for current news
Tuesday, 8 August 2006
Well, I have gone off the news, my remote control deliberately misses every news channel as daytime television seems a welcome relief.
Somehow, Israel can do no wrong
Monday, 31 July 2006
The angel of death arrives in Qana, Lebanon a second time, on the wings of American supplied bombs, autographed by religious Jews and chaperoned by Israeli aircraft. This is utter madness.
Condi is not welcome in Lebanon
Sunday, 30 July 2006
Sometimes you just have to speak up and stop being run around by seemingly benevolent but insincere friends. Lebanon has reached that stage with America by saying the Secretary of State is not welcome. A snub as good as you can get.
A poker hand of unintended consequences
Sunday, 30 July 2006
The gamble US, Britain and Israel have taken in the Lebanon issue can see a better resolution than new occupations. Israel should relinquish occupied territories of Shebaa Farms and Golan Heights. That is the really hard but courageous decision.
Precision-guided resolutions that miss the target
Thursday, 27 July 2006
The question is how precision-guided weapons can accidentally hit a prominent target. Then I examine the UN SC Resolution 1559 and find that we might not have heard the whole truth of that matter of Israeli withdrawal. Syria it appears did more.
The Red Cross marks the missile target - Updated
Wednesday, 26 July 2006
Two ambulances get blown up with the missiles coming through the centre of the Red Cross on the roof and a clearly marked UN observers post is obliterated with surgical precision. This wild and reckless party is getting atrocious by the day.
Evidence of good medical research
Tuesday, 25 July 2006
That testtube baby is 28 today - that was research done in Europe for the benefit of all - hopefully, America and see through the emotion of stem cell research just as Europe did yesterday.
Pay up or get bombed up
Tuesday, 25 July 2006
In a suit filed in the US, it has come to light that one of the reasons there might still be Americans left to be evacuated from Lebanon is they were at one time required to agree to pay the costs of their evacuation. Get we get any lower?
Condolezza condoles with aid
Tuesday, 25 July 2006
Dr Rice's unannounced visit to Lebanon finished every semblance of genuine friendship between the Lebanese and America as they are being sacrificed on the altar of some new Middle-East order. Know your friends.
Condolezza brings condolences - maybe more
Sunday, 23 July 2006
Until America demands a cessation of violence by every forceful means possible, this Middle-East conflict would only continue. To now learn that Israel is asking for an arms order to be speeded up from the US, leaves much to be desired of the US.
Attempting to stem the tide of science with one veto
Thursday, 20 July 2006
The Presidential veto against federal funding of stem cell research shows how emotive subjects can be hijacked with political aplomp regardless of the scientific benefits. Thankfully, science would progress regardless.
Keeping moral convictions out of the US Constitution
Wednesday, 19 July 2006
Yesterday, the Senate voted to allow stem cell research with human embryos and the House voted to reject a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Karl Rove must be in overdrive on how to rescue this situation for the November 2006 Election.
Peace eludes our time with appeasement
Monday, 17 July 2006
Evacuating foreign citizens of influential countries from Lebanon is the best tacit appeasement that would help the troubles escalate beyond manageable proportions. I fear for when those Israeli rockets land inadvertently in Iran and Syria.
A crusading psychopath is in a war near you
Sunday, 16 July 2006
The shortage of army manpower in America lead to relaxing the rules of recruitment, Steven Green benefited and now has a rap sheet of rape and murder committed in Iraq. They created a monster of a pussy-cat criminal and dumped back in society.
Forked-tongues fuelling the Middle-Eastern fires
Saturday, 15 July 2006
Where would we find a seriously honest broker to look at the facts of the Middle-East Conflict and get the protagonists to face their responsibilities to global peace squarely and act accordingly? America is not in the frame for honest brokerage.
Spooky Brother Act as Spook goes to Court
Friday, 14 July 2006
Polish twin brothers as heads of government depending on who you are looking at and the spy throws a pie in the face of the White House - when you uncover a spy - well ...
Dummies guide to removing thorns
Friday, 14 July 2006
The way Israel is going about removing the Palestinian thorn in their sides would hurt Israel more than it would hurt Palestine eventually. This belligerence is patently not the solution to the Middle East Conflict.
6th of July - 1942, 1946 & 2006
Thursday, 6 July 2006
On this day, Anne Frank's family sought refuge from the Nazi's in the Secret Annex and 4 years later this day George W. Bush arrived in the first tranche of baby-boomers - Does history have much to teach us?
Justice! Delayed, denied and deceased
Wednesday, 5 July 2006
Kenneth Lay is dead and the Enron case is unfinished - where is the justice in unfinished matters like this?
Blasting the hostage out of Gaza
Friday, 30 June 2006
I am not sure that the destruction of Palestinian infrastructure in Gaza would lead to the kind of resolution we all desire, the release of the young soldier-conscript. Does Israel have any tool beyond might in this conflict?
They hate our freedoms
Saturday, 24 June 2006
Now we hear that the US Government is livid about the revelation that they have been trawling through international banking transactions since 2001 - looks like this government hates our freedom to know what they have been up to.
Making an ass of the law
Wednesday, 21 June 2006
Having to contend with the notion that the law is an ass is one thing, but when people who should know better deliberately advocate making an ass of the law for some sort of gain, one really should be concerned, very concerned.
Stealthily from Camp David to Camp Al-Nasr
Tuesday, 13 June 2006
I am beginning to wonder if news stories are used as decoys to announce the president is in one place whilst on his way to some troubled zone like Iraq,
The new uncompassionate, insensitive and heartless conservative
Tuesday, 13 June 2006
Suicides and a book come together in taking the humanity out of conservatism - lots of God and no milk of compassion.
Powerless against the 'Gitmo' noose
Sunday, 11 June 2006
Having prevented death through hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay was caught napping as 3 inmates commit suicide by hanging. Discounting Bush's concerns and asymmetric warfare as bunkum. Despair lead to the suicides - expect more or close that place.
Insemination Tax Credit
Tuesday, 6 June 2006
If the President of the United States is really serious about strong marriages, he should stop going after gay marriage and rather strengthen marriage through Insemination Tax Credits.
Galvanising by gay-bashing
Sunday, 4 June 2006
It is another election year in America and the gays would have it in the neck because that is the only way to bring out his support.
Morphing into Texan Bambi
Friday, 2 June 2006
After the contriteness of Mr Bush last week, the changes that fits into the whole scheme of things could be the birth of a more humane presidency, not a lame duck valedictory.
Lady Oddjob decapitates Poster Child
Tuesday, 16 May 2006
Yesterday evening Mrs Verdonk called Ayaan Hirsi Ali and told her, her Dutch citizenship was suspect if not invalid. Basically, she cannot be a Member of Parliament. Opportunism has trumped perspective - what chance other immigrants?
Lady Oddjob does about face on Poster Child
Monday, 15 May 2006
Between Friday and today, Ayaan Hirsi Ali has gone from not having anything to worry about to an inquiry opened by the minister of two opinions. Meanwhile, a job beckons for her in the US, an opportunity to say "Good Riddance" to Dutch ambiguity.
Desiring a Palestinian Passover
Thursday, 11 May 2006
The Israelis celebrate in the peace of their borders and the desperation just beyond their walls as Passover arrives with the angel of death hovering over Palestine - all because the West is being unduly sanctimonious about Hamas.
Diplomatic tactlessness
Tuesday, 9 May 2006
The Iranian President writes to George Bush - they read and castigate - are there not other ways to reply to a letter? The US could have been more discrete, sensitive and mature about this episode - Unlikely!!
America! Your move
Monday, 8 May 2006
A few days ago, I lamented the fact that presidents at war do not chat to each other before the break-out of hostilities. It now transpires the president of Iran has written to President Bush. This is an opportunity - do not miss it.
Old-age Rum's field day
Friday, 5 May 2006
A hapless septuagenarian was heckled during an important speech to his supporters, then accused of lying. How rotten! This is in empathetic concern and commiseration. Why badger a poor old man?
Death eludes the State
Wednesday, 3 May 2006
The jury decision to give Moussaoui a sentence of life imprisonment without parole might just end the obsession with the death penalty in America. Is the President and the Governors listening?
The Coalition of the Unviable
Tuesday, 2 May 2006
The release of the Failed States Index of 2006 has the United States squarely in the centre of the trouble in 3 of the 10 Top though they come in at 128. More could be read to the figures with another thorough analysis.
M'aider! M'aider! Mayday! Regime Change coming to you!
Monday, 1 May 2006
It appears US plans are well advanced to attack and disarm Iran at the least, beyond that, create the kind of popular unrest to unseat the Mullahs. Methinks, the US is on another miscalculation strategy - the lessons of Iraq having been forgotten
DeepThroat II exposed too early
Thursday, 27 April 2006
A CIA employee was sacked six days before retirement for unauthorised access to the press for exposing some activities in the secret services and possibly the Presidency which are almost certainly illegal. Whistle-blowers - an endangered species.
The defence of the YesMen Generals
Monday, 24 April 2006
As if I needed any more convincing that Rumsfeld should step down. The Lexington column in the Economist this week helped clarify in detail the argument that he should have been pensioned off from year dot.
The unjust condemnation of Palestinian choice
Tuesday, 18 April 2006
This is my second analysis of democracy where party ideology on which elections are won suffer an onslaught for change. It is like asking Republican conservative ideology to go liberal or communist.
Iraq is far away from a Gettysburg Address
Monday, 17 April 2006
I begin a series of examining what democracy means and why the ideals of the Gettysburg Address are beginning to look impossible to attain.
Same Sex Marriage gets read the Riot Act in Nigeria
Friday, 14 April 2006
As Nigerian legislators get into their finest debating aplomb at the first reading of the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act it is hopeless to expect that any other bill will receive as much attention and interesting in the entire legilative calendar.
The Barbarian Ruling Class
Friday, 14 April 2006
Politicians and leaders in the military seem to be missing an essential component in their education; an appreciation of history, culture, heritage and values. Babylon is plundered and the Colonel in charge fails to grasp the error.
Eureka! is Farsi for Enrichment
Wednesday, 12 April 2006
Iran is enriched with the ability to enrich uranium, have we forgotten they just tested a supercavitation missile last week? Oil, gold, war, markets - what else is being knocked out of stability?
In the coop as coup sounds like coon so soon
Saturday, 25 March 2006
A racial slur puts a talk show host out of work. Mind your words.
Innocent red blood spun as roses in their bloom
Friday, 17 March 2006
Operation Swarmer has us sniggering with utter cynicism as the President's ratings seeks a fillip off an Iraqi-Coalition offensive in the town of the destroyed shrine. Impressed, I am not.
Fatwa evangelist blurts out again
Tuesday, 14 March 2006
Pat Robertson the US TV Evangelist speaks again - Islam is demonic - How do religious leaders get away with such statements?
Madhatters cap on civil liberties
Thursday, 9 March 2006
A dear lady of years is asked to take her hat off in an English pub because she constitutes a security risk if the CCTV cannot get a clear view of her face. Funny as it may seem, it shows just how much of our liberty we have left.
Judicial Backwaters - Guantanamo Countdown
Saturday, 18 February 2006
Enemy combatants, citizens of nowhere and residents of the abyss of Guantanamo Bay find that confinement in this well run detention centre excludes them from the most powerful weapon of conversion to good - JUSTICE!!!
The dog or the wild lioness
Sunday, 25 December 2005
Just as a present of Russian dolls, each opening reveals more truth about the extent of surveillance sanctioned by the President without due process or oversight. Iraq is beginning to look like a stronger democracy, from certain perspectives.
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