blessed britons

The British government has:
- proclaimed for itself the right to use torture evidence in legal proceedings;
- devised agreements to make it possible to send people back to the risk of torture;
- attempted to overturn European human rights law banning such returns;
- refused to condemn (and thus condoned) the U.S. policy of “extraordinary rendition”—state kidnap, delivering people to be tortured in third countries;
- shared information with other governments that led to the apprehension of UK residents who were then subjected to “extraordinary rendition” by the U.S.;
- whitewashed (and thus condoned) U.S. policies on torture.

mad world

On one level there is absolutely nothing wrong with importing goods and services to meet our needs; but our eyes are bigger than our planet. If the whole world understandably wanted to copy our levels of consumption, we would need the resources of more than three planets like Earth. And, we only have one. Our economy and way of life need to make contact with the real world before we eat accidentally eat it whole.

— New Economics Foundation

Britain starts eating the planet

AI would not condemn apartheid

Submitted by antarchi on November 20, 2007 - 01:22.

you'll see a pretty good coincidence of the enemies that Amnesty International goes after and the interests of both the United States and British governments. Let's take an older example – apartheid in South Africa under the former criminal regime in South Africa. Amnesty International refused adamantly to condemn apartheid in South Africa. Despite my best efforts while I was on the board, and other board members, they would not do it. They are the only human rights organization in the entire world to have refused to condemn apartheid in South Africa. Now they can give you some cock-and-bull theory about why they wouldn't do this. But the bottom line was that the biggest supporter, economic and political supporter of the criminal apartheid regime in South Africa was the British government, followed by the United States government. And so no matter how hard we tried, no matter what we did, they would not condemn apartheid in South Africa. Now I just mention that as one among many examples.

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blessed britons

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AI would not condemn apartheid