blessed britons

I must remind you ... this was done in violation of the United Nations Charter by using lies; I am not mincing my words: they were lies, damn lies. By throwing people out of their land, the British government knowingly led many of the them to a certain death. No human being would treat another human being the way the British treated the Chagossian people. For a comparison we have to go back to the days of slavery. And for this, Britain received a thieves' ransom; and still they refuse to obey the court and let people go even to the outer islands.

— Cassam Uteem

mad world

According to the official case record, Supreme Court Justice Morrison Remick Waite simply pronounced before the beginning of argument in the case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company (1886) that:
The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of opinion that it does.

— David Korten

The Post-Corporate World

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Submitted by antarchi on May 23, 2007 - 01:34.

Many resistance movements in poor countries which are fighting huge injustice and questioning the underlying principles of what constitutes "liberation" and "development" view human rights non-government organizations as modern-day missionaries who have come to take the ugly edge off imperialism - to defuse political anger and to maintain the status quo.
Arundhati Roy, in Peace Without Justice is Capitulation to Corporate Coups
I worry that she is right not only in perceiving that to be the way 'we' are perceived; but even that she is right that that is all we are. Her nuggets are littered all over this site, they are so golden.
Perhaps most importantly, and a clear message for the international HRE missionaries: "talking of justice without unmasking the institutions and the systems that perpetrate injustice is beyond hypocritical." So let us not aim to be 'neutral' and 'non-political' - unless we are aiming to be hypocritical.

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