Who is America to judge?
After Abu Ghraib, Gitmo and extraordinary renditions, other countries now challenge America's standing on human rights
The US state department's annual human rights report got an unusual amount of criticism this year. This time the centre-left coalition government of Chile was notable in joining other countries such as Bolivia, Venezuela and China – who have had more rocky relations with Washington – in questioning the moral authority of the US government's judging other countries' human rights practices.
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If Britain became complicit in torture, we must discover who is to blame
The only way to answer charges of a political cover-up is to hand this case over to the director of public prosecutions
Next week, the foreign secretary will present the Foreign Office's annual report on human rights violations around the world. For anyone who cares about Britain and human rights, it will feel difficult to ask about anything except the British government's own entanglement in a case of torture.
We can start by blaming Jack Straw and David Miliband for their respective roles in allowing the CIA to operate its flights of extra-ordinary rendition from UK soil.
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Well this is just typical isnt it?
The governments of both the UK and USA are experts in manipulating the Law/the Judicary and the Criminal Injustice Industry to suit themselves.
A glimmer of truth has come out but it has only come out by accident....
I doubt very much that the DPP will be able to shed much light on the matter particularly after the laughable dropping of charges against Gov luvvies in the Cash for peerages fiasco.
As George Orwell predicated in his novel on the surveillance state "1984" its one law for Politicos
( who can and do get away with murder) and another for Proles.
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