Barclay (Dark Angel)
Ninja Hippy
I thought I'd look the word up in my dictionary :-
1. A performance of a musical composition
2. A transalation
Mmmmm. That doesn't help much.
So, http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1657735,00.html
Apparently we the UK, could be held in breach of international law for allowing and assisting the CIA in its performance of this musical composition. Well, that's fine by me. So far as I'm concerned you can prosecute the bastards all the way to hell and back.
But there are a couple of interesting points in the article.
"We do not move people around the world so they can be tortured," Stephen Hadley, the White House's adviser, said yesterday, pledging that the Bush administration would deal with the issue "in a comprehensive way". In briefings officials said she would remind European ministers that their governments had cooperated in anti-terror operations with the US."
You bloody what? Remind the European Govts about what? It sounds a bit like, "if I'm going down, you're going down with me". It's definitely an implied threat. Well fuck you Condi!
Then :-
"Andrew Tyrie, the Tory MP and chairman of the parliamentary group, said: "By apparently assisting the US in the practice of extraordinary rendition, the UK and the west are losing the moral high ground so valuable to foreign policy since the end of the cold war."
Wake up and smell the coffee Andrew. The UK, the US and their allies lost the moral high ground years ago...
Hugs,
Barclay
1. A performance of a musical composition
2. A transalation
Mmmmm. That doesn't help much.
So, http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1657735,00.html
Apparently we the UK, could be held in breach of international law for allowing and assisting the CIA in its performance of this musical composition. Well, that's fine by me. So far as I'm concerned you can prosecute the bastards all the way to hell and back.
But there are a couple of interesting points in the article.
"We do not move people around the world so they can be tortured," Stephen Hadley, the White House's adviser, said yesterday, pledging that the Bush administration would deal with the issue "in a comprehensive way". In briefings officials said she would remind European ministers that their governments had cooperated in anti-terror operations with the US."
You bloody what? Remind the European Govts about what? It sounds a bit like, "if I'm going down, you're going down with me". It's definitely an implied threat. Well fuck you Condi!
Then :-
"Andrew Tyrie, the Tory MP and chairman of the parliamentary group, said: "By apparently assisting the US in the practice of extraordinary rendition, the UK and the west are losing the moral high ground so valuable to foreign policy since the end of the cold war."
Wake up and smell the coffee Andrew. The UK, the US and their allies lost the moral high ground years ago...
Hugs,
Barclay