Sunday, October 28, 2007

IT'S A CRIME IHT: "American and European rights groups filed a legal complaint in France accusing former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for torture in Iraq and at the Guantanamo Bay military prison, the groups said Friday. The complaint says Rumsfeld, in his former position as defense secretary, 'authorized and ordered crimes of torture to be carried out ... as well as other war crimes'." Politicians like Bush, Blair, Cheney, Rice are war criminals and should stand trial as such. As the crimes of those in power increase there is a increasing tendency to criminalize the citizen. This seems to be directly proportional to the level of criminality of those in power: the greater the crimes of politicians, the more they will enact laws that make innocent and civil things liable to persecution. BBC: "These are strange times and we have a strange law - it's a mix of Kafkaesque absurdism and British bureaucratic prowess which has lead us to the state where a woman was threatened with arrest for having a picnic in Parliament Square. Her cake had the word PEACE iced upon it and the police insisted this counted as an unauthorised political protest. Welcome to the world of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act. This is the law that requires you to get permission from the police to demonstrate in Parliament Square. However, what counts as a demonstration according to the police is one person with a banner or one person with a badge standing in Parliament Square for just one minute. Being arrested for wearing a badge or a T shirt seems a tad Kim Jong Il to me. And on Red Nose Day I had to apply and receive permission from the police to wear a red nose in Parliament Square. The police advised me that if I wore a red nose without permission I could be arrested for having an unauthorised demonstration." 1:24:31 PM

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