Now that Enemy No 1 has been killed can we all go back to normal now with international civil liberties? Will governments now claim that Al Qaeda is even more of a threat as they seek revenge for the USA’s revenge killing in this Abrahamic tit-for-tat?
It will only end with our leaders stripping away all our civil liberties in the name of security as they themselves make the world an unsafe place for us to live, work and enjoy life in. Revenge supercedes the requirement of UN resolutions or the sovereignty of nations.
The USA has shown it is a childish immature nation with too much pocket money to buy power and fancy toys. Why could the USA not set a global example of justice and moral high ground by capturing Osama bin Laden alive and make him stand trial as an ordinary citizen, which is what he was. Never mind questions of ‘oh but where would he be tried and under which jurisdiction’ we did not even get to consider a trial as it was not an option and that is the tragedy of the assassination of bin Laden – the loss of the rule of law.
The legal system may not be as swift or glamorous as 007-style Navy SEALS but it exists as a framework of a civilized society. No one and no one nation should be accepted as being above the law, is our planet about to become an ungovernable free-for-all?
We are all now treated as potential terrorists, our own governments look at us suspiciously turning neighbours and communities against each other and thinking of new ways to invade our privacy like 3D scanning of our bodies in airports. We lost the civil liberties war a long time ago.
Bubbly
