The Uncensored Household
Murderers and drug smugglers can hold on to their British passports but the British government is considering revoking passports of Britsh born Muslim men/boys who have decided to go and fight in the Syrian war against the Assad regime and the creeping mission to other parts of the Middle East.
Does the British government represent the people or are we under its rule and at the mercy of its whims and disregard of human rights?
The names and places change but the sad fact is that I am war fatigued and rather disillusioned and skeptical of Western governments justification of their desire to intervene in Syria. No one listens to the general public and there is no alternative political party to vote for, only war-mongering ones. The Assad regime is no longer fashionable and Britain is on the side of the rebels. Except the British government’s mouthpiece, the BBC, casually mentions towns that are captured by the rebels and the death toll of civilians at the hands of the rebels – 67 was the number of civilian deaths in ONE town in the last news report I listened to and they are meant to be the goodies!!
The old global political alliances seem to be reassuring us that nothing has changed in their mentality since the Cold War.
Only yesterday, I was declaring Sepp Blatt to be a knobhead and within minutes we have a new knobhead of the day.
Today’s coveted award goes to Osaka mayor, Toru Hashimoto, who said that there is no proof that thousands of Korean women that were the sex slaves
Do you remember when countries (usually the USA) were considering striking another country and there would be news conferences and statements of intent, solidarity and reasoning? This would be followed by a statement from the British Prime Minister stating the UK’s position. One morning I woke up to news that France had started a war in Mali, albeit on the side of the Mali government, against Islamist insurgents inside Mali. None of the previous protocol seems to have taken place.
Even formerly sympathetic people find themselves disgusted by Israel’s mini war on Hammas and the Palestinians.
The timing has been blamed on Israeli elections taking place in January and that the war should make Netenyahu look good and distract from social politics to his favoured security politics. Well, I’m sure the Gazans dying ‘by accident’
You may have read about the alleged killing spree that Staff-Sergeant Robert Bales went on in Afghanistan killing seventeen people including women and children as they slept in their houses.
It is news today that the US government paid compensation to the remaining relatives of the deceased but it was news over the weekend
As Libyans queue to see the, now decomposing and gruesome, body of Gaddafi a body of another kind – the pathetic United Nations – seeks to charge the soldiers responsible for killing Gadaffi under international war crimes!
It does make me wonder whether the closest these government pen pushers ever got to a war
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