At least we didn’t cut his head off with a machete
‘The British government abhors torture and would never authorise it or condone it,’ says our fine, upstanding Foreign Secretary and moral paragon, David Miliband. But if a so-called ally in the so-called war against terror wants to soften a fellow up before we question him, well hey, what are you going to do?
But before we rush to judgment, let’s look at how useful the beatings and medieval torture have been…
Upon his return to England after more than four years inside Guantánamo, Mohamed will be taken to a secure, secret location in order for him to be fully rehabilitated by a team of volunteer doctors and psychiatrists. Mohamed will be kept under a “voluntary security arrangement” which involves reporting to the authorities, but he will not be subject to an anti-terror control order. His lawyers reiterate that he has nothing to hide after US terror charges against him were dropped last year.
So there we have it. That’s what mutilating a man’s genitals gets you – precisely bugger all intelligence and a cascade of revolting stories and testimony which, in a universe with proper system of morality, would see this government tossed into prison or one of the more disgusting circles of Dante’s Inferno. How’s them ‘Western Values’ working for you?
Posted on February 22nd, 2009 at 9:50am under Affronts to democracy, Crime and punishment, Human rights, New Labour, T.W.A.T.
Sick. Where are the Tony Blair proscribed christian values?
They’re perfectly compatible with human rights abuses, apparently…
When Mr Blair was warned by the home secretary in a private letter that there was “ample evidence from a range of sources of serious human rights abuses in Egypt”, and that there was “little scope for pushing deportations any further”, he replied: “This is crazy. Why can’t we press on?”
“Mohamed will be taken to a secure, secret location in order for him to be fully rehabilitated by a team of volunteer doctors and psychiatrists. Mohamed will be kept under a “voluntary security arrangement” which involves reporting to the authorities”
Sounds about as voluntary as ID cards if you ask me.
“but he will not be subject to an anti-terror control order.”
Oh well that’s all right then. Gotta love that third sector outsourcing. Keeps everything nice and deniable – hang on, that sounds familiar…
I think dave milliband should surrender his israeli passport