Lord Falconer - Whittering on about subjects he knows nothing about(again)

The Lord Chancellor a chap who got his cushy unelected job through being a close pal on Tony Blair PM has been sounding off in that well known lefty paper The Guardian, he says:

Guantánamo Bay is a "shocking affront to the principles of democracy" and a violation of the rule of law. Principles being used in any context by a member of this government is what I find shocking.

The criticism from the highest-ranking official in the British legal system(see the bit about unelected again at the top) represents the most direct government attack yet on the US military detention camp. Despite suggestions in recent months that Guantánamo could be closed soon, the US president, George Bush, last week signalled that the camp, in Cuba, would remain open for the long term. Hurrah for that.

Mr Bush announced that 14 terror suspects had been transferred to Guantánamo from the CIA's network of secret prisons.

In a speech in Australia, Lord Falconer also attacked the use of torture. The US government has admitted using "alternative techniques" on some terror suspects, although it does not consider its interrogation methods to be torture. Here I have to disagree with Falconer, the bearded crazies who are happy to lop of heads and blow up buildings/buses/trains and slaughter school children for their glorious faith(sic) should know that if they fall into our hands they would face electrodes being attached their dangly bits.

The techniques - described in an ABC news report last November and never denied by the US government - include enforced standing for days at a time, the confinement of naked prisoners in cold and damp cells and simulated drownings. Hell the stuff descirbed here is nothing more than a mild hazing.

Lord Falconer said Washington was "deliberately seeking to put the Guantánamo detainees beyond the reach of law" and that "use of torture by a state is contrary to fundamental human rights law". Blah blah blah.

"Democracies can only survive where judges have the power to protect the rights of the individual," he said, although he keeps quiet over the rights of those killed by the bearded crazies.

New laws being put before the US Congress by Mr Bush would ensure Guantánamo inmates are tried in military courts without access to independent judges. There are understood to be around 470 inmates at the camp.

Lord Falconer's speech was revised overnight to include a passage underlining that his criticisms did not change the UK's status as a "close and staunch ally" of Washington. Does America really need a close ally like Falconer? Maybe he should go somewhere where his anti US bias would be appreciated, like France.

Earlier this year, Lord Falconer gave a speech in which he said the camp was a "recruiting agent" for al-Qaida, but other UK criticisms have been much more guarded than today's. Tony Blair has never gone beyond describing it as an "anomaly". Funny I thought the recruiting agents for al-Qaida where in the muslim schools and doleing out hate videos at Friday prayers.

However, in an interview with the BBC this morning, Lord Falconer refused to give help to at least eight British residents currently imprisoned at Guantánamo. Appealing for the release of the detainees - who have lived in the UK but are not British citizens - was the responsibility of their respective governments, he said. At least that is some common sense from the man, after all do we need another 8 bearded crazies, living on benefits and writting hate articles against the Great Satan, sorry the US in The Guardian(aka Begg and the other members of the Tipton Taliban)

Zachary Katznelson, a senior counsel at the prisoners' charity Reprieve, said the detainees would be released as soon as the British government agreed to accept them. Then lets hope we leave them their to rot.

Finally on a different subject:

Ten things I would rather do than vote for Gordon Brown(in no order):

1. Go to France, eat French food or learn French.
   
2. Say John Prescott is a talented man who is mis understood.
   
3. Agree with my local windbag MP, the lying libelist Paul Flynn(Labour)
   
4. Watch Living TV
   
5. Say Talk Talk is a good telecoms company.
   
6. Buy designer clothes.
   
7. Shake Tony Blairs hand.
   
8. Watch Judge Dredd the movie a 2nd time.
9. Go back to using Internet Explorer.
   
10. Vote Labour.
    

Safe to say El Gordo aka Cyclops will never ever get my vote.

Gordon Brown
Lord Falconer

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