Body scanners, airport security and right-wing paranoia
Focus on WHAT - not WHO - is on the airplane. As argued on the blog in the past, no airplane has every fallen out of the sky because of a "dangerous person" on -board. Nope - the presence of a "dangerous person" seated on an airplane alone has never caused harm to an airplane. Indeed, on Christmas Day, 2009, an airplane landed in Detroit with the "dangerous person" on-board because of failure of his instrumentality to do harm. Rather than be concerned with WHO is on-board an airplane, we need to be concerned with WHAT is brought onto an airplane. The body scanners and pat downs are a step in the right direction - away from WHO and a focus on WHAT.
Categories: American politics, Freedom and Liberty, Human rights in America, Islam moral panic Tags:
OSCE critical of American police arrests of journalists
The OSCE has condemned that arrests of Russia Today journalists in the US state of Georgia, while they were covering a protest outside the Fort Benning army base.That's nice of the OSCE, but human rights violations of this sort of political nature by American police is growing - in fact - I would contend that arresting protesters and journalists is now standard American police practice that is in bad need of rebuke by international institutiions, like the OSCE.
Categories: American politics, American world order, Criminal justice or injustice, European values, Freedom and Liberty, Human rights in America Tags:
Other purposes for”Treaty change.”
We should be suspicion of the call to change the Lisbon Treaty by right-wing political figures in some Member States. The desire to change the finical functions of ToL could also be used to undermine social rights of Europeans. We should take a look at the Thatcherites and Margaret Thatcher's minions in Paris and Berlin, as well as watch out for the Thatcherites minions in The Hague.
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Hypocritical Netherlands crows about Burma elections!
Burma elections. Well - the human rights of religious and ethnic minorities is at stake, and any condemnation by the Netherlands of others' persecutor habits really sounds like hypocritical rubbish! Given that the Dutch government has protected the psychotic PVV-voters, this really stinks of hypocrisy from the Dutch government!
Categories: "Dutch Islamophobic idiocy", Freedom and Liberty, Geert Wilders, International system, Netherlands Tags:
