Terror
Another good day not to be in London yesterday. Now the police shoot at terrorist suspects to kill (aiming for the head, not body, in case theyre carrying a bomb)
Random searches of tube passengers are on the increase too. In the US, there are concerns over civil liberties implications of such a policy (via Stellito) but hey, when you don't have a constitution, it isn't such a big deal...
It would appear Al-Qaeda affiliates are responsible for a bomb that has killed more than 80 people in Sharm El Sheik in Egypt.
Meanwhile, an advert in the FT and an email from Oxfam appealing for donations to help famine-relief in West Africa brought the current crisis to my attention.
The UN were trying to get money to get aid to the region at the beginning of June, calling for a miniscule $16.2m to get food in to Niger, but by June the 3rd had "not had a single pledge for money for its Niger appeal."
I'm sure many would think it in bad taste to try to make comparisons, but there have to be priorities in these matters, and I am rather uneasy at the sharp focus on the UN's condemnation of Mugabe's undeniably disastrous bulldozing campaign, while there's nearly no coverage of the developing famine. The attention there is has come too late, it would seem.
Random searches of tube passengers are on the increase too. In the US, there are concerns over civil liberties implications of such a policy (via Stellito) but hey, when you don't have a constitution, it isn't such a big deal...
It would appear Al-Qaeda affiliates are responsible for a bomb that has killed more than 80 people in Sharm El Sheik in Egypt.
Meanwhile, an advert in the FT and an email from Oxfam appealing for donations to help famine-relief in West Africa brought the current crisis to my attention.
The UN were trying to get money to get aid to the region at the beginning of June, calling for a miniscule $16.2m to get food in to Niger, but by June the 3rd had "not had a single pledge for money for its Niger appeal."
I'm sure many would think it in bad taste to try to make comparisons, but there have to be priorities in these matters, and I am rather uneasy at the sharp focus on the UN's condemnation of Mugabe's undeniably disastrous bulldozing campaign, while there's nearly no coverage of the developing famine. The attention there is has come too late, it would seem.
posted by UK plc at 12:57 PM
1 Comments:
What blows my mind is the idea that they're talking about extending the period of holding a suspect without charging him/her from two weeks to three months. (Cf habeas corpus) Outside of Guantánamo Bay, it's illegal in the US to detain a suspect without charging them for their crime for longer than 24 hours, at least, in NY State...
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