A court in Australia has ruled that a quadriplegic man who wants to die can tell his carers to stop feeding him.
The cries of the slippery slopers are probably already echoing around the blogosphere about this but it was the right decision – the state has no right to compel people to live against their will.
It has been said, many times, and in many places, that Hamas hides hides their weapons and soldiers among civilians and uses them as human shields. This, apparently, legitimizes Israeli military attacks on civilian targets – indeed, our own government blames innocent Palestinian deaths on Hamas because of this tactic.
I wonder what our government has to say about the Israeli army using Palestinians as human shields?
– but every once and a while I find myself in agreement with Conservative Party of Canada policy recommendations, this is one of those times.
The Conservative Party supports legislation to remove authority from the Canadian Human Rights Commission and Tribunal to regulate, receive, investigate or adjudicate complaints related to Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.
With the so-called “Death with Dignity” bill receiving the support of three out of five voters, Washington joins Oregon as the only U.S. states to legalize assisted suicide in certain conditions.
Since British Columbians share many cultural traits with the residents of Washington and Oregon, including the lowest religious institution attendance rates on the continent, it is inevitable the debate will flow north across the border.
While all the vast majority of hyper-partisan n00bs bloggers were busy complaining about attack ads and which leader of which political party had just told the biggest lie the Canadian Human Rights Commissions was busy saying that
Anyone who runs an online message board, from the lowliest vanity blogger to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, can be charged under federal human rights law if visitors to their site post hateful comments
The country that admits to engaging in water boarding, that has admitted to using napalm like substances in its’ war, that has killed prisoners during interrogations, that has kidnapped people and spirited them off to secret prisons, that is responsible for killing untold thousands of innocent civilians and rendering millions more homeless, and who invaded a country without provocation, has convicted a man for war crimes for driving a terrorist around.
The number of homosexual fantasies that have been fulfilled in the British army looks like it’s grown yet again…. is this some hitherto unknown military fetish?
The Canadian military is being criticized by a UN investigator for a lack of accountability for civilian deaths in Afghanistan, where more than 200 civilians have been killed by international military forces this year, a recent report suggests.
The findings of the WorldPublicOpinion.org poll put the United States alongside countries like Russia, Egypt and the Ukraine and lagging far behind allies like Great Britain, Spain and France in how its citizens view torture.
On the same day the BBC reported that former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz was to go on trial after five years in prison over the deaths of a group of Baghdad merchants in 1992, it was rumoured the former prime minister of Britain will be indicted for crimes against humanity.
The “What They Say -vs- What They Do” Edition
Send a trackback, or leave a comment, and ponder the simple fact that you can justify anything with the right sort of spin; as balbulican has been known to say on occasion, “a turd wrapped in tinfoil is still just a tinfoil-wrapped turd” — and torture, regardless of how you wrap it up, is still torture.
I cannot help but find Stephen Harper’s comments regarding a boycott of the Beijing Olympics more than a tad hypocritical. Why are these athletes so much more important than oppressed and poor people in countries led by tin pot dictators who we do support imposing boycotts on?
Nothing happened, these 24 women and children cowering in a bedroom probably “cleared” themselves, move along, the official record will show that nothing happened here.
So the Prime Minister of a country that throws people in jail without trial or allowing them to confront or defend themselves against their accuser(s) or the evidence against them calls the President of another country to complain about a citizen being thrown into their jail and held indefinitely without trial – is Monty Python working in the PMO now?
Subtitled: Doing What We Pretend Not To Believe In
And then September 11th happened and I began to hear new words like “towel head” and “camel jockey” and the most disturbing “sand nigger”, and these words did not initially come from my fellow soldiers but from my superiors, my Platoon Sargent, my company First Sargent, Battalion Commander, all the way up the chain of command, these terms, these viciously racist terms were suddenly acceptable.
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