nunoncastors

Just a quick rant to let you know I’m still alive and all that. I’ve been reading this over at the BBC and find it a little alarming.

The general gist of it is, so far as I can tell, that we change the rules of war so that all the illegal things we’ve been indulging in, Guantanamo Bay, shipping prisoners to other countries for torture, starting illegal wars because “it’s the right thing to do” and so on, become legal. Presumably prisoners of war will then be kept in metal boxes and tortured until they say what we want to hear, people will be snatched off the street for “the good of society” (no questions asked citizen) and no one need be held accountable for anything because, you know, we’re right and that’s the end of it.

Supposedly we’re meant to set an example, to show the way with democracy, freedom of speech and respect for other cultures.

A fine example we set if, when things become difficult, we change the rules. Why not do away with Magna Carta while we’re at it?

Abandon our principles, our statues and our values and we may as well admit defeat.

Not that we’re going to win.

Not that we ever could.