Perfect Timing - or What?
Oscar Wildebeest picks up rather neatly on the blatant hypocrisy in the media. The story he comments on is this: Two Britons and an Australian, Rupert and Linda Wise, and Paul Shulton were detained by the Iranian authorities without charge for a period of thirteen days. And, naturally they are all horrified at this unseemly behaviour on the part of this nasty regime…
As Oscar points out:
“The British parliament votes to allow detention for twenty-eight days without charge, and people say it’s too lenient. Anyone else find this ironic?”
Well, yes, I do. But does our beloved leader, the Right Dishonourable Saint Tone of Blair? Does the media that is livid with its righteous indignation at this imprisonment? I very much doubt it. Irony is lost on these people.
The timing couldn’t be better, though. Habeas Corpus? What’s that, then? Oh, I see, it only matters to traitors.
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But Longrider, you clearly have misunderstood.
Our police good; other police bad. Our government good; other government bad. It’s the same for everyone and every country. Please don’t confuse the issue with selective counter-examples; it really does not help.
If you will not take it from me, take it from Tom Paxton (with acknowledgement of his and any other copyright).
“Daily News”: http://lyrics.rare-lyrics.com/T/Tom-Paxton/Daily-News.html
“Seems like the whole damn world’s gone wrong; Saint Joe McCarthy is dead and gone; How do I know? I read it in the Daily News”
“J. Edgar Hoover is the man of the hour; All he needs is just a little more power; How do I know? I read it in the Daily News”
“What did you learn in school today?” http://www.ocap.ca/songs/learnsch.html
“I learned that policemen are my friends; I learned that justice never ends; I learned that murderers die for their crimes; Even if we make a mistake sometimes; And that’s what I learned in school today; That’s what I learned in school”
“I learned that our government must be strong; It’s always right and never wrong; Our leaders are the finest men; So we elect them again and again; And that’s what I learned in school today; That’s what I learned in school”
Best regards
Comment by A visitor — November 12, 2005 @ 14:59