1. Since MI5 did it, it’s not surprising they wouldn’t have any files. Unfortunately, this article furthers the lie that there were any victims on 7/7. There weren’t, like there were no victims on 9/11:
“It would be “impossible” to reveal secret MI5 files about the 7/7 London terror attacks, a court has been told.
The claim has been made at a hearing to decide the format of inquests into the deaths of those killed in 2005.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8649577.stm
2. “‘South of the Border’ Reconsidere
Given the federal government’s bloody record abroad and countless failures at home, as documented daily on this Web site, Antiwar.com’s readers should shudder at the thought of what the federal government would do to “make the border airtight,” as Raimondo recommends. It is an impossible feat, of course, and attempting to achieve it could wipe out the last of our domestic liberties and erase any remaining line, however blurry, between the police and the military.
Bringing U.S. troops home from abroad and stationing them throughout the American Southwest is a frightening prospect for Americans living there, many of whom are already harassed regularly, many miles from the border, just for the shade of their skin. Raimondo scoffs at the idea that sealing the border would result in a “police state,” but we have already seen one begin to develop in the name of stopping terrorism, immigration, and drugs. Although the threat of terrorists sneaking into the country is real and the atrocities on the border are terrible, further militarization of domestic law enforcement will not solve this government-created crisis any more than an increasingly aggressive foreign policy has solved the government-created crisis of international terrorism. There will always be a way for al-Qaeda or drug lords to circumvent the draconian measures that, in truth, hurt innocent people more than they inconvenience the villains.
By framing the drug and immigration issues as national security problems, we open the door to ever more depredations against life and liberty. There is no reason to encourage the U.S. government to tighten its stranglehold over any aspect of our lives, or to enhance its power in any way, in order to quash a catastrophe of its own making. If Americans are uncomfortable with liberalizing Washington’s drug policies and immigration controls, then they should recognize that the horrors on the Mexican border are the price they have chosen to pay (and make others pay). But giving more power to the U.S. government cannot possibly be the solution. As we see with terrorist blowback, our runaway national debt, and now the border crisis, the “biggest single threat to our national security” is not, as Raimondo writes, the 6 million people who have crossed our unenforceable border without asking the government’s permission. The true threat is Washington, D.C., and giving it another excuse to flex its muscles would be a disaster.”
http://original.antiwar.com/anthony-gregory/2010/04/28/south-of-the-border-reconsidered-3/
3. Good:
“ACLU to Obama: ‘Entire world is not a war zone’
CIA drone operators could be prosecuted for war crimes, lawyer tells Congress
The US’s unofficial program of targeted killings against terrorist suspects could result in the CIA’s drone operators being prosecuted for war crimes, a prominent law professor told a congressional hearing Wednesday.
Loyola Law School professor and former Navy officer David Glazier told a House foreign affairs subcommittee that, because CIA agents are not legally considered combatants in a war, the law could see them as being civilians who carried out killings.”
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0428/aclu-obama-entire-world-war-zone/
4. “Israel’s dog and pony show
It’s a simple strategy and one Israel uses unapologetically – creating facts on the ground they call temporary (because in theory they are still negotiating over these facts) while carrying out actions that would make a final settlement based on anything other than what they have already created almost impossible.”
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2010/04/28/israels-dog-and-pony-show
