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Category Archives: Justice
Oklahoma!
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our Mission Statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 19 March 2018 NO, NO, OKLAHOMA! לֹא תִּרְצָח The last time Oklahoma hogged the global limelight – … Continue reading
Posted in China, Economics, Egypt, Europe, Germany, Globalisation, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Justice, Pakistan, Politics, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Torture, UK, Uruguay, USA
Tagged Also Sprach Zarathrustra, Amnesty International, Beheading, Choctaw, Clayton Lockett, Council of Europe, Crucifixion, death penality, European Union, Exodus, Fred Zinnemann, Friedrich Nietzsche, gas chambers, Gordon MacRae, Hitler, Holocaust, Jesus Christ, King James version, Mary Fallin, Moses, Mount Sinai, Nazis, nitrogen gas, okla humma, Oklahoma, Old Testament, Oliver Cromwell, Red Indians, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Shirley Jones, Texas, Thou shalt not kill, Tulsa, Twin Towers, US Eighth Amendment, Virginia, World War II
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Butchery of the Innocents
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our Mission Statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 22 February 2018 A bill has been tabled in the Icelandic Parliament that would ban circumcision … Continue reading
Posted in COUNTRIES/INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, Europe, Finland, Health, Iceland, Israel, Justice, Politics, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, UK, USA
Tagged Agnes M. Sigurðardóttir, circumcision, Council of Europe, European Court of Human Rights, Hippocrates of Kos, Hippocratic Oath, Icelanic Progressive Party, Islam, Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Silja Dögg Gunnarsdóttir, surgery
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Crocodile tears
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 4 January 2014 я сижу на шее у человека , задавил его и требую , чтобы … Continue reading
Posted in Justice, Literature, Politics, Russia, USA
Tagged "What Then Must We Do?", crocodile tears, Leo Tolstoy, morality, oppression, serfs, Tsarist Russia
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Read my lips
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 13 December 2013 “There will be no downgrading of human rights under this Government…” William Hague, … Continue reading
Guantanobama
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 1 July 2013 GUANTANOBAMA VISITS AFRICA US President “Guantanobama” is in Africa. Great stuff. His … Continue reading
Posted in Justice, Politics, USA
Tagged Guantánamo, Magna Carta, Obama in Africa, Robben Island, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania
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“Sod off, you stupid prat!”
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 17 March 2013 A VICTORY FOR FREE SPEECH On 23 February 2008 at the annual agricultural … Continue reading
Posted in France, Justice
Tagged Animal Farm, Casse-toi pov'con, George Orwell, Helvétius, Hervé Eon, Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy, Voltaire
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Secret courts and partitocracy
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 13 March 2013 We have frequently criticised the stranglehold over political life exercised by the leaders … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, Justice, Politics, Torture, UK
Tagged Joe Stalin, Mao Zedong, UK Liberal Democrats, UK secret courts
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Diamonds in the sand
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 15 February 2013 “If we manage to lead a good life, we make our lives tiny … Continue reading
Posted in Justice, Philosophy, UK, USA
Tagged Harvard, Magdalen College (Oxford), Ronald Dworkin, the cosmos, the good life, Worcester (Massachusetts)
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UK repudiates Magna Carta
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 13 November 2012 Britain’s most high-profile political prisoner, Muslim cleric Abu Qatada, has been released on … Continue reading
“No human rights on battlefield”
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 20 October 2012 British soldiers who die or are injured in action cannot sue their government … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Iraq, Justice, Military, UK
Tagged European Court of Human Rights, human rights, Iraq War, UK Court of Appeal
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