Sunday, November 29, 2009
Gary McKinnon extradition decision is shameful
The UK Guardian says, inter alia "As we approach the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster on 3 December 1984, in which over 30,000 people died (and some 60,000 still suffer blindness, respiratory and other illness), it is perhaps an opportune moment to compare the US's self-serving approach to extradition. Britain has been coerced by the Washington regime to extradite Gary McKinnon, who has done no more than embarrass American security. When the Indian government repeatedly sought the extradition of Warren Anderson, the station chief of Union Carbide – the US conglomerate responsible for the Bhopal gas leak – for his culpability in the deaths and the company's wilful neglect, who had done a runner back to the States directly after the tragedy, Washington bluntly refused to hand over their man. American justice is apart from international norms."
IMO: Its clear that a great many US judicial rulings over the years, including some by Hamburger and by Learned Hand, have made the US even worse than the Guardian states. Lets hope that the Obama administration tries to improve things, but with so many disgracefully bad politicians and a corrupt judiciary on both sides of the channel, as there has been for such a long time, we certainly can't be sure of that. But after this Goatse and then the Lisa Simpson business over the Olympics, I think the UK authorities at any rate almost give the impression of being either blind or mad.
IMO: Its clear that a great many US judicial rulings over the years, including some by Hamburger and by Learned Hand, have made the US even worse than the Guardian states. Lets hope that the Obama administration tries to improve things, but with so many disgracefully bad politicians and a corrupt judiciary on both sides of the channel, as there has been for such a long time, we certainly can't be sure of that. But after this Goatse and then the Lisa Simpson business over the Olympics, I think the UK authorities at any rate almost give the impression of being either blind or mad.
# posted by uv : 5:12 PM
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