How's About This?

Am I not a scary, scary man with the predictions? Here's another: First it'll be "voluntary suppression", then it'll be taken as standard practice. Then it'll be a law.

And what do we think is being done with those ten Taliban prisoners?--Do we think they're on their way to The Hague? To a Canadian prison? Where, in fact, ARE they headed?

But answer comes there none, so far.

They had bomb-making materials--batteries and wires! Hey! We could make the whole place safer by arresting every Afghani who owns a flashlight!

Seriously, though: We must be careful to distinguish ourselves in our humane treatment of prisoners. To incarcerate these people in an Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo Bay risks squandering our moral capital. We must be seen to be firm, yet just. Particularly we must be so seen.

What do you think the moral effect will be if these prisoners are diappeared into American "black" prisons?

Let us have photos. Let the names of these prisoners be announced to the world, and let us never forget that we have a duty towards them as human beings who claim to be more civilised than they are: To repay hatred with something better. To show and not just tell the virtues and values of a truly democratic, multifaceted society.

Let's not just be tools of an increasingly ideological and imperialist foreign policy.

Okay Mr. Harper?

By the way: I can't see this post properly on my Mac, so if it has "issues" I'll fix 'em later.