I hope they get a fair trial, are allowed to present their defense, and are treated properly by the courts as defendents.
If they’re found guilty I hope they’re given a very long sentence in a very dark hole. No, I won’t shed a tear if they’re convicted. They’re both human pieces of shit. If they’re tried and convicted pieces of shit then the world will be a little bit better while they’re incarcerated.
Human rights defenders this week condemned President Joe Biden’s upcoming state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi—who was once banned from entering the United States for supporting violent Hindu supremacists who massacred Muslims—as part of an ongoing U.S. “whitewash” of the right-wing leader’s extremism.
“For almost a decade now, human rights activists and others have regularly brought to the White House—Democrats or Republicans—that Modi’s regime is authoritarian, it’s right-wing, it’s anti-Muslim, and it’s anti-minority” Suchitra Vijayan, author of Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India, told Huff Post.
“To fail to note Modi’s violent, anti-minority, authoritarian tendencies, and his corrupt mismanagement of the Indian economy, is not only to ignore the U.S. government’s own findings but a strategic blunder with the potential to jeopardize global stability,” IAMC said.
Human Rights Watch published a letter to Biden ahead of the visit, critizing the disregard for human rights by Modi’s government:
There are numerous areas of concern. Increasingly in recent years, BJP leaders have used toxic and hateful speech targeting religious minorities, inciting violence or discrimination against them. BJP-led authorities have tightened restrictions on free speech while ramping up censorship and using overbroad and vague laws to investigate and prosecute critics. Modi’s government has also demonstrated blatant bias in protecting BJP supporters and affiliates accused in a range of crimes, including murder, assault, corruption, and sexual violence. At the international level, Modi’s government has often proven unwilling to stand with other governments on key human rights crises, abstaining or refraining from condemning grave human rights violations elsewhere.
Who is surprised by this? She’s xenophobic and racist. This is the same “Law and Order” nonsense as in the USA. Look at who is the primary target of this legislation to get an idea of her real intentions.
Suella Braverman has said people who enter the UK illegally after crossing the Channel on small boats “possess values which are at odds with our country” as well as “heightened levels of criminality”.^1
She’s not wrong that the people coming over likely do have values which are at odds with hers and those in power: these people are coming over to better their lives, which is something those in power absolutely do not have as a goal.
Last year, the UK agreed to send tens of thousands of people more than 4,000 miles (6,400km) away to Rwanda as part of a 120-million-pound ($146m) deal.^3
Mind you, she’s also a hypocrite who definitely understands what she’s doing:
In her maiden speech, she recalled how her father, Christie Fernandes, had fled tensions in Kenya to seek a new life in the UK. “On a cold February morning in 1968, a young man, not yet 21, stepped off a plane at Heathrow airport, nervously folding away his one-way ticket from Kenya. He had no family, no friends and was clutching only his most valuable possession, his British passport. His homeland was in political turmoil,” she said.^4
How can you believe that her actions here are for the greater good, when she repeatedly proves she’s not able to do good things? How can you not believe that this is yet another angle in her policy push that disproportionately hurts the already disadvantaged.
These sorts of quasi-legal police stops are already used to enforce “pre-crime”: simply being caught with rope, or spray paint, or various other items is in itself enough to be detained and questioned for an extended period of time, if not charged. These are violations of rights, plain and simple, and yet instead of correcting them, people like Braverman are pushing to make them more defensible within the existing legal framework.
Inflation was only ever caused by two things: corporations increasing prices, and massive balance of payments inequities. Except that it’s almost always the former, since the latter almost never happens (except for the US and their exorbitant privilege) and leads to hyperinflation.
It’s freaking hilarious how untrustworthy China is, yet the US still trips over themselves to buy Chinese crap. The capitalist race to the bottom in full effect, from the economy to the gov’t.
personal view: the thing with japan is that after ww2 they got heavily disarmed ,they focused only on defensive military . Now ,after the Ukraine war and the problems they face with China(and north Korea) they decide to increase the military budget ,just like everybody else “if my neighbor is buying a gun ,shouldn’t I also have one ?” Everybody says that we are at the start of the second cold war ,I tend to belive it .
I feel like someone who has the necessary experience and clearance isn’t going to want to throw that away on case which they will lose and likely be asked to put that clearance at risk by their client within the first 5 minutes.
Aren’t bodies usually embalmed before funerals? In this case it’s a good thing she wasn’t, but usually it helps avoid the whole being buried alive problem.
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