2012: Are agreements worth the paper they're written on?

I place the year 2012 in the title for posterity to judge what is said in this article unless of course it becomes one of the thousands I have written that have literally vaporised from the Net, along with a Facebook account which was suddenly taken over by someone who replaced the email with jooj30 at hotmail.com and stole all my contacts and records in that page. Cool, eh? Where was the protection from the billion-dollar outfit? Nowhere! Without the password for that email, I had to start up from square one. Such is the world we live in.

Freedom of expression and freedom of speech are chimeras and are under constant attack from such cyber terrorist actions. International law exists but is it implemented?

Claudio Grossman, Chairperson of the UN Committee against Torture, this week issued the following statement to the UN General Assembly while revealing this year's annual report on torture: "We have not yet achieved a world free from torture, but we believe that this goal is achievable, that rights and duties need to be taken seriously, and that supervisory organs with independent experts are an essential component to achieving that goal."

What good are supervisory organs when certain nations decide whether or not to become signatory states (such as the USA's refusal to render its subjects liable under the ICC at The Hague, meaning they are free from trial for war crimes)? What good are supervisory organs when those regulating them are chosen by the cliques that run everything? What is the background of The Hague (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo?

Why were war crimes charges not brought to fruition against NATO for its crimes in Iraq, before, during and after the 2003 invasion? Why are the pro-occupation terrorist thugs in Libya not hauled before a court?

And speaking of torture, rather than focusing on so-called pariah states such as Sudan, DR Congo, Somalia and so on, why not focus on ALL the pariah states, and the real pariah states, such as the FUKUS Axis (France, UK, US) for its blatant flouting of international law in Libya, breach of UN Resolutions 1970 and 1973 (2011), breach of the UN Charter on taking sides in an internal conflict, and nowadays, interfering inside Syria?

On the subject of torture, who urinated in food, who detained prisoners illegally, who sodomised detainees, who set dogs upon people, who forced Moslems to eat pork, who used sleep deprivation, who used illegal beatings, who wired prisoners' testicles up with electrodes, who used degrading and humiliating treatment, who used water-boarding, not only in Abu Ghraib, Iraq but also in Guantanamo Bay and on the CIA torture flights and vessels in secret locations around Europe and Africa? (Not so secret because these things are recorded in the documents under "slots" at airports).

The answer to this question is obvious. In 2012, one dozen years into the third millennium, isn't it about time the international community was ruled under the same set of weights and measures, with less hypocrisy and more respect for the law? If not, then we should all admit that international law is a cynical manipulation, a blatant, barefaced lie and the reality is that we are ruled by a bunch of criminals.

Thing is, the world is ours, not theirs.

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

Pravda.Ru

 

 

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