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> I beg to differ. Millions of human beings have suffered immense repression from this regime. Who exactly has "suffered immense repression from this regime"?

• boffinAudio 3y ago
  The 4.561 billion human beings in Asia whose human rights are violated every single day by the NSA and GCHQ: just one set. (Pine Gap, yo.) The millions of Iraqi citizens who perished during the illegal invasion and destruction of Iraq by a criminal coalition guilty of immense war crimes and crimes against humanity: another set. The Syrian people, whose sovereign resources are being intentionally denied by an invading, imperial force, such that they cannot rebuild their nation. The children of Yemen, being genocided on behalf of a totalitarian-authoritarian fascist dictatorship by the repressive Western military apparatus controlled out of Westminster and Washington, DC. The continent of Africa and the extant interference and meddling that still occur in their democracies by 'our' intelligence agencies, protected by the legal machinations of UK's sovereignty and its operation of a regime of repression in the form of immense denial of human rights at scale. See also: the UK's own local and immensely repressive surveillance state.
• NoGravitas 3y ago
  If we want to talk about relatively recent times, there's the forced removal of the Chagossians from the British Indian Ocean Territories in the late 60s and early 70s, certainly within my lifetime. And in 2010 the British government took further measures to prevent their return despite a High Court judgement saying they should be allowed. The .io TLD should be the national domain for the BIOT residents, but was operated for profit by a British tech company until sold off to an American company.