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I'm not a Brit and I'd rather know what your government does to violate my human rights. There are about 60 millon Brit and approx 7 billion non-Brits. Surely,
by mafribe 12y ago
I'm not a Brit and I'd rather know what your government does to violate my human rights.
There are about 60 millon Brit and approx 7 billion non-Brits. Surely, if you believe that all humans share equal rights, the rights of the latter group outweigh, for simple quantitative reasons, those of the former, especially in the light of the dreadful record of UK secret services collaboration with imperialism, not to mention the recent collaboration in the assault on Irak which left, by conservative estimations, a six-figure of people dead.
- leaveyou 12y ago"if you believe that all humans share equal rights". In practice it doesn't matter what he or most of the British citizens believe. It doesn't matter even what the British people in power believe or what they say publicly they believe. What matters is what those Brits in power do and especially what they REALLY do (in secret). If it's not already obvious, for British gov, ALL the humans don't share much rights. Same for US gov, no matter what they say. Not even their own citizens don't share many EQUAL rights. And judging only from what we know they did (declassification/archives), we can go on and say the same thing about almost any government. In secret you have no rights at all unless you have real means (position, influence, money, an army?) to defend them yourself. Therefore appealing to human rights and especially equal rights for non-citizens is quite naive in my opinion.
- nbevans 12y agoWell the Brits care way way more about Iraq and the Chilcot Inquiry than they do about invasions of their own privacy by their own government. What does that tell you? At least we have our priorities in order.