Wednesday 11 April 2012

Abu Hamza Extradition from UK to USA.

I was embroiled in a heated discussion on the Yahoo news page reporting on the extradition of the radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza. Most people missed the point I was trying to make. The point was that Hamza was being extradited for having ties to Al Qaeda and I mentioned that both the US and UK governments had been working with known Al Qaeda operatives in the Libyan uprising last year. I quoted the Libyan rebel leader as saying that jihadists who had been fighting allied forces in Iraq were now fighting for the NATO backed rebels in Libya. These facts are verifiable but still people were saying that I was a conspiracy theorist. I deal in facts and so the word theorist is not applicable. The main crux of my original post was to show the double standards adopted by the government of the UK. Some comments were so blinkered, for instance, "I don't care what methods the government uses to protect us" That is in itself double standards. They don't seem to realise that successive governments in this country were pursuing policies that were in fact putting the safety of the population in jeopardy. People have to be made aware that the elite that rule us are not acting in our best interests. Last month for instance, the chancellor, George Osbourne, gave the top earners a huge tax break while hammering the middle and lower classes with huge increases in tax for consumer goods and foodstuffs. The people who were posting were focusing on the fact that Abu Hamza was dangerous when in fact he couldn't possibly be. The UK security services are keeping a 24 hour observation on this man. Phone tapping and monitoring of his on line activity would be carried out as a matter of course. No one picked up on the fact that Hamza was able to disregard British sovereignty and take his case to the European Court of Human Rights. Criminal justice in this country should be the sole responsibility of our government. People would be horrified if they actually became aware of the amount of independence our government had transferred to Brussels. People need to wake up to the fact that freedoms that we take for granted are being eroded, not on the orders of Westminster, but on the orders of Brussels. This is unacceptable and we must fight to protect our freedoms. We are close to the point at which it will be too late to stop the full integration of the EU to a federal entity and when that happens it's goodbye to freedom.

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