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2005-09-17 Britain

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Posted by Groluns Snoluter6338 2005-09-17 11:31|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It seems obvious to me that Iseael needs to file international charges against all members of the "Human Rights Group" that "Lodged Charges"

That should put a swift end to this nonsense, to have these protesters confined to Britian and not allowed to leave for fear of going to jail in Israel.

Or better yet, have the warrants unannounced, so these morons get picked up before they can be warned.

Just think, Morons like this having the exact same thing done to them, I can hear the screams of "Unfair" now

"The Golden Rule" seems specificly designed for this event.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2005-09-17 12:55|| 2005-09-17 12:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Wouldn't he have Diplo immunity?

Posted by raptor 2005-09-17 13:06|| 2005-09-17 13:06|| Front Page Top

#3 What you're witnessing here with the Israelis is Legal Terrorism - one group using laws in one nation, meant for one purpose, to attack and limit another group. Needless to say, it's being practiced by the islamofascinutjobs against its principal enemies, Israel and the United States. The nations responsible need to change their laws so they cannot be used by third-party groups, or the rest of us need to start using the same laws against OUR enemies. Frankly, this kind of "war" makes me want to break some heads. It's slimy and dishonest, totally abhorrent to those of us trained to kill people and break things.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2005-09-17 14:04|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-09-17 14:04|| Front Page Top

#4 It's called lawfare.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-09-17 14:53|| 2005-09-17 14:53|| Front Page Top

#5 I think "Fears" is the wrong word. "Doesn't want to step in the sh*t" would be more accurate, IMO.

Posted by xbalanke 2005-09-17 15:07|| 2005-09-17 15:07|| Front Page Top

#6 If Britain's courts allow such nonsense, their diplomats, bureaucrats, and military should have no immunity either, anywhere. Same for the rest of the EU

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-09-17 15:16|| 2005-09-17 15:16|| Front Page Top

#7 #4: It's called lawfare.

Oh beautiful Mrs D, I think you just coined a phrase.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2005-09-17 15:26|| 2005-09-17 15:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Doesn't a serving minister of Government have diplomatic immunity when visiting a host country?

Posted by john 2005-09-17 15:45|| 2005-09-17 15:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Prime Minister General Ariel Sharon is making a valid point by overtly refusing to go to Britain. These laws were pushed through the EU system specifically to get him arrested, with various other Israeli officials as a lagniappe. If Blair doesn't want to be embarassed by such things, he's going to have to get those laws off the books, not merely refuse to enforce them for Sharon, because General Sharon considers this to be a strategic rather than tactical goal. And he's right, as this was a major step in the process of separating the State of Israel from the rest of humanity.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-09-17 16:06|| 2005-09-17 16:06|| Front Page Top

#10 I'd like to be that clever. This topic has been discussed sufficiently that some one developed the term some time ago.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-09-17 16:17|| 2005-09-17 16:17|| Front Page Top

#11 trailing wife---good comments. Sharon should have diplomatic immunity, since he is the leader of the Israeli government. His actions in refusing to enter the UK, even though he has diplomatic immunity is putting the ball squarely in Tony's court. Blair has to put the screws on the meatballs and the system that enables this behavior. Diplomatic immunity would protect Sharon, per se. Hell, look at the NORKS. They jet set to and fro at will with their diplo pouches full of narcotics, and nobody stops them. They are using the system, too.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-09-17 18:51|| 2005-09-17 18:51|| Front Page Top

#12 Lawfare is one name for it. I have been privately calling it the "Revenge of the Pussies" for some time now. You remember the type in high school or college, right. Passive aggressive, always carried a big chip on his shoulder, smart, really smart, but never knowing quite when to give up. He might have had a couple of geeky friends that worshipped the ground he walked on, but he would have thrown them to the dogs in a heartbeat if that betrayal would get an in with the in-crowd. He probably found himself tossed into a few dumpsters in his time. His need to belong was almost as great as his need to attack the popular kids. I could pretty much sum this person up in two words: Paul Krugman.

Well now he's a lawyer or tenured academic and the rules are different. You can't give him wedgies or toss him in the dumpster anymore. He knows the law and is well connected to the big charitable trusts, which are funded by guilt-ridden trust fund kids. Now he has it all. He gets to schmooze with the most popular kids of all, while pissing all over the jocks and work-a-day kids who trashed him in high school. And he hates America and the jock-focused, popularity-driven culture that failed to recognize his brilliance so many years ago.

The flip side of the coin is that he'll support anything that is in opposition to that culture. The popular kids went to church, got big cars on their 16th birthdays, and went home to their nicely kept suburban houses paid for by their corporate dads. So fuck all that, right?

Religion? He'd like to see the Lenin Constitution clause of "freedom of religion and anti-religious propaganda" adopted. Big cars? America is wasteful. Let's regulate them out of existence (with exceptions of course for me and my trust fund enablers). Suburbia? Wasteful. Unsustainable. Sterile. We'll deal with that in due time. Corporations? Well, we haven't yet invented an economic engine to produce enough wealth for our welfare state, but we'll do everything that we can to hobble them and tax them.

Who would have thought that the greatest danger to our democracy would not be tyranny of the strong or of the majority, but of the pussies? It's only logical for them to ally with the Islamists since they are the near perfect antithesis of America and our Constitution.

How do we deal with them? I think that fewer laws would be a good start. I've always been fond of Heinlein's proposal that if you don't serve (and he didn't limit his definition of service to the military), then you don't vote. Perhaps we have a Saturnalia every year were we find all the Paul Krugmans and Joan Blades and ritually toss them in a dumpster -- just to remind them of who's in charge.

Posted by 11A5S 2005-09-17 19:03|| 2005-09-17 19:03|| Front Page Top

#13 Let's abandon diplomatic immunity -- there were a lot of folks visiting New York last week that I would have liked to round up.

Posted by Darrell 2005-09-17 19:37|| 2005-09-17 19:37|| Front Page Top

#14 I wouldn't know where to start. Castro is always a good choice for arrest and trial.

Or, how about Fischer? Find some other European with ties to Red Army Faction or some similar Soviet-backed group. Or just grab the former East German officials. After all EU human rights certainly is more important than any deal Kohl made.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-09-17 20:14|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-09-17 20:14|| Front Page Top

#15 If we just kill 50% of the lawyers it would be a good start fighting this crap. Also don't let any US military visit Europe unless it is to travel directly into US controled areas. Our military is already a target.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-09-17 22:30|| 2005-09-17 22:30|| Front Page Top

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