Quote (Hamsterbaby @ Apr 12 2023 01:37pm)
yah i am watching now the full thing .
For those that dont watch video's the TLDR:
An englishman outlined the failed attempt by Georgia to enact a law whereby companies had to declare which foreign powers is sponsoring them. As some of you will know this was briefly on the news recently and not much was said about it, other then that the west stated it was against their core values, which is funny really (as the interviewer pointed out) noting its the exact same law as exists in certain western great power countries.
A citizen from Georgia was then interviewed who outlined that one could view the US and Russia as the same but ultimately they live beside Russia so therefore they have to be able to look for common ground with Russia, and its not safe to hold you breath hoping Russia will suddenly disappear tomorrow.
Quote (Meanwhile @ Apr 12 2023 01:41pm)
How flowed are our democracies:
Honda Wu was born in Shanghai into a family of eight upper-class Catholic children living in the French Concession. He was imprisoned on April 27, 1960 in a Laogai camp, because, according to him, of his "bourgeois origins" and for having criticized the invasion of Hungary, an ally of China.
He was labeled as a "counter-revolutionary right-hander". His family members and friends are forced to denounce him as a “counter-revolutionary”. His mother, who refused to do so, committed suicide.
Harry Wu was naturalized American in 1994. He again took the risk of returning to China in 1995, but this time he was arrested at the Chinese border, kept in detention for sixty-six days, sentenced for espionage to fifteen years in prison. camp, to be finally expelled following American pressure, the American authorities threatening China of the boycott by Hillary Clinton of a UN conference in Beijing...
A story all to common all over the world. here is one about northern ireland, i read this article yesterday in the guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/11/torture-real-belfast-man-waterboarded-by-british-army-northern-ireland-troubleshere is the TLDR from the court of appeals judge (england):
“It is my decision that the plaintiff was subjected to waterboarding; he was hooded; he was driven in a car flanked by soldiers to a location where he thought he would be assassinated; a gun was put to his head, and he was threatened that he would be shot dead. It is the view of this court that the said ill-treatment caused the plaintiff to make admissions and a confession statement.”
Holden, the judge noted, had steadily maintained his account for almost half a century. “Despite the passage of time, in my judgment there has been a constant thread of consistency in the plaintiff’s evidence to this court when compared to his previous accounts of the events. I conclude that the plaintiff was exposed to humiliation and degradation and that the soldiers behaved in a high-handed, insulting, malicious and oppressive manner.”
Holden’s estate was awarded a further £350,000 in damages. Note that it states estate, because he died shortly after the retrial due to ill health.
, no one is denying that the human rights in China are, at times, deplorable, however a monopoly of human rights abuses is not owned by any one country.
This post was edited by ferdia on Apr 12 2023 06:58am