This is a new low in the legal system of the west but one that some officials may think is wonderful. We have all this publicity about only indicting criminals when we can clearly see that the Attorneys General and Police Forces of North America and Europe will indict anyone regardless of evidence. They have lost their claim to fairness and justice having spent decades building them up. They can now get a result by threat of undisclosed future action to any one of the minor countries that willingly accomplishes US policy for reward.

I live in Hong Kong. We gave up a family for imprisonment in Guantanamo without any legal process at all. Then we kept quiet about it hoping no-one would notice, which seems to have been the case. Other countries did the same. Let’s be frank – the ruling class is finding justice too troublesome. It much prefers some administrative way of incarcerating whistle-blowers. They would greatly prefer the populace to be bound by Oaths of Allegiance rather than promised rights. The FISA court is a case in point, staffed by flexible prosecutors who find themselves elevated as Judges providing they issue the warrants on demand.

These are features of the War on Terror which now appears to have been a neocon ploy to end human rights and rule by diktat. Fortunately the money-go-round is running down and the basis to neocon power is eroding. Maybe that’s why they are in such a hurry – pay the bribes while people still think the pretty paper notes are valuable. Ha.