Two cheers for America.
Hooray for photos
of newly-married gay couples in San Francisco. The mayor of San Francisco
upholds gay and lesbians’ rights to the pursuit of happiness and sues
the state of California which banned same-sex marriages. And hooray
for the people organising a
collection drive to send flowers to random couples waiting in the line to
be married to show their support. In my 4 visits to the U.S., San Francisco
seemed like the only place that I could ever live over there. It’s civilised.
Boo for the continuing detention of people in Guantanamo
bay. The UK government has been congratulating itself on persuading George
Dubya to release some UK citizens from illegal imprisonment. They had no trial,
and no charges have been made in the two years that they have been incarcerated,
contravening the Magna Carta
of 1215 (“No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped
of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing
in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others
to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the
land.”) upon which the American
founding fathers based the sixth amendment of the American Constitution:
(“In all criminal prosecutions,
the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial
jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed,
which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed
of the nature and cause of the accusation, to be confronted with the witnesses
against him, to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor,
and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense”). Disgraceful.
(More communist anti-america ranting from me here).