Last week, in an article in the Australian, I joined many from around the world denouncing the moral equivalence from the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) between Israel as a democratic country with an elected Prime Minister, a professional and disciplined military and a powerful and independent judiciary, on the one hand, and Hamas as a terrorist organisation with no internal judicial checks on its military conduct whatsoever, on the other.
Perhaps stung by the chorus of criticisms, Karim Khan, the prosecutor, has now dug the hole he is in even deeper in an interview with the Times. A British citizen of Pakistani ancestry, he recalled the many attacks on prominent British leaders by the Irish Republican Army and commented that the U.K. did not bomb Belfast to get the IRA on the justification that “there undoubtedly may be some IRA members and Republican sympathisers” in Belfast. Khan is now guilty of serial false equivalencies.
Where to even begin when a man in such a critically important office for international criminal justice betrays such jaw-dropping ignorance and lack of understanding?
First off, Belfast is part of the U.K., and people of Northern Ireland are British citizens. Gaza is not part of Israel, and Palestinians living there are not Israeli citizens. The Government and defence force of Israel, unlike Hamas, believe it their solemn duty to serve, defend and protect Israelis, not bomb them.
During the time of the Troubles, the IRA were not the ruling party of Northern Ireland.
The IRA was not committed by its charter to the complete destruction of the U.K. and the liberation of the entire country, from the English Channel to the North Sea and the Irish Sea. Senior IRA spokesmen did not call repeatedly for the death and ethnic cleansing of all Englishmen, with excitable mobs of expatriate Irish chanting “Gas the Poms!” and “Where are the Poms?” in the West’s major cities.
Perhaps I missed the news item when the IRA crossed the narrow sea to attack a major cultural festival where the English youth had gathered to celebrate life with dancing, singing and general good cheer and bonhomie, killing 8,000 (scaled from the October 7th attacks to reflect the much bigger U.K. population), abducting another 1,700, including children, babies and elderly and sadistically raping and torturing at will.
The IRA did not regularly launch rocket attacks from the cover of Belfast hospitals across the Irish Sea on civilians, installations and infrastructure in Britain. Nor do I recall news of the IRA building hundreds of miles of underground tunnels in which to hide their fighters and arms either.
If this is the level of Khan’s intellectual and logical reasoning capacity, the ICC will be living in interesting times for the next few years. He should be embarrassed by the political theatre he has staged.
Ramesh Thakur, a former UN Assistant Secretary-General, is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, Senior Research Fellow at the Toda Peace Institute, and Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. His new book, Our Enemy, the Government: How Covid Enabled the Expansion and Abuse of State Power (Brownstone Institute, 2023), is out now. This article was first published by the Spectator Australia.
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So, now we know (if we didn’t already), these lethal policies increased deaths – and there is a protest about it tomorrow (Saturday).
I received an e-mail from The White Rose about it, with the message that the location was to “be announced”. However, I’m not on Telegram, don’t have a smart (arse) phone, so – is there any point travelling down from the North on the off chance for the London demo? And if I do, how will I find it?
Nb this survey does not include countries in Africa such as Zimbabwe, so it is probably not including many deaths due to starvation in the third world resulting from these (genocidal?) lockdown policies and restrictions. (And yes, I saw the article saying that “their” plan included deaths by starvation).
“is there any point travelling down from the North on the off chance for the London demo? And if I do, how will I find it?”
Yes! As soon as you get to a tube station, you will see others clearly heading for the demo. I come in from the west and always meet groups of people at the tube station. And if you head for Hyde Park Corner, you will not go far wrong.
Thanks. Now for parking…
HOC it is.
LONDON -~TOMORROW
Sat, 26 June, 1pm
The Next Big One!
Freedom from Vax Passport Enslavement
Hyde Park, North Carriage Drive Entrance
https://t.me/londonrallies
https://www.standupx.info/
Another Exhibit for Nuremberg II.
The deductions these people make are dazzling in their penetration:
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existing studies suggest that SIP policies led to a reduction in non-COVID-19 health care, which might have contributed to an increase in non-COVID-19 deaths.
My bold.
And not only do they believe in the Ho,ply Snake Lil, but they obviously want coercion to force it into everybody.
The mouse that roars becomes the jackal that yaps.
Holy Snake Oil.
The devil id in my typing, as usual.Mea oleagina culpa.
I liked the original version!
Data showing lockdowns don’t work! THEY won’t let such trivialities derail the Great Reset, obvs! Onward and downward, everyone!
When exactly did it become obligatory to have to have an ‘expert’ think tank tell us what we already knew before it becomes OK to think it?
At sometime over the last couple of decades or so the human race has lost its f***ing mind.
Not really: it’s still there but 90% of the population are now Homo Non Sapiens – those who find thinking too effortful!
‘Let’s be clear. The lockdowns weren’t adopted on the basis of any scientific research. It was pure panic and herd mentality from our political leaders and health care experts. They were idiots and they should admit their idiocy, so that we don’t repeat the same mistake in the future.’
https://healthy-skeptic.com/2021/06/23/lockdowns-dont-work-period/
‘The lockdowns implemented in the name of public health entailed trade-offs that were not adequately considered. Lockdowns may prevent some COVID-19 deaths by flattening the curve of cases and preventing stress on hospitals. At the same time, lockdowns cause severe adverse effects for many millions of people, disproportionately for those already disadvantaged among us. The collateral damage included severe losses to current and future wellbeing from unemployment, poverty, food insecurity, interrupted preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic healthcare, interrupted education, loneliness and deterioration of mental health, and intimate partner violence. The economic recession has been framed as the economy vs. saving lives from COVID-19, but this is a false dichotomy. The economic recession, through austerity in government spending on the social determinants of health, can be expected to cause far more loss of life and wellbeing over the long-run than COVID-19 can. We must open up society to save many more lives than we can by attempting to avoid every case (or even most cases) of COVID-19.’
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.625778/full
Nailed it!
The study also found that painting your arse sky blue didn’t make polar bears extinct in Arizona.
Can we test that on Bozo though?
Bozo should be exiled to Michael Moore’s underpants.
Unless one was dealing with a plague- or Ebola-like disease, it was always thus and very obvious from the start to anyone with an IQ above 50.
The net QALY loss in each lockdown country alone has been put by various scientists at multiples of 100x to 250x, and that leaves the toll of our lockdowns s in the 3rd world aside.
Britons will eventually have the responsibility for having killed around 5 million people there, on par with the Holoaust’s toll, Germans even more, Americans around 30+million people, on par with Stalin’s murders (120 million dead allocated by rounded up share of World GDP).
But then, maybe that’s the whole point of them anyway.
“to anyone with an IQ above 50.”
I think one needs to add something like,’ who actually used their brain to think about this, rather than taking the spoon-fed, nanny-knows-best approach’!
I have compiled a list of 41 papers evaluating the efficacy of mandatory restriction.
I have also compliled a list of the pandemic planning documents which were universally discarded when the SHTF.
Also included in a list of pre-pandemic papers is one from 2006, the one that started the whoole idea of lockdown. It was a schoolgirls science project in which she created a model for lockdowns. Daddy wrota a paper around it and got it published and here we are.
There are several other similar lists around, which I consulted. I believe this is the most comprehensive list.
39 of 41 papers found no measurable benefit or positive effect from mandatory restriction in comarison the voluntary action.
https://ltexpat.blogspot.com/2021/05/are-lists-of-documents-and-papers.html