MP was bugged twice, report says!

So much for declaring it was a one-off! Mr. Sadiq Khan is an MP in the British House of Commons. He represents ALL the people of his constituency of Tooting, as is the customary situation for MPs within the "Westminster model". He went to visit a constituent in prison, who happened also to be an old school friend. Mr. Khan was bugged by the police.

The BBC has found out that senior police officers who ordered the recording of the conversations did not know who Mr Khan was, but junior officers did. Well, what an extraordinary turn of events. Are these top cops saying all Asians look alike, or that they must be suspect in some way, or that they don't cut the mustard as citizens? It never occured to them to ask who was being bugged. And what of the "junior officers"? Did they think it a wheeze to keep quiet about Mr. Khan? TWICE!!

It is a disgrace. So much for diversity training. They arrest a drunken undergraduate for calling a police horse gay, but have not the wit to find out who our parliamentarians are.

And an ex-police intelligence officer at the prison said he faced "sustained pressure" to bug Mr Khan. So somebody knew who he was at senior level. There used to be a time when the phrase "Heads will roll" was said. Not any more!

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US Intelligence Chief says water-boarding 'would be torture'!

Whatever happened to the biblical commandment of Christ's "Do unto others as you would like done unto you"? Well, in the wacky world of America's neo-cons the answer is NOT A LOT! But now the US Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell has said it "would be torture" if he were subjected to it. "Whether it's torture by anybody else's definition, for me it would be torture." I'd say that anyone receiving such treatment would put it on the torture list. That's a no-brainer, but in the recent past no-brainers have missed the reckoning and reasoning of a lot, including the rationale of such deep thinkers as Donald Rumsfeld!

Can we await a similar statement from Rumsfeld, or will he be sticking to his mantra? I bet if he was subjected to it, he'd be be bleating about it being torture. That's why change is wanted because the double-standards and two-faced policy making that have given us such stuff is in dire need of being swept aside.

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