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Jump To Comment: 1 2Well done to Amnesty for this.
There is no need at all for the government to review our laws or police powers, both already facilitate the upholding of Irish and international law insofar as kidnapping, torture and other crimes against humanity are concerned. Indeed our government should remove themselves from this particular question altogether as they have no business whatsoever in effectively putting the Irish justice system through a version of extraordinary rendition, Irish style. To review Irish law and practice, there should at least have been some failure or shortcoming to fix - the review itself, being the mechanism that has the Irish justice system locked up tight, is seemingly both the sickness and the cure. It is preposterous.
As for Obama ending extraordinary rendition, that too is a complete fabrication. It wasn't the American presidency who made extraordinary rendition a lawful entity in the US. It was the Supreme Court and it made this abomination a lawful practice decades ago.
Another thing that needs to come out in the wash is Blackwater, or whatever those goons are called these days. It is now known that this mercenary group has intimate ties to the CIA. How many, if any, have been ferried through Irish airports, tooled up for and intent on butchering children?
The government, especially Fianna Fáil, are happy to read off figures indicating how much profit has been made from US military passing through Shannon, an airport that is otherwise going down the tubes. Local gombeen-think believes the US is saving ould' Ireland once again. Political whoring is now so commonplace in Irish political life that we virtually can take it for granted that it has replaced democracy. Fianna Fáil couldn't get rid of the US presence if it wanted to: the Yanks would immediately threaten some sort of bullying sanction, such as pulling out certain industries and so on. C an you imagine Cowen trying to face that down? It would also take a certain moral and ethical sense, which the Greens threw away as soon as they were shown a government seat and Fianna Fáil never had. It would also take a strong sense of patriotism and of who we are as country, but we possess neither.