Rice is a war criminal and should be treated as such. I wonder whether the BBC will give any publicity to the protests?

The BBC is wasting away.

If you want a news organization that is strong and healthy, and has the courage to say what everyone is thinking, then try Sky News.

Don't listen to people who criticise Rupert Murdoch, just check out this snapshot of a news headline:

http://www.damnfunnypictures.com/templates/links.php?id=1296

(scroll down to see the picture)

PS For a very well written article on Diego Garcia, go here:

http://danielsimpson.blogspot.com/2006/03/diego-garcia-and-special-relationships.html

The Labour government today is no different to the Labour government of yesteryear, at least as regards foreign policy.

The BBC is fleecing us of our money.

Extract from "Diego Garcia And The Special Relationship's Dirty Secret" by Daniel Simpson (who writes for Reuters and the New York Times):

"Although the High Court had ruled in November 2000 that the original expulsion of the Chagos islanders constituted 'an abject legal failure', ministers simply reinstated the law that banished them, only this time it was even tougher. Magna Carta be damned; 'No person has the right of abode,' declared the July 2004 ordinance.

"To bypass Parliament, which would almost certainly have slapped down the legislation, the government used the Queen's ancient Prerogative power as a rubber stamp. As Britain has no written constitution, it is now up to the courts to determine whether, as the government insists, Her Majesty still has the right to do whatever she pleases to her subjects in colonial dominions.

"'There is no precedent that we have been able to find in statute, case law, or indeed in history for what has been done,' argues Bancoult’s barrister, Sir Sydney Kentridge...

"Kentridge's opposite number says he has 'a knockout blow', however, in the form of an 1865 statute granting the Queen unlimited power under colonial law unless Parliament expressly forbids a particular course of action.

"...the islanders' solicitor concedes,... 'I don’t see any hope that the government will take anything approaching a humane view or what one might call a rational view of these people's rights,"

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I think this rests the case as to whether Blair is a Christian or not.

Blair and his government - and, indeed, all British governments - believe only in this life; hence, you can kill, rape, torture, murder, brutalise, traumatise, steal from, demoralise, and drive to suicide, anyone you please.

The only thing that gives ministers pause is, if, one day, what we have done is discovered, can we be imprisoned?

Another extract from Daniel Simpson's article (for those who may not have time - or do not want - to read it all:

"After a cart ran over his youngest sister's leg, Bancoult, his eight siblings and their parents boarded a boat for the nearest hospital, 1,000 miles away in Port Louis. When they tried to return home, they learned the local shipping company had cancelled all departures. Their island was officially off-limits; it had been 'sold' to the U.S. military. This was depopulation by stealth: like hundreds of others in the late 1960s, the family had inadvertently signed up for a one-way passage.

"Their possessions were lost, their future bleak. Bancoult's father, an unskilled coconut farmer like his peers, failed to find work in Mauritius and died within a few years. One of his sisters set herself ablaze in despair. Two brothers drank themselves to death. 'Animals have better treatment than us,' he protests."

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And Blair is cheerfully doing his damnedest to destroy what's left of their lives.