11 August, 2005

UK To Kick Out Threats

Maybe it's that American in me that looks at this and think, "Bravo!" A part of me has a full open jaw over the reaction of the UK human rights activists who object to it because they may face torture when they come back home. Then I am reminded, do we really want to stoop to the same level of the ones we want to follow us by example.

Face it, those who advocate killing, maiming, and torturing citizens in a country to which they are only visitors and have no alligience to the government have no business being there. There is a big difference in disagreeing with the way your government being run and those who advocate killing innocent people in defiance of how a government is running. These people flagged for deportation fall in the later category. There is no love for the country nor respect for the people who live there. They would delight in seeing them all dead. They would enjoy torturing helpless victims. This is more than a difference of opinion. They are strongly advocating people to commit acts of war against the citizens in the place he lives. Why should the people have mercy on those individuals? Why should they not return to their country?

Human rights advocates tell us that the countries where these people will return will never honour the agreements made. They are known to torture and execute their undesirables without a fair trial or even without a fair amount of evidence against them. One could just merely rub an official the wrong way and have trumped up charges lead to their execution. Should these men return, there is no certain guarantee they will remain safe. They fled from their countries for political reasons and to return could mean retaliation. Despite making an agreement not to harm these men to be released into their homeland custody, the worry is their fate will be more dubious than those left to rot in Guantanamo Bay.

Then again, one has to wonder. If they were kicked out of their country and graciously allowed freedom and safety in a new one, why would you rock the boat? Why would you speak against the country that took you in and saved your life? Why would you commit treason against the ones who helped you when you needed it?

In the United States, there are traitorous people who do advocate violence against citizens and hope to see the government overthrown, but we do nothing about them. We do not even acknowledge the problem because they are a threat to only a certain faction of society and not the majority. I'm talking about our racist and religious terrorist organizations who talk of the glamour of killing those deemed unworthy of living in the same country. It is these same people who have no problem in talking about legitimate ways to make the government topple because of what they view as a corrupt system. They advocate violence against their government and own people due to their agenda. Tim McVeigh and others who are in the spotlight are not the only ones who are true terrorists in our own country, but we do have a problem with it -- they are American citizens. Like McVeigh, they have to cross the line and take action before something can be done to them, in his case, he was executed. We don't just lock up these terrorists for advocating traitorous acts against the country.

While the government has no problem in locking up foreigners or people with brown skin, they do have issues with locking up a white man for terrorism. Besides, we can't just send them to another country, they are our problem. We have to learn to deal with them.

In some ways, the human rights advocates are pretty much saying the same thing to the Britons. These people have lived among you for so long and have enjoyed their freedom of expression. Perhaps the UK will have to figure out ways to deal with them so as to not sink to the level of the other countries.

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