General stupidity and assorted foolishness
Apr. 3rd, 2007 05:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsidheThere was an earthquake yesterday morning in the sea off the Solomon Islands. As a result of this earthquake, there was a tsunami. As a result of this tsunami, a warning was issued. The substance of the warning was "There is danger, but we don't know how much. We do know when the danger will be, so for safety's sake, try and be away from the shoreline when the wave is due to hit your part of the world. Thanks."
Premier Beatty of Queensland, however, was not impressed with this. He is petulantly demanding that science and engineering Work Faster, demonstrating thereby that he has no idea how this sort of project works, and should never be trusted with anything more technological than a watch. And even then, only under supervision.
Idiot.
In other news, David Hicks was given one last chance: Confess! Confess, or be... two last chances: Confess, or be kept in a bright empty room indefinitely some more.
He chose to confess. That the 'Judge', who had been personally appointed by the people who had already called him "the worst of the worst", was busily firing all of his lawyers for him may have been a contributing factor in his decision. That the deal was not, in fact, made with the prosecution, or the mostly synonymous 'convening authority', but with the political appointee who overruled the whole process has also had a lot of people pursing their lips, stroking their chins and making thoughtful murmurs as they ponder what this signified about Hicks' chances for being found Not Guilty. Some consider these chances visible through an electron microscope, but others disagree and claim that if they exist at all, those chances exist only at the Planck scale.
Comment has been made, by people who know of what they wot, that Hicks' decision was a distinctly logical one, owing to, well, five years of torture. Other people, untrustworthy at best, have claimed that Hicks' confession is actually worth spit, and have been calling him a 'Convicted Terrorist' at the top of their lungs.
They have been claiming that the plea wasn't pre-arranged, that Hicks' sentence was entirely fair, (despite shocking the prosecution, as being too small by a factor or two), and that only a guilty man would plead guilty. Others have treated this last notion with some deserved contempt.
Others have a more dramatic theory.
What I want to know is: When is that smirking zombie Ruddock going to be ceremonially stripped of his Amnesty badge?
Premier Beatty of Queensland, however, was not impressed with this. He is petulantly demanding that science and engineering Work Faster, demonstrating thereby that he has no idea how this sort of project works, and should never be trusted with anything more technological than a watch. And even then, only under supervision.
Idiot.
In other news, David Hicks was given one last chance: Confess! Confess, or be... two last chances: Confess, or be kept in a bright empty room indefinitely some more.
He chose to confess. That the 'Judge', who had been personally appointed by the people who had already called him "the worst of the worst", was busily firing all of his lawyers for him may have been a contributing factor in his decision. That the deal was not, in fact, made with the prosecution, or the mostly synonymous 'convening authority', but with the political appointee who overruled the whole process has also had a lot of people pursing their lips, stroking their chins and making thoughtful murmurs as they ponder what this signified about Hicks' chances for being found Not Guilty. Some consider these chances visible through an electron microscope, but others disagree and claim that if they exist at all, those chances exist only at the Planck scale.
Comment has been made, by people who know of what they wot, that Hicks' decision was a distinctly logical one, owing to, well, five years of torture. Other people, untrustworthy at best, have claimed that Hicks' confession is actually worth spit, and have been calling him a 'Convicted Terrorist' at the top of their lungs.
They have been claiming that the plea wasn't pre-arranged, that Hicks' sentence was entirely fair, (despite shocking the prosecution, as being too small by a factor or two), and that only a guilty man would plead guilty. Others have treated this last notion with some deserved contempt.
Others have a more dramatic theory.
What I want to know is: When is that smirking zombie Ruddock going to be ceremonially stripped of his Amnesty badge?
