UK is America's Poodle Now For Sure

Ever since Tony Blair was elected as Prime Minister of the good old Dis-United Kingdom in 1997 his uncontrollable attraction to those with money and power has meant that the UK has become ever more subservient to the US.
When the Algerian-born Muslim pilot Lotfi Raissi won his appeal at the High Court on 14th Feb 2008, and effectively received legal backing for his campaign to obtain compensation from the UK Government for illegal imprisonment, the extent to which we in the UK are now no better than a subservient client state of America was finally revealed.
'We would do well to remember' said Nosher, as we relaxed on our old deckchairs outside our allotment sheds (this time in a chilly overcast day - but, hey, we allotment gardeners are tough!) 'that Raissi was detained under the old extradition act.'
'Yep! Things are even worse now' I replied 'for if the same thing happened again our leaders have signed over all our rights to justice to the Americans under the Extradition Act 2003, which means you or I or anyone else for that matter, can now be picked up off the streets, or taken from our beds in the dark of night, merely on the hint of suspicion, and taken in chains to the good ole USA, where our own country will wash its hands of us. For good. That's what being a British citizen amounts to these days'.
'Even worse' commented Nosher 'the US doesn't extend reciprocal rights to the UK, so if we want to extradite anyone from the US, we have to go through a complex process of presenting a case to their courts, and even then it is unlikely we'll succeed'.
As we watched the gloom of evening close in around us a feeling of numbness descended. For we had been here before. We knew the feeling of powerlessness so well, for a very similar thing had happened a few years ago on our little allotment.
Things started to go wrong when the chairman of the allotment committee of the United States of Allotments, just over the Great Piddle from our own little allotment, announced his grandiose 'War on Terror' against all anti-American vegetables. George W (for that's what we nick-named him) was full of bluster and bullying, and insisted that the chairman of our little allotment committee, nick-named Tony Blair, should back him to the hilt. Tony Blair, a slimy ex-lawyer who toadied up to anyone with money and power, and expecially George W, instantly started arresting vegetables on our side of the Great Piddle in response to the merest hint of suspicion from George W. As a result many carrots, turnips and spinaches were rounded up and incarcerated.
'Your spinaches have been spying on me!' called out George W from across the other side of the Great Piddle 'I want you to fix them, and do it good!'
On our side of the Great Piddle Tony Blair looked even more obsequious than ever, bowing and scraping before George W.
'Of course, Massa! Anything you say Massa!' he grovelled, but then, when he turned to face us allotment-holders his countenance was quite different. Now it was the stern face of a great statesman, a war politician, urging his country on to ever bigger sacrifices.
'We are all in this together' he intoned, looking even more fakely sincere than ever 'If we do not detain all suspicious-looking vegetables on the slightest of pretexts we will upset America, and then George W won't invite me to his country retreat at Camp David. Never before have I faced such humiliation...I repeat, never before has the UK been under greater threat. I say to you now, you must all vote to make our terror laws tougher and do anything the US might require of us, even if it means illegally detaining vegetables without just cause indefinitely, and extraditing them to the United States just because they tell us to.'
Nosher and I were flabbergasted. How could this be happening? Ever since the Magna Carrot of 1216 free vegetables had been guaranteed the protection of the law against false imprisonment. And now this protection was being swept away. But despite our protests, our little allotment committee voted to do as Tony Blair wanted, and soon a succession of vegetables of all types were being arrested and shipped over the Great Piddle where they were held without charge for years, interrogated, tortured and sometimes killed, all without our own allotment committee doing a thing to help them.
It was a calamitous situation.
But instead of becoming more friendly towards us, the United States of Allotments became even more bullying, treating us little better than servants or slaves.
When the repellent Tony Blair resigned from his chairmanship of our little allotment committee in 2007 his equally repulsive successor, nick-named Gordon the Moron, was no better, pretending to like George W less but in reality being just as subservient.
And now, as Nosher and I packed our deckchairs into our little allotment sheds as dusk fell, and prepared to go home, it was all happening in real life, here in the Dis-United Kingdom.
The fact that the Appeal Court has backed Lotfi Raissi means that he may yet win compensation from the UK Government (although, to their shame, the Home Office is already thinking about appealing against the Appeal Court's decision - don't they understand what the words 'decency' and 'compassion' mean?).
But for all those detained since the passing of the Extradition Act 2003 there is no redress against false imprisonment. As the machinery of the police state closes in around us, we would do well to enjoy our few remaining freedoms while they last. We will not have them for much longer unless we campaign to retain and protect them.
The moral of the story is that it suits unscrupulous and ruthless politicians to maintain their country in a constant state of alert and terror against real or imagined threats because this enables them to justify more and more repressive laws and impositions upon the general population. In short, the War on Terror is being used to destroy democracy and freedom, which is, of course, exactly what the real terrorists actually want. So who are the real terrorists? I'll leave it to your imagination.
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