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Urgent: Reject proposal to label fentanyl as "chemical weapon"

mercredi 21 février 2024 à 03:42

US citizens: call on Congress to reject the proposal to label fentanyl dishonestly as a "chemical weapon" and charge people with "terrorism" for possession of it.

Laws must not lie. The illegal fentanyl trade has harmful effects — the usual effects of black-market sale of drugs.

Some of the people who buy fentanyl on the street buy it because they doctors won't prescribe them enough oxycodone to last the whole day. (Each pill works for 6 hours.) They are victims of the War on Pain Sufferers.

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Urgent: Investigation into the wrecker's ill-gotten gains

mercredi 21 février 2024 à 03:42

US citizens: call on the Senate to complete the investigation into the wrecker's foreign ill-gotten gains.

Tunnels under UNRWA's main office in Gaza

mercredi 21 février 2024 à 03:42

The Israeli army showed reporters extensive tunnels under the UNRWA's main office in Gaza.

We cannot trust either HAMAS or Israel to tell the truth about events in Gaza, or about tunnels that exist there. But I think it must be true that these tunnels were built by HAMAS. I don't think Israel could have built tunnels 700 meters long in a few months in Gaza in the middle of the fighting. It could perhaps have set up a room full of electrical equipment supposedly connected to the tunnels, but I won't say those couldn't be the work of HAMAS.

I would expect that the construction of military facilities amidst UNRWA's facilities was a war crime committed by HAMAS. We already know HAMAS commits much worse violations of international humanitarian law.

It is plausible that the tunnels got their electricity from the UNRWA camp. Stealing electricity happens world-wide, but it is a minor issue compared to the war crimes in Gaza.

I don't think the UNRWA knew about these tunnels. I expect that HAMAS recruited some of the UNRWA staff and they ensured no one else learned of the existence of the tunnels . Israel has accused some of UNRWA's staff of serving HAMAS. That accusation is not proof as regards the guilt of specific individuals, but it is perfectly plausible that HAMAS infiltrated the staff of UNRWA. I expect Israel tried too but was not in a position to succeed very much.

This infiltration of UNRWA is no reason to cut the funding for the humanitarian aid it gives to Palestinians, and no excuse for continuing to subject hundreds of thousands in Gaza to death from hunger, thirst and disease.

Germany silencing criticism of Israel

mercredi 21 février 2024 à 03:42

Germany is harshly silencing those who criticize Israel.

After Hitler's mass murder of Jews became public knowledge, Jews were compelled to confront the question: is it "never again" against us, or "never again" against anyone whatsoever? Humanitarian morality must choose the latter interpretation, and that is what I support.

Germany has, according to the article, adopted the narrow interpretation, according to which Israel cannot be criticized for predictably killing tens of thousands (and perhaps eventually more) of Palestinians in Gaza, and those who do criticize it are "anti-semitic".

People privately enslaved in Britain

mercredi 21 février 2024 à 03:42

Almost half the people privately enslaved in Britain nowadays were not trafficked from some other country. Rather, they are boys who were pressured by local criminals into supporting their crimes.