Shimmi Shimmi Shami!

Shami Chakrabarti has to be the best person in the entire world. Not only is she the head of Liberty (the UK's leading human rights group for those of you who have obviously been living under a rock for the past eight years) but a few years ago she gave the OK to team up with Vivienne Westwood to create the I am not a terrorist t-shirts. Ah, the power of fashion...not so mindless now, is it?


I digress, many of you may also not know that the UK has been colluding in the torture of suspected terrorists with the PM allowing so-called rendition flights to land in the UK. It's bad enough of the American's to pawn off suspected terrorists on Cuba. But the fact that the flights these suspects who have obviously been subject to what we normal people regard as torture land on UK soil and all we do is turn a blind eye is a little too close to comfort. The UK government have been adopting a 'see no evil' approach to these rendition flights with David Milliband and the Prime Minister outwardly defying a report stating that it was in our public interest to know whether the government we elected is with full knowledge allowing the torture of suspected terrorists.

Terrorist or not, what kind of people are we to turn a blind eye to it? Hundreds of people are willing to line the streets to welcome back dead soldiers flying back from Afghanistan but the airports used to bring said soldiers back are the exact same airports used to refuel these planes carrying victims of torture. Nobody gives a shit though.



Except Shami!!! Her appearance on Question Time was inspirational, if just for her passionate soliloquy and I hear that her one woman crusade is recruiting.

Do something good today!