Appeasement is British Policy
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last.” – Winston Churchill
Back in 1938, the British, who had Neville Chamberlain at the helm as their Prime Minister, he sought to appease Nazi-German leader, Adolf Hitler by letting him take Sudetenland and Rhineland “back” and reunited them with Germany as part of the Anschluss plan.
The British didn’t learn from the mistake of appeasement. They are still keeling over to international powers in these times. First they bowed over backwards to make the Americans happy by showing they were serious about preventing hackers from working in their borders by deporting British citizen Gary McKinnon to the US for trial.
McKinnon had only infiltrated computers at the Pentagon that weren’t password protected and the tiny file he used to assist him in his endeavours couldn’t have cracked passworded systems. It was a file designed to sniff out computers that weren’t passworded. He had during his hearings pointed out that at the time he was browsing around on the Pentagon servers, he noticed other hackers sniffing around unlawfully as well.
The Pentagon’s servers have been vulnerable for a long time. But they haven’t been secured properly. In 1997, two California teens and three Israelis, including Ehud Tenenbaum had hacked into Pentagon servers. The Israelis in the end weren’t extradited but were tried by local authorities.
In recent days Russian tycoon and asylum seeker, Boris Berezovsky who is in the UK has spoken out against Putin’s administration, calling for bloodless change. Now the Kremlin wants Mr Berezovsky to be extradited to Russia to stand trial. However, isn’t free speech protected in the UK?
According to the Human Rights Act of 1998, it is.
Article 9, clause 1…
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance.
Article 10, clause 1….
Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
With this, it is obvious that Berezovsky shouldn’t be extradited. After all, how many of us here in the west have thought of wanted to overthrow our current governments through sly means? Not everyone is happy with the governments in place and we rally for change even if politicians don’t listen to us.
Even if the Russians have a “case”, freedom of speech is protected in the UK. The Russian government can cry and whine all it want, but if Berezovsky’s only charge is that he is calling for bloodless change, there is no reason for him to be deported.
However, given the UK’s track record, he will no doubtfully get handed over to Russian authorities. Anything to appease it’s “allies”, even though it’s clear America would NEVER hand over one of its citizens willingly and Russia well, would likely do the same thing as America.
Of course, if the UK doesn’t hand him over, Berezovsky will become another corpse for Scotland Yard to clean up.
Russian presses UK on Berezovsky
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