Saturday - September 19, 2015

boo hoo ….  amnasty barred from arms fair.

These do good busy bodies seem to have become, at least in their minds if not in fact, some kind of official body that goes around the world getting in people’s hair and up their noses.  Like they have some kind of right to monitor a country’s defense industry. 
I don’t recall anyone appointing them, but they sure are everywhere. 
Well, in fact they aren’t representing any country, they are not official by any means.  Since so many have caved in to this lefty mob, they have taken on the role of official overseer and spokesman for the world. I don’t recall anyone electing them to fill that job, so I guess they elected themselves.

I don’t expect anyone here to see this as any great late breaking news or even worthy of comments.

I just like the idea that for once, this self important lefty bed wetter and who he represents, were refused admission.

Boo-freekin’ hoo.

An Amnesty International expert has been barred from the London Arms Fair

Amnesty International has expressed alarm after one of its human rights experts was refused entry to the Defence and Security Equipment international arms fair.

Oliver Sprague, Amnesty UK’s Arms Control Programme Director, was prevented from entering the DSEi event at the ExCel conference centre on Wednesday.

Sprague registered beforehand and had attended previous DSEi arms fairs without incident, but was refused entry with no explanation other than that he “didn’t meet the criteria for registration”.

Amnesty suspects event organisers wished to prevent human rights experts from detecting the presence of any illegal activity at the event, which has a chequered history.

In 2009, Mr Sprague was officially invited to give a speech on strengthening arms control regulations at the same fair alongside then Defence Minister Quentin Davies.
Sprague said:

“Countries like Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Pakistan are given the red-carpet treatment at DSEi, yet we’re shown the door. It’s outrageous and deeply disturbing.

Every year we’ve monitored the fair and - worryingly enough - every year we’ve actually found torture or other illegal equipment being advertised for sale.

The organisers will doubtless be delighted to have avoided headlines about leg-irons or electro-shock batons being offered for sale at DSEi, but the truth is we simply don’t know what horrendous equipment might be advertised for sale at Docklands this year.”

They’ve kept me out, but the question is: what has DSEi got to hide?

He asks that last question as though they have some kind of obligation to answer to him.

Posted by peiper     on 09/19/2015 at 09:35 AM   
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