British Lord Benighted

Lord Andrew Phillip, a washed former member of the House of Lords who says he no longer wants to be called Lord, is Lording it over us Americans. Yes, using his intrinsic Limey superiority, he lays waste to our foreign policy, morals, and intellect. All without needing to rely upon a single fact. Good Lord!

This Lord said:

To quote from the UNHRC Report,
“Following Israel’s withdrawal, Gaza has become a sealed-off, imprisoned, occupied territory.”

Come again? Occupied by whom? Oddly enough, I agree that Gaza and the incredibly modestly named “West Bank” are occupied territories, but this is because they are parts of Israel which are infested with generations of violent hippie squatters. There isn’t a single Israeli living, stationed, or patrolling in Gaza.
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Two Billion Dollars to Imprison a Blogger


Meet Kareem. Full name Abdel Kareem Nabil, he was sentenced in February to four years confinement in an Egyptian prison. He was charged with and convicted of writing things critical of Islamist oppression and of the Egyptian Dictator, Hosni Mubarak. You cannot read his blog anymore, because he cannot write anymore.

Meet Sandmonkey. Not his real name. There’s no picture, and now there’s no blog. Recently, the Egyptian Security Service has been asking questions of his neighbors, and odd sounds on his phone lead him to suspect he is being monitored. He fears prison for being a “cynical, snarky, pro-US, secular, libertarian, [and] disgruntled” writer. … Continue reading