Thirty years of injustice, perpetrated by the UK, has finally been recognised by the UK High Court.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4760879.stm

But, amazingly (considering the islands are British), the US has a veto on who can live there.

Will the US champion the rights of the blameless individuals who lost their homes?

Probably not, then.

Can anyone explain to me, if the islanders expulsion was illegal and the UK Governments attempts to block their return is illegal, how can the agreement to give the US a veto be legal?

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Marx (G.)

...because they have a bigger dick....

Not much interest here for Diego Garcia, John; I have posted on it two or three times before. If they are not Pubs/Dems; or a white, christian, mid-western girl abducted by Mexican illegal-aliens; or some screeching hate/spite 'news' commentator sneering at the world; or some racist half-wit git in search of 'an audience' - then those people just dont count!

And you should know better than that, they dont call it Diego Garcia anymore, its CAMP VICTORY now! Or should that be 'Camp Ethnically-Cleansed in the Name of The War on Freedom and Terror and WhatNot'?

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

...the Nazi's were ethnically cleansing parts of Poland in 1940 I imagine there was much good humoured 'eye-rolling' at their feeble protestations...

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

its more or less the good ole neo-con response to every grasp made at our liberties here

eyes rolling at those who proclaim that their acts are illegitimate

eyes rolling at those who think the constitution is actually something the goverment should be following in making policy, instead of avoiding

eyes rolling by duh2 when his conservative base doesnt have a stance on an issue and he doesn't know how else to respond

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i'm not a democrat, quit calling me one

I'm sorry I don't have any base. My response is more then adequate given what I am responding to.

And I`m sure it`s everything the Chagos Islanders could have hoped for

I don`t believe you, Nawbut. Any moment there will be a deluge of posts...outraged posts....decrying the US`s connivance and complicity with the UK`s wholesale forced removal of an entire populace.

Some will blame Blair. Some will blame Bush. Some will blame alien Jews.

You wait. You`ll see.

Personally I think this is just the sort of stuff that happens when you`re small and weak and nobody cares.

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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Marx (G.)

The US is only concerned with human rights when our interest are supported by it. Were totally unconcerned about it when we are the ones carrying it out or allies.

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Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away