Richard Norton-Taylor, the Guardian's Security Editor, today posted an article entitled What about Afghanistan? in the Guardian's Comment is Free site.
Needless to say, you couldn't keep me away.
The rest of this post is a comment to Richard Norton-Tayler that I posted pretty much as an "open letter". At the time of posting this he hadn't responded. If he does respond I'll post some form of update on this site.
@RichardNorton-Taylor
It's not too difficult to work out why the political leaders don't want to touch the Afghanistan nonsense with a barge pole.
But why is the media so silent? Specifically, why is the Guardian so silent? Even more specifically why are you so silent in print?
The case for the illegality of the Afghanistan and Iraq military adventures in UK Law is sufficiently strong to at least discuss it seriously in the Guardian, surely?
I've got a good summary of the evidence that it's "terrorism" (in the meaning of Section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2000) here:
http://chilcotscheatingus.blogspot.com/2010/02/use-off-armed-force-by-uk-military.html
Even if I were to be wrong, isn't it an issue worth covering in depth by a serious journalist specialising in security issues? Even if only to reject it as not well founded?
It's not as if any other newspaper has deep coverage of it yet. So, in that sense it's newsworthy.
And isn't the possibility (if I put it no stronger than that) that Gordon Brown has spent some £20billion unlawfully on "terrorism" news?
It's the biggest financial crime in the history of the UK. Possibly the biggest financial crime in the history of the world.
And isn't it news that hundreds of misguided British Servicemen have died as "terrorists" (in the meaning of Section 40 of the Terrorism Act 2000)? Explosive news, arguably?
And, yet, the Guardian is silent about it. Except for publishing a single letter here (second of the letters in the link):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/11/straw-chilcot-iraq-inquiry-legal
I plan to go on blogging on the Chilcot's Cheating Us blog here:
http://chilcotscheatingus.blogspot.com/
And I've today started a blog about SHITgate (State Hidden International Terrorism, for the uninitiated) here:
http://shitgate.blogspot.com/
Can you tell me? Why are you and the Guardian silent on this hugely important topic?
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