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Ages ago you asked why Afghani and Chechen opposition have not been included on the list of proscribed organizations under the Terrorism Act 2000.
Here are my views. The Terrorism Act 2000 came into force prior to the self-inflicted 9-11 Twin Towers disaster, and for my part I have found the timing of this legislation extremely sinister. I have been looking for the voting record to discover who (still presently in Parliament) voted this monster into law, and I plan to get back to you when I've discovered any clues. (My hypothesis here is that all those who voted it in are still in office and pretending that someone else did it.)
The fact is that the "Terrorism Act 2000" is designed to protect commercial contracts between states and private individuals, elevating private contractual agreements to the level of Treaties - and obliging states to abdicate their sovereignty in favor of high PI, ROI, export of profits intact, lack of taxable revenues, etc. States having agreed to sign Bilateral Investment Treaties find themselves sheltering and protecting contractual conditions hostile to their domestic constituencies while entire nations are collateralized by the likes of Citibank, Goldman and Morgan.
Armies of In-House legal departments have been working round the clock to achieve this anhistoric outcome for more than 40 years. Corporations are have become stateless dictatorships, and it is for their benefit that the "Terrorism" Act 2000and its legion successors have been enacted.
I am constitutionally unable to consider a problem of this magnitude without suggesting a fairly obvious solution to it: Why not require that International Corporations sign and implement the Geneva Conventions?
I realize I haven't answered your question about Afghani and Chechen oppoositions....but we all realize, from reading the Gnuspapers that these are State-sponsored pseudo Freebooters, paid with taxpayer monies to destabilize strategic regions. Winter 2005/6 is likely to be even colder than the last (there are already a few flakes of snow in NICE!), oil companies even richer, and more opposition groups will be added to the list. Any natural "national" opposition which presently promises "democracy" will be subject to existing commercial "treaties" once they have achieved power. Penalties? You bet:like major mayhem, courtesy You Ess Aie.
In the meantime, one can observe and admire the way the UK government and Parliament have made themselves into a catspaw for US imperial interests. Heavy irony, here: BritCo is only even the junior partner in a US JV: they are the ones who book the losses, take the rap, eat the sh*t.
The Public Whip website has the list of the MPs who voted and the very few who rebelled against their parties on the Terrorism Bill 2000 e.g. Division 114 the Third Reading in the Commons on 15th March 2000.
You can check which of these MPs is still "in power" via the
http://www.theyworkforyou.com
website
There are no exemptions for corporations under the "catch all" Terrorism Act 2000.
Surely there is no oil in Afghanistan or even in North West Pakistan where the Taleban operated / still lurk ?
Are there any "Western" oil companies operating in Chechnya ?
That was lovely - thank you very much for those links. Where do I find similar info for the House of Lords?
As regards your question about Afghanistan and Chechnya, note that the "Terrorism" Act 2000 makes it an offence IN ENGLAND to fight an armed insurrection against/oppose any government anywhere in the world. Beside the fact that it is outrageous, this - in my view - is because governments have signed onto obligations (via economic "treaties") which protect corporations against the effects of the contracts by which they extract national wealth, actively preventing the enactment of national health-care schemes, free public education and citizen-friendly banking legislation, public transport and infrastructure projects. What it means is that the UK can bring business partners into line with the threat of crackdown on any given set of nationals.
Russia is no exception, having signed many anti-democratic (i.e.: unvoted, unpublicised, repressive, draconian) bi-lateral economic "treaties"; the difference is, of course, that they are well ahead of the curve compared with "western" governments which have not yet reached the point where "western" regions become openly hostile to their residents.
It's a peculiar sentance to have to phrase, I'll grant you, but there it is. Russia is "performing" with regard to the "Terrorism" 2000 Act.
It's all about "markets", as this report from The Guardian Shows:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Observer/international/story/0,6903,1651806,00.html
Indonesia deploys British arms against protesters
British military equipment is being used by the Indonesian authorities against civilians in remote parts of the country.
Special report: Indonesia
"Where do I find similar info for the House of Lords?""
PublicWhip and TheyWorkForYou have not yet been extended to cover the Lords, so you have to rely on the less sophisticated Lords' Hansard:
The Lords are not as "important" as the Commons, and they often do not actually vote on amendments etc., so, for instance the Lord's Third Reading of the Terrorism Bill 2000 was passed without a vote on 4th July 2000
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199900/ldhansrd/vo000704/text/00704-19.htm
Do you count only those Lords who were present in the Chamber at the time as having "passed" the Bill, or each and every single Peer who could have attended, for not having forced a vote against the Bill, in your listing of those who "voted" this excessive legislation into law ?
Or do you try to count each vote for, against and abstentions on each clause and amendment, at each stage of the Bill through the Commons and the Lords ?
Surely you should just put the Government Ministers and the Opposition Front Benches into your Rogues Gallery ?
Good idea. With a certain number of fellow-crimminals, I attended a hearing at the HoLs regarding the peculiarities of the Terrorist Act 2000; the purpose was to review and protest the somewhat idiosyncratic list of interdicted organisations. There were apparently only three of these when the Act was drafted to fit the crime (see Gilbert & Sullivan, "The Lord High Executioner") and others had to be found on the spur of a distracted moment for the list to appear impressively,erm, businesslike.
Unfortunately my list had not been checked and I was unable to point the bony finger at the principal culprits, most now gesticulating wildly and vociferating nukular mumbo jumbo.