Pigdogfucker

One of the latest right-wing memes going round [*] is that under the Human Rights Act it is illegal for the Royal Navy to detain pirates. The New York Times has a particularly strident op-ed criticising Britain for being namby-pamby liberal pansies and surrendering to the Piratofascists.

There’s only one problem with this: it’s absolute horseshit. There is nothing stopping the Navy from detaining pirates; the Human Rights Act is entirely irrelevant to the subject, and there are no cases at all, ever, of the Navy letting pirates go for human rights reasons. Rather, the entire thing appears to have been made up by lying cunts as a way of discrediting the HRA.

Alex The Yorkshire Ranter has a more detailed, evidence-based demolition, of which the paragraph above is a summary.

[*] for the avoidance of doubt, “right-wing” used in the context of this blog means “a cunt who believes stupid shit”. Tedious wankery about whether the Nazis were socialists, etc etc, is therefore irrelevant.

I get the feeling our libertarian friends will especially enjoy this clip. Gets really good from about 2m30 onwards…

Another good Doug Stanhope bit here. He’s like a right-wing version of Bill Hicks…