5 Years ago today, on November 23rd,
2007, the U.N. defined the use of the
taser x-26 as torture and stated that it is known to be lethal. Since then many hundreds of people have been
killed by tasers and thousands more tortured, traumatized and abused. How is it possible that in a country like
Britain (or your country) which has
signed the United Nations Convention Against Torture, that weapons such as
these are routinely used by police? As
part of the ongoing advocacy of the RESIST CARDIAC ARREST Campaign, ‘The Limpet’ looks into the murky world of
electro-coercion and international law.
If legislators have their fingers
crossed behind their backs when signing international treaties, how valid are
these treaties….? Your correspondent has
been informed by the U.N. High Commissioner For Human Rights, in Geneva, that
they cannot investigate accusations of torture in the U.K. because when Britain
signed the UNCAT in 1985, under Thatcher, the government did not sign the
declaration regarding Article 22, without which the U.N. cannot look into cases
alleging torture in any signatory nation…
What this means in practice is that the international agreement which
Britain made with many other nations of the World, cannot be applied or
actually put into practice here - it is invalid and impotent, a mere abstract
equation. Meanwhile in Britain’s
streets, children, old people, innocent
bystanders and a disproportionately large number of black people have suffered
the trauma of street-electrification, courtesy of the State. Despite being continually ignored and fobbed
off by the British authorities, ‘The Limpet’s political correspondent sends an
open letter to the Right Honourable Member of Parliament, Mr Jeremy Corbyn,
presenting the case for Britain signing Article 22, upholding the UNCAT and
abolishing the use of torture-devices in this, our land.
RESIST CARDIAC
ARREST CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED: Link to RCA’s
mission statement, evidence, linguistic analysis and essay on history of
Electro-Coercion with numerous other articles and links:
RCA Manifesto:
Attempts by RCA
to discuss legal status of taser with Britgov & Britpol:
If you check
through the ‘Blog Archive’ at the top of the page, you can find numerous other
articles concerning the work of RESIST CARDIAC ARREST and the campaign against
stun guns…
These flyers can
be printed out and distributed…. Note: Since the flyers were designed, the
taser-death toll in North America has reached 758.
Flyers for 'The Limpet':
Ongoing list of
those killed by tasers in USA/Canada:
Link to the text
of The United Nations Convention Against Torture – see Article 22, which could
be viewed as a ‘key’ that activates and initiates the Convention…. Know your Rights!
In
other news:
Brave
Police Constable Tasers Disabled Old Blind Man in the Back:
Man
Burns Flower!!!
Beware
of the Flowers……
Give
Him A Flower…
“You're lying in your bath one day and looking at your toes
And sixty policemen bust in through the door
Don't you know it's an offense to strike a public pose
Cos even bathrooms aint not private anymore
"Cos we're all here lookin' at you, aint we?"
.
Give him a flower
Give him a flower
Give him a flower
Give him a flower…..” Arthur Brown, 1967
And sixty policemen bust in through the door
Don't you know it's an offense to strike a public pose
Cos even bathrooms aint not private anymore
"Cos we're all here lookin' at you, aint we?"
.
Give him a flower
Give him a flower
Give him a flower
Give him a flower…..” Arthur Brown, 1967
Let
a Hundred Flowers Bloom!
