GOLDSTONED!!! THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND WITH EYES CLOSED

Posted By on January 14th, 2010

The Blind Leading The Blind – With Their Eyes Closed

Here is what passes for an example of the intelligence of a British Member of Parliament:

Martin Linton (Battersea) (Lab): …Members as I consider this to be a vital debate on the Goldstone report and the Government’s attitude to it before the vote in the United Nations General Assembly next month and, possibly, in the Security Council the month after.

As one of the few people who have read the report from cover to cover, I regard it as one of the most thorough and thoughtful I have ever read, and a model of even-handedness. I do not say that the original motion before the Human Rights Council was even-handed because it referred only to Israel…

I was one of the first group of MPs to enter Gaza after the military operations in February, along with my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Richard Burden) and the hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Mr. Davey). We saw many of the same things and spoke to many of the same people as the mission. Our accounts were listened to, but we did not have the time or resources to cross-check every fact and assess the reliability of every witness. Richard Goldstone did so with meticulous care. I do not know whether to be surprised to discover that all the horrors that we could hardly believe were true.

Martin,

they weren’t true.

You were goldstoned.

Martin, go here to read.

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