Soldiers Remains Scandal.

I'm sorry but this is a news story that is really being pushed in Britain so I don't think it can wait until after the Olympic events have finished for the day.

Today it has emerged that Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has retained body parts and tissue samples from 30 British military personnel who were killed in Afghanistan without gaining the proper consent of their next of kin. This is actually the third round in a dialogue that has been going on since Saturday (4/8/12) although I'd kind of hoped no-one had noticed. On Friday (3/8/12) night two masked men forced their way into the home of a 73 year old woman (Francoise Jansen) in Surrey, UK and 'tortured' her into revealing the combination to a safe she had in her home. The 'torture' included threatening to cut off her fingers, pouring boiling water over her and placing her head under running water leading the incident being dubbed 'water-boarding' similar to what the USA has been accused of doing to inmates at Guantanamo Bay. The purpose of this was to promote discussion about what the Brits having being doing to my grandmother in an attempt to argue that it couldn't be 'torture' because 'torture' is what those evil Americans do. The only problem with that is that no-one has been arguing that my grandmother's treatment constitutes 'torture.' Instead the argument has been that her unlawful imprisonment and the repeated demands for money to ensure her welfare constitute an example of kidnap for ransom and may well constitute a serious breach of the "Nuremberg Code" regarding the conduct of medical experiments on human test subjects. This is far more serious then anything the US has been up to at Guantanamo Bay.

Yesterday (8/8/12) the USA shot back with the story of a couple from Delaware (Melvin Morse M.D and his wife Pauline) who have been arrested for allegedly using water-boarding and other similarly violent techniques to punish their daughters (currently aged 5 and 11) over a period beginning in 2009. This obviously continues with the 'torture' theme but adds an element of child abuse to the story. I think this is the US' way of saying that when it comes to Britain's misconduct in my case over a number of years it's not so much a question of proving an example of misconduct but deciding which example to use. Therefore today Britain has responded with the story about these soldiers remains which touches on regulations on the storage of human tissue for medical experiments which exist because of the Nuremberg Codes in an effort to show that it is beginning to understand the terms of the discussion.


15:35 on 9/8/12.