It happened and we need to discuss it. I make no apologies for quoting from Enoch Powell's speech in the HOC in July 1959 about the murder of Mau Mau prisoner in British Colonial custody in the Hola Camp in Kenya. "It has been said that these 11 men were the lowest of the low; subhuman was the word which one of my honorable Friends used. So be it. But that cannot be relevant to the acceptance of responsibility for their death . . . In general, I would say that it is a fearful doctrine, which must recoil upon the heads of those who pronounce it, to stand in judgement on a fellow human being and to say, "Because he was such-and-such, therefore the consequences which would otherwise flow from his death shall not flow." Nor can we ourselves pick and choose where and in what parts of the world we shall use this or that kind of standard. We cannot say, "We will have African standards in Africa, Asian standards in Asia and perhaps British standards here at home." We have not that choice to make. We must be consistent with ourselves everywhere."

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Drone strike	08/09/15 12:03:00	Brian Coyle
Re:Drone strike	08/09/15 12:07:00	Loraine Pemberton
Re:Re:Drone strike	08/09/15 12:32:00	Cllr Sam Hearn
Re:Re:Re:Drone strike	08/09/15 12:36:00	Paul Corcoran
Re:Re:Re:Drone strike	08/09/15 12:43:00	Huw Burford-Taylor
Re:Re:Re:Re:Drone strike	08/09/15 13:07:00	Colin Jordan
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Drone strike	08/09/15 13:58:00	Paul Corcoran
Re:Drone strike	08/09/15 13:06:00	Richard Greenhough
Re:Re:Drone strike	08/09/15 14:11:00	Cllr Sam Hearn
Re:Re:Re:Drone strike	08/09/15 16:32:00	Joe Conneely
Re:Re:Re:Re:Drone strike	08/09/15 17:59:00	Andrew OSullivan
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Drone strike	09/09/15 09:40:00	Paul Corcoran
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Drone strike	09/09/15 10:08:00	Jonathan Bingham
Re:Drone strike	08/09/15 19:14:00	Penelope Battrick

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