A NO VOTE FOR AV WILL BE A DEFEAT FOR DEMOCRACY IN THE UK

I have for many years supported reform of our voting system in this country. The majority of countries in the EC vote using PR and i do not see any damage to the European electoral system.  I do however see a much more democratic and responsive system which embraces a much wider range of views and opinions than i see here in the UK.  

Was Osama Bin Laden responsible for the Twin Towers attacks. ?

No one can blame the American people for wanting the capture and punishment of the man (men) behind the attacks upon the Twin Towers in New York or the Pentagon in Washington DC but, was he guilty?  I heard him deny it in the media on a number of occasions which seems strangely out of tune with the Al Quaida organisation which was always proud of its attacks on the American imperialists and their puppets.

There have always been  conspiracy theories about the 911 attacks and the way that Bin Laden was allegely dispatched.  In the aftermath of 911 the USA under neocon leadership was ever eager to lash out at anyone who was either a terrorist or even someone who acted or looked like one and this has not won the USA many friends. The timing of the 911 attacks themselves suggested a good deal of inside knowledge about simultaneus War Games and exercises, not just in the USA but also in the UK during the 7/7 attacks in London.

Although Sadam Hussein was clearly no friend of Osama or Al Quaida and no proof existed to even susggest this, the USA were quick to attack and overrun Iraq and insist upon Sadams capture and kangaroo trial. Many lies were told and circulated and sexed up to support this illegal action. Similarly the Taliban were treated as obvious cohorts of Al Quaida and evidence to implicate was either falsified or at best exaggerated. Anyway i am surely not alone in asking these questions below is the cutting from todays UK Guardian Newspaper carrying an Item from Robert Burns (AP Washington)

"Knowing there would be disbelievers, the U.S. says it used convincing means to confirm Osama bin Laden's identity during and after the firefight that killed him. But the mystique that surrounded the terrorist chieftain in life is persisting in death.

Was it really him? How do we know? Where are the pictures?

Already, those questions are spreading in Pakistan and surely beyond. In the absence of photos and with his body given up to the sea, many people don't believe bin Laden — the Great Emir to some, the fabled escape artist of the Tora Bora mountains to foe and friend alike — is really dead.

U.S. officials are balancing that skepticism with the sensitivities that might be inflamed by showing images they say they have of the dead al-Qaida leader and video of his burial at sea. Still, it appeared likely that photographic evidence would be produced.

"We are going to do everything we can to make sure that nobody has any basis to try to deny that we got Osama bin Laden," John Brennan, President Barack Obama's counterterrorism adviser, said Monday. He said the U.S. will "share what we can because we want to make sure that not only the American people but the world understand exactly what happened." Lets all hope they are right. It seems to be getting very popular to kill leaders without trial or witnesses rather than do anything in the public nowadays. This is another threat to real justice.