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2010 JUNE 17 – Appropriation Bill (No. 1) – Consideration in Detail – Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Portfolio
Jun 18, 2010 | In Parliament - 2010
APPROPRIATION BILL (NO. 1) 2010-2011
Consideration in Detail
AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FORESTRY PORTFOLIO
Proposed expenditure, $655,547,000
Mr CHESTER (Gippsland) (11.38 am) — I want to raise the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry's attention to the issue of Landcare funding and the decision to not proceed with the forecast expenditure, which involves an amount in excess of $10 million. The minister does continue to claim that because funding has gone up by $1 million Landcare funding has not actually been cut. I think we are splitting hairs in that regard, minister, because the feeling on the ground throughout regional Australia is that Landcare has suffered a blow in this budget. Your own budget papers indicate that Landcare is not getting the money that your government intended to give Landcare 12 months ago.
For the sake of clarity, Minister, is it true that funding for Landcare has not been increased at the level that was originally planned by your government? What is the government's justification for making that decision in relation to Landcare and what impact do you expect that decision will have on the reduction in practical environmental work undertaken by an estimated 100,000 volunteers across Australia and by more than 4,000 Landcare groups? Does the decision to not proceed with that forecast level of spending reflect some change in the government's position regarding Landcare? Are you focusing on a different form of community based environmental action? I would appreciate some clarity on those points from the minister on behalf of the Landcare volunteers right throughout Australia, who I believe are the great champions of our environment through their practical work.
I will just reflect for a moment, Minister. I am sure you are aware—you have been out in regional areas that these people are bitterly disappointed. They are seeing this as some sort of diminishing of the government's respect for the fact that they are prepared to give up their time, normally on a weekend, to get out there and get their hands dirty. These are the practical environmentalists of our nation. They are not the people writing reports; they are actually out there digging holes on a weekend, planting trees, undertaking pest animal and pest weed controls. They are the people who we really need engaged in the process. The reaction they have taken to this budget has been very negative. They believe there is some sort of diminished view of Landcare as a result of the government's decision to not proceed with the original forecast level of expenditure.
Mr WINDSOR (New England) (11.40 am) — I support the comments made by the member for Gippsland in relation to Landcare. Minister, I think there needs to be some greater clarity on where government policy is actually taking Landcare. We are all, to some degree, concerned about the environment generally and in our case as country members the environment in country areas. Obviously, under your ministry, you cover those areas. There are concerns out there that in the main can be alleviated, but there needs to be greater clarity on just where the real foot soldiers of Landcare and environmentalism at a local level are going and how they will seek direction into the future. I note that in some areas there are differences of view between the catchment management authorities and Landcare groups. Those sorts of issues will always be out there. But there is no doubt—just to reinforce what the member for Gippsland said—that these are the people who we really need on the ground to carry out a lot of these things. Advertisements on TV of what could be happening within their catchment are all very well, but these people, who are volunteers, who are ready to do a whole range of things, should probably be given a greater degree of recognition than they are currently given.
Another question, Minister, is in relation to Liverpool Plains and the interface of that particular area with the prime agricultural land, the groundwater and surface water resources and the potential for massive mining development in those areas. I wonder where you stand, Minister, in relation to the potential offsite impacts on the water systems in the Murray-Darling river system. I am aware there are issues in Queensland in part of the Murray- Darling catchment. The Commonwealth is playing a greater role there and, in my view, it should. But I think there needs to be some real jurisdictional interpretations undertaken as to the state based planning processes for allowing mining activities to proceed. Now the Commonwealth is involved in water resources, it is obviously involved in the production of food in some of these very fertile areas.
Just briefly, the minister may be able to report on another area. I note that there is money in the budget for the science of soil carbon. He may be able to report briefly on progress regarding those management practices that are encouraging the sequestration of carbon and on how government policy will encourage farmers to move in that direction?
Mr SCHULTZ (Hume) (11.43 am) — Minister, before I ask the question I am going to ask I will give you a little bit of background information so that you will understand why I have serious concerns about this particular issue. As the first elected conservative in the state seat of Burrinjuck in the New South Wales parliament, in the late 1980s, I raised the very serious issue of the importation of apples and pears from New Zealand and the inherent risk that that would place on Australia's disease-free status, particularly in relation to fire blight. I raised the issue again in this place, in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2004, and those issues are all on the record in Hansard.
Given the recent press release by Biosecurity about their recommendations to introduce apples from Japan into this country and the inherent risks associated with that particular cause, can the minister give the apple and pear industry in this country some assurance that he is not going to be influenced by the recommendations of Biosecurity, who have as a matter of record in the past demonstrated their lack of scientific investigation into the actual problems associated with the introduction of apples and pears into this country, in particular from New Zealand? Can the minister also give a guarantee to this parliament, the Australian people and in particular the apple and pear industry that he will not take too lightly the serious ramifications of any recommendation by Biosecurity Australia to compromise the very safe biosecurity regimes that have operated in this country and have prevented disease from apples and pears from other countries coming into this country? I say this in the interests of the very real concerns from apple and pear growers across the country who are, once again, being placed in a situation where, with their limited resources, they have to fight a federal department whose track record has demonstrated time and time again that they are is not interested in the safety of Australia's disease-free status but are more focused on the easy option of agreeing to pressure from organisations outside of this country in the interests of so called free trade.
Mr BRIGGS (Mayo) (11.46 am) — I think you would agree with this line of questioning as well. I also rise to speak on the very important issue of apples and pears to my electorate of Mayo. The Adelaide Hills probably produce the finest apples in Australia. My apple and pear producers are extremely worried. I wrote to the minister yesterday on the Chinese import risk assessment that the shadow minister so eloquently put in his question to the minister. I am interested in that answer. In particular, is the department looking at possibly reopening that risk assessment given this new bug? I will not try and pronounce the name of the bug—you may be able to assist, Minister, in that respect. I am interested in the New Zealand aspect and the more pressing issue of the risk assessment of the Chinese situation.
The second issue which was raised by the member for New England relates to prime agricultural land. In my area in the Adelaide Hills, the state government is opening up large parcels of land for housing development. Is an assessment being conducted by the federal agricultural department about the impact on our ability to produce food from inappropriate development on prime agricultural land? Certainly around Mount Barker this is a very contentious issue. This is a very important issue: where we choose to put houses and the use of areas that have fertile soil and good water—which are not always available in South Australia. Is an assessment being done on the risk here? I do not think the state Labor government in South Australia is doing enough in that respect.
Mr BURKE (Watson — Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and Minister for Population) (11.49 am) — Can I deal with the issues raised by the shadow minister first. I suspect I am going to want a few goes at my five minutes to work through the different issues that have been raised. I will deal first with the non-apple issues raised by the shadow minister, then deal with apples and then deal with the different issues that have been raised.
First of all, the shadow minister raised the issue of the Productivity Commission review into the research and development corporations. I believe I can actually give him all the assurances he seeks by simply referring to the National Press Club speech I gave when the Productivity Commission inquiry was launched. There is no desire by government to use this as a mechanism to reduce funding. What we are trying to do is find ways for the money that is made available for research and development through the RDCs to be used far more effectively and efficiently than it has been.
The research and development corporations by and large do a very good job. I do not want to mince words on that; generally they do. For each of them I do believe there are examples where they could use their money more efficiently than they do, which would result in more money being made available for research and development, not less. The key examples that I think you can focus on fairly easily are: first of all, there were a handful of them where executive salaries became completely out of control. I believe that whoever is the CEO of a research body is doing an incredibly important job. When their salaries got beyond the salary of the Prime Minister of Australia, and they were doing that off the back of farmers' and taxpayers' money, I think it was not a reasonable call. I spoke to them for a long time, asking them to do something about it. One of them moved a tiny bit but very few of them moved at all, and I do believe it is an appropriate issue for the Productivity Commission to have a look at.
Secondly, there is the issue of co-location. We have more than half-a-dozen of the research and development corporations based here in Canberra, but they all have their own building, they all have their own conference room, they have their own payroll systems under different enterprise agreements and they have their own receptionist. I do not believe for a minute that there are not opportunities to co-locate, streamline and outsource some functions, even if the RDCs all want to keep their separate identities and not amalgamate. I really believe that at the moment there is money that could go to research and development—that farmers believe they are paying for the purpose of research and development and that taxpayers are pretty happy to contribute to in the matched funds—that, though it is not being thrown up against a wall, by any means, is not being used as efficiently as it could be. The intention of the Productivity Commission review is to find a way for the money that is provided to be used more effectively and efficiently than it has been.
There are some people, including some in the electorate of New England, for example, who oppose the levies outright. It is a common view as well among beef producers in that part of the member for New England's electorate. It is also a common view among a number of grain growers in Western Australia. It is not a view I hold. I am not opposed to the levy system. I actually think it works and works well for these reasons: firstly, if you believe that there should be an Australian government contribution to research and development—and I do—then the people who get the financial benefit from the research and development should pay a higher contribution than the general taxpayer does, and the levy system does exactly that; secondly, research and development is only of any use at all if it makes it from the lab to the farm and if farmers have been involved on the boards. If the farming organisations have had a direct stake in what is being chosen for the purposes of research, I believe that is the best way you can have of ensuring the extension part works—that the research actually makes it from the lab to the farm.
My commitment to the current system is one where the more I have looked at it, the more I think it works. I think it is a smart structure. There are individual issues. Some of them have got more tied up in agri-political activity than I think is warranted for a research body. There are different areas where the money can be used more efficiently than it has been. But as a general rule the model itself is one I support and I have said so publicly previously.
The next issue raised by the shadow minister concerns whether I am receiving information, advice and complaints from other departments on the work of the research and development corporations. The advice that comes to me on the RDCs comes from two sources: it comes from my department and it comes from farmers. That is it; that is the only advice that comes to me. The extent to which other departments have chosen to engage in the Productivity Commission process, for example, I do not know the answer to, but I suspect the Productivity Commission would be able to provide very quickly which departments have made submissions to it. The advice that comes to me comes is from my department and from farmers, and I am not sure that advice on research and development corporations from any other department would be as useful to me as those two sources of information.
We then go to the issues surrounding apples. I will deal with the issue of China and the issue of New Zealand separately because they are very different issues in terms of biosecurity. I first of all thank all members who participated in that discussion on apples for the fact that, without exception, everybody was arguing from a biosecurity perspective. No-one was arguing—in the questions that I heard and the way they were framed—from a protectionist perspective. I think that is a very important message not just for us to relay to each other but for the rest of the world to hear Australian politicians argue.
Australia's approach to biosecurity and quarantine has always been within the context of us being largely a free-trading nation. But we are also an island nation. There are pests and diseases which do not exist here, and Australia has every right to protect itself from those pests and diseases using the formula of the appropriate level of protection which has been used by both sides of politics for a very long time, which is that the level of protection should be for very low but not zero risk. If we sought zero risk, we know that that would mean that you would take no imports of anything, you would allow no tourists in or out of the nation and you would shoot all migratory birds as they approached the border. The approach of zero risk is one that no-one can deliver in any sensible public policy approach, but to minimise the risk is good and appropriate public policy, and that has had bipartisan support within Australian politics for a long time. I think the discussion we just had, the questions and the way they were framed affirmed that very strongly.
I now go to the biosecurity issues which we are dealing with. With respect to New Zealand, we are talking principally but not solely about fire blight, in terms of the issues which have been raised. Drosophila suzukii—I always have to check that name—is the pest that we are talking about with China.
Honourable member interjecting —
Mr BURKE — I can spell it if you need that. I will deal with New Zealand first because the biosecurity arguments there are the strongest ones in the sense that they have been around as arguments between the two nations for 70 years. When I was shadow minister for immigration, I took a quick trip to New Zealand as a guest of the then New Zealand government. I was shadow minister for immigration, and every discussion I had with every member of parliament or government agency began with a discussion about the migration of New Zealand apples to Australia. It is a massive issue for New Zealand, but fire blight is a massive issue for Australia, and we have every right to defend ourselves in every international court.
There are protocols around WTO decisions, protocols which—from leaks that have appeared in the international press—it would be arguable that not everybody has followed. But there is a protocol that there is a gap between when the parties receive a ruling or a draft ruling from the WTO and when they are allowed to make it public. We observe those protocols to the letter. The final report is expected to be made public later in the year, possibly in July, but that will have to follow very strictly the WTO rules about when it is allowed to be made public, and the release of it would come not from me but from the Minister for Trade, as he has principal carriage of the issue. (Extension of time granted) The issue of an appeal obviously always depends on legal advice and is a call made by the Minister for Trade in the final instance, not by me, although it is an issue on which we do work closely together.
Without in any way compromising the formalities of the process we are in, I will just say there is no difference between the vigorous way in which this government will defend Australia's biosecurity in every international court and the way in which every previous Australian government has defended our biosecurity in every international court. I do not know that I can go any further than that without reflecting on information which at this point is still confidential.
With respect to New Zealand, that applies to the fire blight issues surrounding both apples and pears. China is different. Since 1999, pears from China have been allowed into Australia. That means that a large number of biosecurity issues and the science on apples had in fact already been resolved to Australia's satisfaction since 1999. The issue of the pest whose name I have pronounced once—and I will leave it at that; we will refer to them as the suzukii pest—has been raised by industry recently. I know the shadow minister has met with the peak industry body. The peak industry body were offered a meeting with my office, but it was not at a time they could do, in fairness to them, and we are still finalising another meeting. There is certainly no reticence from me or from them about sitting down and working through this issue.
Any decision on the pest that has been referred to will be made on the basis of the science and will be made at arm's length from the minister, as previous ministers have done. But a decision will be made on the basis of the science, and if the science says there is a biosecurity problem which has only recently come to light then I have no doubt that the Director of Biosecurity will act according to the responsibilities he holds in that job by making surethat the level of risk that is dealt with for Australia is kept at the appropriate level of very low but not zero. I cannot answer further than that, as the shadow minister would respect, without there being a ministerial direction of that nature to the Director of Biosecurity, and I think we would both agree that to go that distance would be inappropriate.
In terms of particular references that have been made by others, any recommendations obviously will not be taken lightly but extremely seriously. I go to issues first raised by the member for Gippsland and echoed by the member for New England with respect to Landcare, and then there were a couple of other issues that were raised by the member for New England. On Landcare, I believe that part of the way in which the member for Gippsland described the issue is accurate. Some of it is, I think, rhetoric which does not quite match the truth, but some of it is accurate. Is there less money for Landcare? In the forward estimates of this budget, when compared to the forward estimates of the previous budget, the answer to that is yes. Is there more money for Landcare next year than there was last year? Yes. Is there more money again for Landcare the year after that? Yes. So what does that mean? First of all, in dollar terms, in 2009-10 there is $35.1 million for the National Landcare Program; in 2010- 11, $36.2 million; and in 2011-12, $39.1 million. Would we all—everybody here—liked to have had a situation where the budgetary constraints were different and we had a whole lot more money for Landcare? Of course we would. But I do not believe it is reasonable to put it in the terms that the member for Gippsland did. He said that this would result in a reduction in practical environmental work. You cannot increase the funds and reduce the practical environmental work.
Mr Chester interjecting —
Mr BURKE — If there is a view that an increase from $35.1 million to $39.1 million in two years is in some way less than other expenditure and a reduction against CPI, there are rates of CPI being projected by the coalition which, I think, do not reflect what their shadow minister for finance or their shadow Treasurer would be saying is the case. But, Member for Gippsland, if you believe that the CPI is going to be running at those sorts of proportions over the next two years, by all means run that argument. But I do not think your economic spokespeople are matching that argument at all.
In terms of Landcare, the member for New England went a little bit further and just asked: where is government policy taking Landcare? I dealt with a lot of these issues in a speech I gave to the National Landcare Conference in Adelaide. I believe Landcare in the future has to work on three pillars: food, environment and climate. I think those three pillars provide the basic framework for the work of Landcare, where work that has now been going for 20 years for the challenges of the past—whether they be soil degradation, salinity or soil moisture problems through drought—will also deal with a whole lot of climate challenges that we will be facing in the future.
There have been areas where government policy in the first two years of government fell short and which we have acted to fix. Initially, when we got rid of the local facilitators, a number of members of parliament— including the member for New England and, I acknowledge, the member for Corangamite argued vigorously with me that that was an error. We responded to that and we reinstated the facilitators on a local basis.
Secondly, there are the community action grants. We had no small grants program. The only way to be able to access grants was to largely work in with a big project through the catchment management authorities or whatever the NRM bodies are called in the various states—certainly for the member for New England it is the CMAs. There were many small groups that felt they were shut out and could do good, practical work with smaller amounts of money than were being made readily available, so the community action grants were introduced.
On the issues surrounding the Liverpool Plains, a large number of those in terms of final policy carriage, to the extent that there is a federal involvement, go to issues within the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, through the water portfolio, because the issue of quality of downstream water is something that, to the extent it rests with the federal government, rests with that portfolio. But certainly, within the arms of government, my department does feed in information on those issues.
In respect of this, though, there is an issue which was raised by the member for Mayo—which I have skipped; I am sorry. He refers to fertile soil, which is a similar argument to those about the changes in land use. This is something which does not rest at a federal level, and it is being dealt with very differently by different states. Tasmania, for example, has zoned agricultural land in particular ways to be able to make a zoning decision about preservation of fertile soil. One of the particular features of Australia since white settlement has been that people move where the soil is at its most fertile and then put cities over the top of our best soil. It has been an ongoing practice. Some states are now starting to deal with that in new and creative ways, but I do not want to pretend that land zoning is a federal power; it is not.
Finally, on the science of soil carbon, the work that we are doing on soil carbon is less than we had hoped to do. There was an extra $50 million on the table as part of the package surrounding the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme for research and development in agriculture, a good part of which was to go to soil carbon, coupled with a system of incentives whereby farmers would get cash for good work in soils. Some of that is now off the table because we were not able to secure passage of that legislation. Certainly, with the funding that we have available, there is more work being done in soil carbon than there ever has been before. It goes in two ways. One is in terms of measurement—not simply measuring the improvement in the soil but measuring how much carbon still finds its way out. The second is working out ways of integrating that with farm practices. There has been one simple rule that I have put over the programs there under Australia's Farming Future: when research and development are being done into carbon sequestration, I want there to be an alignment between improved carbon levels in the soil and improved productivity. Regardless of where any other policy gets, if you get a productivity dividend, that is the best way of making sure you get uptake by farmers.
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Rare Spinal Surgery Gives MLB Player A Miracle And A Second Chance To Return To Baseball
A Cleveland Indians first baseman has arrived in the Valley for spring training after making a remarkable recovery following a debilitating spine injury that nearly shattered his career and left him faced with a risk of complete paralysis. Following an innovative and rare spine surgery at St. Joseph's Barrow Neurological Institute, David Cooper has returned to baseball - a feat many doctors said may never happen.
Cooper, 27, was injured while diving into first base while playing for the Toronto Blue Jays in 2012. His injury was initially described as a jammed neck and upper back spasms, however a MRI two weeks later diagnosed a much more serious ailment – a large herniated disc in his thoracic spine located deep inside his chest cavity. The herniated disc was compressing and severely deforming the front of his thoracic spinal cord and threatened to permanently paralyze him. Without surgery, Cooper would never play baseball again and he was told that undergoing the traditional surgical method for his injury would not likely permit him to play professional baseball and held many risks including severe lifelong pain, lung problems, and excessive bleeding.
With limited hope, Cooper was told about a world-renowned spine neurosurgeon in Phoenix who had pioneered a minimally invasive surgical procedure through the chest cavity to treat his injury. Cooper underwent the four hour surgery last April by Curtis Dickman, MD, neurosurgeon at Barrow. Dr. Dickman completely removed the herniated thoracic disc to decompress his spinal cord, and inserted bone grafts, a titanium plate and two titanium screws through several very small incisions in the side of David's chest cavity.
"Although herniated discs are relatively common, Cooper is among 1 to 2 percent of individuals who suffer a herniated disc in his thoracic spine," says Dr. Dickman. "This area of the spine located deep within the chest cavity is very challenging to access, especially when the herniated disc is directly in front of the spinal cord. The surgery we performed is only offered in few places throughout the world and it was David's best hope of returning to baseball. It's remarkable he's made such a spectacular recovery."
Just three months following surgery, Cooper was lifting weights and setting his sights on a return to baseball. He has made a full recovery. A free agent after his injury, Cooper signed a major league contract with the Cleveland Indians in December – something he was told may never happen.
"I'm so happy to be playing professional baseball again," says Cooper. "Without this surgery I would be in excruciating pain and I wouldn't have the opportunity to ever play baseball again."
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The derelict office block, which was built in 1970 , was used by British Rail but has been empty since they left in the mid 1990s.
It has come a long way since earlier this year when the project started.
The Station Hill development scheme is one of the largest in the South East of England.
The West Tower now joins the former Top Rank ballroom which opened back in 1967 in being consigned to history.


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Sagami Railway Series 20000 enters service
JAPAN: Sagami Railway put into service on February 11 the first of its Series 20000 EMUs, which have been designed for future through running to Tokyo.
Sotetsu Corp has ordered a fleet of six 10-car and nine eight-car Series 20000 EMUs to replace its older Series 7000 units. Built at Hitachi's Kasado plant, they will operate on its 24·6 km main line from Yokohama to Ebina via Nishiya and the 11·3 km branch from Futamatagawa to Shonandai. Serving a total of 26 stations, these 1 067 mm gauge lines are electrified at 1·5 kV DC.
The aluminium-bodied EMUs are derived from Hitachi's A-Train family, with 20 m long cars; a 10-car unit has five motor and five trailer vehicles. Each motor car has its own pantograph and a lightweight VVVF invertor pack containing a 3·3kV 1 800A silicon-carbide water-cooled diode, powering four 190 kW self-ventilated motors on the bolsterless air-sprung bogies. Design speed is 120 km/h.
Each intermediate vehicle has seats for 51 passengers and standing space for 143; the two driving cars carry 45 seated and 133 standing, giving a total capacity of around 1 400 passengers. The interior lighting system uses variable-brightness LEDs, which allows automated adjustment of the colour temperature from 2 700 K to 5 000 K depending on the time of day. Two types of priority seats are provided, including higher seats for elderly passengers with under-seat luggage space.
The Series 20000 vehicles have a maximum width of 2 787 mm, 230 mm narrower than older Sagami EMUs, in order to fit the loading gauge of Tokyu Corp's Meguro Line. This will facilitate the introduction of through services once the 10 km gap between the two railways has been closed.
Under the 'Tokyo Direct Line' project to be completed in the second half of 2022, Sotetsu plans to build a connection from Nishiya station to an existing JR Freight line at Yokohama Huzawa. Through services would use around 7 km of this line to reach the Meguro Line at Hiyoshi, offering a more direct route than changing to the Tokyu Toyoko line at Nishi-Yokohama.
Sotetsu Link inaugurated
JAPAN: Ceremonies were held at Hazawa yokohama-kokudai station on November 25 to mark the formal completion of the publicly-funded link between the private Sagami Railway and JR East's Tokaido Freight Line.
JR East to build ALFA-X 360 km/h Shinkansen testbed
JAPAN: East Japan Railway has announced its intention build a further high speed test train, as part of a programme to develop its next generation of Shinkansen trains.
Twilight Express Mizukaze to launch next month
JAPAN: West Japan Railway is to launch the Twilight Express Mizukaze (fresh breeze) luxury cruise train in June, adopting a similar concept to JR East's Train Suite Shiki-Shima.


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Deadly compliance
Ubi Libertas Camping, Constitution, Culture, Firearms, First Amendment, Flashback, Home, Liberty, Merica, Politics, Protest, Reason, RV, Second Amendment, Travel May 16, 2022 May 17, 2022
At the end of yesterday's post, "Satisfaction," I implored readers to "apologize for nothing." In that spirit, then, you can be absolutely sure that I won't apologize for what I said or how I said it — I meant every damned word.
The firearm used in last weekend's Buffalo massacre is getting attention because it fits progressives' anti-Liberty narrative. It's an Evil Black Rifle, one of those scary "assault weapons" that get liberals hyperventilating. And this gun was modified to make it even more assaulty.
A little background is in order here. After the Sandy Hook murders in December of 2012, the People's Republic of New York pounced on the opportunity to enact even more repressive "gun control" statutes. The result was the NY SAFE Act, signed into law by Handsy Andy in January of 2013.
The new law further strangled citizens' ability to exercise their natural right to keep and bear arms, creating lists of rifle and pistol features that got entire classes of firearms banned. A 1994 law limiting magazine capacity to ten rounds eventually was preserved, but not because Democrats didn't try to take it lower — SAFE originally restricted magazines to seven rounds, a provision later ruled unconstitutional by a federal court.
On Saturday in Buffalo, the perpetrator deployed an Evil Black Rifle modified (illegally, of course) in a way that allowed it to accept a standard-capacity magazine, presumably one holding 30 rounds — just like those used throughout Free America for recreation, sport and hunting. The explanation for why that's relevant isn't what you're being fed by mainstream media.
From what I've seen of the "manifesto" attributed to the murderer, he chose his target for three reasons. The first reflected his simmering hatred:
"[This ZIP code on the east side of Buffalo] has the highest black population percentage…"
The second was proximity to his home:
"[Buffalo] isn't that far away."
And what was his third reason?
"…New York has heavy gun laws so it would ease me if I knew that any legally armed civilian was limited to ten-round magazines or cucked [sic] firearms."
We've been issuing warnings for years. Criminals (by definition) don't obey laws. So-called "gun control" and "assault weapons bans" disarm only law-abiding citizens. Evil looks for soft targets.
Murderers love "gun-free zones."
Our predictions tragically came true in Buffalo. Ten innocents are dead. A disturbed 18-year-old may have pulled the trigger, but the People's Republic of New York created his kill zone.
And that retired cop who's being hailed as a hero, the one who was killed after engaging the perp with his sidearm? Well, as a store security guard he would've been limited to ten rounds, too.
It's not the first time that state law — and dutiful compliance with the law — got people killed. As long as we have Democrats and other progressives making anti-American laws, it won't be the last.
When a federal ban on "assault weapons" took effect in 1994, it was a wake-up call for many American gun owners. Clinton was the president who signed it, but the real blame for gutting our birthrights belongs to two legislators. One of them, Dianne Emiel Goldman Berman Feinstein Blum, authored the bill. She still serves in the Senate.
The other, a notoriously sleazy Senator who cut back-room deals and rammed the legislation through, today occupies the Oval Office. And he's still lying about the near-zero effect the ban had on crime.
That AWB was allowed to "sunset" in 2004. By then, Second Amendment advocates and most gun owners had learned their lesson — the feds were willing and, given fair political winds, quite able to ban an entire class of in-common-use firearms.
An unshackled firearms industry responded, some manufacturers more quickly and more ably than others, flooding the marketplace with Evil Black Rifles. Within five years the AR-15 platform was the most popular firearm in America, supplanting the 1911 pistol.
Today there are more than 25 million AR-15-style rifles in citizens' hands, plus millions more AK-47s and other ban-bait. Sales spike whenever the prospect of "gun control" legislation makes news and in the months preceding a general election. In four years working behind the gun counter of a local firearms retailer, I'm sure I personally sold 800 or more AR-15s, AK-47s and the like.
Seven states and DC have their own AWBs, four of them enacted during the federal ban (fully expecting that it'd be allowed to expire). Most are based on an idiotic list of purely cosmetic features, and manufacturers have (wherever possible and profitable) created state-compliant models of their AR-15. Often they're silly-looking guns, at least to those of us in Free America, a cartoonish fuck-you aimed at gun-grabbers.
A New York-compliant Bushmaster XM-15 was modified and used to commit ten murders Saturday in Buffalo. In the "manifesto" attributed to the perpetrator, he told us why he chose that gun:
"The effect it would have on social discourse, the extra media coverage they would provide, and the changes to gun laws that will be pushed will all help my case."
Right on cue, the Left seized the media spotlight before the bodies were bagged, flogging a familiar narrative of racism and "gun control." That's exactly what the murderer hoped would happen.
Criminals want to see weapons banned, magazine capacity restricted, imaginary "gun-free zones" advertised with big ol' signs (or, better yet, defined by state borders). That's no surprise — why does the obvious elude so many liberals?
If you believe that gun laws will protect you, reflexively complying and expecting criminals to do the same, you're a dead dumbass walking. And if you're in favor of "gun control," to any degree and in any form, you're an enemy of Liberty and no friend of mine.
One year ago today: If I had to point to the day that we caught the spirit of The Ozarks — or when the sprit caught us — this would be it.
"I'm at peace," Deb said to me.
That was the moment. We didn't even know why.
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In 1996, Youth Pastor Bill O'Boyle moved to town and put together a band to play for youth group on Wednesday nights. He added a couple of brothers from New York, Christopher and Owen Thomas, and together they formed a Christian pop/rock group they named Just Visiting along with bass guitarist Jess Sutton. In the early days Bill wrote all the music and Owen Thomas wrote most of the lyrics.  Owen Thomas did the primary vocals, and played Sax. Christopher Thomas added drums, percussion.  Bill sang back up and lead on a few songs. The music was written by the Youth Pastor and Owen Thomas.  The band's guitar-based sound has been compared to that of groups like the Foo Fighters, Oasis, and even the Beatles.

In 1996, Just Visiting decided to turn their music from a pastime into a career. The band began to tour persistently, performing at shows and festivals all over the United States.

The group recorded their first album that same year, Gardenshow. In 1998, a second album was completed, Just Visiting; both albums were done on independent record labels. "She Never Walked Away," Jug of Pennies, Jesus Loves you '96 "Don't Ever Let Me See You Cry," and "Cast a Stone" are some of the tracks on the albums.

In 1999, the band changed its name from Just Visiting to the Elms,. A few months later, the group signed with Sparrow Records. A self-titled EP (using the new name), The Elms, was released in 2000. One of the tunes on the EP, "Lifeboat," made it as a Top 13 hit nationwide. Over the years, the Elms have performed with many other Christian groups, including the Waiting, Seven Day Jesus, the O.C. Supertones, Big Tent Revival, Sixpence None the Richer, and Delirious? Other members of the Elms have been bassist Jeff Sutton, who added his talents for over two years before leaving; guitarist Billy Riggs, who joined the band for the 1997 Gospel Music Association National Spotlight Competition; Malcolm McLaughlin, who left in 1999; guitarist James Thompson, who was with the group from 1997–2000; and Florida bass guitarist Matt Erickson, who joined in time to work with the Elms on a full-length album for Sparrow. That album was Big Surprise, a sweetly catchy affair that saw the group adding pop elements that had not previously come through in their sound.

A 2002 tour with Peter Frampton and a new album, Truth, Soul, Rock & Roll, marked their next efforts. The group took a long hiatus from both touring and recording, returning in 2006 with Chess Hotel.

Discography

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Class Attributes

java.lang.Object
  com.newatlanta.nio.file.attribute.Attributes

public final class Attributes
extends java.lang.Object

This class consists exclusively of static methods that operate on or return
 the attributes of files or file stores. These methods provide for convenient
 use of the attribute-views defined in this package.

Since:

1.7

Method Summary

static java.util.List<AclEntry>
getAcl(FileRef file)

          Reads a file's Access Control List (ACL).

static UserPrincipal
getOwner(FileRef file)

          Returns the owner of a file.

static BasicFileAttributes
readBasicFileAttributes(FileRef file,
                        LinkOption... options)

          Reads the basic file attributes of a file.

static DosFileAttributes
readDosFileAttributes(FileRef file,
                      LinkOption... options)

          Reads the DOS file attributes of a file.

static FileStoreSpaceAttributes
readFileStoreSpaceAttributes(FileStore store)

          Reads the space attributes of a file store.

static PosixFileAttributes
readPosixFileAttributes(FileRef file,
                        LinkOption... options)

          Reads the POSIX file attributes of a file.

static void
setAcl(FileRef file,
       java.util.List<AclEntry> acl)

          Updates a file's Access Control List (ACL).

static void
setLastAccessTime(FileRef file,
                  FileTime lastAccessTime)

          Updates a file's last access time attribute.

static void
setLastModifiedTime(FileRef file,
                    FileTime lastModifiedTime)

          Updates a file's last modified time attribute.

static void
setOwner(FileRef file,
         UserPrincipal owner)

          Updates the file owner.

static void
setPosixFilePermissions(FileRef file,
                        java.util.Set<PosixFilePermission> perms)

          Sets a file's POSIX permissions.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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Method Detail

readBasicFileAttributes

public static BasicFileAttributes readBasicFileAttributes(FileRef file,
                                                          LinkOption... options)
                                                   throws java.io.IOException

Reads the basic file attributes of a file.

 The options array may be used to indicate how symbolic links
 are handled for the case that the file is a symbolic link. By default,
 symbolic links are followed and the file attributes of the final target
 of the link are read. If the option NOFOLLOW_LINKS is present then symbolic links are not followed and so
 the method returns the file attributes of the symbolic link itself.
 This option should be used where there is a need to determine if a
 file is a symbolic link:

    boolean isSymbolicLink = Attributes.readBasicFileAttributes(file, NOFOLLOW_LINKS).isSymbolicLink();

 It is implementation specific if all file attributes are read as an
 atomic operation with respect to other file system operations.

Parameters:
file - A file reference that locates the file
options - Options indicating how symbolic links are handled

Returns:
The basic file attributes

Throws:

java.io.IOException - If an I/O error occurs

java.lang.SecurityException - In the case of the default provider, the security manager's checkRead method is invoked
          to check read access to file
See Also:
BasicFileAttributeView.readAttributes()

readPosixFileAttributes

public static PosixFileAttributes readPosixFileAttributes(FileRef file,
                                                          LinkOption... options)
                                                   throws java.io.IOException

Reads the POSIX file attributes of a file.

 The file parameter locates a file that supports the PosixFileAttributeView. This file attribute view provides access to a
 subset of the file attributes commonly associated with files on file
 systems used by operating systems that implement the Portable Operating
 System Interface (POSIX) family of standards. It is implementation
 specific if all file attributes are read as an atomic operation with
 respect to other file system operations.

 The options array may be used to indicate how symbolic links
 are handled for the case that the file is a symbolic link. By default,
 symbolic links are followed and the file attributes of the final target
 of the link are read. If the option NOFOLLOW_LINKS is present then symbolic links are not followed and so
 the method returns the file attributes of the symbolic link itself.

Parameters:
file - A file reference that locates the file
options - Options indicating how symbolic links are handled

Returns:
The POSIX file attributes

Throws:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException - If the PosixFileAttributeView is not available

java.io.IOException - If an I/O error occurs

java.lang.SecurityException - In the case of the default provider, and a security manager is
          installed, it denies RuntimePermission<tt>("accessUserInformation")</tt>
          or its checkRead method
          denies read access to the file.
See Also:
PosixFileAttributeView.readAttributes()

readDosFileAttributes

public static DosFileAttributes readDosFileAttributes(FileRef file,
                                                      LinkOption... options)
                                               throws java.io.IOException

Reads the DOS file attributes of a file.

 The file parameter locates a file that supports the DosFileAttributeView. This file attribute view provides access to
 legacy "DOS" attributes supported by the file systems such as File
 Allocation Table (FAT), commonly used in consumer devices. It is
 implementation specific if all file attributes are read as an atomic
 operation with respect to other file system operations.

 The options array may be used to indicate how symbolic links
 are handled for the case that the file is a symbolic link. By default,
 symbolic links are followed and the file attributes of the final target
 of the link are read. If the option NOFOLLOW_LINKS is present then symbolic links are not followed and so
 the method returns the file attributes of the symbolic link itself.

Parameters:
file - A file reference that locates the file
options - Options indicating how symbolic links are handled

Returns:
The DOS file attributes

Throws:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException - If the DosFileAttributeView is not available

java.io.IOException - If an I/O error occurs

java.lang.SecurityException - In the case of the default provider, the security manager's checkRead method is invoked
          to check read access to file
See Also:
DosFileAttributeView.readAttributes()

getOwner

public static UserPrincipal getOwner(FileRef file)
                              throws java.io.IOException

Returns the owner of a file.

 The file parameter locates a file that supports the FileOwnerAttributeView. This file attribute view provides access to
 a file attribute that is the owner of the file.

Parameters:
file - A file reference that locates the file

Returns:
A user principal representing the owner of the file

Throws:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException - If the FileOwnerAttributeView is not available

java.io.IOException - If an I/O error occurs

java.lang.SecurityException - In the case of the default provider, and a security manager is
          installed, it denies RuntimePermission<tt>("accessUserInformation")</tt>
          or its checkRead method
          denies read access to the file.
See Also:
FileOwnerAttributeView.getOwner()

setOwner

public static void setOwner(FileRef file,
                            UserPrincipal owner)
                     throws java.io.IOException

Updates the file owner.

 The file parameter locates a file that supports the FileOwnerAttributeView. This file attribute view provides access to
 a file attribute that is the owner of the file.

Parameters:
file - A file reference that locates the file
owner - The new file owner

Throws:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException - If the FileOwnerAttributeView is not available

java.io.IOException - If an I/O error occurs

java.lang.SecurityException - In the case of the default provider, and a security manager is
          installed, it denies RuntimePermission<tt>("accessUserInformation")</tt>
          or its checkWrite
          method denies write access to the file.
See Also:
FileOwnerAttributeView.setOwner(com.newatlanta.nio.file.attribute.UserPrincipal)

getAcl

public static java.util.List<AclEntry> getAcl(FileRef file)
                                       throws java.io.IOException

Reads a file's Access Control List (ACL).

 The file parameter locates a file that supports the AclFileAttributeView. This file attribute view provides access to ACLs
 based on the ACL model specified in
  RFC 3530.

Parameters:
file - A file reference that locates the file

Returns:
An ordered list of entries representing the
          ACL. The returned list is modifiable.

Throws:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException - If the AclAttributeView is not available

java.io.IOException - If an I/O error occurs

java.lang.SecurityException - In the case of the default provider, and a security manager is
          installed, it denies RuntimePermission<tt>("accessUserInformation")</tt>
          or its checkRead method
          denies read access to the file.
See Also:
AclFileAttributeView.getAcl()

setAcl

public static void setAcl(FileRef file,
                          java.util.List<AclEntry> acl)
                   throws java.io.IOException

Updates a file's Access Control List (ACL).

 The file parameter locates a file that supports the AclFileAttributeView. This file attribute view provides access to ACLs
 based on the ACL model specified in
  RFC 3530.

Parameters:
file - A file reference that locates the file
acl - The new file ACL

Throws:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException - If the AclFileAttributeView is not available

java.io.IOException - If an I/O error occurs

java.lang.SecurityException - In the case of the default provider, and a security manager is
          installed, it denies RuntimePermission<tt>("accessUserInformation")</tt>
          or its checkWrite
          method denies write access to the file.
See Also:
AclFileAttributeView.setAcl(java.util.List<com.newatlanta.nio.file.attribute.AclEntry>)

setLastModifiedTime

public static void setLastModifiedTime(FileRef file,
                                       FileTime lastModifiedTime)
                                throws java.io.IOException

Updates a file's last modified time attribute. The file time is converted
 to the epoch and precision supported by the file system. Converting from
 finer to coarser granularities result in precision loss. The behavior of
 this method when attempting to set a timestamp to a value that is outside
 the range supported by the underlying file store is not defined. It may
 or not fail by throwing an IOException.

 If the file system does not support a last modified time attribute
 then this method has no effect.

 Usage Example:
 Suppose we want to set the last modified time to the current time:

    FileTime now = FileTime.fromMillis(System.currentTimeMillis());
    Attributes.setLastModifiedTime(file, now);

Parameters:
file - A file reference that locates the file
lastModifiedTime - The new last modified time

Throws:

java.io.IOException - If an I/O error occurs

java.lang.SecurityException - In the case of the default provider, the security manager's checkWrite method is invoked
          to check write access to file
See Also:
BasicFileAttributeView.setTimes(com.newatlanta.nio.file.attribute.FileTime, com.newatlanta.nio.file.attribute.FileTime, com.newatlanta.nio.file.attribute.FileTime)

setLastAccessTime

public static void setLastAccessTime(FileRef file,
                                     FileTime lastAccessTime)
                              throws java.io.IOException

Updates a file's last access time attribute. The file time is converted
 to the epoch and precision supported by the file system. Converting from
 finer to coarser granularities result in precision loss. The behavior of
 this method when attempting to set a timestamp to a value that is outside
 the range supported by the underlying file store is not defined. It may
 or not fail by throwing an IOException.

 If the file system does not support a last access time attribute then
 this method has no effect.

Parameters:
file - A file reference that locates the file
lastAccessTime - The new last access time

Throws:

java.io.IOException - If an I/O error occurs

java.lang.SecurityException - In the case of the default provider, the security manager's checkWrite method is invoked
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See Also:
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setPosixFilePermissions

public static void setPosixFilePermissions(FileRef file,
                                           java.util.Set<PosixFilePermission> perms)
                                    throws java.io.IOException

Sets a file's POSIX permissions.

 The file parameter is a reference to an existing file. It
 supports the PosixFileAttributeView that provides access to file
 attributes commonly associated with files on file systems used by
 operating systems that implement the Portable Operating System Interface
 (POSIX) family of standards.

Parameters:
file - A file reference that locates the file
perms - The new set of permissions

Throws:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException - If PosixFileAttributeView is not available

java.lang.ClassCastException - If the sets contains elements that are not of type PosixFilePermission

java.io.IOException - If an I/O error occurs

java.lang.SecurityException - In the case of the default provider, and a security manager is
          installed, it denies RuntimePermission<tt>("accessUserInformation")</tt>
          or its checkWrite
          method denies write access to the file.
See Also:
PosixFileAttributeView.setPermissions(java.util.Set<com.newatlanta.nio.file.attribute.PosixFilePermission>)

readFileStoreSpaceAttributes

public static FileStoreSpaceAttributes readFileStoreSpaceAttributes(FileStore store)
                                                             throws java.io.IOException

Reads the space attributes of a file store.

 The store parameter is a file store that supports the
 FileStoreSpaceAttributeView providing access to the space related
 attributes of the file store. It is implementation specific if all attributes
 are read as an atomic operation with respect to other file system operations.

Parameters:
store - The file store

Returns:
The file store space attributes

Throws:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException - If the file store space attribute view is not supported

java.io.IOException - If an I/O error occurs
See Also:
FileStoreSpaceAttributeView.readAttributes()

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The Responsibility to Protect: When it's right to fight
10 Conflicts to Watch in 2023
Op-Ed / Global 31 July 2003
Gareth Evans
Former President & CEO
A visceral discomfort with the use of military force has traditionally been a defining characteristic of the political left. Responding to externally directed aggression, like that of Hitler in 1939 or Saddam Hussein in 1991, has rarely given progressives much trouble. But intervening in civil strife has been much harder for us to embrace. Scarred by Vietnam, we were slow to get it right when confronted through the 1990s with the successive horrors of Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Kosovo. It took us most of that decade to re-learn that war can be a progressive cause: that in some circumstances, threatened genocide conspicuous among them, military intervention is not merely defensible, but a compelling obligation.
But the trouble is that there are still no agreed international rules about 'humanitarian intervention' to help us handle each new situation as it arises. Is there a general right or responsibility to intervene coercively in the affairs of another state for the purpose of protecting the people within it? If so, just when, where and how should it be exercised, and under whose authority?
Whenever the issue has been debated internationally, as in the UN General Assembly in 1999 and again in 2000, sharp divisions have appeared. There have been fervent supporters of intervention on humanitarian or human rights grounds, mainly from the West – and ranged against them, mainly from developing countries, anxious defenders of state sovereignty, concerned not to allow any daylight for new missions civilisatrices or neo-imperialist adventures.
And now we have to face the issue all over again in the context of the 2003 war on Iraq. The stated primary rationales for war were Saddam's capacity and intent to threaten the US or his neighbours, and his manifest breach of Security Council disarmament resolutions. But as the evidence to support these claims becomes ever more elusive, the case for invading Iraq has come to hang on another thread entirely: Saddam's brutal repression of his own people, above all his massacres of Kurds in the late 1980s and Shiites in the early 1990s.
There is clearly some plausibility about characterising Saddam's unequivocally monstrous regime as a suitable case for military treatment. But it can't be as simple as that. When the worst atrocities were being committed more than a decade ago the West turned a blind eye, and there are many other repressive, dictatorial and murderous regimes against which the evidence and arguments are just as strong as they have been against the Saddam of the last ten years. Where do we stop?
Making the case for war against Iraq in 2003 on human protection grounds is a hard call. But making the case anywhere for military action should never be an easy one. To get those calls right, there is no substitute for going back to first principles, getting consensus around them, and then applying them. Regrettably, none of the above is normal government practice, domestically or internationally.
The Search for Consensus on Principles
The most substantial effort so far to identify the relevant principles, and build an international consensus around them, has been the work of the Canadian-sponsored International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS), which presented its report, The Responsibility to Protect, to the UN Secretary General in December 2001. Initially submerged by September 11th issues, the report has been finding a steadily growing international audience, the subject not only of innumerable conferences and roundtables, but informal debate by the Security Council and preliminary process in the UN General Assembly.
The Commission's initial contribution, and perhaps its most important, was to turn the whole weary debate about the 'right to intervene' on its head, and to recharacterise it not as an argument about any 'right' at all, but rather the 'responsibility to protect' – with the relevant perspective being not that of the prospective interveners but, more appropriately, those needing support. This new language has been helpful already in de-prickling the policy debate, requiring the actors to change their lines and think afresh about what are the real issues are: the hope, and so far the experience, is that (as happened with the Brundtland Commission's introduction of the concept of 'sustainable development') entrenched opponents will find new ground on which to engage more constructively.
Another virtue of the new language is that to 'protect' implies not just intervention but a whole continuum of obligations:
the responsibility to prevent: to address both the root causes and direct causes of internal conflict and other man-made crises putting populations at risk;
the responsibility to react: to respond to situations of compelling human need with appropriate measures, which may include coercive measures like sanctions and international prosecution, and in extreme cases military intervention; and
the responsibility to rebuild: to provide, particularly after a military intervention, full assistance with recovery, reconstruction and reconciliation, addressing the causes of the harm the intervention was designed to halt or avert.
The starting point in justifying this conceptual shift is the concept of state sovereignty itself, the essence of which should now be seen not as control but as responsibility. A large and growing gap has been developing between the codified best practice of international behaviour as articulated in the UN Charter, whose explicit language emphasises the respect owed to state sovereignty in its traditional Westphalian sense, and actual state practice as it has evolved in the 56 years since the Charter was signed: the new focus on human rights and, more recently, on human security, emphasises the limits of sovereignty. The Commission was intrigued to find, in its worldwide travels, just how much that gap was acknowledged. The defence of state sovereignty, by even its strongest supporters, did not include any claim of the unlimited power of a state to do what it wants to its own people.
There is not yet here a sufficiently strong basis in principle and practice to claim the existence of a formal new principle of customary international law. But the Commission did argue that the 'responsibility to protect' is an emerging international norm, or guiding principle of behaviour for the international community of states, which may well over time, if further consolidated in state and intergovernmental organisation practice, become customary international law.
Of the three dimensions to the responsibility to protect, the Commission made very clear its view that prevention was the single most important. It also made clear that, as a matter of principle, the exercise of the responsibility to both prevent and react should always involve less intrusive and coercive measures being considered before more coercive and intrusive ones are applied. Nonetheless, the question of military action remains the central one in the debate. Whatever else it encompasses, the responsibility to protect implies above all else a responsibility to react - where necessary coercively, and in extreme cases with military coercion - to situations of compelling need for human protection.
When is Military Action Appropriate?
But what are extreme cases? Where should we draw the line in determining when military intervention is appropriate? What other conditions or restraints should apply? And who should have the ultimate authority to determine whether an intrusion into a sovereign state, involving the use of deadly force on a potentially massive scale, should actually go ahead?
These questions have generated an enormous literature, but on the core issues there is a great deal of common ground. All the relevant decision-making criteria are capable of being subsumed under the six principles summarised in the accompanying box. While it will be apparent that the formulation of these principles owes much to traditional 'just war' theory, they owe their force not to any theological doctrine but to their intuitive acceptability. And they are certainly intended to reflect universal, not just Western, values. How do these principles work in practice – and to what conclusions should they have led us in the case of Iraq 2003?
The 'just cause' threshold needs to be set high and tight, for both conceptual reasons (military intervention must be very exceptional) and practical political ones (if intervention is to happen when it is most necessary, it can't be called upon too often). The Commission identifies only two situations as legitimate triggers. No attempt is made to quantify what is 'large scale', but it is made clear that military action can be legitimate as an anticipatory measure in response to clear evidence of likely large-scale killing or ethnic cleansing. Without this possibility, the international community would be placed in the morally untenable position of being required to wait until genocide begins before being able to take action to stop it.
The threshold criteria articulated are wide enough to cover not only the deliberate perpetration of horrors of the kind occurring, or anticipated, in Bosnia, Rwanda and Kosovo, but situations as well of state collapse and the resultant exposure of the population to mass starvation and/or civil war (as in Somalia). Also potentially covered would be overwhelming natural or environmental catastrophes, which are not in themselves man-made, but where the state concerned is either unwilling or unable to cope, or call for assistance, and significant loss of life is occurring or threatened.
What are not covered by the Commission's 'just cause' threshold criteria are situations of human rights violations falling short of outright killing or ethnic cleansing (such as systematic racial discrimination or political oppression), the overthrow of democratically elected governments and the rescue by a state of its own nationals on foreign territory. Although these cases are eminently deserving of external action of various kinds – including, as appropriate, political, economic or military sanctions – they don't justify military action for human protection purposes. Unless war is kept for the very worst cases, any prospect of consensus will evaporate and there will be no sense of obligation even to deal with another Rwanda.
For Iraq 2003, the threshold test cuts both ways. It would certainly have been satisfied a decade or more ago (when the West was indifferent or worse), but much less obviously so in recent years. The suspicion that a 'humanitarian intervention' justification is being pursued only because other grounds have evaporated is hard to shake off. If one is trying to build international consensus around the ICISS principles, Baghdad is not the best place to start.
On the first of the prudential criteria, there are a number of ways of helping ensure right intention, bearing in mind that what counts here is primary motive: mixed motives, in international relations as everywhere else, are a fact of life. One is to have military intervention always take place on a collective or multilateral rather than single-country basis. Another is to look to whether, and to what extent, the intervention is actually supported by the people for whose benefit the intervention is intended. Yet another is to look to whether, and to what extent, the opinion of other countries in the region has been taken into account and is supportive. In the case of Iraq these indicators do not, on balance, give the coalition much help: was the primary purpose of this intervention really to halt or avert human suffering?
Last resort does not necessarily mean that every non-military option must literally have been tried and failed: often there will simply not be the time for that process to work itself out. But it does mean that there must be reasonable grounds for believing that, in all the circumstances, if such measure had been attempted it would not have succeeded. In the case of Iraq, it continues to be strongly argued by opponents of the war that there was ample time for the inspection process to have been carried through, and that resort to military action in March 2003 was at the very least premature.
Proportional means requires that the action taken be commensurate in scale with its stated purpose, and in line with the magnitude of the original provocation. In the case of Iraq, the question has to be asked whether some 3,500 civilian deaths and 10,000 military deaths – assuming that those guesstimates are at least roughly accurate – were an appropriate trade for the end of Saddam Hussein's capacity to persecute.
Reasonable prospects means that military action can only be justified if it stands a reasonable chance of success, and will not risk triggering a greater conflagration. Application of this precautionary principle would be likely to preclude military action against any one of the five permanent members of the Security Council, even with all other conditions for intervention met: it is difficult to imagine a major conflict being avoided, or success in the original objective being achieved. The same is true of other major powers. This raises the familiar question of double standards, to which the only answer can be this: the reality that interventions may not be able to be mounted in every case where there is justification for doing so, is no reason for them not to be mounted in any case.
In the case of Iraq 2003, the 'reasonable prospects' criterion is one of the toughest calls of all. We cannot finally answer it until we know how long Iraq's post-war misery will last, whether it is going to become a democracy or a theocracy, whether the war has concentrated the minds of other dictators, and whether al-Qaeda and like networks will now find it easier to recruit. But the auguries on these fronts are no more encouraging now than they were before the war.
On the final principle, right authority, the argument is compelling that, when it comes to authorising military intervention for human protection purposes, the United Nations, and in particular the Security Council, should be the first port of call. The difficult question – starkly raised by Kosovo, and now by Iraq – is whether it should be the last.
The ICISS Commission's unanimous view was that the UN is unquestionably the principal institution for building, consolidating and using the authority of the international community. To challenge or evade its authority is to undermine a world order based on international law and universal norms. But what if the Security Council fails to discharge its own responsibility to protect in a conscience-shocking situation crying out for action, as was the case with Kosovo? A real question arises as to which of two evils is the worse: the damage to international order if the Security Council is bypassed, or the damage to that order if human beings are slaughtered while the Security Council stands by.
The Commission's response to this dilemma was to give a clear political message: if an individual state or ad hoc coalition steps in, fully observes and respects all the necessary threshold and precautionary criteria, intervenes successfully, and is seen to have done so by world public opinion, then this is likely to have enduringly serious consequences for the stature and credibility of the UN itself. That is pretty much what happened with the U.S. and NATO intervention in Kosovo, and the UN cannot afford to drop the ball too many times on that scale. In the case of Iraq, not all the evidence is in, and there is room for disagreement as to whether the various principles in the checklist outlined here have all been satisfied. But the case is not an easy one to make.
If we want the whole concept of The Responsibility to Protect to take root – and in the 21st century to ensure, above all else, that we have no more Rwandas on our collective conscience – the international community will have to work rather harder on identifying and applying credible principles for intervention in general and military action in particular. Progressive governments can and should be taking the lead.
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