The BBC reports that Bin Laden’s driver, Salim Hamdan, has been sentenced to 66 months by a tribunal at Guantanamo Bay. I don’t know if Salim Hamdan is guilty or not, what I do know is his trial is but a travesty of justice no other American court would allow “evidence” that may have been waterboarded out of shivering wretches in secret black site prisons?

Almost at the same time as we learn of Hamdan’s fate US President George W. Bush is lecturing China over its human rights record. Now, I’m not suggesting America’s record is as a bad as China’s, which is truly appalling, but how does Bush think Guantanamo Bay affects peoples perceptions? How many people believe Americans say one thing but do another, so like you President Bush I’ll carry on abusing my people’s human rights – America wake-up and smell the coffee!