Amnesty International on the detention of Greenwald's partner

One of the more hilarious examples: Miranda used to troll for blog posts that were critical of Greenwald and then argue with the bloggers, often posting the same comment (of fawning praise for Greenwald) to multiple blogs. When people realized the comments were coming from Greenwald's IP, it led to accusations of sock puppetry and lots of drama.

Point being, it's reasonable to expect that Miranda's involvement runs deeper than merely being in a relationship with Greenwald. Both past behavior and public comments suggest he might either be involved directly, or he's trying to appear to be involved. (There's a long history of activists inviting law enforcement responses; Rosa Parks didn't keep her seat just because she was tired.)

Edit: Sorry, should explain. The Lib Dems are the minority junior partner in a coalition government. The idea they would move to kill of their only ever hope at power is a dream at best.

Lib Dems can't and shouldn't move for no confidence in a government which has generally been able to defend liberal policies (admittedly not unanimously), and will continue to do so until 2015.

That action would just serve to endanger the Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights - exactly the opposite of the stated goal.

Wikipedia claims Mr Toben, who is not an accredited historian, was arrested once for defamation and another time for inciting racism.

Holocaust denial is pretty clearly antithetical to their mission. Their decision that they "would exclude from prisoner of conscience status not only people who have used or advocated violence, but also people who are imprisoned ‘for having advocated national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence.’" does not seem unreasonable.

To take the opposite position - to argue for the release of ALL political prisoners - would have resulted in some fairly absurd situations over the years which don't really need to be enumerated here, I would think.

Here's another interesting story I came across - basically, Amnesty sacked one of their staff because she, an outspoken feminist, criticised their cosy relationship with radical Islamists. If anyone reading this has time, follow some of the names in that article - you might discover, like I did, that the world is far more fucked up than you had previously imagined.