snipey comment of the day
May 27th, 2004
His lawyer has argued that stripping him of citizenship would leave him stateless and would be a breach of his human rights. (full story)
Last I checked, the right to a state isn’t a basic human right. The guy was born in Egypt, and he should have thought twice about giving up his citizenship in a dubious bid to get citizenship somewhere else. Maybe we should make a state called Utopia to put on all of these people’s passports (utopia is latin for ‘nowhere’)
