Highly critical article about Citys' owners

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

Nicholas McGeehan is the Bahrain, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates researcher at Human Rights Watch, or so it says on the internet. I remember all these Human Rights lot telling us all what a good thing the Arab Spring was, The War Criminal Blair joined in as did a lot of the british public. Remind me how that ended up again ?
There are times when it is good to highlight issues and there are times you should just keep your big fucking nose out.

Edit, and for completeness...
Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide. It accepts no government funds, directly or indirectly.

So people with vested interests and foundations set up by powerful/wealthy individuals or businesses .....

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

The happiness index has UK at 23 and UAE at 28 and a huge chunk of that score comes from being a democracy!

19th and 21st respectively in 2017

 

[Metalartin]

I don't know if this has been posted here already but:



Seems slightly more reasoned without making leaps of faith to try and make it about it really being "the crown prince who bought man city, who's this big villain who tortures people and stuff... so you should all hate man city see." It seems quite obvious the author in the OP began writing that article and realised he couldn't quite make a villain out of Sheik Mansour so tried to get him out of the equation and crowbar in the crown prince, job done.

So we know our owner is in fact Sheikh Mansour, he has nothing to do with the military(nor does his wealth), their military has nothing to do with Man City or football either. With that out of the way(torture, war crimes or whatever he was trying place on City's doorstep... also if he's American how does he feel about some of the claims of acts carried out by his own military/gov? Are they above trying to buy good press or silence them?), the video above raises some valid points which the article also raised but are they trying to make the point that the money that funded our transformation came from slave labour of migrant workers?

This does happen in that side of the world and perhaps we shouldn't ignore it but he doesn't really back up his claim of "it's worse than Qatar" he just makes that statement on it's own. Also surely he understands that the money doesn't come from any of that, it comes from the Oil. Yes conditions need to be better, with the money they have there's no excuse for it but we should remember the majority(there may be exceptions which does need to stop but that's not the majority) of those workers choose to go there from India and Pakistan etc countries with worse paid jobs, high unemployment and poor living conditions. They are paid enough to live over there AND send money back to their home country to support their whole household and plan retirement according to some(probably says more about the state of their home country granted).

Also if they are saying the ruling family was/is wrong to keep all the money from the land's oil themselves. Are there any examples of a natural resource of the land, be it gold or oil that got shared out among the people for everyone to benefit from? Or does someone always end up owning it? It seems most of us in Europe are blind to what is or has gone on around us already right here when pointing the finger to the middle east.

 

[YaYa's Left Peg]

Don’t think anyone in Western Europe and US can take a superior moral stance when it comes to human rights.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Bravo. Ridiculous that we are now the stick to beat the UAE over human rights with.

One of the last desperate acts to stop us.

We've been sold the rationale that we were bought to promote the UAE and we now see a blatant attempt to try and show this not to be the case infact it's being 'sold' as 'if you don't go away we'll highlight how horrible the UAE is'.

 

[caseball]

So people with vested interests and foundations set up by powerful/wealthy individuals or businesses .....

Completely independent though. Oh yes, completely.

 

[Blue Mist]

So people with vested interests and foundations set up by powerful/wealthy individuals or businesses .....

Are you trying to say he is someones stooge, how very dare you.

 

[BrianW]

1. The UK has an impeccable human rights record and has never done anything to hurt anyone either home or abroad.

2. Apart from City, all other football clubs are owned by the Salvation Army.