One is reminded of Sir Roger Casement, who was knighted for his work in exposing and opposing human rights abuses in Peru, then hung for doing the same in the British Empire. Fighting for human rights in other countries has always been far easier and more profitable than doing the same in your own.
Well, kinda. Apparently they dug up the original unpunctuated norman french text of the treason act, then read it so that it had a comma between two clauses, changing its sense, allowing him to be charged with treason:
> or if a Man do levy War against our Lord the King in his Realm, or be adherent to the King’s Enemies in his Realm, giving to them Aid and Comfort in the Realm, or elsewhere,
They also either forged or published a bunch of pretty saucy personal diaries, as a way to blacken his name.
To be honest, the only thing that interested me about the diaries was what it tells you about the home office, the character of the people trying to have Roger Casement hanged, and the integrity of the institution they served.
