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British Justice or the Sun justice?

By John Hirst

British Justice or the Sun justice?

The Sun claims that Britain is broken, and that it can be fixed by stripping people of their human rights.

Even Hitler did not manage to break Britain during World War 2. So, I don't need Murdoch spreading such lies now. If it's not broken, don't fix it.

It was in the aftermath of World War 2, which saw the Holocaust, that the United Nations was formed and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights came into being to protect the rights of the individual from rogue states.

In my honest opinion, it is to our national shame that Britain did not sign up to incorporate the European Convention into domestic law until the Human Rights Act 1998. During that 50 year period Britain was found guilty of violating more than 50 victims human rights. More than twice that of Italy which came second.

We finally got our human rights recognised under English law largely as a result of the campainging of such as Cherie Blair. I think it is only fair to say that I consider Tony Blair to be a maniac, the same can be said for Margret Thatcher, and the Sun is calling for so-called maniacs to be stripped of their human rights. In spite of my belief that Tony Blair is a war criminal and a maniac, I am still of the firm belief that he is a human being and as such is, by his birthright, entitled to human rights.

Rupert Murdoch, the owner of the Sun, is a meglomaniac. Even he is entitled to human rights.

If Rupert Murdoch wasn't Australian, I would recommend he be tried for treason. At least Robert Maxwell eventually did the decent thing and drowned himself. He does not even have a vote in this country, and neither do convicted prisoners even though it is their human right to be part of the franchise, and yet he has more influence on politicians than the electorate. This is not democracy at work. It's an abuse of power. A breach of our human rights.

Rupert Murdoch is using victims of serious crimes to further his own ends, they are but pawns in his wider agenda. What were the Conservatives doing allowing this breach of security at their conference? We do not want vigilantism to reign. The law is there for a reason, and so are the human rights enshrined within the Human Rights Act 1998.

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on October 01, 2008 (boomark / email).