Human Rights

Melanie Phillips reports British courts ruled, on human rights grounds, that terrorists could neither be thrown out of the country nor locked up pending their potentially being thrown out of the country. Having eventually had to settle for a system of house arrest, watered down from the original proposals for such 'house arrest', again on the insistence of 'human rights' lobbyists, it would appear that the 'restraints' have been broken. Of those subjected to restraint apparently 15 actively engaged in terrorists activities, in one form or another. Likewise she also reports that of the Guantanamo Bay suspects, 61 are reported to have either definitely returned to terrorist activities, or are suspected of having done so. The response of Jennifer Daskal, a Washington-based lawyer for Human Rights Watch, is that of a typical lawyer, namely: until its proved we must treat such statements with a certain amount of caution.

My cynicism where the legal profession is concerned is on a par with that for politicians; both being governed by the lure of money. (and my apologies to those members of those professions - and there are some - who may feel 'hard done by').

However one can but be reminded of the phrase 'as you sow, so shall you reap'. In other words, if someone wishes to engage in terrorism and carry out terrorist acts then, having been caught, please understand you may not be treated in accordance with the law or expect to receive the human rights which you so obviously don't care about. This also underlines yet another 'rule' which human rights activists conveniently forget and that is if someone breaks the rules of society, then they must surely accept that they cannot expect those same rules and benefits of society to be applied to them. This can be applied to anyone, not just terrorists, who break the laws of society. In the case of criminals - petty or otherwise - in this country, having broken the laws of society, why should a prisoner receive the benefits of society such as tv, newspapers, special meals, etc?

Harsh, I know and readily accept, but...............................