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February 03, 2005
Redefining terrorists
Each time our "Human Rights" lobby gets up and starts to sound off these days I experience something of a failure of reality. If I understand these people correctly, we, the British taxpayers, must pay benefits to and harbour terrorists in our midst, because, if they were returned to their homelands, "they would be subject to torture or abuse and possible the death penalty". If one dares to ask why, you may be told that this is because "they are accused of having committed acts of terror or murder!" The fact that they got out ahead of the law, and now cannot be extradited because of our having signed up to a piece of paper the lobbyists seem to think came down from Mount Sinai after being blasted into stone tablets that proclaims that no one should be subjected to the threat of torture or "unnatural or inhuman treatment", our courts feel that we should provide shelter.
My reaction to this is probably unChristian, but it is human. These people have placed themselves outside the law. By committing acts of murder in pursuit of their political or religious aims, they have shown their contempt for it, yet they now hide behind it in another country while denigrating their host's culture, political structure, and even the majority religion - yet they are untouchable because they are "refugees" from persecution. Thus Britian is saddled with some of the most evil men alive, and we cannot do anything with or to them! Even the four returned to these shores from Guantanamo Bay have had to be released. Why? Because the most compelling evidence against them is "tainted" in the eyes of their lawyers and the lunatic British legal system because the US Jailers will stand accused of using "mental torture" to get information from them.
This is the same legal system that is prepared to spend over £10,000 to prosecute a woman for driving with a small apple in her hand and accuse her of "not being in full control of her car". Similarly, in another case a large amount was spent to prosecute another motorist who drove through a puddle and splashed a policeman. But it can't deal with a bunch of terrorists living off our backs and working with the enemies of democracy to bring about its downfall. Not until one of them actually makes a bomb and blows up a police station or a shopping mall - or incites his followers to attack a Christian church or others for their faith.
Even then I suspect that there would be a stampede of Human Rights lawyers to defend the guilty and to argue that the police had framed them, beaten them, or in some way denied them justice. To hell with their thousands of victims scattered across the globe - including the many gullible and stupid young men and women who strap bombs to themselves fueled by the hatred of these evil men.
It is time to change this ridiculous law and treat those who have killed and maimed in their own countries with the same regard that they show for their victims. Send them back to whoever has a warrant for them - and let them face the justice of their own lands. We are not the arbiters of law outside our own boundaries, and we should not presume to be.
Posted by The Gray Monk at February 3, 2005 06:14 PM
Comments
I think you're right about the law. In the UK, this government has spent (wasted?)so much parliamentary time on issues like banning fox hunting, or trying to regulate everything we do. They have also tied themselves in knots by not heeding competent advice during the consultation stages - witness the current furore over the new gaming and licensing laws. I also bet they regret ever incorporating Human Rights into our legal systems. They've been bitten by their own dogma....Oh, what a tangled web we weave!
Posted by: Slim Jim at February 3, 2005 06:10 PM