On Human Rights
What is it the right wing politicians of our country dont understand about the concept of human rights.
I hear time and time again, if it wasnt for those pesky human rights we could do the right thing by the country as a whole and properly protect the law abding majority.
Hello ? The whole point to human rights legislation is to define a set of basic inalienable rights that cannot be ridden roughshod over in the name of expiediency.
Whilst I accept the need to balance rights against each other I cant see that the rights provided by the act are so terribly onorous or even particularly contraversial.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_Rights
Still what do I know I am just a namby pampy liberal do-gooder (Since when did the wish to "do good" become a term of insult ?)