Show Trials In China

The blind admiration for the Communist government China is possibly finally wearing off ....

Cuddly China in Partnership With The USA As It Sees Itself ....

Ever since they joined the World Trade Organisation in 2000, there have been doubts that they were playing fair .....

Not Impressed

Tom Watson is a Labour MP and deputy leader of the party. He took £540,000 in election campaign contributions (which was used to help pay his office costs), from the multi-millionaire Max Moseley. The payments were, £40,000 in August 2015, £200,000 in June 2016 and a final £300,000 donation in February 2017 ....

Strange Connections Between Two Politicians And Eras ....

Mr Moseley is the son of UK Fascist leader Sir Oswald Moseley, who led the Union of British Fascists, and later founded the far-right Union Movement. Mr Moseley states that he no longer supports such views. This political alliance was odd enough to attract much interest in the press, as that amount of money to just one MP is highly unusual.

Monkey Nuts

There is a famous "monkey selfie" photograph that has been published many times around the globe since it was taken by Naruto the Macaque monkey in the Indonesian jungle in 2011, and which has been re-used on countless websites. It apparently is copyrighted and makes some money for its 'photographer', David Slater from Monmouthshire in the UK.

Macaque Monkey Madness - Photograph ©
by David Slater (or Naruto the Monkey Photographer)

But that's where the dispute lay. After all argued Peta, the animal rights group, the photograph was actually a 'selfie' by a monkey, who therefore was the photographer, and not the owner of the camera it used who was making all the money.

Seditious Sedition

India generally gets better press in the West and better treatment from this blog, than its mad dog neighbour Pakistan.

India's Sedition Laws Are Misused Again ....

But there are times when it proves to be just as ridiculous as its erstwhile competitor ... Pakistan has long since ceased to compete with India, except it seems in stupidity.

Italian Justice System On Trial

The arrogance of the British courts over 'Human Rights' is breathtaking ..... they believe that not only can they discount the will of the UK Parliament, but also direct and bend to their will, any Country, or Ally, or member of the EU, for not living up to the standards of 'Human Rights' the British legal system deems as appropriate ....

It appears that the British judiciary and lawyers are the last place in Britain where imperialist ideas over the governance of the lesser races (those peoples who live in less enlightened countries, and who are not benefiting from the rule and leadership of English public school boys), is still practised.

So, following on from the ritualised humiliation handed out to Jordan, our ally in the Middle East, over the extradition of convicted terrorist and radical cleric Abu Qatada - court proceedings went on for years, with our courts and legal fraternity blocking the wishes of Parliament, and most of our population (the usual 5% objected, and would rather keep the terrorist in the UK), from sending a deeply scum-bag man back where he deserved - our lawyers and judges have turned their attentions and arrogance on to Italy.

It now appears, that in order to extradite criminals and fugitives back to Italy, the Italian government will have to embark on a billion Euro prison building programme, to ease overcrowding in their Mafia filled prisons. All because in a couple of landmark judgements by low level courts in the UK, where its been determined that being imprisoned in Italy will breach a criminals 'human rights', as determined by UK standards .... truly stunning. The arrogance of this is unbelievable, and the two recipients of these judgements, a Somali man, Hayle Abdi Badre who is wanted for fraud and financial crimes, and a Mafia man, Domenico Rancadore, who was convicted in 1999 of Mafia association and extortion in Trabia, near Palermo, must be smirking at the stupidity of the legal system in the UK. 

Mafia man - Domenico Rancadore  -
aka Marc Skinner - Nothing To Hide

No doubt the UK will now be flooded with anyone wanted for crimes in Italy, from fraudsters, rapists, murderers and the Mafia, all confident that they are can no longer be extradited to |Italy ..... quite amazing in its implications, and yet another illustration of the perversity of the interpretations of Human rights in the UK courts. It is also a decision that flies in the face of the European Arrest Warrant (aka EAW) which we signed up to in January 2004. It is based on the idea that all of the justice systems, in all of the member states in the EU offer due process, a fair trial system, and that these are of equal quality. In other words, you get as fair a trial or detention in prison in Italy as you would get in the UK.

Credit to the Italians, who not only have kept a dignified silence, while UK Human rights lawyers have slagged them off, but have also issued a fresh European Arrest Warrant from Italy. Mr Rancadore was re-arrested and was refused bail. He is now described as "one of the heads of one of the most powerful Mafia organisations in Italy". 

Ironically of course the UK legal system is based upon Roman Law ..... but whatever happened to the oldest legal premise of all?

'If you can't do the time, don't do the crime' 

..... if you commit a crime in the country, then you should face the consequences of that crime by the legal system in that country.

Food For Thought

Quote of the week .....  "Human rights do not prescribe national suicide".

The actual context of this quote from Israeli Judge, Asher Grunis, was in a ruling upholding the right of the Israeli state to stop Arab Israeli's marrying non Israeli Arabs, and then these spouses being automatically granted Israeli citizenship.

4.6 million Arabs want to get into Israel

This practise was banned on both security grounds, and because it was starting to affect the demographics of Israel and would if continued, have led to the Jews becoming a minority in their own state.

 

Only Justice Should Be Blind

The use of injunctions and super injunctions, to allow very rich footballers and celebrities to have a measure of legal protection not available to me or you is very wrong .... its a law being created on the fly by lawyers and judges, and without the say of the UK Parliament. It's actually trying to gag the right to 'Free Speech', in favour of the 'right to a private life'.

This whole ridiculous situation, all stems from the UK's judiciary and legal fraternity, interpreting a provision of the "Human Rights Act" in a perverse manner, one which has once again turned it into nothing more than a charter for terrorists, criminals, illegal immigrants, and now, very rich men who can't keep their trouser zippers up, but want to be able to get away with this infidelity by hiding it from their wives, partners and their children. However if you are caught having an affair, there is no particular protection against the consequences of your actions ... well not unless you have upwards of £50k to spend on lawyers who can 'make it so'. So instead of a storm in chip paper wrapper, we have a fundamental challenge to the UK's (and Europe's) commitment to free speech, which may have implications for everyone.

The current English Law prevents me from even mentioning the names of the two footballers (even though I know one for sure, and the other by speculation), who are currently trying to hide their infidelities behind its highly paid skirts ... but in Scotland, I could now do so, as they are in the public record ....there is also a very thinly disguised picture of one of the footballers on the front of the Sunday Herald newspaper, which anyone with even an once of web savvy could find on Google. He and one of the actors concerned in an earlier injunction, were effectively both outed a week or so ago in an English Newspaper comment article, which ostensibly commented on the actors latest facebook contents, and then referred to the footballer, as a model of the family life the actor should be following .... this farce has been played out across the press, with enough oblique or cryptic clues, for anyone with half an interest to be able to interpret.

There is a simple but fundamental solution ... we must enshrine as absolute, the 'Right To Free Speech' in the UK, in the same manner as in the US ... Nothing else will stop the lawyers from trying to gag first the press, then the Internet, and eventually all of us, to the favour only of 'politicians, celebs, and sportsmen', but to the permanent detriment of an 'open government and society'. We don't need lip service paid to free speech, we need a robust and positive defence .... David Cameron can be the Prime Minister to free us from the threat of the tyranny of the gag, or be the Prime Minister who stands by and sees this 'freedom' extinguished.

In the UK, only justice should be blind .... we the British public shouldn't be.

Post Script: A few hours after I posted this, a Liberal Member of Parliament publicly named one of the footballers - only a few million people knew this name, but, it was about time that the issue was brought into the public sphere so that we can talk about the 'privacy laws' that have been brought in by the back door in the UK. NB:  In more of a joke, The 'Super Injunction' remains in place.

You Know Things Are Going Badly Wrong When ....

... Drunken Prisoners are rioting and burn down their cell blocks .......


4 Drunken prisoners refused to be breath tested and started
a riot burning the prison cell blocks

... they no doubt believed that their 'Human Rights' were being impinged .... the "right to a private life" probably covers breath testing prisoners .....

The fact that prisoners can freely obtain alcohol in the UK says everything about what 'Law and Order' has descended to here.

UK's Best Legislation ever ..... NOT

And the winner is ..... The "Human Rights Act 1998!"

If ever there was a lawyers charter, designed apparently solely to destroy western civilisation by making it incapable of active defense, and ensure that society holds the law in total contempt it must be this act.

Tony Blair (Prime Minister and trained lawyer), incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law, through the Human Rights Act 1998. Ever since, the lawyers and judiciary have had fun, using it to give money to criminals, protect land seizures by Irish welfare travellers, punish victims, defend illegal immigrants, allow a million law suits to be fired off and protect terrorists ... for Joe public, sod all has been added to his rights.

To be fair, its possible that, as usual, New Labour had not thought it through, and realised that the UK Judiciary, renowned for their belief that it's they and not Parliament who determine the policies in the UK, would use this act to undermine UK legislation for eternity. Judges back this legislation to the hilt, because it allows them to circumnavigate any UK legislation they don't like, by the manner in which they interpret it.

It's noticeable that other European countries have no such problems with this convention, but then then their judiciary doesn't have quite the absolute freedom to determine case law as in the UK and guess what, civilisation has not collapsed in France, Germany or Italy!!

Still, even they should have guessed that it would lead to cases like that of Islamic preacher Abu Qatada, who far from being deported to Jordan as the Government promised, has now been granted bail with a 22-hour curfew by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC). This is because we can't deport him for fear of breaching his "Human Rights".

Or the fact that the Northern Rock share holders suing the government for not giving them fistfuls of dollars for their broken company under the "Human Rights Act" ....

Michael Howard, also a lawyer and ex leader of the Conservative party, has said that under this legislation, absurdities abound and the rule of law is eroded. He has given examples such as "the schoolboy arsonist allowed back into the classroom because enforcing discipline apparently denied his right to education; the convicted rapist given £4000 compensation because his second appeal was delayed; the burglar given taxpayers' money to sue the man whose house he broke into; travellers who thumb their nose at the law allowed to stay on green belt sites they have occupied in defiance of planning laws".

And even senior Labour Politicians have criticised the willingness of the UK Judiciary to rule against the wishes of both the government and Parliament. Former Home Secretary John Ried has stated that the Human Rights Act is hampering the fight against global terrorism in regard to imposing control orders: "There is a very serious threat - and I am the first to admit that the means we have of fighting it are so inadequate that we are fighting with one arm tied behind our backs. So I hope when we bring forward proposals in the next few weeks that we will have a little less party politics and a little more support for national security,"

And yet despite failure after failure to get legislation to stick in the courts because of this pernicious act, which added nothing to my rights, but a battery of new rights for the criminals, illegal asylum seekers or illegal immigrants, and terrorists, this lack lustre Government just stays mute or witters on along the lines of "I am extremely disappointed that the courts have granted Abu Qatada bail, albeit with very strict conditions. Public safety is our main priority and we will take all steps necessary to protect the public. I am already seeking to appeal the Court of Appeal's decision that it is not safe to deport Qatada (Because of his Human Rights) and we will continue with deportation action with this and the other Jordanian cases." and this despite the usual spin about doing something only a year ago.

In the meantime cases like those of Anthony Rice's murder of Naomi Bryant in Winchester, in which a report said that probation officials released him, because they had considered his human rights above their duties to protect the public, will continue to happen.

We could of course have introduced this legislation within a supremacy of Parliament Act, that put the provisions of UK national security and public safety (including limiting its provisions in prisons or too criminals to prevent abuses such as suing their victims) above the act, and ensuring that it was interpreted as it is elsewhere in Europe, with the intention of parliament to the fore, but that's not the New Labour way and definitely not the lawyers way.

But guess who has done well out of this act .... the lawyers.

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