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Sunday, May 14, 2006

Human Rights Act to be amended?

The unelected Scottish Lord Chancellor of England, Charlie Falconer, has indicated that the Human Rights Act could be amended to put the safety of the public first.

Now, on the face of it, this sounds like a good idea. The 7 Afghan plane hijackers that have been allowed to stay in this country because their human rights would be breached by deporting them have clearly abused the Human Rights Act and they shouldn't have been allowed to stay.

However, the point of human rights legislation is to put the rights of an individual beyond politics. The whole point is to define certain rights that every individual should have that cannot be interfered with or removed.

What the proposed amendment will do is allow human rights to be set aside "in the interests of public safety". Just like ID cards, the national ID database, the Terrorism Act and countless other pieces of legislation brought in recently to curtail our freedoms and turn England into a police state.

Something needs doing with the Human Rights Act but not this.