No human rights for an English man. - Daily Mail Mon 16th Aug/10
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I know nothing of this man, or his case - but it seems to me the world has gone mad....as Norman Scarth will testify!
Do we all have to wait another 10 years, before we throw these imbeciles out? We have been trying unsuccessfully for 10 years - the polite way, by asking them and confronting them face to face in surgeries and in Westminster, all to no avail!
They get in Westminster and continue to breach the promises they made to the electorate, act irresponsibly and blithely continue to ignore ALL public wishes and requests - why?
Why are they SO out of touch with public feeling and wishes?
We need some patriotic people in Westminster.....for a change! Where are they?
Even the new, present incumbents are now being swept along in the ever-increasing tsunami of EU regulations and diktats!
IT HAS TO STOP - AND PREFERABLY BEFORE THE BLOODSHED!
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No 'human rights' for an Englishman
If he were, for example, an Iranian convicted of murder in an English court, he would stand a good chance of avoiding extradition on the grounds that if he were sent home he could face imprisonment and torture.
How good a chance? The Mail's news report today says one foreign criminal a day is winning the right to stay in Britain. Foreign murderers and rapists are using the EU-inspired Human Rights Act to claim the right to go on living in the United Kingdom despite their crimes.
Yet according to another news report today, in two weeks' time, Tappin, a 63-year old county golf captain and retired businessman, faces an extradition hearing which may end in him being bundled onto a an aeroplane and sent to prison in the United States even before he has been convicted of any crime.
This, despite the fact that the American 'justice system' is now capable of cruelty and injustice that must, by any British standard, be a violation of Tappin's rights.
I'll get to that in a moment. But first, what has happened is that the Kent grandfather was caught up in a sting set up by US customs officials. The sting was meant to trap criminals shipping arms to Iran. Yet all Tappin appears to have been doing is trying to make a deal to ship batteries to the Netherlands.
The US authorities need produce no evidence of any alleged crime by Tappin at the extradition hearing. Because of the unbalanced deal done between Britain and America on extradition, the hearing is likely to be nothing but a rubber-stamping exercise. Only the Home Secretary, Teresa May, can block the extradition. Yet given the roll-over attitude of the Tories in this coalition Government, one can reckon she is unlikely to do so.
So here is what awaits the Kent grandfather in America: a justice system which no longer seeks truth, and prosecutors who are untroubled by wrongful convictions.
Those are not my words, those are from Paul Craig Roberts, former assistant secretary of the US Treasury under President Reagan and a former senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution of the prestigious Stanford University in California, and now a noted conservative writer and commentator. Roberts has made a detailed study of how federal prosecutions work in America.
His conclusion is that due process is dead. America has become an unjust country, and that's why white-collar convictions are so numerous and so quick. Roberts points out that 90 to 95 percent of federal criminal cases now end in plea bargains, something the British system of law will not tolerate.
However, American prosecutors love plea bargains. If they can get the accused to agree to plead guilty to two or three charges in exchange for five or six other charges being dropped, then none of the prosecution evidence need ever be tested in court.
The poisonous side-effect of that is this: if evidence is unlikely ever to be tested in court, police work can be careless.
A prosecutor can get a conviction without ever having to convince a jury that the evidence makes the charges stand up. And a prosecutor's career depends on conviction rate.
But how do federal prosecutors convince an accused man to plead guilty without a trial? By horrific coercion, by mental torture: by freezing the accused man's personal and business assets, by piling up ill-defined accusations of conspiracy, by criminalising what ought to be mere civil infractions.
Finally, federal prosecutors can force even an innocent man to plead guilty by adding so many charges that any attempt at a defence would leave the accused bankrupted by legal fees. Some innocent men would rather do jail than fight a torrent of ill-defined charges in court and leave their wives and children homeless.
Yet the Home Secretary is willing to make any British subject submit to this unjust system. Meanwhile foreign killers, rapists and armed robbers are safe in this country because they can shelter under the EU-inspired Human Rights Law.
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