I trust that you are all aware of the furore that has followed the ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that imposing a whole life sentence on someone without the possibility of their sentence being reviewed with the possibility of parole was a breach of human rights law. I raise this because of the reaction of all three Westminster parties and their quasi fascist supporters in the right wing press. All of these people are lying through their front teeth to the British people and deliberately creating what sociologists call a moral panic.
Once again, Cameron and the Tory party are using a completely distorted interpretation of a ruling by the ECHR to raise the prospect of withdrawing Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights, a Convention that Britain helped draft, and was voted into British law by the Westminster Parliament. All of our noble Christian rulers are telling us that the ECHR has ruled that we cannot sentence people to whole life tariffs for exceptional crimes. This is simply not true. I repeat, what the Court ruled was that we cannot sentence to a whole life tariff without the possibility of a review of the sentence at some point. There is no suggestion that a review would have to change the tariff, it may come to the conclusion that the tariff was right and proper, all that the Court said was that without the possibility of review then such a sentence, whole life, with no possibility of even a review, was wrong. I would also remind you that Britain has a representative on the bench of the ECHR who was party to making that ruling.
Britain is a country that claims to be Christian, with a Prime Minister who claims to be Christian and who has publicly called for a return to Christian values. Should you decide that you are not going to execute people, then you must hold out the possibility of repentance and redemption. It is only a possibility, it may not and indeed need not, happen, but it must be on offer. Should you fail to do that, then you descend into the same moral and ethical universe inhabited by the people you have just condemned. You are in effect no better than them.
This of course is only an excuse for the neoliberal elite in the UK to abandon the entire concept of human rights. I have written of this before and is the subject of the book I have just written. The Westminster elite is determined to remove all of our human rights and reduce us to modern forms of slavery. At the moment over 300,000 people in the caring professions alone work under zero hours contracts. This means that they have no human rights as they apply to employment. They have no set hours, have no idea what their wages will be from one week to the next, have no pension entitlements, no overtime entitlements, no holiday entitlements etc. etc. They have no employment protection whatever. If that is not a subtle form of slavery then I implore someone to come on and tell me why it is not. This is the prospect that looms for the vast majority of workers in the near future. The Guardian reported yesterday that there are 85 graduates applying for every job available. This is why Scotland must abandon the Westminster system as a matter of urgency, it is matter of civilisation. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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