I had intended following my post on Marx with one on democracy but I afraid that I cannot pass on the most recent development from the Conservative Party Conference. I trust you will have taken notice of Cameron's committment to abolish the Human Rights Act. I also trust that you are alarmed by this development and very afraid. Welcome to the Tories Better Together new Britain.
I have repeatedly commented on this blog how rights are a constraint on government, and that is of course what they are supposed to be. In addition I have consistenly told you that rights do not come from governments, they are an integral part of your humanity. They are your rights, they are not the governments who then loan them to you on condition that you behave yourself. The rights that impact on most people most of the time are employment rights. Since the Thatcher election Britain has degenerated into the worst country in the developed world in terms of employment rights and protection. In addition, they have scrapped the automatic right to trial by jury, habeas corpus, introduced closed and secret court proceedings, made it almost impossible to secure legal aid, privatised the probation service and made it almost impossible to access employment tribunals. I am going to give you a lengthy quote from Lord Neuberger, the President of the British Supreme Court from the 5th March 2013 and I hope you will forgive the length. Neuberger said
"Unless you have access to legal advice for poorer people, you have not got the rule of law...we are at risk of denying access to justice and that damages the rule of law...people end up being disillusioned with government and the whole democratic system. You get more and more people who don't believe in the government we have, which is very undermining, or who end up taking the law into their own hands, or a bit of both, which is not good for us, nor for the country....the two most important functions of government are to protect the country from invasion and attack from abroad and to ensure the rule of law at home. Unless you do those two things you might as well not bother with welfare, education, health and housing because it is not a country worth living in. Access to justice and an efficient justice system are an essential ingredient of the rule of law."
Thus, according to the President of the Supreme Court, not Karl Marx, not Alex Salmond, not Doktor Kommirat or any other of the British establishment's pet hates, Britain is becoming a country not worth living in. Governments are tasked with protecting and upholding your rights, not abolishing them. I repeat, the government's determination to remove human rights has nothing to do with the European Court, the war on terror or any other political excuse. These are just that - excuses. Their determination stems from the fact that our rights are constraints on the elite robbing as much of the country's wealth as possible. Everything Westminster does, and this applies to Labour as well, has an economic motive. They say they will introduce a British Bill of Rights, but what on earth will that be if you do not include habeas corpus, trial by jury etc. Social Security (I refuse to call it welfare) is a human right, it is the price the rich pay for their privilege of exploiting our human and physical resources for their own enrichment but you are being brainwashed into thinking that it is a gift of a benevolent state to mitigate the effects of you own incompetence and stupidity. The tragedy is that the gullible British public are buying this nonsense. You should be very afraid. I could write a book about such things, in fact I have done just that and am almost finished another. The Tories are going to implement another £7 billion of cuts on top of the £25 billion they announced yesterday, that is the result of their announcement on future tax cuts. These people are barbarians and that is what Scotland voted for on the 18th. Be under no illusions, you are going to get what you voted for. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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