Tag: Macpherson inquiry
The real civil liberty scandals.
jkitleft Tue Jul 08, 2008 at 12:11:28 PM GMT 
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So David Davis stands on a platform opposing ID cards, despite only abstaining when Michael Howard ordered his MP's to vote for the legislation.
He opposes the DNA databases and CCTV cameras that his dear leader came up with, as an adviser to Michael Howard.
But his real scandals aren't just supporting capital punishment and Section 28. The real civil liberty scandals are much, much worse.
Why do the Tories say not a word on the government attacking legal aid? Because the government has created 3,000 criminal offences, the legal aid budget soared. So they are attacking it. Of course, the Tories probably want to cut it, but not for the same reasons.
Or, what about the fact that in the last 30 years, around 1,000 black men have died in police custody? When the MacPherson report recommended measures to prevent racism in the police forces, the Tories denounced it as "political correctness". These are small measures, like logging the ethnicity of those they stop in the streets, to stop police harassing black men. That is the kind of 'paperwork' the Tories want to rid us of.
Howard was challenged by Doreen Lawrence about his opposition to these reforms at the last election. He stuttered "I didn't know I was going to be asked about this".
And the piece de resistance. Last year, a cause of mine was brought to the forefront of the attention of those here in Britain. It was that of the Burmese opposition. The crime of Aung Sun Suu Kyi is to have won an election.
At the last election, David Davis admitted, and yet kept a policy to be elected on, that is the greatest butchering of civil liberties. Jeremy Vine asked him, whether if the Tories proposed to withdraw from the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees, would mean turning away Aung Sun Suu Kyi if she turned up on our boarders seeking asylum.
He was forced to admit that yes, it would mean turning her away.
The so called leading libertarian in this country, so concerned about civil liberties admitted that he would turn away one of the world's leading fighters against tyranny.
Wow.
He opposes the DNA databases and CCTV cameras that his dear leader came up with, as an adviser to Michael Howard.
But his real scandals aren't just supporting capital punishment and Section 28. The real civil liberty scandals are much, much worse.
Why do the Tories say not a word on the government attacking legal aid? Because the government has created 3,000 criminal offences, the legal aid budget soared. So they are attacking it. Of course, the Tories probably want to cut it, but not for the same reasons.
Or, what about the fact that in the last 30 years, around 1,000 black men have died in police custody? When the MacPherson report recommended measures to prevent racism in the police forces, the Tories denounced it as "political correctness". These are small measures, like logging the ethnicity of those they stop in the streets, to stop police harassing black men. That is the kind of 'paperwork' the Tories want to rid us of.
Howard was challenged by Doreen Lawrence about his opposition to these reforms at the last election. He stuttered "I didn't know I was going to be asked about this".
And the piece de resistance. Last year, a cause of mine was brought to the forefront of the attention of those here in Britain. It was that of the Burmese opposition. The crime of Aung Sun Suu Kyi is to have won an election.
At the last election, David Davis admitted, and yet kept a policy to be elected on, that is the greatest butchering of civil liberties. Jeremy Vine asked him, whether if the Tories proposed to withdraw from the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees, would mean turning away Aung Sun Suu Kyi if she turned up on our boarders seeking asylum.
He was forced to admit that yes, it would mean turning her away.
The so called leading libertarian in this country, so concerned about civil liberties admitted that he would turn away one of the world's leading fighters against tyranny.
Wow.
