Have Human Rights Gone Too Far?

In 2000 the European Convention on Human Rights was ratified into the state legislature in the UK. Since then, there have been countless tragic-comic mishaps to British justice making it quite difficult for the British government to deal squarely with criminals and terrorists from abroad. Furthermore there is today in Britain, a human rights legal industry that will seek to obtain compensation and damages, particularly from public bodies designed to serve society - if any breach in "human rights" is noted.

A car thief gets onto a roof. He is surrounded by the Gloucestershire police force which he pelts with tiles. While under siege on the roof, he demands and receives a bucket of KFC and Pepsi as his Human Rights would be abused if he went hungry. He returned the drink which was beneath his taste. The incident was gold dust to journalists. An Italian born killer of a London school Headmaster could not be deported as the judges ruled it would go against his Human Rights. When the government tried to expel a group of Afghan airline hijackers they were once again thwarted by the Human Rights Act. The hijackers by their act obtained free entry into the UK.

The European Convention of Human Rights was a conceptual framework to protect defendants in the light of Nazi atrocities from 1945. In an age of suicide bombers and terrorists, certain aspects of this convention is falling right into the hands of terrorists when apprehended, who can then claim Human Rights (even though their intentions would have killed hundreds potentially) and escape any meaningful form of punishment. Several politicians are now seeking to repeal the Human Rights Act which is fine on paper but is doing the very opposite of safeguarding the interests of the innocent, which was the motive for its well meant existence.