Respectable Racism on UK liberal media - Migrationwatch

Dear Editor,

Thanks for reporting on the latest from Migrationwatch:

“Britain must withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights to protect the country from terrorism, it was claimed.”

It was particularly interesting to read Migrationwatch chairman Sir Andrew Green’s thought:

"[The European Convention on Human Rights] was drawn up 50 years ago in entirely different circumstances. We must now pull out of it and write our own laws to protect human rights for the majority."

Sir Andrew Green’s “perspective” is certainly a new milestone in the history of civilization.

Migrationwatch’s crusaders certainly know that Art 15 of the European Convention on Human Rights reads:

“In time of war or other public emergency threatening the life of the nation any High Contracting Party may take measures derogating from its obligations under this Convention to the extent strictly required by the exigencies of the situation, provided that such measures are not inconsistent with its other obligations under international law.”

But why Britain should stop at the European Convention on Human Rights and not withdrawing from the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment? Sir Andrew Green will probably disagree with this old convention as well, drawn up in entirely different circumstances. To protect human rights for the majority we shall of course disregard the Convention’s Art. 2.2,

“No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political in stability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture”.

Shall Britain also withdraw from the Charter of the United Nations? It was drawn up more than 50 years ago in entirely different circumstances and after all Britain has already violated it many times, most notoriously when it invaded Iraq, if we have to believe to the then UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan,

“[the invasion of Iraq] is not in conformity with the UN Charter, from our point of view and from the Charter point of view it was illegal.”

I wonder which kind of world - “to protect human rights for the majority” - Sir Andrew Green and his Migrationwatch would like us to live in?

We are far away from Benjamin Franklin’s wisdom,

“They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security”

and trapped instead in an Orwellian world thank to totalitarian propaganda manufactured by dirty minds using racism and xenophobia to control the population and go ahead with their own hidden agenda. Down with Big Brother!

Gabriele Zamparini
London