Human Rights Legislation & Alice in Wonderland

Isn't it fitting that it's in pantomime season that an illegal immigrant with a string of motoring offences gets protected by European human rights legislation despite having killed a 12-year-old child with the vehicle he was driving illegally?


This legislation is binding on our judicial system, but it is proving to be bad law because it is not balanced by a Human Obligations principle, which could take into account the circumstances  in which somebody sought protection for their human rights.  Bad law creates injustice and compounds the injury suffered by victims of crime.  Human rights are not absolutes - they are relatives,  which go hand in hand, as all rights do, with duties and obligations.


People who engage in criminal activity surrender their right to be treated equally with their victims or with the rest of society, and until legislators builds this principle of Human Obligations into Human Rights law we will continue to live in an Alice in Wonderland world of topsy-turvy.