Re: Human rights lawyers
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:05 am
Of course no one came for Idi Amin (AKA 'Big Daddy'), Pol Pot or Stalin ... all dead by now. Radovan Karadzic and Osama Bin Laden seem to be doing pretty well despite international warrants for them.
I think some organizations like Liberty focus too much of their attention on ethnic minorities, although you could argue they're the most oppressed ... but in reality they just shout the loudest in some cases. They do their public image no good by trying to argue that Muslims had nothing to do with the London bombing - citing the people who carried out the bombings as criminals (who just happened to be Muslim).
People in the UK aren't really bothered about Human Rights as they hold the "I'm alright Jack" mentality ... and to be honest most of them don't deserve them. There's a huge difference of opinion in the UK as opposed to a country like The Netherlands - in the UK the government sees it's role as imposing it's will on the population , where as in the Netherlands they see their role is to carry out the will of the population. But most UK citizens need to be oppressed to an extent, otherwise they would run wild as they're not quite civilised yet.
I think some organizations like Liberty focus too much of their attention on ethnic minorities, although you could argue they're the most oppressed ... but in reality they just shout the loudest in some cases. They do their public image no good by trying to argue that Muslims had nothing to do with the London bombing - citing the people who carried out the bombings as criminals (who just happened to be Muslim).
People in the UK aren't really bothered about Human Rights as they hold the "I'm alright Jack" mentality ... and to be honest most of them don't deserve them. There's a huge difference of opinion in the UK as opposed to a country like The Netherlands - in the UK the government sees it's role as imposing it's will on the population , where as in the Netherlands they see their role is to carry out the will of the population. But most UK citizens need to be oppressed to an extent, otherwise they would run wild as they're not quite civilised yet.