UK Bill Of Rights: A Consultation

Thanks to commenter Aldo in the previous post we can have a shufty at the consultation document for a potential new UK Bill of Rights.

As we know, we are fairly unique in the world in that we do not have a single document containing our Constitution. Instead, it is dotted about in various statutes and treaties. Our rights can be found in the Magna Carta of 1215, 1229, 1297, the Declaration of Arbroath 1320, the Bill of Rights 1688, for Scotland we have the Claim of Right 1689, the Act of Settlement 1701, the Act of Union 1707, the Human Rights Act 1998 and several international and European Acts also provide some protection.

The aim of the consultation is to ask for our input. The closing date for submission is November 11th 2011.

Our rights and our liberties, hard won, and poorly defended, are very important to me, and to readers and commenters here. I know this because you are quick to remind me and point out the errors of our so-called leaders whenever this subject comes up.

How many of you knew that this subject had moved on from mutterings out here in the real world to the discussion rooms in Westminster? Until Aldo mentioned it I had no idea that we could send in our thoughts, proposals and suggestions.

I intend to do exactly that. With your help, I hasten to add.

Please set aside some time to read through the consultation document above, it is not very long and it is written simply, and then (if you wish) send me your thoughts and suggestions for this vital new Bill of Rights. What we suggest will affect generations of Brits so it is very important to get it right.

Look:

5. The four questions on which we seek your views are:

(1) do you think we need a UK Bill of Rights?

If so,

(2) what do you think a UK Bill of Rights should contain?

(3) how do you think it should apply to the UK as a whole, including its four component countries of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales?

(4) having regard to our terms of reference, are there any other views which you would like to put forward at this stage?

If you do not want to add your thoughts in the comments, please do send them to me here:

captainranty AT btinternet DOT com

Unless any other writer steps up with an offer to collate the suggestions I will do so and submit our response to this consultation.

Unusually, I don't want to be too dramatic about this, but it REALLY is important. God knows when we will be asked again to contribute.

Thanks.

CR.

All Fiat Currencies Die

Not one has survived.

Not since we (mankind) invented them and brought them into being.



Listen, as Stefan Molyneux explains.

Listen harder when he gets to the mighty(?) British pound.

We are very close now to financial armageddon. You need to make a plan so that you get through it and come out, if not smiling, reasonably well protected.

This is your five minute warning. You will never hear it from mainstream sources.

So pay attention.

CR.

Friday Funnies

Another crazy week.

Hanging discussions, financial meltdowns, a possible implosion of the euro, and Hightower is dead. Not good. (Apart from the death of the euro, that is).

We need cheering up.

Try these:

And finally:

I'm sure we all (kind of) agree to that.

Have a great weekend all,

CR.

No Noose Is Good Noose

Like other bloggers, I am aghast that we are even contemplating a debate on the return of the death penalty.

The other day I posted a link to raise enough signatures so that we could have a debate on our continuing membership of the Stupid Club. Commenters here were quick to point out that 100,000 signatures "may" or "could" stimulate a debate. Not so with hanging. I note that the language has changed slightly and MPs are saying "We could be forced to have the debate". Forced? Make your damn minds up. You "may" discuss a referendum on the EU, but you definitely "will" discuss this barbarity? The mind boggles.

I'll just say this: government sanctioned murder, because that is all this is, can never be right. We can all recall horror stories in which the "wrong 'un" was completely innocent. Mistakes are made all the time in countries/states that have the death penalty. In China they routinely harvest the cadavers and sell their organs to the highest bidder. At that point it is no longer a tool of justice but instead becomes a lucrative business. With the recent "nudging" on organ donating, will we plough this disgusting furrow as well? Unthinkable? Look again at the politicians we have running this freak-show. I don't trust them further than I could spit.

We preach to those in less developed nations. We tell them to move on, improve, treat your people better. How would that lecture stand up when/if we were to re-introduce the death penalty?

And why are we being so selective about who hangs and who doesn't? I keep seeing "child-killers and cop-killers" as the primary targets for swinging from the gibbet. Sir Robert Peel oft stated that policemen were just members of the public wearing a uniform. Why should cop killers be singled out? Why are cops any more special than us? And given the tales of police brutality, corruption and sleaze just lately, who still thinks coppers are "special"? As far as I am concerned a bent copper deserves no special treatment, in fact, his punishment should be doubly harsh. Sends a message to the rest of them. Hold yourself up to the highest standards according to the Oath of Constable and so will we.

Often, when I scribble here I say that piano-wire and lamp-posts are a remedy for wayward politicians, but could I honestly stand by whilst we strung people up? No. No I could not.

The bigger question is this: WTF is wrong with the British people who are baying for this? Is it all really because some publicity-hungry blogger demanded the debate in the first place?

And why didn't we get the same rush to sign up to get us out of the EU?

Like I said: mind-boggling.

CR.

We Are Legion

Terrify your government. They have been terrifying us for decades.

Make them tremble as you once trembled.

Make them suffer, as you once suffered.

Make them do what we pay them to do.

Our bidding.

CR.