Michael Howard hates you: Proof!

[glenatron]

Do you think that you have a right to life and that it should be against the law for the state to have you killed?


Michael Howard doesn't.



Do you think that the state should be allowed to torture you or subject you to inhumane punishment?


Michael Howard does.


Do you feel that slavery is wrong?


Michael Howard doesn't.


Do you think the police should be allowed to arrest and imprison you indefinitely without trial or explanation?


Michael Howard does.


Do you feel you should be allowed a fair and public hearing if you are accused of a crime?


Michael Howard doesn't.


How do you feel about your private life and that of your family- do you think everyone should be allowed to know every detail of it?


Michael Howard does.


Do freedom of thought, conscience and religion sound like a good thing?


Michael Howard holds them in contempt. They are an anathema to him.


What about freedom of expression, what the Americans are talking about when they start going on about the first amendment?


Michael Howard believes you don't deserve this.


If you had lost all the rights above, you might want to protest, in a peaceful and lawful way.


Michael Howard wouldn't let you. He doesn't believe you should have the right to peaceful assembly.


If you were old enough, and so inclined, should you have a right to marry and have a family?


Michael Howard seeks to deny you any such right. He hates you so much he never wants you to be happy. He is like Superman.


Is it alright to discriminate against someone because of how they look, who they are related to or what they believe?


Michael Howard thinks it is more than alright. He thinks everyone should do it.


If you own something do you think it is alright if anyone can come and take it off you?


Michael Howard does.


Do you think children should be given a chance to go to school?


Michael Howard doesn't.


Do you believe that we as a nation should be allowed free and democratic elections?


Michael Howard believes exactly the contrary.



Now some of you can probably see what I've done there, seeing as I have basically listed the rights we have under the Human Rights Act of 1998 and then said that Michael Howard doesn't think you deserve those rights. We can infer this from the fact that he has said that if he attains power he will rescind the act. It seems to me that those aren't some crazy airy-fairy political correctness gone mad ideas, as he appears to believe them to be, they are simple and incredibly basic human rights. I mean I hate civil liberties campaigners as much as the next man, probably a good deal more- they tend to be whiney, paranoid and annoying at best - but it's not like these are a bunch of rules designed to give illegal asylum-seeking paedophile gypsy immigrants dominion over the right-thinking Daily Mail reading Pavlov's electorate of Britain, so why on earth does Michael Howard want to revoke these fundamental rights that all British citizens currently enjoy?

I'll tell you why: He hates you.

Comments

[indykid.livejournal.com]

Do you think the police should be allowed to arrest and imprison you indefinitely without trial or explanation?


The current Labour gov't does or they wouldn't have tried to force the recent bill through parliament that would have enabled the Home Secretary to detain people with out even the burden of probabilties that they were involved in terrorism.

Not that I'd vote Tory either but someone had to play a bit of devils advocate

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Yes, they did. But the courts rejected the bill because it conflicted with the Human Rights Act, which Labour introduced and haven't yet rescinded.

Labour are becoming increasingly authoritarian and autocratic- the whole ID card scheme is a ridiculous waste of money and will do nothing to combat crime and terrorism at a cost of billions of pounds of taxpayers money. I just hate them slightly less than I hate the other lot.

I would rather see a Lib Dem government to be honest. Especially I'd like to see the look on the other two leaders' faces when the underdog overtook them. That would be the best thing ever.

[ramalam.livejournal.com]

The way I've seen politics recently is Labour becoming more right wing as you say, only for the conservatives to oppose them by not disagreeing with them and trying to appeal to the everyman with soundbite slogans. Then the Liberal democrats would oppose Labour for the civil liberties/human rights issues.

I too would love to see a Liberal government!