who wants to ban human rights courts and political correctness?

Question

Ok, so I dont mean people dont have rights. I just think that parents should be able to slap their kids, police should be able to clip cheeky youngsters around the ear, and criminals should go to a proper prison with no creature comforts and stay there for a while. Lets show people that their actions will have recriminations and perhaps they will think twice. All the do gooders who come on and disagree; you are to blame for the crime ridden respect free society we live in.

Answer 1

No such thing as a Human Rights Court.There is the European Court of Human Rights, but human rights issues are dealt with in the High Court in the UK.

Criminal law is untouched by human rights. The actions that you describe (clipping youths round the ear) are what is known as assault, which is a crime. Are you advocating crime?

Also, when you are taken into prison, you have nothing and have to earn it through the honour system.

I suppose you would call me a do gooder, although I would challenge you to define that, and if you yourself are not a do gooder, does that mean that you are a wrong doer? The reason you are posting these remarks are, I guess, for what you believe to be the good of the country. Does this not make you a do gooder?

Am I to blame for the state of the country? No, I'm just telling you why your suggestion is completely wrong.

Answer 2

I think you are confused between Human rights and the so called social service system. Human rights deal with matters vastly more intricate than slapping a kid on the hand. You're right, parents have absolutely no control, and no authority anymore - neither do teachers. The only way to restore that is a little more faith a better eye for observation. If the parent trusts the teacher, the social services trusts the parents and kids know that all the grown ups are in this together it would be a great start - but there still has to be some kind of observation, our social climate is not what it was years ago and there are a lot of freaky people out there.
Human rights are necessary when, for instance, you're Egyptian born living in Germany and get snatched away by the CIA to an underground prison for interrogation (torture). This process is known as rendition - check it out, its gruesome, you can read about it at any human rights website. Without Human Rights who would stand against the guys with all the cards?

Answer 3

You have some good ideas there....criminals are treated too well here.

And I strongly believe that every immigrant should be required on entry to sign away any rights to remain in Britain should they break the law.

And political correctness has gone crazy. Who makes them all up? Is there a panel of highly paid people somewhere, examining our language and traditions? Saying 'now what can we ban this week'? Even our traditional nursery rhymes haven't escaped - Baa baa RAINBOW sheep? It's beyond belief.

What is this country coming to? We have turned our backs on reality; sheep are born which are black in colour - how can a child's song about something that really exists be insulting to a black person? I don't understand it. I teach college classes and I use a whiteboard. White people have no problems with that. But a b**ckboard has to be a chalkboard.

Come on Britain - why do we sit back and let 'them' do it??

Answer 4

The sooner we do something the better.!!

Our country is rapidly going to the dogs.

There are to many people prepared to defend the thugs that roam our streets, stating that all they need is counselling, re-educating and showing the error of the ways.

this to me is total bol**x !!! excuse the language.

People like this generally have a very limited intelligence, and even the minority of slightly more intelligent individuals would not entertain the idea of 're-education'

What we desperately need to do is make our punishments much more severe, bring back methods used in the Victorian era when prisons were places to be feared, also I am in strong support of military service.

If we were to create a graph of youth's behaviour over the last fifty years against discipline we would see a steady line of one against the other.

come on you loony left wingers, get a grip will you!!!

the next time you get threatened in the street by a gang of hoodies, don't come back on here saying if only they had been given proper counselling I would still have my wallet.

it makes my blood boil when people from privileged backgrounds come up with such preposterous ideas!! These people in their ivory castles never come in to contact with street crime, but still feel they are obliged to criticise genuinely good ideas on dealing with this problem.

Answer 5

I understand your frustration with the fact that Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Canada) and Bill of Rights (USA) provisions are used to protect criminals.

I detest the attitude that the sky will fall if someone innocent is convicted of a crime (a particular crime) that he or she did not commit. In fact, the low-life is probably guilty of something else.

Every Remembrance Day, in Canada, and every Memorial Day, in the US, we pause to remember those who gave their lives at Ypres, Vimy, Dieppe, Normandy, and countless other places--not to mention Saipan, Iwo Jima, the Ardennes Forest, and many more. We assert that the sacrifice of all those good boys was necessary for our freedom--yet we will not sacrifice one low-life so that we can all live in peace and security.

I do not admire the government of the Peoples Republic of China, nor the late Chairman Mao, but there was one thing he did right. When the communists came to power, one-third of the population of China was addicted to opium. Mao decreed that anyone who was even suspected to having anything to do with drugs would be shot. Doubtless, hundreds of innocent people were murdered, but the drug trade stopped almost overnight.

Having said all that...

You need only read the Immigration section of Yahoo Answers to see the venomous hatred some answerers, in the guise of defending the rule of law, scarcely bother to conceal. In fact, they even boast of it.

HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION IS STILL NECESSARY, UNTIL IGNORANCE GETS STAMPED OUT.

Political correctness is another matter. We cannot say "aboriginal" in Canada anymore--we must say "First Nations". We cannot say "Gypsy" we must say "Romi". Enough already! However, people's right to be politically correct is a matter of free speech and thus should be protected.

Answer 6

Maybe some people were too strict a few generations ago, under whatever influence, and this lead subsequent generations to be more lenient. Then people's inate selfishness took advantage of lenient rules for their own benefit.
It's our own fault and there is no one we can blame but ourselves.
Also,parents can chastise their children, as long as it is reasonable. Gone are the days of beating Johnny black and blue because you had a bad day at work and he spilled our coffee.

Answer 7

I'm with you dude lets start a political movment back a few steps. More police on the streets with more rights to clout the little bu**ers. Britain is in chaos ever the kids are killing one another time to re-address the balance.

Prisons have a better satilite tv package than i do and they play pool in more security than i do.

We spend to much time banning games and films and censoring music than we do cracking down on crime

Answer 8

There are human rights courts in Europe. I disagree with your question entirely, but I agree with most of your follow-up. I only hope that you will consider what the negative ramifications of banning human rights courts would be. Surely, there is reasonable middle ground which encompasses the majority of what you address in the second part of your question. It need not be all or nothing as you have posed in your question. That is a foolish way to think and speak.

Answer 9

By banning political correctness, you are taking a step towards becoming just like the PC gang. Continue to try to change minds through a coherent thought process (as difficult as that may be when speaking with a PC-minded lib) because overall, I have to believe that logic and common sense will overcome the cry-baby emotional "thought" process of the PC lefties.
The human rights courts you made reference to are just an offshoot of a PC agenda gone so far astray and, like I said, if minds are changed through thoughful dialogue, the HR courts will wither down to something more realistic. And for our sake, bring God back into the schools and into the mainstream of our lives. Without God as our compass, we are just a giant ship lost at sea anyway.

Answer 10

PC tries to end debate. Under PC, everyone is supposed to be the same, like robots. It makes people afraid to say anything. It stops creative ideas and expressions.
Political Correctness needs to go.

And so does Zero Tolerance for the same reasons as above.