MURDERER Learco Chindamo will not be deported back to Italy when he is released from prison.

 

That much is clear following yesterday’s High Court judgment upholding a tribunal decision that to throw him out of Britain would infringe his human rights.

 

Yet again the preferences of a violent criminal have been elevated above the interests of the law-abiding British public.

 

It would be easy to blame the judiciary for this. But the primary culpability lies with a Government that enshrined in British law an Act that protects evil people from the proper consequences of their actions.

 

Gordon Brown promised to take a robust new line with foreign criminals, pledging: “If you come here, you work and you learn our language. If you commit a crime, you will be deported from our country.” For the political leader of the nation to make a wide-ranging promise like that and then continually fail to keep it is an unforgivable betrayal of the British people.

 

It is no good Mr Brown blaming the judges. Next week he unveils his new legislative programme. Unless it contains proposals to scrap the Human Rights Act, withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights and take back control of Britain’s borders from Brussels, we shall know for sure that the man who resides in 10 Downing Street

is a total hypocrite.

 

Source: Sunday Express

Sunday Express talking utter bollocks yet again..... It is totally down to how this individual judge has interpreted the Human Rights act... They ignore the fact that Italy is a signator of the Human Rights Act also, and that they have just voted to deport all EU citizens that they consider a "threat to the state"... The EU Human Rights Legislation did not stop that vote from occurring did it.....? Too many people are far to quick to blame the legislation instead of blaming the one or two idiots, like this judge, who are interpreting it totally wrongly.....

 

Hmmm, anyone else see a conspiracy developing here....? :lol:

Some countries do seem to blather and bobble around though for fear of being called racists and being unpopular in the international community.

Whereas countries like Italy don't give a fig what the outside world thinks of them, they care only for their own and what's best for the majority.

Maybe the Italian people back up their government more in situations like this and so they feel more confident in acting.

When someone is released from prison, surely the most important thing to do is to minimise the chances of them reoffending. In this case, Learco Chindamo came to the UK from Italy at the age of six. He speaks no Italian. He knows hardly anyone in Italy. So, sending him to Italy would appear to maximise the chance that he will reoffend.

 

The Sunday Express along with many other papers and (particularly shamefully) the Conservative Party have misrepresented the Human Rights Act ever since it was passed. Without the Act, Chindamo could still have brought a case under the European Convention on Human Rights(written, incidentally, largely by British lawyers and nothing to do with the EU). The only difference is that he was able to bring his case to a British court rather than having to go to Strasbourg.

 

Britain was the first country to sign the ECHR. Unfotunately, we were the last signatory country to get round to incorporating it into our domestic law. All the Act did was to grant British people rights already enjoyed by the citizens of every other European democracy.

Edited November 5, 200717 yr by Suedehead2

When someone is released from prison, surely the most important thing to do is to minimise the chances of them reoffending. In this case, Learco Chindamo came to the UK from Italy at the age of six. He speaks no Italian. He knows hardly anyone in Italy. So, sending him to Italy would appear to maximise the chance that he will reoffend.

 

Whilst this may sound harsh, why should it be Britain's problem? He was a guest in our country, and he betrayed his hosts.

 

If you invited someone to stay with you in your house, and they then murdered one of your family, would you be expected to take the guy back and try to reform him? No.

Being socially responsible and caring for others is all fine, but there needs to be a line drawn before we expose ourselves to abuse.

 

I love how papers try and mislead people so much. I really don't understand why this judgement "proves" the Human Rights Act must be axed. Then again the Sunday Express is one of the reactionary papers.

Its funny how so many people believe that things that are suppose to protect our fundamental rights are wrong.

 

We either live in a country that limits the power of the authoritioes in a compassionate why, this may lead to decisions that the majority of people disagree with, or we live in a society where the authorities can do whatever they choose and we just have to accept it.

 

I know which country I'd rather live in

Its funny how so many people believe that things that are suppose to protect our fundamental rights are wrong.

 

We either live in a country that limits the power of the authoritioes in a compassionate why, this may lead to decisions that the majority of people disagree with, or we live in a society where the authorities can do whatever they choose and we just have to accept it.

 

I know which country I'd rather live in

 

Amen to that mate.... Rampant authoritarianism is the problem, NOT a Constitution or a Bill of Rights.....