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Originally Posted by cashman
Just watched a programme on T.V. n was amazed to learn the E.U. Human Rights idea eminated from a Tory, Winston Churchill in 1948, n came to fruition in 1950 by another un.  Wonder why good ole David n Co never mention that fact whilst saying its no good?  |
I haven't watched the programme but nevertheless quite a lot of my generation already knew about the withdrawal of basic human rights and the torture inflicted on man by Hitler and the Japanese. Thus it was right to try to make sure it never happened again and if it did then there would be a European Court to deal with it. In the 1950s when it was the norm for the state to give the ultimate punishment of death to calculating murderers it wasn't envisaged by Churchill and others how the law would be used to protect villains from meeting their maker.