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Originally Posted by Lucysgirl
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.
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Quite right, Thats the whole point, it is not now the reason it was introduced, Thats why we should tell em to stuff it.