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Originally Posted by bertieck476
Is it that dodgy ? the parasitic hate mongerer has said he will go if the treaty is agreed by both countries.
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It boils down to human rights, now in this instance you might say that he does not deserve those rights, but it is the principle of the matter, you cannot break the law for one person and then uphold it for another. The law is supposed to be universal, across the board, for all people, be they BNP, Islamic extremists or Mr Patel from the shop down the road. In this case the law is supposed to discourage evidence gathered from torture, as, after all, if you're being pumped full of high voltage then you'll say anything they want you to say in order to stop them from hurting you.
Now, in this instance, a great deal of the case against Qatada by the Jordan judicial system is based upon evidence gained through torture, therefore if this treaty means that the evidence gained through torture is being discounted from the trial, then all Qatada is going to get is a all expenses paid trip to Jordan, a brief stay at a Jordanian prison and then released again because the case has nothing to work on.
Likewise, if the British government decides to violate Article six of the European Convention of Human Rights (a Convention that has been in place for 50 years) as well as the United Nations Convention against Torture, and just send him to Jordan and to hell with it, then they will have public support for it because the media has had over a decade to build a nice picture of Qatada as some sort of Satanic priest, however they will politically be joining a very specific club which is inhabited by nations such as the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, Vietnam, Burma, and Iran. Is that the sort of company we want to keep in relation to human rights? Really?
So, yes, it's all a bit daft and at the end of the day will probably cost a lot more in both finance and political difficulty, than it would have been to just leave him in a British nick and forget about him. However the government wants to score points with The Sun and Daily Mail readers who just see red (pardon the pun) whenever Qatada is mentioned.