It’s all about the narrative. Who controls it, wins
by Melanie Phillips:
Are we seeing a crack developing in the hitherto impregnable “human rights” dogma which has helped emasculate Britain’s defences against terrorism?
In the wake of the latest Islamic terror attack last Sunday in London, in which two people were stabbed by a terrorist who had recently been released from jail and was actually considered so dangerous he was being shadowed by armed police, the government has indicated it will scrap automatic early release for such prisoners.
It may also re-introduce control orders and other more draconian sentencing options for terrorists, and has even suggested the UK may derogate from the European Convention on Human Rights if such measures are held to conflict with it.
The “human rights” lobby has consistently and largely successfully fought attempts over the years to strengthen the law against terrorism. It has found a receptive audience in Britain’s judicial establishment, for which the Human Rights Convention has the status of sacred doctrine.
This all reinforced the absurd impression that Britain, the nation which gave birth to Magna Carta and the matchless protections for civil liberty afforded by the English common law, had never acknowledged the need for human rights until these were encoded in the post-war convention.
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