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To: LindyBill who wrote (99534)	2/9/2005 10:48:45 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793868

Melanie Phillip's Diary. February 09, 2005 The world turned upside down Further evidence in today's Telegraph that our human rights culture is straight out of Lewis Carroll. John Steele tells us: 'Scotland Yard detectives have intervened in suspected murder plots to save the lives of more than 100 gangsters and criminals over the past year, senior officers said last night. Human rights legislation has placed an obligation on police to protect drug traffickers, robbers, gunmen and their associates from their own kind. This work is increasing rapidly, tying up surveillance and intelligence teams at a time when the Metropolitan Police is stretched by anti-terrorist work. Other big city forces and the National Crime Squad have also seen increases in operations to protect the safety of criminals in violent struggles with rival gangs. The increase in kidnapping, especially among the ethnic minority communities, is also consuming large amounts of police time. Gangs even call police to report that one of their members has been abducted, relying on the forces of law and order to rescue them...In recent years, the law - particularly European human rights legislation - has also placed a clear "duty of care" on police to protect not only the innocent and law-abiding but anyone suspected of being at risk'. It is surely becoming ever more apparent that by enforcing the doctrine of 'identicality' -- that treating anyone differently from anyone else is an improper form of discrimination, regardless of circumstances or behaviour -- human rights law is operating as a primary engine for the destruction of the discrimination between good and bad, right and wrong which lies at the very core of the Judeo-Christian moral codes. It is not only increasingly making the governance of Britain impossible, but is increasingly corroding the moral infrastructure of our society itself.