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Aftermath of the recent troubles

Conviction and sentencing - Double Punishment
Some on this list will be aware and some may not that any foreign national, convicted of a criminal offence and sentenced to 12 months or longer, is by law automatically served with a 'Notice of intention to deport' and deportation is now usually carried out.

Even those foreign nationals in the UK, who have acquired or taken out British Citizenship (naturalization) are not exempt. Acquired citizenship is not an innate right it is a licence and can be revoked by the Home Secretary if she deems a persons conduct has not been conducive to the public good. She now routinely revokes acquired citizenship for any and all offences with a sentence of two years or more.

So to be clear, any foreign national, convicted of rioting etc and sentenced to 12 months or more, will be subject so a secondary punishment - Deportation.

This secondary or Double Punishment should be vociferously opposed.


The violence of the violated

A. Sivanandan director of the Institute of Race Relations comments on the recent riots.

Everyone is clutching at explanations for the riots - gangs, greed, family breakdown, lack of respect. But I would like to go into their deeper causes.

Society is completely polarised between rich and poor, mediated through a culture of consumerism and quick fixes. Almost a third of the population is mired in poverty and deprivation. And this affects the younger generation much more directly and violently than any other section. Directly, through unemployment, cuts in education, youth facilities and mentoring schemes - they are neither socialised by work nor by community. Violently, because they are policed over and criminalised by stop and search laws and an anti-youth surveillance culture. They have nothing to look forward to - no economic mobility, no social mobility. And they have nothing to look back on, disconnected as they are from the previous generation. The system is trying to blame the parents but they themselves have been deprived of the wherewithal to bring up their children in a decent environment. (The only thing that trickles down is poverty.)
Read the full article here . . . .

Are human rights to blame for the riots?
Many explanations have been proposed for the recent British riots, including poor policing, Twitter and violent video games. Yesterday, the Prime Minster suggested that the Human Rights Act is to blame.

In a major speech, he said that when considering questions of attitude and behaviour, "we inevitably come to the question of the Human Rights Act and the culture associated with it". What is "exerting such a corrosive influence on behaviour and morality"? No less than "the twisting and misrepresenting of human rights in a way that has undermined personal responsibility".

I have four points to make about the speech.

Read the points:  UK Human Rights Blog, Adam Wagner

Last updated 10 November, 2011