Thursday 9 April 2009

By the Same Token

Here's axe murderer turned jailhouse lawyer John Hirst explaining the rationale behind his campaign (now apparently successful, thanks to the lunacy of the European Court of Human Rights) to secure the vote for prisoners: 'Killing my landlady was an abuse of power. By the same token, the state is abusing power in relation to the prisoner votes case and refusing to rectify the situation.' So, in other words, nipping outside, spotting an axe, then nipping back in and killing a defenceless woman with it is pretty much on a par with legislating to withhold the vote from prisoners. Got that? This is surely the most jaw-dropping use of the weasel phrase 'by the same token' on record.

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  1. The criminal classes are apparently the biggest customer of European human rights law, much of which is abused and never intended to aid and abet thieves and thugs, the real low life are as usual the lawyers, a huge carbuncle on the backside of society, as Bryan said of them, many of the rewards, none of the responsibility.
    The Scottish parliament is setting aside millions of pounds of taxpayers money, paying compensation to prisoners for slopping out, they are currently trying to change that law, what idiot dreamt it up in the first place.

    Grey wagtails arrived this week Nige, bobbing up and down the burn, the flycatchers are busily nest building in the wisteria.

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  2. "The criminal classes are apparently the biggest customer of European human rights law": apart from Ms Greedie Boot and her like?

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