Rights helped lead to U.K. riots, Cameron says

Shwa · August 16, 2011

Of course, giving people too many rights is bad for... government.

In a sweeping speech Monday, Prime Minister David Cameron said mending England’s “broken society” was his priority and he called the four days of riots “a wake-up call.”
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On Monday, the prime minister placed blame for the riots not on poverty, race or government austerity measures, but on behaviour.

“People showing indifference to right and wrong, people with a twisted moral code, people with a complete absence of self-restraint,” he said at a youth centre in Witney, his parliamentary district in southern England.

He then drew a direct link between the Human Rights Act and the riots, saying the act has had a “corrosive influence on behaviour and morality,” and pledged the government would seek reforms to the European Convention on Human Rights.

I am not sure what is worse - an idiot rioter or an idiot PM, but LOL Britain, you got got both.

Of course, the problem with Cameron's logic is the explanation for all the other riots in English history prior to the Human Rights Act and especially those that happened in Merry Olde Conservative England back in the day.

How about all those riots in Northern Ireland? Wait, that was different...

eyeball · August 16, 2011

“He’s throwing some red meat at the right wing of the conservative party who strongly dislike the Human Rights Act and strongly dislike the European Union.”
The Human Rights Act isn’t viewed in the U.K. with the same respect as the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, he added.

“It’s seen as one of the symbols of Canadian identity. And there’s no equivalent respect for the Human Rights Act in the U.K.”

Really? I think Cameron's red meat is just as high on the menu of crap that Harper seems to be serving up.