When Cornwallis surrendered to the combined American and French troops at Yorktown, he begged to be excused from the humiliation of leading his army through the allied ranks in order to ground arms, citing an indisposition and instead left to his subordinate the task. The British forces marched sullenly through the lane provided by the finely accoutred French forces on the one hand, and the somewhat more irregularly clothed continentals on the other. The British band played, “The World Turned Upside-down.”
Might be time to dust off the sheet music to that one again:
One of the world’s most dangerous terror suspects was last night preparing for a life on benefits in Britain after judges ruled that his deportation would breach human rights law.
Abu Qatada, dubbed Osama Bin Laden’s “truly dangerous” ambassador in Europe, could be released from jail within months following the Court of Appeal verdict.
Yesterday’s decision has left Britain’s anti-terror laws in tatters. It means the Jordanian father of five – who has been linked to a string of global terror conspiracies and is held in a high security prison under immigration powers – can expect to receive ¬£1,000 a month in handouts.
The taxpayer also faces a bill of tens of thousand of pounds to keep the hate-filled cleric under 24-hour surveillance by security services under a control order unless a last-ditch Home Office appeal is granted by the House of Lords. Even if it is, Qatada could appeal again, to the European Court of Human Rights.
The Brits hammered out an agreement that Qatada would not be tortured if deported to his Jordanian homeland. But the UK Court of Appeals turned down the Home Office’s request to give him the boot because of concern that the EU Court of Human Rights might intervene – witnesses against the terror spokesman might have been abused by Jordan. No way to prove they weren’t. Wouldn’t want to be over-ruled by Brussels.
This guy is mobbed up with just about every contributing faction on the dark side of the War on Terror, and the UK is about put him on the dole for life. It seems that European human rights law not only trumps British law, but British security and common sense.
The “EU” and “Islam” – they come about it in different ways, but it appears that each word, ultimately means “submission to the will of Allah.”
The road to hell is paved with good intentions?
I’m not sure if that is more sad or scary. Equal parts of both, I suppose.
UFB, are there any sane people left running this world?
So, let me see if I understand this right… They can’t keep him in jail, and they can’t deport him? Oh, how the mighty empire has fallen.
Jim C
A red dot centered on the forehead followed by a 7.62×51 bullet. Problem solved. Then tell the EU and their Human Rights court to take a hike. Put the safety and interest of the home folk first.
DblD,
I was thinking more along the lines of a “vitamin” injection before he leaves jail. A few CC’s of Potassium Chloride ought to juice up his Potassium levels just ducky
Problem solved as well, with no messy cleanup.
It is a shame that our SAS friends can’t solve this problem.
While that is an approach I wouldn’t want to see here, England doesn’t operate under our constitution and has taken that approach before.
“Bond. James Bond.”
Too bad the Brits blew the whistle on the Russians’ subtle use of isotopes.
What about “the Bulgarian umbrella trick” as Michael Caine described it in “Bullet to Beijing?” Good movie, by the way, [sequel to The Ipcress File 20 years later] and Netflix or some similar outfit probably has it.
Marianne
A Brit friend of mine recently moved his family to the US. He just couldn’t take the environment any longer. And the taxes certainly didn’t help either.
You know, the Queen has the legal right to overturn all that stuff and bang someone up in Wandsworth indefinitely “at her pleasure”…
Not that she would nowadays, and dare I ask, wo wo wo what is she good for?
Cap’n, et al,
Lock a necklace of C-4 around his neck with tamper proof, booby-trapped locks. Tell him he can walk around all he wants, but he’ll never know who has the key and/or the transmitter. One step over the line and suddenly the world has lost another terrorist.
Good idea SeniorD. I’d recommend one step further. Put a bark feature on it. If he barks Islamic invective, it detonates. A bark collar with a bang so to speak.