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Thread #160019   Message #3797559
Posted By: SPB-Cooperator
25-Jun-16 - 04:38 AM
Thread Name: BS: To Br/Exit Or Not To Br/Exit
Subject: RE: BS: To Br/Exit Or Not To Br/Exit
We need to think now of not will or won't happen, but what can happen. We have now voted away our right of protection from repressive legislation and that is frightening.   Do we really think it is a good idea to allow a parliament the power to reintroduce capital punishment - some may say that is a good thing, but is it worth the risk of a jury of decent people to find people like Huntly not guilty purely on the principle that killing is wrong, even if it is state sanctioned? Then what happens if a future, right wing government extends the scope for executions, say for 'enemies of the state'. It can happen, it has happened.

We are talking about 'fair controls of immigration'. We will not be bound by any treaties which means a future government could start a programme of deportations and interment of its 'undesirables'.

When people talk about regaining our freedom, what they do not realise is they have just surrenders our protections that are inherent in treaties that have being created through concensus and through our own involvement.