Dear All
Despite repeated attempts to shake off the
stigma of releasing the worst convicted terrorist in Scottish modern history, Al
Megrahi, SNP ‘justice’ Sec latest attempt will fail.
The stigma is too deep, the stain too
severe.
His attempt using the ill judged ‘flagship’
legislation to remove the centuries old requirement for corroboration in
criminal trials is another reason to vote No in September at the Scottish
independence referendum.
Although he managed to scrap through by 3
votes, the fight against this damaging bill continues.
The SNP had a majority during the Stage One
vote last night which means the proposal remains in the Criminal Justice
(Scotland) Bill.
In effect this means something which is
broken and wrong continues through the Parliament.
People will be denied a fair trial;
accusation without proof is the new standard the SNP want to bring in.
This has all the hallmarks of Germany in
the 1930’s where the fascist Government used the law to pervert the course of
justice.
MacAskill said:
"The corroboration reform must stay in
the bill. Commencement must wait until Lord Bonomy reports, but there must be
no further unnecessary delay. The reform must go forward now in this
legislation."
We need a Justice Minister in the Scottish
Parliament; we haven’t had one since 2007.
SNP Justice Convener Christine Grahame abstained
in the vote because she knows this is wrong.
Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat and
Green MSPs all voted in favour of the Tory motion seeking to strike out that
section of the bill.
Clearly the will of Parliament is now
reduced to the will of the SNP.
And that party is just a front for the Alex
Salmond party, a crony ridden clique who are illiberal.
Every SNP member present voted with the
Government, this shows there is a real lack of talent in the SNP, the leadership
selects drones who blindly follow Salmond.
This bill has been railroaded through the Parliament.
As part of his pitch to sell this,
MacAskill is using rape as a vehicle arguing that Rape Crisis Scotland, Scottish
Women's Aid and Victim Support Scotland backed police and prosecutors.
Does anyone think that if someone isn’t a
good story teller that is enough to send them to prison if they are accused?
The supposed shift to an emphasis on
quality of evidence rather than quantity is bogus.
SNP MSP Gil Paterson made an impassioned
plea in favour of abolition.
One of the tactics used by the Nazi Party
of Germany to justify acting in the way it did was to use people described as ‘victims’,
then using that, they acted, because they said an injustice had occurred .
It seems that not a lot has changed in the
political mindset of some people in politics.
Alison McInnes, of the LibDems, and Patrick
Harvie, of the Greens made strong, principled speeches on why the case had not
been made for jettisoning a key issue of civil liberties.
Elaine Murray, summing up for Labour,
insisted Labour had "no desire to give the Scottish Government a
kicking" but was acting because this aspect of the legislation was flawed.
Then MacAskill made a sweeping attack on
Labour and the LibDems for backing a Conservative motion on this, likening this
alliance to the parties in the Better Together campaign.
I am right to call for his removal as
Justice Minister which I have done so for quite some time?
Yes!
Yes!
Pretty much on the money there!
The SNP say they are an independent party,
that isn’t true as we see from their current indy bid, they also claim they are
a party for justice, that isn’t true either.
It is time to get rid of them, people extended
them goodwill and they spat in the faces of the very people who helped them get
into power.
Time to close the book!
Why isn't angry wee Nat and unpopular 'social justice' campaigner Nicola Sturgeon speaking out on this affront to justice?
She doesn't give a shit!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
4 comments:
another sound reason to vote no to indy by Kenny MacAskill.
You are right where are the SNP people's champions?
Dear George,
I agree with you on the substance of this matter.
As a Scottish judge allegedly once said in his direction to the jury: It would obviously be unsafe to convict solely on the uncorroborated evidence of six policemen.
Small quibble: the problem is not innocent people who are not good story tellers; it is a sole witness who is a good story teller.
Achtung, we all need to say achtung
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