Surprised, no one has picked up on this yet......

[Trojanfarce]

...Still, I guess it's just another isolated incident.
Eh?
gotta love the HRA.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3162156/Irania n-Embassy-terrorist-to-be-freed-this-month-can -claim-benefits.html

[S.K.SWEDEN]

He sounds more like a freedom fighter than a terrorist. Seeing as Thatcher was involved, I doubt she would know the difference.

[Trojanfarce]

Congrats on being the first to blame Thatcher SK, knew it wouldn't be long!!

[S.K.SWEDEN]

Another first for me. Being new on here, it is a great honour.

[New Judge]

The story is unsurprising because it is of the �dog bites man� type.

Nobody in the UK is surprised at anything, however obnoxious, that is carried out under the banner of �Human Rights�. As I have said time and again in AB, the Human Rights movement has escalated from (wholly unnecessary in the UK) legislation aimed at protecting citizens from excessive state oppression, to a situation where this country seeks to protect everybody from everything.

Immediately there will be the usual suspects asking �so you�d prefer Mr Nejad to be returned to Iran and face death, then?�

My answer is I don�t really care what happens to Mr Nejad. I saw at first hand the results of his activities in 1980 and my only regret was that he was not killed at the scene along with his �comrades�.

We�ve kept him for 28 years (and for a good many before 1980, no doubt). Some other poor sods should take their turn now to support this murdering parasite.

Unfortunately it will not happen.

[R1Geezer]

So where's all the hand wringing lefty Iranophiles demanding he be sent back to the Nice Iranians? Cos there thoroughly decent chaps those Iranians you know.

[Trojanfarce]

Nicely put NJ, I quite agree.

[Quinlad]

We don't put people to death. It was makes us civilised.

As for him being released, that is of course displeasing for the public. The solution? Criminals' prison sentences should rise in direct proportion to the amount of media coverage that their cases generate. It's only fair.

[Trojanfarce]

Whether or not we put people to death and notwithstanding your feintly ironic suggestion, Quinlad, are you really advocating that the British Taxpayer, having effectively housed and fed him for the best part of 3 decades should continue to do so because it might infringe his human rights to deport him?

[Quinlad]

Ah, the joys of language.

"Effectively housed and fed" or "imprisoned".
"Infringe his human rights" or "condemn him to death".

Yep, the wonderful wonder of words.

[Trojanfarce]

Alright then: Imprisoned him (for a crime he was found guilty of)
MIGHT infringe his human rights.
Do we, as taxpayers have to foot the bill?

[keyplus90]

I think it is harboring the terrorists. This country is full of people wanted for serious crimes in their countries. We do not deport them thinking that they would be victimized there. But according to those countries they are criminals. They have their justice system that might not be the way we would like it to be. But that might be a perfect system according to the ground realities of that country.

In fact we may call our system the best where even a burglars have more right than the one burgled but surely others in the world laugh about it.

[Supernick]

I say we stage a Running Man style contest, put him in a race with Sutcliffe, Bronson and some scally burglar that nobody knows because people love an underdog. Then whack it on primetime Saturday night TV, (I'm thinking Dermot O'Leary to host), and let the witless morons in their homes splash out 50p per text to select a series of comedy/deadly traps for them. Perhaps put wolves in there, but I haven't thought this all the way through. Then when everything's finished, everyone can retire to bed with a warm tingly feeling in their stomachs, not actually safer, not actually better off, but sated and happy. If you work in media, call me.

[New Judge]

No, we don't put people to death Quinlad. But that's not sufficient reason to allow the dregs of the world to remain here (kept by the taxpayer) just because other nations might do so.

[R1Geezer]

wow, someone call a medic, I can't believe it but horriifyingly, I find myself in the disturbing position of agreeing with Keyplus! I guess there's common ground in the most unlikely places!

[joggerjayne]

Greetings, O Masterful Geezer.

J Jayne, HPotCotLDG

[R1Geezer]

Greetings High preistess I trust you are spreading the gospell of the Latter day Geezer.