Human rights, democracy and equality

I firmly believe in equal rights for all and therefore also a fair legal system where we are treated the same before the law. Each case should be judged on its own circumstances and the punishment should be fair for all.

It is obvious to me that David Cameron has a different view on human rights, democracy and equality. Despite his talk about how ‘we are in this together’ and his big society the riots has made him reveal his true view on humans. It becomes clear that he view some people as scum and vermin that should be punished by the full force of the law. He says that ‘there are pockets of our society that are broken’ with a collapse of moral values. But when he say this he is not referring to the bankers that looted the global economy or the millionaires steeling from the public with their tax reduction or the MPs’ looting of the taxpayers with their allowances claims.

Instead, his society is populated by worthy people (the rich) and unworthy (the poor) and it scares me to think of what his plans are for the unworthy people. Has his treatment of the rioters set the bar?

In the heat of the riots Cameron came out with his contempt for the unworthy people and now we see how his view has trickled down to the courts and the punishments for the rioters are 25% harsher than usual causing the prison service to struggle to deal with the 700 people that the courts sent to prison. We also hear that parents of rioters are being evicted from council flats, which is also a suggestion of Cameron’s. Since when could you be punished for actions of other people? There is no affordable housing around and young people are forced to stay at home for longer, can these parents really be responsible for these young adults’ actions?

I would like to see Cameron deal with the policemen that killed Mark Duggan just as firmly as he treats the rioters. The police officers in question actually killed a man, it was murder! As far as I know they are still at large in our society, free to do it again. But maybe the Government think it is okay to just kill off the ‘scum’ in this way?

The August riots might have been stopped but the fire is still burning. Cameron has lost touch with the reality some people faces in UK today. More than 50% of the children in Lambeth lives in poverty, black boys are more frequently expelled from school than their white peers, every winter people freeze to death in their flats because they can’t afford their heating costs. The list can go on forever.

Cameron is completely oblivious how it is to live without a trust fund like most of has to do. He should try to live in poverty on a concil estate with no prospect to get a job or an education and then he might change his views.