[STR CUPBOA La sushi the verdict: no political…]
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STR CUPBOA La sushi the verdict: no political asylum.
Askoy's lawyers appealed, pointing out that the ruling contravened the spirit of the constitution's references to 'the right to life' and 'the dignity of man'. The court replied with fastidious legal observations.
"Torture and other forms of physical abuse that might be occasioned in the course of carrying out a sentence are an offence against human dignity. But not every infringement of the injunction to have due regard for human dignity relevant to political asylum. What is decisive is the motive behind the acts.
'Left-wing Kurds might be tortured or otherwise abused- in the course of investigations into alleged offences against state security. But this does not constitute political persecution ... because torture and torture in this country'.
IT IS an absolute slander to suggest that the Tory government and Norman Tebbit in particular want to take this country back to the 1930s. their target is the 1830s! And if this seems like some routine joke or caricature, just note the words of Norman Tebbit, quoted in the Oxford Star, talking to local Conservatives a week ago.
"Mr Tebbit pointed to the way the Victorians had created jobs by making use of new technology.
'I get sick of all the television programmes which say that the 19th century was hard for workers, he said. 'Britain in the 19th century warld to be a member of the working class.
We can do that again (!) if we take up new technology with the same enthusiasm and scale of plain hard work?
(Oxford Star,
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