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Sunday, 14 March 2010

And the Labour government dispense with another right in their endless pursuit of being good EU subjects

The Telegraph alerts us to the fact that:
"Britons arrested in Europe will not have the right to demand a full translation of the charges they are facing, under proposals supported by the government. "
Yes Labour are willing, nay keen, for British subjects to be arrested in the UK if a European Arrest Warrant issued against them (under Schengen Information II rules), extradited to the EU country that issued the warrant (under Europe's fast-track extradition system) and then tried without all relevant documents
being translated into English.

If that were not enough we are advised that
"Britain has also supported a loophole that would allow a suspect to give up his rights without a lawyer present and without any written evidence, a move that could easily allow police officers to ignore the translation requirements altogether."


This is a heavenly opportunity for the EU and other totalitarian governments; they can have citizens of one country being extradited to another where they will be tried without having full access to the details of the evidence against them and then imprisoned without proper access to appeal. Let nobody be in any doubt as to the rights and freedoms that are being taken from us by this Labour government and the EU. How long before a UK subject is arrested by British police and extradited to a former Warsaw Pact country for questioning the democratic credentials of that country? How long before the EU itself gives itself the powers to try EU citizens for crimes against the EU; crimes such as questioning the powers of the EU, the lack of budget security or the alliance of the EU powers and radical Islam?

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