tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406430766424642773.post6743174622315582345..comments2023-09-28T12:28:57.598+03:00Comments on Grahnlaw: UK versus USA and EU: Oceans apart on fundamental rightsRalf Grahn http://www.blogger.com/profile/02156293782163802007noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406430766424642773.post-69033871823355898462010-08-18T14:16:58.877+03:002010-08-18T14:16:58.877+03:00Martin Cole,
The European Union is a unique exam...Martin Cole, <br /><br />The European Union is a unique example of voluntary and peaceful cooperation between European states; deep in some areas, shared powers in others and a complementary role with regard to some policy areas. <br /><br />Our exchanges have led me to believe that neither of us sees the EU in its present form as ideal. <br /><br />However, I think that the EU should become both a representative democracy and more effective in areas such as foreign policy and defence, in other words a federation. <br /><br />Could you specify what you mean by "my" EU blogging service, which you say is refusing you entry?Ralf Grahn https://www.blogger.com/profile/02156293782163802007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406430766424642773.post-77552834189589007192010-08-18T13:37:59.095+03:002010-08-18T13:37:59.095+03:00Thanks for your response and for deleting the dupl...Thanks for your response and for deleting the duplicate posts caused by an error alert advising that the url link was too long.<br /><br />History will be the judge as to which is the better system to deliver us from tyranny. Cracks are appearing everywhere, that much is clear. As you will possibly recall from previous exchanges my personal preference is for governance along the lines of the Swiss Confederation with its almost constant Constitutional amendments via national suffrage operating with safeguards.<br /><br />Why the EU has resorted to tyranny as defined by Karl Popper will I feel sure provide an ongoing puzzle for future historians.<br /><br />Another query, why does your EU blogging service refuse entry to blogs such as "Ironies Too", which with its forerunner "Ironies" has been covering the dreadful EU and its forerunners in considerable detail over many, many years?Martin Colehttp://ironiestoo.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406430766424642773.post-39950713267232347382010-08-16T19:44:05.702+03:002010-08-16T19:44:05.702+03:00Martin Cole,
Thank you for your attempt to make ...Martin Cole, <br /><br />Thank you for your attempt to make the traditions and feelings of many British subjects comprehensible to outsiders who try to explore the structural guarantees for fundamental rights in the UK.<br /><br />In many countries their written Constitution guarantees rights for citizens, changing the Constitution requires super-majorities or has other inbuilt brakes, and in some countries (like the USA) judicial review applies to the constitutionality of legislation. <br /><br />The notion and the scope of citizenship is also an interesting point with regard to fundamental rights.<br /><br />Without European influences, the UK lacks these guarantees, so from a "citizen's" point of view its human rights protection is more like a wooden palisade than a stone castle. <br /><br />However, the UK differs from the old Soviet Union in that it has free elections, not a permanent one party dictatorship (although the system of representation is far from fair and ideal). <br /><br />You must have encountered technical problems, since so many similar versions of the same comment were posted, but I sincerely hope that I deleted only copies with the same content.Ralf Grahn https://www.blogger.com/profile/02156293782163802007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406430766424642773.post-1984941763703371342010-08-16T19:25:31.874+03:002010-08-16T19:25:31.874+03:00Thanks for your attempt to grapple with an extreme...Thanks for your attempt to grapple with an extremely complex concept, perhaps I could try to explain a few of your underlying misconceptions while answering some of the questions you pose.<br /><br />An Englishman's sense of right and wrong is inbuilt down the centuries and comes from whatever lies at the centre of his essence, I will call it his gut - hence perhaps gut-feeling.<br /><br />An international organisation such as the EU or the UN can decree that certain matters are 'human rights' but such carry no force for we English, after all by what right does any other human, no matter in what size of group, have the right to determine the rights of other humans.<br /><br />The UN decrees a new born babe in the Amazon rain forest has the right to life, but with her father absent and a constrictor snake possibly throttling both the mother and her baby such a 'right' is nonsensical.<br /><br />Those who blithely pass laws granting 'rights' which they lack the force to enforce are therefore charlatans. The 'rights' they scatter are also meaningless given that others, also without any mandate, can subsequently change or remove them at a stroke.<br /><br />So we therefore can determine that unenforceable 'rights' are by definition worthless. Similarly rights conferred without the consent of those by whom they are received are valueless.<br /><br />Sovereignty in England, historically belongs to the people and it is administered by the constitutional monarch who lends it to the people's elected representatives in Parliament for a fixed term of a maximum of five years.<br /><br />Thus any Parliament can legally override any prior act of any previous government, particularly IMO the European Communities Act of 1972 which has resulted in the sovereignty of the people being transferred to a putative tyranny within the EU.<br /><br />The Glorious Revolution demonstrated, that where the Monarch has been seen to usurp either the powers of the people or indeed the people's Parliament as guilty of a treasonous offence, such usurpers can be replaced.<br /><br />The Common Law prohibits everything which Parliament has not legislated as unlawful, thus avoiding the plague of lawyers at work across the Continent of Europe and the United States, <br /><br />Clues can be found regarding the unsatisfactory nature of other arrangements, such as in the Third Reich, the Fifth French Republic etc.<br /><br />Read this article from yesterday's Sunday press in the UK, perhaps these things will become clearer for you:<br /><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/7945121/Greek-justice-makes-a-mockery-of-the-law.htmlMartin Colehttp://ironiestoo.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com