The Advertiser,3-8-2006 pg 33
British Home Secretary John Reid bitterly attacked the Nations three most senior judges after they ruled that six Iraqi terror suspects,subject to a control order forcing them to remain indoors for 18 hours,were deprived of liberty contrary to Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights
The courts should not make law only interpret it. In this instance the judges sided with the E.U. which upset the Labor government.
Blair and Reid cannot complain. They signed away the right of Britain’s laws to be paramount in England and both Britain and the E.U. allow terrorists to live ad operate freely in Europe. The last thing Human Rights activists seem to want is to curtail the right of terrorists to kill their fellow citizens.
DOHA
Another knife to cut Europe’s throat
Globalisation was never about helping the poor in the Third World. The only classes to benefit are the inner city elite and the very wealthy in the developed world.
The old labor party believes that the nation’s “working class” was essential for the creation of the National wealth in partnership with capital is no longer true. Capital is now invested where cheap labour rates give the best return and that is not in Australia.
Globalism does not advantage the Australian worker;in fact Australian industry is collapsing with the flight of capital overseas.
That great Australia Malcolm Fraser said “we are not an industrial Nation,our future is agriculture and mining”. Unfortunately our faming sector needs cheap labour too and the answer is of course to bring in foreign workers from the third world on special working visas. All Australians with any sense must realise that that will drive wage rates down. This approach can be expected by the Liberal party and Nations but why on earth doesn’t the Labor party and the Union make this a major issue?
DOHA failed to reduce subsidies and tariffs in Europe and America. The farm lobbies in these countries are very influential. Farming is a way of life for many people in Europe who have seen their industry exported to China and the Third World by greedy industrialists,they are not about to sacrifice their farming sector to the Third World and Australia’s despondent farmers abandoned by their government in the name of globalization.
Our farmers can only hope to survive if there is a mass influx of cheap labour from the Third World. The Australian worker,so keen for a pay rise will be lucky to have a job 10 years from now.
