You might remember last Movember, when I wrote about the extreme Islamists who burnt the poppy on Remembrance Day.
There is something deeply wrong with justice in our country. This week, it was announced that Mr Emdadur Choudhury who burnt poppies during Remembrance Sunday was let off with a slap on the wrist, and a £50 fine.
This is entirely the wrong signal to send out.
We should be stopping extremist Islamism, not turning a blind eye to it.
When I say that there is something deeply wrong, what I mean is that it seems incredible that whilst Mr Choudhury gets a £50 fine, those good and decent people who do the right thing - and may have committed a minor traffic infringement - can be fined a lot more. Just a few days ago, David Buchanan, an army veteran, was fined nearly £245 for a minor traffic offence in which no one was even hurt.
It seems our criminal justice system focuses on the easy case, in order to fulfill targets and quotas, rather than dealing with the underlying problems.
We now know that Mr Choudhury - who allegedly gets nearly £800 a month in benefits - burned poppies in front of service families during the two-minute silence last November 11, as Islamic extremists yelled ‘British soldiers burn in hell’.
For this he was fined just £50, while many decent British people are fined hundreds of pounds for minor traffic offences, littering, or breaking the smoking ban.
Because Tony Blair incorporated the European Court of Human Rights into British law, we are now unable to chuck Mr Abu Hamza out of the country. Remember him? He is the extremist cleric who described Britain as a “toilet”. Not only - like the poppy-burners - is he inciting racial hatred but he is living here at the expense of British taxpayers.
Hard-pressed taxpayers are subsidising these maniacs. Why should we pay for them to have an easy life?
I believe that we need a serious rebalancing of our law and order system.
We need to withdraw from the European Convention of Human Rights, and have a proper British Bill of Rights instead.
We need to stop these Islamist extremists making a mockery of our laws. Above all, we must make sure that crime doesn’t pay - especially through welfare benefits.
In Parliament, I am calling for this, and welcome the Prime Minister’s determination to establish a commission that would give us a British Bill of Rights.
Let’s have a criminal system, where criminals get their just deserts. Enough is enough.
This is entirely the wrong signal to send out.
We should be stopping extremist Islamism, not turning a blind eye to it.
When I say that there is something deeply wrong, what I mean is that it seems incredible that whilst Mr Choudhury gets a £50 fine, those good and decent people who do the right thing - and may have committed a minor traffic infringement - can be fined a lot more. Just a few days ago, David Buchanan, an army veteran, was fined nearly £245 for a minor traffic offence in which no one was even hurt.
It seems our criminal justice system focuses on the easy case, in order to fulfill targets and quotas, rather than dealing with the underlying problems.
We now know that Mr Choudhury - who allegedly gets nearly £800 a month in benefits - burned poppies in front of service families during the two-minute silence last November 11, as Islamic extremists yelled ‘British soldiers burn in hell’.
For this he was fined just £50, while many decent British people are fined hundreds of pounds for minor traffic offences, littering, or breaking the smoking ban.
Because Tony Blair incorporated the European Court of Human Rights into British law, we are now unable to chuck Mr Abu Hamza out of the country. Remember him? He is the extremist cleric who described Britain as a “toilet”. Not only - like the poppy-burners - is he inciting racial hatred but he is living here at the expense of British taxpayers.
Hard-pressed taxpayers are subsidising these maniacs. Why should we pay for them to have an easy life?
I believe that we need a serious rebalancing of our law and order system.
We need to withdraw from the European Convention of Human Rights, and have a proper British Bill of Rights instead.
We need to stop these Islamist extremists making a mockery of our laws. Above all, we must make sure that crime doesn’t pay - especially through welfare benefits.
In Parliament, I am calling for this, and welcome the Prime Minister’s determination to establish a commission that would give us a British Bill of Rights.
Let’s have a criminal system, where criminals get their just deserts. Enough is enough.
by Robert Halfon - www.roberthalfon.blogspot.com
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