Human rights bullshit

One my UKIP chums had a letter in the local paper (printed version here).

The unedited version also mentioned that Lord Sedley (who called for a national DNA database recently) tutored at the 'Communist University of London' in the 1970s. Now, it turns out that this is just an occasional talking shop, not a real university, so let's give Sedley the benefit of the doubt on that one, it was 30 years ago, after all*.

But Sedley is the President of the 'British Institute of Human Rights'.

So I did a search on that, and came full circle with an article on the BBC website, in which Sedley waxes lyrical about the DNA database, but a spokesman for Liberty (formerly the 'National Council for Civil Liberties'), reknowned 'human rights' campaigners describes it as a "frightening scenario".

So if even these self-appointed guardians of 'human rights' can't agree on the DNA database, I think we can all make up our minds on it.

I'm with Liberty on this one, BTW. They did stick up for the NatWest Three, after all.

*In any event, the local paper didn't include that sentence in the published version.