The right to life

The Daily Telegraph reports that the Council of Europe have stated that euthanasia and assisted suicide should be banned in every country in the Continent. The article states that an explicit condemnation of euthanasia was inserted into a non-binding resolution entitled: "Protecting human rights and dignity by taking into account previously expressed wishes of patients", a resolution which can be read here. Point 5 of the resolution states:

"This resolution is not intended to deal with the issues of euthanasia or assisted suicide. Euthanasia, in the sense of the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit, must always be prohibited. This resolution thus limits itself to the question of advance directives, living wills and continuing powers of attorney."

"alleged benefit"? If, as enshrined in Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights, everyone has a right to life then is it not also their right if they wish to end that life? What this resolution is calling for is the blanket imposition of a denial to the right of individual choice for people - and those who voted for this are practising the art of dictatorship, no more no less. Not that this is anything new - deciding what people may or may not do would appear to be the sole reason politicians exist.


The people of country 'A' may decide that assisted suicide is permissible, while those in country 'B' may vote that it is not. People of country 'B' wishing to travel to country 'A' to exercise their right to terminate what is theirs - and theirs alone - should not be criminalised.


Just saying........

Something for politicians to remember........

Magna Carta and the Bills of Right are not hearsay. They are not - and never have been - a bunch of legal myths passed along by word of mouth. They are not - and never have been - a depository for judicial delusions and ideological pipe dreams. They are not - and never have been - a figment of some Marxian imagination. They are written documents and are thus legally binding contracts with the people of this nation, contracts whose words, spirit and intent are clear - and they should not be changed, or altered, without the consent of those they were written to protect.

A people seeking a life of liberty and thus a freedom to choose, do not look upon those whose measures create a loss of that liberty and freedom to choose; and it should be remembered that it is the supposedly well behaved citizens that eventually make the most formidable revolutionaries. They say nothing, they are in plain sight all the time; during which, eventually, they make their 'masters' invariably pay the ultimate price. People have memories and politicians would do well to realise that that is something that cannot be taken away. For such people revolt is but an inch beneath the veneer they present to those politicians.

To those who decry the calls for mass revolution and that change can only be made using the 'democratic' system currently in use, I would refer them to a quotation, one attributed to Audre Laude:

"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change."

Something else I felt just needed saying..........