Letter to the Editor
The Human Rights Issue
Dear Sir:
It seems the UK's aim is to keep pummelingus over the heads on this issue. But real questions are posed:Was all this caused by the UK gays' fuss (to Foreign SecretaryRobin Cook and Prime Minister Tony Blair) about our cruise ship"turnaround" and expat's continual whining to "mama UK" for years of how unfair it is that only Caymaniansheld elected power?
Worse, most of our own elected members are naïvely bawlingout for this legislation! But, by welcoming in this law, isn'tit a bit like climbing out on a limb and challenging Nemesis tochop it off? Won't this mean loss of control over our isles inall the ways we know it to be right now?
For example, the way we screen out "undesirables" (whichhas kept our crime rate down)...will this now be looked upon as"discrimination" with law suits stemming from governmenthaving to fork out defense funds to explain itself when it turnedback a person that didn't pass the AIDS test or incarcerated aperson for importing drugs (and if he's destitute, he'll be entitledto legal aid!)
Let's say the government cleared itself. What about the fundseaten up by time and personnel in order to? If you think theseare light-hearted situations...take a look at the internet underHuman Rights and you'll begin to get a feel of the gravity ofcases we could face. Will work permits become a thing of the past?Moreover, should our gift of "non-reciprocity" everbe lifted, we'd be "set to go" for an onslaught of EUpeople and a homosexual tidal wave.
First, let's examine why 'Human Rights' were really created.
Movies like 'Odessa Files', 'Shindler's List' and 'It's a WonderfulLife', deal with the moving emotions of the holocaust. The lastmovie is a true account of a father who strains to protect hisson from the holocaust terrors of being in a concentration campby making everything out to be a game for the boy. The father,strong-minded and brilliant, thought of scintillating ways toalleviate the horrors for his son. His sheer endearing love andbumbling naivety to protect his son is so moving, you laugh asyou wipe tears.
Movies like these make you want to scream "human rights"right in middle of the cinema! Atrocities by Hitler and Idi AminDada were despicable. Remember the last two huge human rightsfiascos...Rwanda, (the world watched on as the enemy walked uphacking helpless thousands to pieces with machetes as they weretrying to escape in slow moving lines) and Bosnia, (the needlessslaughter of mutilated bodies hit the worlds' camera lens formonths before feeble attempts were made by the US and UK thenleading NATO into the fray.)
These are what 'Human Rights Bills' were made for, to protectthose whose rights are really being trammeled. Cayman's friend,Armando Valladares, (imprisoned in Cuba for 22 years for havinghad a plaque of "Down with the Revolution" on his officedesk), writes in his book "Against all Hope", of howhe squirreled out poems written in his own blood to InternationalAmnesty. Later due to their relentless pressure, he was released).
To bypass any suspicions by International Amnesty, some countriestoday have graduated from torture chambers and the electricalprods of Idi Amin Dada's era to lesser "tell-tale" tortures.For example, huge glass bells (looking like huge cake screens),when lowered over a tied man, cooks him almost to death in theoutside heat. If his life is spared, there are no traces or marksas evidence. Smart?
This is only one of the ways in which thousands still face 'lifeand death' intimidation daily around this "civilized"world...and it is in these areas the world's attention shouldbe focused, riveted and bent on changing.
The UK says one of its main global strategies is to now curb internationaltrade in firearms. (I wish them luck!) The first place it shouldpick on is the US...the billions of arms it ships to the verycountries who'd most likely rise up to use them against the USif there ever came a war! What a world we live in! (Wheeler-dealerKhassoggi's "heydays" can't hold a candle to the tradesgoing on now!)
Like Judge Judy's father used to say "Don't pee on my legand tell me it's raining!" If the UK is so hyped and concernedabout 'Human Rights', they've the whole world to fix yet...andwe should be last on their list! We're the least worse off! We'rea country that holds on to moral principles, has the fewest rapesand murders...obviously something is working here...so why fixsomething that's not broken?
Sure, we need changes...like releasing government employees' mouthsto have their say in the political aspirations of our country!These changes can be done in our internal laws (and should havebeen done long ago) without taking on this extra baggage the UKwants us to adapt.
If we really were being dealt with democratically, we'd be ableto make up our own 'Human Rights Bill', not be coerced by somesleazy sadistic S&M whip hanging over us! Remember the movie,'It's a Wonderful Life'? It's a pity "mother UK" isn'tlike that father...she should be protecting us, patting us onthe heads and encouraging us to keep on doing what we're doingright...instead, she's adamantly bludgeoning us into submissionto gulp down something that would (as the saying goes) "gaga maggot"!
Pamela DaCosta
George Town