Thursday, October 29, 2009

EU leaders prepare to restore State Executions

As EU leaders meet just before they hope to finally get into force the oppressive Lisbon Treaty, which, inter alia, empowers the EU to restore the death penalty across Europe as only they deem fit, it is fitting that one amongst them already has innocent blood on his hands:

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Blogger Julien Frisch said...

All members of the European Union are signatories of the European Convention on Human Rights (overseen by the European Court of Human Rights), including the extra protocol prohibiting the death penalty, and all but one or two have already ratified the extra protocol prohibiting the death penalty also in times of war.

This already would make the statement untrue that the new EU Treaty would make the death penalty possible.

In addition, the Lisbon Treaty foresees European Union joining the European Convention on Human Rights, meaning that not only the member states would be bound by what they have already ratified but also the EU institutions would bind themselves to these rules, rights, and values that are codified much longer than the EU existed.

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