The hypocrisy of the British
media on immigration.
Today’s Mail has another
incarnation of the perennial “we can’t evict foreign criminals because of
political correctness” nonsense. A Ghanaian woman is using what the Mail
probably inaccurately describes as the Family Life defence (aka the pussy cat
defence).
But if she committed the crime in
this country, shouldn’t she be prosecuted and punished here; regardless of the
place of her birth? If not then what law has she broken? Only the law of the
land matters here, doesn’t it (including laws we sign up to)? So therefore why
are we considering deportation? Wouldn’t it be even harsher to incarcerate her
as a stranger to this country, if that’s what she is, thereby appealing to the Daily
Mail ‘hang them and flog them’ crowd?
If she is deported we have no
control over her fate with no guarantee she will get punished at all. Isn’t
this what happened when the Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing was
released. Even though the grounds were different (and decent – it was an act of
compassion not contrition, despite what some right wing blowhards might think),
he was released and deported. The point being that the papers carried many reports
of Libya celebrating his return, as if to give the British the middle finger –
that he should have remained in prison to suffer our good justice!
Isn't’ that hypocrisy?
What about the numerous cases of
British people, usually women it seems, who become embroiled in drug smuggling charges.
How many times does the right wing press call for them to be deported from the
third world hellholes in which they wind up (further evidence of course of the squalid
lives of Johnny Foreigner) back to Blighty? How many Mail readers would call
for such people, even when guilty, to be deported back to Britain?
Shouldn’t the people in those countries call for the same thing we do here? Of
course we don’t want that; it serves these people right if they are guilty of
breaking foreign laws, smuggling drugs for instance, and as such deserve to rot
in foreign jails.
One rule for them: when ‘they’
come over here and break our law, we don’t want anything to do with them but
stick them on the first plane back. But when it’s Brits breaking the law abroad
we can wash our hands of them; our justice is inferior?
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