The use of force in order to promote "our values", indeed!
Enoch Powell completely floored Margaret Thatcher when she came out with that kind of thing in his hearing, retorting that he would have fought for this country even if it had had a Communist Government.
"No, Prime Minister," he explained to her, "values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time [a bit much, but even so]. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed."
By all accounts, she was utterly baffled.
Thus spoke a Labour voter in 1945 and in 1974, a passionate opponent of capital punishment, and a no less passionate proponent of unilateral nuclear disarmament.
All for the most Tory of reasons.
Whatever happened to Toryism?
By all accounts, she was utterly baffled.
Thus spoke a Labour voter in 1945 and in 1974, a passionate opponent of capital punishment, and a no less passionate proponent of unilateral nuclear disarmament.
All for the most Tory of reasons.
Whatever happened to Toryism?
He was obviously wrong about capital punishment and nuclear weapons (but right about war).
ReplyDeleteIn both cases, they are terrible things. But the alternatives are worse.
And so it is that anti death penalty types (who see capital punishment as a fundamental assault on our civil liberties) are forced to apologise for the most atrocious assaults on our ancient civil liberties, from lifelong jail sentences to a newly armed police carrying out Mark Duggan-style street to executions to the blanket firearm bans that took away a right to bear arms which has been a British right since 1688
If they prefer all that to a few swift executions of heinous murderers, then good luck to them is all I can say.
Would that it were.
Delete"Mark Duggan-style street executions"? Have you any idea like whom you sound?