why all the effort?

[d9f1c7]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17076942
Just shove the lowlife into a crate and drop him out of a Hurcules roughly over Jordan!

[sp1814]

d9f1c7

I assume you're not talking about the Home Secretary?

[jake-the-peg]

Because once we set up a precidence of "disposing" of big mouth pains in the arse in such a way....

...Well I guess we won't be seeing so much of you after the next ellection

[sandyRoe]

But would those foreign chappies heed anything a woman said?

[rov1100]

Anyone who can incite to blow complete strangers into tiny bits in the name of religion can't be classed as human,

[Nibble]

Keeping the Human Rights lawyers in ongoing litigation claims?

[vulcan]

Why can't Jordan try him in his absence, we put him in prison and Jordan pays us to keep him ?

[andy-hughes]

Why all the effort?

Because seriously large numbers of people have fought and died to enable the UK to have its current systems of justice and fairness which are seen as an example to the world.

The problem with protecting the rights of people under its care means that those rights apply to everyone, you d9f1c7, me, everyone, and this gentleman is entitled to the same levels of protection.

Laws and their implementation do not get shrugged off or stretched here and there because we decide we don't particularly like the individual being protected.

The fact is, that despite his reputation as a reigious bigot of the worst kind, Abu Qatada has not been charged with any crime in the UK, and you cannot simply hand someone over to a kangaroo court for evidence gained by torture to condemn him, that is not how the law works.

So yes, it is seriously vexing that Abu Qatada enjoys the protection of the state, but to start to make exceptions is to erode the concept, and that is the first step towards eliminating it which cannot be allowed to happen.

Fortunately ,the law does not depend on the thoughts of individuals whipped up by one-sided factually bereft media fire storms, it depends on carefully constructed and enshrined principles.

That does mean that the odious bigot is protected, along with the man in the street, but the alternative, which is that no-one is protected, makes it a preferable alternative.

So the government must work within the contrtaints of the law - that is what 'all the effort' involves, and it is still right, regardless of how strongly you, and indeed I, find it morally repugnant.

[d9f1c7]

....seen as an example to the world?? Laughing stock more like!