Comment Re:One hand washes the other (Score 2) 81
I thought it was to overturn the decisions of national establishment and replace them with decisions made by a supranational establishment instead.
With respect of the human rights laws, they seem to be more of a stick to beat the government with than anything used to really protect human rights - the latest scam from the ambulance chasing human-rights lawyers is the case of a foreign criminal who used the human right to a family life to defend himself from being deported after serving his sentence. Only in this case, he was had threatened to kill his family and was banned from seeing them.
Is state snooping on communications against our human rights? Is it against the human rights legislation?