I hear politicians tell us that we want to defend the values
of our country. Amen to that. Yet when Jeremy Corbyn was asked by ITV yesterday
afternoon if he would have authorised the drone strike which killed Jihadi John, he replied: “I would only
authorise actions that are legal and within the terms of international law.”,
he is mocked and ridiculed for his reply.
Jihadi John was of
course Mohammed Emwazi, a British Arab man alleged to be the person seen in
several videos produced by the Islamic extremist group ISIL showing the
beheadings of a number of captives. And that’s
the problem. He will now always have
been the alleged killer.
We have adopted
a system of extra judicial killing. So the
families of the people he was alleged to have killed will never get their day
in court to see him convicted by a jury based on evidence before them. I can see why many of them don’t support
what has been done. They
wanted justice. And in our society
justice can only be seen to be done in a court of law. You don’t do justice from a drone at
30,000ft.
I thought we were defending our ways. But this and many other instances simply says
we are lowering ourselves to the same values as those who seek to destroy our
way of life. And know what, they are
succeeding.
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