I AGREE, up to a point, with Newport East Assembly Member (Labour) Mr John Griffiths’ comments (Argus, May 15).
We should have a Human Rights Act and it’s an important piece of peacetime legislation which includes laws that guarantee us all the right to life, the right not to be enslaved or tortured and the right to a fair trial.
I do not, however, agree with his comments that, just because the present government wishes to create our own British Human Rights Act (replacing the present one), they, the government, are putting their own needs above those of the British people.
Rather odd comments as the very reason we need our own Bill of Human Rights is because the present Human Rights Act is so abused to the detriment of our country.
If Mr Griffiths is so concerned also about the right to life, he needs to look at his own party who introduced andpreviously legalised killing of unborn children.
Because of this, in our society today we have started to accept that the human race can be divided into persons whom the law protects and non-persons who can be killed or ill-treated as we wish.
This is the law of the jungle, where those who are strong and have the power can do what they want to those who are weak.
The law should be there to protect the weakest in our society, otherwise, why have the law?
The unborn child cannot even be heard crying as they are killed.
 
Norman Plaisted,
Vivian Road,
Newport