Prime Minister Cameron – more fascist antics, delcares human rights war on those responsible for “moral collapse”

After riots, Britain to push for change in European Convention on Human Rights
REUTERS – Monday 15 August 2011 – By RFI

British Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Monday that the UK would use its current chairmanship of the Council of Europe to try to push through changes in the European Convention of Human Rights. Cameron claimed the convention had “undermined personal responsibility”, in a speech which focused on what he sees as the underlying causes of last week’s riots in Britain.

Addressing an audience at a youth club in Witney in southern England, Cameron pledged to reverse what he called a “slow motion moral collapse”, which he blames for last week’s riots in which five people died.

“This has been a wake-up call for our country. Social problems that have been festering for decades have exploded in our face,” Cameron declared.

The Conservative leader has long preached of a need to re inforce values such as social responsibility, and Britain’s worst civil disorder for decades has led him to return to a favourite theme.

Children as young as 11 joined a four-night spree of looting and arson which began on 6 August in North London and spread throughout the capital and to other English cities, tarnishing Britain’s image just a year before it hosts the 2012 Olympic Games. …more