The Telegraph har en
intressant vinkling på UN WGAD:s arbete i fallet JA.
Först lite om medlemmarna:
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Indeed one member of the four man working group who issued opinion 54/2015, The Case of Julian Assange, Vladimir Tochilovsky, dissented from the ruling, observing that Assange’s liberties had been restricted not deprived.
Significantly, Tochilovsky was the only practicing lawyer in the group. The other members comprised an Assistant Professor from the little known Arcadia University where he teaches African Affairs, an international law academic at the equally obscure Yonsei University, South Korea and Jose Guevarra who formerly served as head of the Mexican mission on human rights at the United Nations.
Interestingly those who made the decision have little practical legal or political experience, but instead share a commitment to an abstract moral doctrine of legal salvationism that seeks to move issues such as policing, security and penal policy out of the political arena and into the hands of transnational human rights commissars.
Indeed, Assange’s exaggerated claims of torture and abuse reveal what the late Irving Kristol saw as ‘the sea of sentimentality on which the issue of human rights has floated’ and which actually forms an accessory to a form of ideological utopianism.
Efter lite ett längre resonemang drar man följande slutsatser:
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The prevailing orthodoxy in academic international relations and international law has adopted the international fashion for expressing current elite moral opinion in the abstract language of human rights.
But the essence of freedom in a liberal democracy is to have only one right, the right to do anything as long as it does not conflict with the rule of law exercised by a de jure authority and made by a sovereign parliament.
The rule of human rights violates this understanding and instead deploys abstract rights as battering rams against the autonomy of democratically accountable institutions. The WGAD ruling that finds Assange above the law of the land demonstrates just how far the despotism of transnational human rights, accountable only to a transnational elite, has gone.
UN WGAD har en viktig roll för mänskliga rättigheter men både deras arbetssätt och bemanning behöver ifrågasättas när resultatet blev så märkligt i fallet JA. Jag hoppas att detta ändå leder till något gott framledes och att man är modiga nog för att ta den diskussionen och åstadkomma de nödvändiga förändringarna.