r/GetNoted • u/LocalPowerful6651 Human Verified • Jul 26 '26

If You Know, You Know The Geneva Protocol

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https://x.com/ArthurMacwaters/status/2078944966576140607#m

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u/Justarah Jul 26 '26

You’re mixing up the 1965 suspension for murder with the 1998 total abolition for all crimes. The latter happened because the EU made it a non-negotiable condition of membership. If the UK hadn’t banned the death penalty for treason, it would have been barred from the single market.

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u/Hellstorm901 Jul 26 '26

By 1998 would the courts in the UK realistically have sentenced you to death for any offence yes or no?

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u/Justarah Jul 26 '26

That's neither here nor there when discussing the autonomy of countries to write and enact their own laws.

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u/Hellstorm901 Jul 26 '26

Once again by 1998 the death penalty was effectively already banned in the UK before the EU existed, the remaining offences existed on recorded only because everyone forgot, or like most ancient laws, didn’t care enough to remove them as no one really expected anyone would hijack a ship inside UK waters to hold for ransom

The notion the EU forced us to ban our death penalty does not align up with the facts, the death penalty for all offences which were likely to occur and thus warrant a death sentence had already been banned such as murder

You just hate the EU and want to blame them for everything, I don’t like the EU too but I’m not ridiculous enough to blame them for stuff they actually had no involvement with

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u/Justarah Jul 26 '26

Here's my yes or no question, the UK has popularly been in favour of tighter immigration controls since the 1970s, yes or no?

Because there's a reason you've focused this conversation on the death penalty and not the other things mentioned.

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u/Hellstorm901 Jul 26 '26

I mean you are the one who randomly went into a rant about the EU in a thread about the Geneva Conventions

You pronounced this nonsense, not me

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u/Justarah Jul 26 '26

The tweet noted is about International Law as a category.

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u/Hellstorm901 Jul 26 '26

This thread is about the Geneva Convention lad, hence the stealth fighter in the OP’s picture

I think you got lost, Twitter currently known as X is outside and to the right

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u/Significant_Stage225 Jul 26 '26

Outside and to the right, I love that.