[The_Victor]

It has ruled, for example, that British law permitting the spanking of children somehow violates the European Convention on Human Rights' prohibition against "torture" and "degrading treatment." Obviously the Convention -- drafted in the aftermath of World War II -- was intended to limit the systematic abuses of governments, not the disciplinary discretion of parents. But the tendency of judges over time is to amass whatever power they can get away with, a danger all the more pronounced in any legal system not directly accountable to national governments....

And we thought we had a problem with activist judges....

[26lemoncharlie]

Undermining the US Constitution. I certainly hope and pray that the TWITS in Washington are thinking of joining this rediculous organization. If the go against the American Peoples wishes, and join this Kngaroo Court, the US Revolution was for not!!

We, Americans, who believe in the US Constitution , will have to demand that they do not enter into any agreement with any foreign government or representative body that would jepordize the rights guranteed by the US Constitution.

If they do, then it is Civil War! Or the Second American Revolution, AMII. Time to get the muskets cleaned and ready I Guess.

[Canard]

"It has ruled, for example, that British law permitting the spanking of children somehow violates the European Convention on Human Rights' prohibition against "torture" and "degrading treatment."

I'm not exactly sure what that means, this has been recently legislated by the UK Parliament and I'm not aware that that legislation had been challenged, so I'm not sure what 'activist judges' have to do with it either.

There was a case several years ago that the European Court ruled on, but that was with regard to a specific case (which involved a boy being hit with a cane, rather than 'smacked').