Not really seeing how the Queen is directly responsible for this
Though I now have a wonderful image of Brenda working at Glasgow airport customs...
Please provide credible evidence of that claim in your next post or desist.
The Queen is head of state of the UK. The government is called "HMG - Her Majesty's Government". Loads of other things the UK state has and does are prefixed with "HM". HM Prisons for example
and yes, I do know all about those though for my political beliefs "crimes" I was not put in prison for as long as Nelson Mandela so I am quite modest about my sacrifice - no need to hold mass pop-concerts in my honour in London or anything).
In this case HMG backed up by HM customs and border control or whatever they call themselves these days, is insisting on - as is mentioned elsewhere in this topic - open doors at the borders, free movement for all EU citizens, including convicted killers.
It seems to be that this policy operates in Scotland (operated again by the UK state in Scotland) in that ALREADY CONVICTED KILLERS are allowed to remain as was ALREADY CONVICTED KILLER Vitas Plytnykas allowed to remain in Scotland.
Without that policy, so implemented, by the state, head of state Queen Elizabeth, Vitas Plytnykas would not have been allowed into the country.
The laws and
the order of the Queen to uphold the laws as they are, passed into law by her order by her royal consent provided
Vitas Plytnykas the opportunity to kill again, here in Scotland. The Queen ordered the opportunity to be here to convicted killers; previously convicted killers are afforded the same opportunity as everyone else by the Queen's order. Vitas Plytnykas availed himself of the opportunity to kill here afforded to him
by order of the Queen.
If you or I had tried to save this woman's life (or the life or any person in Scotland at risk from this foreign convicted killer) at any time by trying to deport this man ourselves we would have been in violation of the order of the Queen whose laws and officers he was here with the full consent of. The ones trying to protect people would be the ones who would have fallen foul of the Queen's orders.
Compared to all the other assisting factors the convicted killer had use of in committing this murder in Scotland, the decisive factor was order of the Queen to allow such as him in the country.
Other assisting factors which were not so decisive as the Queen's order
- Aleksandras Skirda, the co-convicted murderer. If Plytnykas had not his impressionable countryman Aleksandras Skirda, the flatmate of Jolante Bledaite to hand, he could have found another impressionable countryman and murdered his flatmate to take the money.
- The implements which with he used to kill the woman, cut up her body, the transport of the body from Brechin to Arbroath for dumping - all those means and mechanisms had alternatives.
The one thing which could have prevented Plytnykas murdering ANYONE in Scotland would have been if there had been no order from the Queen to allow free movement for all EU citizens including convicted killers.
One could imagine an alternative policy of the state which would have prevented Plytnykas murdering ANYONE in Scotland.
If the alternative policy had been for example, freedom of movement to all EU citizens EXCEPT to people who were convicted killers and/or are proven to be not good citizens who would not be allowed freedom of movement in Scotland or Britain even though they are from another EU country, Plytnykas would have been barred from Scotland and he could not have murdered anyone here.
In order to implement this alternative crime-prevention policy, Scottish and British border and internal police would need to access EU countries' criminal record databases in order to determine who was and who was not, a convicted killer.
So we have freedom of movement within the EU... The problem is far too lenient sentencing. He was convicted of killing someone in a fight over money in 2001 and he's out now, why isn't he doing 25 years + in prison?
I'd agree with rough guidelines for EU wide sentencing for serious crimes. Though I don't really have any greater problem with having a convicted German murderer living here than our very own homegrown good old British murderers. If they kill me, their nationality isn't of much interest! If not then it's not really a problem.
Well there we disagree. I do not consider that it is up to other countries to defend the people of this country. That is the job of the head of state here.
Therefore whatever sentence Germany gives its Lithunian killers, I still say policy should be to ban them from Scotland (and from Britain too).
It is grotesquely irresponsible to trust that when Germany or France or whoever in the EU says "the killer X can be released from prison now" - we should simply take that on trust and allow them in.
So what SHOULD the Queen do? I am a republican so I say the Queen and her royal family should step down, go into exile and allow us on this island to set up republics and elect heads of state to suit the nations of this island.
So I take no responsibility for the failures of the UK to defend us from foreign killers in our own homes.
It is my responsibility to point out those failures of the state and the head of state to protect us and why we therefore should end the UK.