We live in an era when the rule of law means zero. It used to be: If you don’t like the law, change the law. Now: If you don’t like the law, pretend it doesn’t exist.

UK prosecutors have announced they won’t prosecute doctors or nurses who commit assisted suicide. From the Telegraph story:

Doctors and nurses who help severely disabled or terminally ill people to take their own lives are less likely to face criminal charges after Britain’s most senior prosecutor amended guidelines on assisted suicide. Until now all health care professionals faced a greater chance than others of being prosecuted for helping people to die because of the trust their patients placed in them.
Alison Saunders, the Director of Public Prosecutions, said this special deterrent would now only apply to those directly involved in a person’s care.

Well, isn’t that comforting.

No! Once you announce you won’t enforce the law, the rules you claim will be enforced are rightly seen as total mush.

In the UK you can be jailed for making intemperate comments about certain minority groups. But no worries if you help kill some people.

#shameful

#derelictionofduty