Denying Prisoners The Right To Vote Breaches Their Human Rights

Is Brexit partly about rejecting the European Court of Human Rights that the British established so as to continue denying prisoners a right to vote?

The European Court of Human Rights has nothing to do with Brexit. The court is in the Hague and European Court of Justice is the court that deals with EU matters. The current inflow of refugees are nothing to do with the EU except inasmuch as they should claim Asylum in the first safe country they reach. That is usually an EU country but there are so many people on the move that it's impossible to control the situation.Europe, Middle East and Africa have almost a million on the move but there’s movement in USA, Mexico and South America. The situation needs urgent attention because it can have a destabilizing effect not to mention the hardship suffered by displaced persons. The Home Secretary gave a hint of government thinking on the matter when he distinguished between economic immigrants and refugees. The problem is that they all are in danger and the situation requires a different approach.It may be that the UN should be given more help to control countries that are destroying lives and countries. But that's not going to happen because the perpetrators are looking after themselves.

If Brexit means I am to be stripped of the legal rights that EU Citizenship gives me, can I appeal to the European Court of Human Rights?

The EU says on its citizenship page like this:“Any person who holds the nationality of an EU country is automatically also an EU citizen. EU citizenship is additional to and does not replace national citizenship. It is for each EU country to lay down the conditions for the acquisition and loss of nationality of that country.Citizenship of the Union is conferred directly on every EU citizen by the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU.”EU citizenship - European CommissionI understand this so, that the EU citizenship is an addition the the citizenship of a member country, not an independent right. If your country stops being a member, the citizens will loose their EU citizenship.I find it logical: the EU doesn’t have other citizens but those who are citizens in the member countries. It would be impossible that the EU would start to have the citizens of its own.

How can a government deny individual rights?

Easy, through use of the police powers of the state. In other words, force. "Political power comes from the barrel of a gun,” wrote Mao Zedong. It happens all the time, particularly in despotic regimes where there is little or no pretense of due process of law. Ok, that's a smart-ass answer. Here’s a more thoughtful one:An official ecognition of individual rights began in 1210, with the Magna Carta. Since then, the civilized world has struggled mightily with how to implement said rights. In the view of the Founding Fathers of the US, rights are natural, not bestowed by government. The Declaration of Independence states this. It is the job of government to protect those rights through legislation and a justice system based on the rule of law, not of people. It boils down to politics, a massive struggle between the competing interests of individuals, groups, religions, political partiess, whole nations. To this day, a majority of humanity lives "under the arbitrary control and abuse of others,” says conservative author Thomas Sowell. Well, wasn’t the United Nations created to promote and protect human rights?  Among other things like promoting peace, yes. Trouble is, a majority of its member nations reserve the right to abuse their own citizens, and vote according to their own interests. Today there are groups which are not part of a particular government or nation state, which seek to deny people their rights in the name of a religion. We all know who they are. The UN is chartered to handle this as well, but does not seem to be up for, let alone up to, the task.The human rights struggle continues...

Can a cop get prison time for violating one's constitutional rights? Have you ever seen a cop go to jail for violating one's rights?

Of course, it’s happened many times. A famous example was the federal convictions of Sgt. Stacey Koon and Officer Laurence Powell for violating the civil rights of Rodney King. They served 30 months in prison.More recently:Chicago Police Officer Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Committing Federal Civil Rights ViolationsFormer Joplin Police Officer Sentenced for Civil Rights ViolationWalter Scott shooting: SC ex-cop pleads guilty to civil rights violationhttps://archives.fbi.gov/archive...