Terrorism - The Intelligent Response
Posted July 12th, 2008 by quarsan
Our friend Rachel North is one of Britain's most thoughtful and insightful commentators on terrorism and civil liberties and she's written another excellent article on the subject, this time a speech she delivered during David Davis' successful election campaign.
I expect terrorists to attack our way of life and to try to use fear to divide us and change our behaviour. I do not expect our government to do the same, nor us to collude in giving up our ancient liberties and thus to do the terrorists' work for them.
They say if you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything, and I am glad to stand shoulder to shoulder with people from all across the political spectrum, knowing that freedom is something worth standing for, worth fighting for, worth dying for.
Thank you very much
Thank you very much Blairwatch. Hope you are all having a nice weekend. How are you all doing?
Why on earth did rachel not
Why on earth did rachel not reiteratethe more draconian proposals within the counter-terrorism bill?
The possibility that any of the July 7th victims' inquests (none of which have been concluded) may not be independent of government interference (as is required by Article 2 of the ECHR) would be an appalling predicament & the victims' families/survivors should be making mucho fuss over this rushed change to the CT bill.
I thought that Rachel should have championed this assault on independent inquests into contentious deaths where state agents are involved. This is the last chance to get anything close to an inquiry into the circumstances of that terrible day.
Instead there was only (more) mention of 1 of the 3 order amendments to the CT Bill - '42 days pre-charge detention' instead of the other 2 (more affecting us all) 'secret inquests' & 'special coroners' proposed measures.
The UK already has the longest official pre-charge detention period - Australia=12 days, USA, New Zealand, South Africa & Germany=2 days, Canada=24 hours.
Postman Patel has produced a
Postman Patel has produced a damming commentary on the Davis (& Chakrabarti) <a href="http://postmanpatel.blogspot.com/2008/07/david-davis-another-blody-silly.html">debacle</a> (see also <a href="http://postmanpatel.blogspot.com/2008/07/queen-ready-to-give-assent-to-criminal.html">here</a>).
All this Davis debacle was going on whilst the Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Bill was quietly getting ushered through at breakneck <a href="http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2007-08/criminalevidencewitnessanonymity.html">speed</a>
Not a peep from the blogistes as the Postman says......
Any comment Blairwatch?
who the fuck is Rachel
who the fuck is Rachel North????
anon, try this website for
anon, try this website for further info...