I see that the peace and liberty loving government in the UK is continuing on their merry way to remove what few civil liberties the populace has left. Not content with the joke that is ID cards, they now want to remove the right to trial by jury. Well, that’s not what they’re calling it, just merely trying to pass a law which allows the Home Secretary to detain people without trial, much like the nice Americans are doing in Cuba. It’s got to be a bad idea if both the pinko-commie Spy Blog and the not-quite-as-right-wing-as-Genghis-Khan Boris Johnson are both against it.
In essence, the argument is that if you have enough evidence to detain someone then put them in front of a judge. Quite bloody right too. It almost makes me nostalgic for the good old days of David Blunkett. Well, alright, that will never happen. So who is left to oppose yet another bonkers law justified by the "war"? Not the official opposition that’s for sure. I’ll give you even money that the Tories vote for this bill in parliament, the weasels.
How about internment without trial for Daily Mail readers? I’d be all for that.
I’ll second that motion. In light of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz I was forced to wonder how many members of the management of that establishment would have been Daily Mail readers if they were around today….Not too difficult to guess really
The small problem with that policy is that they would end up incarcerating most of my family (and SWMBO’s as well).
Perhaps just a stern warning and obligatory tests on the works of Karl Marx? Maybe not. It baffles me that people will vote for the idiots proposing these kinds of laws, and that the official opposition don’t bloody oppose them.
Oooh, I could crush a grape.