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Saturday, June 30, 2007

Law and order and security or insecurity disorder and lawlessness?

Law and order is what governments strive to achieve. Sometimes they fail miserably. Like the Labour government, they are so disorganised that they break the law. That is why the Joint Committee on Human Rights scrutinises the government and Parliament and publishes its Report. Finding failings in the government’s responses to court judgments finding breaches of human rights. As the 16th Report concludes, in the prisoners votes case, condemning the government’s delay “While the issues involved give rise to political controversy, they are not legally complex”. Therefore, the government really has got no excuse for dilly, dallying about. The government chose to respond to Red Top headlines and editorials rather than the electorate or what was right. Murdoch has no vote he does not count.

The electorate wants security, not deprivations of liberty allegedly based upon some rather vague hyped up so-called terrorist threat. Law and order is not always the same thing as security. If the government breaks the law in order to get security, we have none of them which creates insecurity disorder and lawlessness.

1 comment:

Henry North London 2.0 said...

Read a little of Rense.com

Back in 2002 I was hot on the fact that Bush and America were all trying to oppress us and bring in new laws so that the western world would be so Police state that we couldnt breathe without having to show our papers especially if we were brown

Seems like it is coming to pass.