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Showing posts with label Erosion of civil liberties. Show all posts
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Monday, April 02, 2007
Erosion of civil liberties
The Fink has this. I am interested in this opening sentence. "Did you know that it will soon be possible for someone to be imprisoned in this country for something that is not a crime here?". Hello, anybody out there in Daily Telegraph land? We already have several thousand people locked up in our prisons who have not committed a crime. They are in prison because they are deemed to be dangerous under the Criminal Justice Act 2003. The times I have come across people in prison who have been labelled with the dangerous tag, and they are nothing of the sort. What is frightening about this legislation is that, for example, Tony Blair could decide that anybody who chooses to replace him is dangerous and he employs a couple of tame psychiatrists to agree with him and that's your lot you are in prison with an indefinite life sentence. Whilst the Daily Telegraph is right to raise awareness about this other threat to civil liberties, I really do think that they should be paying more attention to what is actually happening here and now and not so much about what could happen in the future.
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