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WHAT ARE LIBERTY UP TO?

watcher | 05.02.2005 17:38

The civil rights organisation 'Liberty' are backing the use of phone-tapping as criminal evidence, in exchange for the Home Secretary withdrawing Burmese-style plans for house-arrest. There have been no voices of dissent.



For Liberty to support a proposal like this surely means that they've been suckered. Allowing phone-tapping as evidence will only give the authorities the power to extend it. The point is not that the resulting evidence will allow us to jail more criminals or terrorists - even the most minor of criminals knows how to speak in code. The point is that we have a Home Secretary who's prepared to enforce totalitarian rules. He may withdraw one of his more extreme proposals temporarily, so that the people can voluntarily give up part of our protection against such regimes, but how long before he brings it back again?

watcher

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  1. tapping — - -
  2. why? — Krop
  3. Tapping — End all
  4. sunday papers — - -
  5. and another thing — - -
  6. reactionaries — - -
  7. Jack the RIPA — sid
  8. Liberty don't give a damn — Yule
  9. Zero evidence produced — dh