Mistakes will be made
Lessons will be learned | 12.10.2005 21:59 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | London
Only a government preparing to impose a dictatorship would require the Terror Laws enacted in the United Kingdom. Tony Blair said police need to act on intelligence, without evidence, to protect the law-abiding public from terrorism, criminals and anti-social individuals, but who is going to protect us from police with unprecedented powers?
The game has changed, says Blair, and so must the law, but civil rights were introduced in medieval Britain to ensure a fairer system and these laws have maintained justice and security in this country for eight hundred years. What Blair is proposing is a return to the Dark Ages, when men were caged in dungeons based on rumour, suspicion or lies.
Blair is wedded to the notion that suspects are guilty until proven innocent because senior police presented a compelling case. The same police who claimed to be acting on intelligence, when they shot an innocent man on July 21st, whom they insisted had been involved in the failed tube attacks. They were dead wrong, but its too late for Menenez.
The game has changed, says Blair, and so must the law, but civil rights were introduced in medieval Britain to ensure a fairer system and these laws have maintained justice and security in this country for eight hundred years. What Blair is proposing is a return to the Dark Ages, when men were caged in dungeons based on rumour, suspicion or lies.
Blair is wedded to the notion that suspects are guilty until proven innocent because senior police presented a compelling case. The same police who claimed to be acting on intelligence, when they shot an innocent man on July 21st, whom they insisted had been involved in the failed tube attacks. They were dead wrong, but its too late for Menenez.
Lessons will be learned
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