Detention without trial
@Citizen_Stuart (2016)
June 11, 2008 2:46pm CST
The UK Parliament has just voted to give the police the power to detain suspected terrorists for up to 42 days without charge. One MP who voted against this bill has described it as "the day Magna Carta died".
What do you think, is it justified to lock people up without trial for some supposed "public good" or are the present government traitors who should themselves be jailed?
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@GreenMoo (11833)
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12 Jun 08
Hmmm ... so you need to lock someone up for 42 days without charge. Without charge implies that you can't prove they've done anything wrong, otherwise you'd charge them.
How is it that so many people can't see anything wrong with this?
What's wrong with people? Can't you see that this is just a good excuse to lock up anyone who's a bit foreign looking?
My partner tried to get into a pub with bouncers earlier this year in the UK. The Portuguese friend he was with was refused admission. He's got Arabic looks and the comment was that you 'can't be too careful'. The mind boggles. WTF is the world coming to?
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@Citizen_Stuart (2016)
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13 Jun 08
Hell's bells, really? That's just total paranoia. You've probably got more chance of being killed by lightning than terrorists - especially the incompetent losers who comprise the current generation of so-called "terrorists".
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@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
11 Jun 08
Well about time, what to you all so long. We do that all the time. As long as he might be a terrorist he need to be locked up to protect us. About time the Magna Carta joined the Constitution in the trash bin. Our liberties just do not matter when it comes to our security. Sure great men of the past have told us that when people give up a littl liberty for a little security they have none, but why should we listen to logic like that. Of course with all of the government protection going on, what is protecting us from the government?
@Citizen_Stuart (2016)
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13 Jun 08
Thanks for replying. One interesting new element to the story - the Shadow Home Secretary (David Davis) resigned as an MP yesterday in protest at the House of Commons vote. He's going to run for re-election in the resulting by-election on an anti-police state platform.
