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Must we have knee-jerk draconian legislation every time something bad happens?
Home Secretary Theresa May has outlined a raft of measures to deal with extremist groups following the murder of Lee Rigby. These include heavier policing of the Internet and a 'snoopers charter'. More details here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/26/woolwich-...
The thing is, Tony Blair tried something similar after 7/7 but came a cropper on the myriad of legal complications. How does one define extremist? These proposals might go a little way to tackling terrorism, but they could easily be abused by the authorities to nail anyone they don't like. This legislation strikes me as a populist and ill-considered response to headline news and we've had it before. Terrorism as a proportion of crime in the UK is very small, so a blanket law like this is more likely to harm the very people it is designed to protect and, moreover, is a step further towards a police state. I have grave reservations. How do you feel?
Strange reasoning, Chris? Look at the statistics. How many people are killed by terrorists in mainland Britain each year? Passing blanket legislation which could be used to pretty much suppress any organisation that the government disagrees with is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut and sets a dangerous precedent. Moreover, what makes you think that new laws will stop terrorism? We have existing laws in place, but not the money to enforce them.
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- Anonymous8 years ago
Problems are simmering all the time but the liberal establishment keeps the lid on the boiler most of the time by giving in to their every wish. The Establishment engineered the myth of Sir Jim to try and draw attention from the Asian groom trials.
However,now and again something happens too awful to ignore. Last time was 7/7 now its the soldier. They are going into overdrive to play it down,but folk aren't that daft.But it will soon return to normal. I support anything that protects us from the evils of the internet.
- chrisLv 68 years ago
Call that knee-jerking and draconian, we have not done anything anywhere near that description. As usual the government have just reacted with minor legislation, our enemy is not exactly shaking in their slippers. "Terrorism is a small proportion of crime?" - so if a bomber cell is only one or two people - so dont worry folks - what strange reasoning.
