Civil liberties 'made for another age'
says Reid
Guardian [UK]
08/10/06
John Reid yesterday accused the government's anti-terror critics of putting national security at risk by their failure to recognise the serious nature of the threat facing Britain. "They just don't get it," he said. The home secretary yesterday gave the thinktank Demos his strongest hint yet that a new round of anti-terror legislation is on the way this autumn by warning that traditional civil liberty arguments were not so much wrong as just made for another age."Sometimes we may have to modify some of our own freedoms in the short term in order to prevent their misuse and abuse by those who oppose our fundamental values and would destroy all of our freedoms in the modern world," he said... [Editor's note: 'Those who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety end up trading freedom for security'-Franklin-MLS]
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,,1841019,00.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Guardian [UK]
08/10/06
John Reid yesterday accused the government's anti-terror critics of putting national security at risk by their failure to recognise the serious nature of the threat facing Britain. "They just don't get it," he said. The home secretary yesterday gave the thinktank Demos his strongest hint yet that a new round of anti-terror legislation is on the way this autumn by warning that traditional civil liberty arguments were not so much wrong as just made for another age."Sometimes we may have to modify some of our own freedoms in the short term in order to prevent their misuse and abuse by those who oppose our fundamental values and would destroy all of our freedoms in the modern world," he said... [Editor's note: 'Those who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety end up trading freedom for security'-Franklin-MLS]
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,,1841019,00.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 10. Aug, 14:01
