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Some Rights May Have To Be 'Eroded' For Safety
Turn-X Alphonse writes "The BBC is reporting on a speech given by the head of MI5 in the UK. Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller claims in the future some civil rights may have to 'erode', in order to keep everyone in the country safe from terrorism." From the article: "MI5 has recently let it be known that it is in favour of making telephone intercept evidence admissible in court. Previously the intelligence and security services had expressed concern such that evidence might reveal operational details. Meanwhile, Home Secretary Charles Clarke has been calling for EU states to keep mobile phone and e-mail records for longer, to help fight terrorism and crime."
And each of the accused will be taken captive via SWAT team, then made to pay for their own information collection, right?
They might declare English food to be a terrorist act, and erode the rights of British pubs to serve crap.
In Hell, sharing a small room with two other people.
Man is a slave because freedom is difficult, whereas slavery is easy.
That's what they've always done for years.
And this Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller? Is she... M?
I'm giving up 50% of my income for what?
Yeah! Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us, anyway?
We've secretly replaced Slashdot with new Folgers Crystals - let's see if it notices.
What can I say... they're plainly stupid to think that 6 billion and growing people on a tiny little planet with finite resources and no central planning would be good for anyone.
That link you posted reads almost exactly like my platform for Model Parliment in high school, except I constructed my platform as a way to conduct a covert social experiment on my classmates and understand why they valued the laws that exist, whereas these bozos are actually serious.
I've never actually met a Libertarian, but I'd really like to. I honestly think it would be fun to just up and punch him (or her) in the mouth and drive him to the ground, with no warning or discussion.
Then when he asks why I did it, I can tell him that I consider one of the essential characteristics that motivates my desire to see laws protecting my fellow man is that we are all in this together and that we have a social responsibility to each other, but that because of his political views he is not a part of my society but merely a self-centered interloper no more deserving of those protections than a rock in my driveway. Then, having gotten that off my chest, I could spit on him and quickly walk away whistling a cheerful tune before the authorities arrived.
Come on, Dogpile on the ShieldWolf... wonder if I'll manage to hit (-5: WMD) with this puppy?
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