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Feb. 4th, 2004 09:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ramtopsoh, this is good - Alice Miles' column in the Times today.
extract:
Hurrah for David Blunkett. He and he alone has appreciated the farthest-reaching implications of the highly successful Hutton report. The system which so smoothly convicted the entire BBC is to be applied to every criminal in the country. Did I say criminal? I meant, suspected criminal. Anyone who might one day be a criminal.Probably.
The Home Secretary wants to try suspected terrorists — that is, people who might, on the balance of probabilities, commit terrorist acts in future — in secret, prosecuted and defended by government-appointed lawyers presided over by a government-appointed judge, using evidence the defendants themselves would not be allowed to see.
Marvellous stuff. A Blunkett ban on justice.
go read the rest
extract:
Hurrah for David Blunkett. He and he alone has appreciated the farthest-reaching implications of the highly successful Hutton report. The system which so smoothly convicted the entire BBC is to be applied to every criminal in the country. Did I say criminal? I meant, suspected criminal. Anyone who might one day be a criminal.Probably.
The Home Secretary wants to try suspected terrorists — that is, people who might, on the balance of probabilities, commit terrorist acts in future — in secret, prosecuted and defended by government-appointed lawyers presided over by a government-appointed judge, using evidence the defendants themselves would not be allowed to see.
Marvellous stuff. A Blunkett ban on justice.
go read the rest
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Date: 2004-02-04 03:24 am (UTC)However, the personal reason I dislike Blair is due to the supreme cockups which largely dont affect me - such as the war and foot and mouth disease.