RIP Civil Rights
RIP habeas corpus. RIP the presumption of innocence.
You might however consider whether you should not unfold as a background the great privilege of habeas corpus and trial by jury, which are the supreme protection invented by the English people for ordinary individuals against the state. The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to law, and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist…
Winston Churchill
After 800 years of the right to a fair trial in this country, Blair and his spineless MPs have just removed some of our most fundamental civil rights. I thought we were meant to be fighting this “War on Terror” to preserve and spread democracy, freedom and justice?
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