Comments on: Becoming a police state

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 12:33:05 +0000

It difficult to know how to react to this news -clearly we need to balance the right of people to go about their daily business, against helping the police do their important work. I believe that the right to silence is an important element of life -this effectively impeaches you for failing to answer questions when asked. I wonder what the benefit of this is. Why would the police want to question someone who they don’t suspect of committing a crime? From where I’m sitting, the whole affair reaks of New Labour and their infatuation with cumbersome, extensive and wasteful legislation.

This type of legislation seems to be the executive, legislature and judiciary trying to push us, under the premise of “protecting freedom”, into some type of mini-dicatorship. Or maybe I’m being slightly melodramatic.

By: Mort Karman

Mort Karman — Mon, 28 May 2007 00:03:22 +0000

All the infamous dictators used and still use alleged threats to national security to justify oppression and loss of freedom by citizens. By the time time they get through telling it it is the duty of every good fellow countryman to not only put up with this loss of rights, but to approve of it. We can not have rights without responsibilities and people have to be responsible. But this kind of thing was supposedly stopped back in the days of King John.

By: sjhoward

sjhoward — Sun, 27 May 2007 20:49:49 +0000

Do we?

By: leon

leon — Sun, 27 May 2007 18:08:33 +0000

I just don’t know where this madness will end…

I think we both know where this will end…