Remember last year when Tony Blair was defeated on plans to increase the time that suspects could be help without trial? He wanted 90 days but a compromise which “only” doubled the time to 28 days won the vote.
Well, it looks like the Home Affairs Committee have decided to re-open that particular can of worms. They are saying that the “28-day limit may well prove inadequate in the future“.
Don’t you sometimes wish that when bad ideas are defeated, they would just stay defeated?
That is why even comprimise of civil liberties are so dangerous. Just remember to boil that frog slowly.
Yeah, I was reminded of the same problem in the case of software patents recently. (We didn’t get them banned last time, we merely got them not accepted.)
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt. —John Philpot Curran