Easier to diminish freedoms than to root out terrorist threat
Independent [UK]
by John Kampfmer
08/07/05
Britain is awash with CCTV cameras -- four million at the last count. Shoot-to-kill seems to have become accepted practice for the police, without any public debate. In our present, vulnerable condition, we are submitting ourselves to the state, in the vain hope of protection. We find ourselves in our current predicament through complacency at home during the 1990s and an excess of zeal abroad over the past few years. Measures are needed, and each must be assessed on its merits. But we should remember that it will be easier for the state to diminish our freedoms than it will be to root out the terrorist threat...
http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article304231.ece
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by John Kampfmer
08/07/05
Britain is awash with CCTV cameras -- four million at the last count. Shoot-to-kill seems to have become accepted practice for the police, without any public debate. In our present, vulnerable condition, we are submitting ourselves to the state, in the vain hope of protection. We find ourselves in our current predicament through complacency at home during the 1990s and an excess of zeal abroad over the past few years. Measures are needed, and each must be assessed on its merits. But we should remember that it will be easier for the state to diminish our freedoms than it will be to root out the terrorist threat...
http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article304231.ece
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 8. Aug, 14:41
