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| UK: Clarke is forced to retreat on house arrest |
| 2005-02-28 |
| Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, will seek today to salvage the Government's new anti-terrorism laws by increasing the role of judges in issuing control orders detaining terrorist suspects under house arrest. While a YouGov poll for The Telegraph shows that a majority of the public backs the plan to restrict the movement of suspected terrorists who cannot be brought to trial, MPs and peers said the legislation would not get through Parliament without further judicial safeguards. Ministers will be heartened by the survey, which shows that voters largely share Tony Blair's view that protecting the public against an atrocity like those of September 11 or Madrid should take priority over civil liberties. ... |
| Posted by:ed |
| #3 Seems to me that deportation to the home country would be preferable to this bit. That or extra judicial executions. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-02-28 8:19:11 AM |
| #2 They'll save a bunch on home insurance premiums if they're put under house arrest. I say deport 'em. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2005-02-28 8:18:15 AM |
| #1 If Blair had the balls and party support to withdraw the UK from the various one-size-fits-all transnational asylum and human rights treaties he and his predecessors have signed up to, we wouldn't have to worry about the compromise that is expensive and ludicrous house arrest as an alternative to plain old locking up and deportation. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2005-02-28 8:09:56 AM |