[R-G] (Britain) Anti-terror drive threatens civil liberties, says prosecutor

[Suzanne de Kuyper]

The Financial Times is way behind the curve.  Civil rights in USA and in
Britain are long gone.  Britain is now in the position of spreading this
tragedy world wide through the EU. Blair started doing so out really
strongly.  They have not read Jean-Claude Paye's 2007 book "Global War on
Liberty".  Unless the Eurozone ministers  do something and they are
starting, small but starting, the criminal U S empire will be off and
running, no matter who is U S president, habeous corpus shredded world wide.
 As all know these times are very bad...if civil rights are gone world wide
you will not be able to imagine how much worse it will get.  Remember, the
financial markets work on trust ....one can see what lack of trust has done
these past many years....  If there is world wide trust, terror is a
stranger.
No-one suggests that the world might begin to have trust in the markets if
the U S wars were stopped and the U S took every body home and began
repairing it's bridges, feeding it's starving and homeless, insuring all
it's children, make sure it's dependant have food, roof, care and respect!
 That schools have pencils, books, safe caffeterias and playgrounds.
No-one even wonders why these politicos, news explainers, talking heads I
think they are called, never mention how much the weekly billions spent on
trying to control other cultures and sovereign states live, what they
beleive, could be US funds that could reform the crumbling infrastructure
America inhabits today.  But, I do suggest just this!

Not terribly human so the moniker is accurate for the talking heads.  They
represent a country that destroys many millions of it's own, so, the quality
of the CNN news is entertainment .... even now.   The wars stopped, the
enraged occupied countries emptied of all occupiers for so many horrible
years, All would see the markets react immediately.

Suzanne


On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Sid Shniad <shniad at sfu.ca> wrote:

> Financial Times                      October 21 2008
>
> Anti-terror drive threatens civil liberties, says prosecutor
>
> By Jean Eaglesham, Chief Political Correspondent
>
> A drive towards creating a "security state" to fight terrorism risks
> eroding
> centuries of civil liberties, the country's top prosecutor warned
> yesterday,
> in an apparent challenge to core government policies.
>
> Sir Ken Macdonald used his final speech as director of public prosecutions
> to warn of the potential damage to freedoms from the government's drive to
> harness technology to fight terrorism. "We need to take very great care not
> to fall into a way of life in which freedom's back is broken by the
> relentless pressure of a security state," he told the inaugural Crown
> Prosecution Service lecture.
>
> Sir Ken warned "decisions taken in the next few months and years" about
> state powers were likely to be irreversible. "So we should take very great
> care to imagine the world we are creating before we build it. We might end
> up living with something we can't bear."
>
> The outgoing chief prosecutor defended the use of the existing legal system
> to fight terrorism, saying it had achieved a conviction rate of more than
> 90
> per cent in terrorism cases. "So we have been absolutely right to resist,
> whenever they have been suggested, special courts, vetted judges and all
> the
> other paraphernalia of paranoia."
>
> His stark warning will be perceived as another setback for Jacqui Smith,
> the
> home secretary, who was forced to drop legislation to detain terrorist
> suspects for up to 42 days without charge after the measure was defeated
> heavily in the Lords. Proposals to extend the storage and use of
> communications data, such as e-mails and mobile phone records, for security
> purposes are proving highly contentious. The government also faces
> continued
> opposition to its proposals on identity cards.
>
> Chris Huhne, Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, said Sir Ken was
> "absolutely right to highlight the dangers of a Leviathan state that wants
> to know all and control all about the citizens it should serve and not
> master".
>
> The Home Office said it agreed with Sir Ken that technology and
> communications data were critically important in tackling all forms of
> serious crime, and that "care is needed to agree what safeguards are
> needed,
> in addition to the many we have in place already".
>
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