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July 30, 2005
'Our Rights Are The Wrong Target'
Kevin MacGuire, a columnist with Mirror.Co.Uk, said British Prime Minister Tony Blair "admitted he still felt the odd "liberal twitch" when preparing to curtail historic rights and give the boys in blue new powers to detain and monitor any of us."
"It's at crunch points like this that we need a full public debate to avoid the government acting in haste and repenting to our discomfort," Mr. MacGuire said in a July 27, 2005 column, adding: "Recent history is littered with warnings of how measures rushed through to clamp down on terrorism can backfire."
He said, "From Kenya in the 50s to Northern Ireland in the 70s, Premiers acting tough with the best of intentions fanned - rather than doused - the flames."
See "Our Rights Are The Wrong Target" for more of Mr. MaGuire's commentary.
Posted by Munir Umrani at July 30, 2005 10:31 AM
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