Rascal said:
Sadly most people appear to share your views. The right wing press have done there job well
But do you not realise for one moment that the judgements made do not only affect him, they affect YOU
I don't buy that it's to do with fear. At least not fear of terrorism anyway. Even if it was, I wouldn't care. You can justify ANY theft of civil liberties on the basis of preventing future crime. Put CCTV in every room of every home, there'd be far less child abuse cases, domestic abuse and rape. Infanticide would plummet. Any crime that relies on secrecy to thrive would take a severe knock. Yeah, it'd be a police state and we'd have no right to privacy, but clearly there are reasons to do it. Would people allow it? Actually, I don't know you know, I'm rarely ever shocked at the lack of reverence for basic civil rights anymore, but what I do know, is that whenever there's a freedom of speech case on here, I'm usually on my own with perhaps two or three allies. What's the rationale then? You're afraid speech is going to kill you? Nope, bullshit, you don't care because you care about civil liberties. It's nothing to with loss of life, and everything to do with widespread apathy and illiberal ideals embraced by a scarily large segment of the population.