Choosing friends
@ 26/07/05 - 16:30:36An aspect of the bombings is making me uncomfortable in a moral sense. It’s this.
You’ll have seen that the police are pushing for extended powers, not least of whichis their wish to extend their rights to detention without trial to three months, when they already have 21 days.
What I find awkward about this is the company I find myself obliged to keep. I’m not keen on the incitement to hatred laws. I don’t like detention without trial. I’m not keen on the removal of right to trial by jury in some cases. I deplore the removal of double indemnity, and of the right to silence. All these have been retrograde steps, in my view.
But what I dislike almost as much is that I find lunatic right-wingers such as Peter Hitchens on the same side as me. I wish they’d go away.
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Well I wish the bombers would go away... and take their lack of moral scruples with them!
 | friendly_freak [Member] 26/07/05 @ 23:43 |
Blaming the bombers...yes, I suppose you have to, drk762. But they have have morals. They aren't the cause of it all though, are they? You can't blame a war on it's soldiers. Why are they so pissed at us in the first place, that's what I wish our media were allowed to ask. I hate living in a "free" country.
27/07/05 @ 13:27
Blame?... no, constructive dialogue..yes. But targetted murder of non-combatants, wherever and whoever they are, is by my standards, unacceptable, whatever religion you subscribe to.
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