Something Precious Is Threatened As Our Freedom Becomes a Prey to Fears
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"I'll have to reject the idea that we are somehow moving towards general surveillance, some kind of Big Brother society. The human right to travel on the Underground on a Thursday morning without being blown up is an important human right to sit alongside all the human rights with which we have to deal."
Charles Clarke, home secretary, July 2005.See the full content of this document
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Something Precious Is Threatened As Our Freedom Becomes a Prey to Fears
SEISMIC events provoke equally seismic shifts in the public mood. In this respect, it is worth noting how, as LP Hartley put it so poignantly in The Go-Between: "The past is another country. They do things differently there."Of course, Charles Clarke is right.
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