Now, however, the government’s anti-terrorism adviser, Lord Carlile of Berriew, QC, has
Wednesday, 4th February 2009
Rights and wrongs out of control
1:07pm
After the British courts ruled on ‘human rights’ grounds that foreign terrorist suspects could neither be thrown out of the country nor locked up pending their potentially being thrown out of the country – measures which were said to represent ‘a defeat for our own values’ -- the government in desperation settled upon the idea of ‘control orders’, under which such suspects would be detained in their own homes under varying degrees of restriction. These orders were in turn challenged and watered down under pressure from the ‘human rights’ lobby. In response to the anxiety that control orders were not adequate to maintain public security against terror suspects, the government insisted that they constituted a robust protection and that there was no cause for alarm.
Thursday, 5 February 2009
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