Tuesday 21st December 2004
Thought for the day
Tiny snowflakes combine to make an avalanche. Here’s my contribution.
I’m sure you’ve read it all before, but this is about the indefinite detention of foreign terrorist suspects I metioned last time.
“The real threat to the life of the nation, in the sense of a people living in accordance with its traditional laws and political values, comes not from terrorism but from laws such as these. That is the true measure of what terrorism may achieve.”
Lord Hoffman’s opinion in A(FC) and others (FC) (Appellants) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent)