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When Just before Christmas the law lords drove a coach and horses through the governments Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001I I said….

The point to remember is that our whole system is under threat with the government’s stealth introduction of Corpus Juris. We should also remember that the law lords did not say this particular infringement on the rights of the accused, is itself against the ECHR, only that it was unfair because it only applied to foreigners and not British Citizens. So Ian MacDonald QC and 8 out of 9 Law lords do not seem to be interested in the basic destruction of British rights, they just want them to be evenly distributed to all of us.

It now seems that the government have answered the problem by offering to make the rule fair so that they will now apply to British Nationals as well as foreigners.

In response to a law lords ruling that the detention without trial of 12 foreign nationals was disproportionate and discriminatory, Mr Clarke said the system of control orders intended to replace those powers could now apply to both British citizens and foreign nationals.
Guardian

So we now have a situation where 1000 years of protection against a tyrannical overlord has been undermined by an international treaty which is forcing the Government we elect to remove the basic rights we British people have, not to be arrested and held without the due process of law.

At the same time Mr Clarke is going to allow foreigners who he obviously believes are a danger to this country free under some restrictions, this of course will prevent a further challenge in the courts, so the terrorist suspects have gained their freedom and we the British people have lost ours.

I wonder now if the agitators who took the government to court for 9 terrorist suspects, will be the good upstanding champions for rights and justice they must be, and take the government to court to challenge their right to hold British people without trial. Somehow I have a feeling that is not going to happen.

One further point which has always made me wonder, how is it that a terrorist suspect who arrives as a supposed refugee, fleeing for their lives can escape their own country cross a continent of other safe havens and fetch up in Britain, where once arrested and held, they can then afford the vast amounts of money it cost to bring such an action in the first place, and then to take it all the way to the house of lords.