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A good post from Tim Worstall on the elimination of Habeus Corpus
Tim Worstall: Good News, Bad News.

Our Tone, Dear Leader and Prime Minister, actually believes that? That nothing, nothing, must stand in the way of protecting the nation’s security? If he thought for even one moment he would see that is a nonsense. Why are we all debating this in the first place? Because they are reacting to a court judgement. If nothing should stand in the way they would flip two fingers to the judges and keep them in Belmarsh.
What is more worrying than a PM incapable of joined up thinking is what is implicit in the thought expressed, that in a democratic and free society, whether multi-culti, libertarian, socialist, authoritarian or whatever (and not all of those are mutually exclusive) we would ever put any one single goal above all others. The whole thing is a delicate balancing act between different goals. Yes, govts. need tax money but that has to be balanced against the disincentives that raising it create. Yes, we need people with guns to defend us but we make damn sure they don’t take the reins of power. Yes, children need to be protected from those that prey upon them but we do not lock up every child until they are 18 to ensure that. Balance in all things. (Sorry to start sounding slightly Bhuddist here.)

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