Make your land like ours!

[Tarbicus]

To 'protect ourseves', we seem almost eager to erode peronal freedoms, such as being held without trial, or trials with secret indictments, or keeping information from defence lawyers because it's 'national security'. Or letting our allies get away with abduction and torture

Well, here in Blighty the authorities have been trying to change the law to have people detained for 90 days without charge as an anti-terrorism need. They say their hard drives can't be properly unencrypted under the current 14 days of detention, and are absolutely adamant they need more time to retrieve the important data. Sounds fair enough to some in a way, even though the vast majority of detainees have been innocent.

Now read this: www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8410