Over 50 people died in the explosions in London last week. I don’t think it’s right to surrender freedoms to fight terrorism when that many people die every week in road accidents. I should have to surrender my car before I surrender my privacy and my freedom.
This terrorist act is being used, as 9/11 was, to push through privacy-busting legislation that the government has been gagging to implement. The mouth of the home secratery must have been watering in anticipation.
Within hours, both Tony Blair and George W. Bush were using news of these attacks as vindication for their own illegal and considerably more brutal attacks on Iraq. Knowing the opposite to be true, as the Joint Intelligence Committee did before the war even began, this is sickening.
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