It's a scary place

[dr_mickey_k]

The British government just repealed the Magna Carta, or at least the Habeas Corpus bits passing legislation that allows for people to be held without charge for 42 days. Given all the trouble they had to goto to get the principle accepted in 1215 it all happened with surprising ease as not enough Labor backbenchers had the moral fibre to cross the

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[krjalk]

The word "rights" just doesn't mean what it used to. It's making for strange bedfellow, too, on both the left and right.

[krjalk]

Heh. Just read a somewhat apropos quote by none other than Mussolini:The truth is evident to all who are unblinded by dogmatism that men nowadays are tired of liberty...If any Government is deprived of force...it will be at the mercy of the first group organized and determined to overthrow it...Liberty is no longer a chaste, severe maiden for whom generations in the first half of the last century fought and died. For the intrepid, restless youths...order, hierarchy and discipline. Fascismo is not afraid to declare itself illiberal or antiliberal. It has already passed, and if necessary will pass again, without the slightest hesitation, over the more or less decomposed body of the goddess of liberty.