That would be about right ...
'Right to not get blown up' top civil liberty ... Blair, security boss vow tough new legislation to fight terrorists
Matthew Fisher in London and David Rennie in Brussels, CanWest News Service and The Daily Telegraph
British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday promised the government would consider new anti-terrorism laws this fall to make it tougher for those intent on spreading hate to enter Britain and easier to deport such people.
Ironically, parliament cannot consider tougher measures before October because when it adjourns next week, workers will need at least three months to install new anti-terrorist security barriers in Westminster.
[…] Charles Clarke, Britain's Home Secretary, urged European politicians to put the fight against terrorism above concerns for civil liberties, declaring the right not to be blown up was the greatest human right of all.
[…] Mr. Clarke was also backed by the European Commission's justice chief, Franco Frattini, who said the time had come to "blame and shame" nations that had promised, but failed, to implement EU anti-terrorism measures.
Mr. Clarke was in a combative mood before addressing the European Parliament's civil liberties committee. He said MPs needed to accept that it was "a fundamental civil liberty of people in Europe to be able to go to work on their transport system in the morning without being blown up."
But MPs complained he was demanding their "blind obedience." Members of the committee told him that Britain's involvement in Iraq was a cause of last week's bombings …
posted by Diana at 5:41 AM
5 Comments:
9/11 made Dennis Miller's politics do a 180. He was the first one I heard mention the phrase "the right not to get blown up..."
I file that under a fundamental right.
Miller & Hitchens are two of the most articulate and visible.
What's stunning is the pace of the left since 9/11, to try to blame BushCo for ... well, everything. Their viciousness is boundless.
It would be neat to amend your constitution (and mine) to include the phrase "inalienable right not to get blown up".
What are the odds on a few holdouts?
I'm still feverishly searching the Constitution to find my "inalienable right to get blown." Please forward chapter and subparagraph. . .
It's already there, you nut!
Maybe in code ... but the Constitution is supposed to promote the general Welfare, which, were I Supreme, and the circumstances warrant, I would certainly rule in your favour!
... or maybe put out a warrant.
Hey .. go for it, babe!
Nothing like getting hit at home.
One wonders why the right "not to get blown up" didn't become pre-eminent in the EU after 9/11.
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