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chickenfeetPrime Minister Tony Blair has called for new laws to tackle extremism
Why is it that politicians think the answer to everything is more legislation? To the best of my knowledge blowing things up is illegal, conspiring to blow things up is illegal, inciting others to blow things up is illegal and possessing the means to blow things up is illegal.
Surely it's just a time wasting exercise designed to hide the fact that the government is neither able nor willing to tackle the root causes of the problem.
Why is it that politicians think the answer to everything is more legislation? To the best of my knowledge blowing things up is illegal, conspiring to blow things up is illegal, inciting others to blow things up is illegal and possessing the means to blow things up is illegal.
Surely it's just a time wasting exercise designed to hide the fact that the government is neither able nor willing to tackle the root causes of the problem.
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Date: 2005-07-13 01:36 pm (UTC)There was a rather nice comment in the Economist, which I will get wrong, about the upcoming US political battle over the appointment of the next Supreme Court justice: although the 'literal interpretation of the constitution' wing of the SC claims that liberals have usurped powers not enshrined in the constitution, what are the chances that they will actually give any of their power up?
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Date: 2005-07-13 05:28 pm (UTC)