House of Lords Stands Up For Liberty

Tue, 10/14/2008 - 4:28pm | posted by United Liberty Staff

MSNBC is reporting that the United Kingdom’s House of Lords rejected, in what opposition leaders called a “crushing defeat”, a government plan to increase the amount of time that the state can hold suspects without charges from 28 to 42 days.The pre-9/11 maximum length to which the government could hold suspects without charge was 2 days. This most recent proposal going down in a 3-to-1 defeat hopefully will send a warning message to Gordon Brown and others that they will not be allowed to reign unchecked.

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From 2 days to 28 to 42 days is quite a jump. The United Kingdom is already one of the most surveilled countries on earth. I can see why Alan Moore was concerned enough about authoritarianism in the UK to write “V for Vendetta.”

“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.” - Thomas Jefferson