Same as it ever was...

[mrph]

Two stories from the BBC website:

Labour decides that ID cards aren't actually a good idea... expensive, ineffective and likely to infringe civil liberties. "It goes almost without saying that we must guard against the danger of being driven to more and more extreme measures involving unwarranted infringement of personal liberty"

Investigation into alleged torture of terrorist suspects held without trial. Report says they were subjected to white noise, sleep deprivation etc - UK government reacts angrily to criticism. "They seem to have gone to endless lengths to show that anyone not given 3-star hotel facilities suffered hardship and ill-treatment"

I don't know whether to laugh or weep...

Comments

[zotz]

First as tragedy, then as farce.

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

Those and the spanner law...

....I expect my country will tumble down the same crevasse shortly.

See what happens when opportunitistic closet-Stalinists win, see, see?

[dmh.livejournal.com]

That first story is rather timely... well, so is the second one I guess.

[deliberateblank.livejournal.com]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1382132,00.html

For the time being - possibly forever - the report cannot be published, because the Americans claim that the torture allegations amount to descriptions of classified interrogation methods.