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Article: 'Security' - always the excuse of tyrants.(Column)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- March 4, 2005
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Byline: ANDREW ALEXANDER
MAKE no mistake, this Government is launching an almost breathtaking series of assaults on our traditional liberties. It is not just the obvious matter of the counter-terrorism proposals, though we might as well start there. See if you can identify the authors of the following comments: 'If our security is not protected, what is the point of our liberty?' 'Considerations of national security have to come before civil liberties.' 'You the individual are nothing, if the state does not protect you.' The authors are respectively Commons Leader Peter Hain, Tony Blair and Adolf Hitler. Security before liberty has been the excuse of every tyrant ...