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Comments on: Spot the difference http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/05/spot-the-difference/ Trying to make a point Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:21:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jolly Green Giant http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/05/spot-the-difference/#comment-11834 Mon, 15 May 2006 21:34:54 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/05/15/spot-the-difference/#comment-11834 *speechless*

]]> By: Merrick http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/05/spot-the-difference/#comment-11823 Mon, 15 May 2006 19:23:44 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/05/15/spot-the-difference/#comment-11823 Oh come now, who needs rights and civil liberties any more anyway?

Surely the tranfer of extensive powers to the executive of government is nothing to really worry about. I mean, there’s terrorism going on. How can you oppose these powers? Do you want someone to fly a plane into your house or something?

These are extreme times and so the government must have extreme powers. Surely we can trust them to wield them sensibly.

As Blair said, “The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures…The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such a law is in itself a limited one.”

Oh, hang on, sorry. That was Hitler’s speech to the Reichstag in advance of the vote on the Enabling Act.

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