The Rule of Law: A Victim In The War Against Terrorism?

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It is often argued that extraordinary situations call for extraordinary measures. The rule of law may be fine in ordinary circumstances but when you have someone who may be plotting to kill hundreds or thousands of people, you don’t want to take any risks, even when that means trampling on a few long-established principles. If you are pretty sure you have a terrorist in your prison cell, but you don’t have enough evidence to convict them, it is better to keep them locked up than to release them and find out later that they have hijacked a plane and are going to crash it into your capital city. The problem is that many innocent people are locked up along with the few individuals who are determined to wreak havoc. The acute sense of injustice in the communities from which they came means that more young people will find extremist ideas attractive. In this way the supposedly anti-terror legislation may turn out to be legislation that actually helps the ...

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