Hawks agree with liberals – Blair's laws are too much

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CIVIL liberties campaigners opposed to Tony Blair’s planned anti-terror laws are discovering some unlikely allies across the Atlantic among the leading lights of the American Right.

A growing number of conservative organisations have raised objections to the Bush Administration’s bid to renew, or make permanent, security provisions introduced in the Patriot Act after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the US.

But even these measures pale into insignificance compared with Mr Blair’s proposals. For instance, the Patriot Act does not make any effort to criminalise the incitement of hatred or deport extremists who might damage a culture of tolerance.

Frank Gaffney Jr, of the Centre for Security Policy, wrote this week in the Washington Times: “Mr Blair has become an exemplar of the old adage that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. Tony Blair’s mugged liberal response to terror attacks in the United Kingdom makes the USA Patriot Act look like the American Civil Liberty Union’s fondest dream.”

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-1733147,00.html

In his desperation Blair has managed to out-hawk even neocon turds like Frank Gaffney. :D

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1. So, are the English going to

go for that or shoot it down?

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2. As the article says, there's growing opposition.

Don't need Neo-con allies, though.

The Skin

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4. As the situation calms

Blair's "solutions" will be shot down I think, and he will be more exposed and vulnerable than he's ever been.

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3. Pot calls kettle

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5. Was Bliar

ever a "liberal"?

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6. A lot of self-deception and special pleading going on here ...

... I have little time for Blair but less for the likes of Gaffney.

The skin

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7. Heh

They have their own agendas and can take a jump as allies on any cause, still think it's quite notable though. Or funny, at least. :)

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8. The article is from the Murdoch owned Times

which I have noticed has started to turn on Blair over recent months. The British government has not even got round to drafting its anti-terror legislation yet so no one knows exactly what is going to be put in front of Parliament. I know the PM is a shit but when the people who built and own the sewer start criticising him all the lights on my console start flashing red. Just remember that in 2003 all 175 Murdoch-owned newspapers published editorials backing the war in Iraq. These people never print a political news story unless it supports their masters agenda. My question is the Dirty Diggers game here ? Maybe now that Bush and Cheney are beating the wart drums for Iran the British political establishment has finally started to get cold feet about the whole neocon project. Rupert certainly won't like that fact.