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This is pretty topical here at the moment - our government are trying to force through a series of highly undemocratic measures intended to help fight terrorism. To my mind, these are unnecessary. I don't believe that "Al Quada" and their assorted member groups (which are more of a fragmented assembly than a single monolithic unit) present as much of a threat as we've been led to believe. This is based on having read assorted works and debated the question in seminars over the past two years - my degree course covers a lot of things related to this. If these people are committing crimes, then we gather evidence and go through the normal court process. Holding people for many years without charges or trial is not the solution - consider post-WW2 when the millions of German POWs had to be screened to check if any Nazi high command were hiding amongst them, we were able to do this fairly quickly and with a very good success rate, so why can we not do this today? I'm not advocating being "soft" - in the event of the situation being reversed they would not be - but I am suggesting that abandoning all the freedoms that our ancestors fought hard for is not the way to win. We can defeat these people without compromising our way of life, surely that is a better way to fight? <br />
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