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01-25-2007, 03:20 PM
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Institute Says British People Ready To Forget Freedom
Alleges that vast majority will accept total erosion of civil liberties in face of "terrorist threat"
Infowars.net | January 24, 2007
Steve Watson
The foremost social research institute in the United Kingdom has today revealed results of its annual 'Social Attitudes' survey that show an overwhelming majority of people in Britain are ready to accept ID cards, phone tapping, curfews, electronic tagging, the opening of private mail and extensions to detention without charge.
The Guardian reports the findings from the National Centre for Social Research , a not for profit organisation that conducts research for public bodies such as central government, universities and charitable organisations.
In a series of questions that ask whether certain measures are "a price worth paying" in order to to reduce the threat of terrorism, the survey (PDF) found the following:
• 81% think that following people suspected of involvement with terrorism, tapping their phones
and opening their mail is ‘a price worth paying'.
• 80% think that putting people suspected of involvement with terrorism under special rules –
which would mean that they could be electronically tagged, prevented from going to certain
places or prevented from leaving their homes at certain times – is ‘a price worth paying'.
• 79% think that allowing the police to detain people for more than a week or so without charge
if the police suspect them of involvement in terrorism is ‘a price worth paying'.
• 71% think that having compulsory identity cards for all adults is ‘a price worth paying'.
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Conor Gearty, professor of human rights law at the London School of Economics and joint author of the report's civil rights chapter, said: "The very mention of something being a counter-terrorism measure makes people more willing to contemplate the giving up of their freedoms. It is as though society is in the process of forgetting why past generations thought these freedoms to be so very important."
I would suggest, however, that the results here are misleading. These answers only reveal the fact that when the word "terrorism" is used in a question, many more people automatically become less inclined to support civil liberties
Institute Says British People Ready To Forget Freedom
Alleges that vast majority will accept total erosion of civil liberties in face of "terrorist threat"
Infowars.net | January 24, 2007
Steve Watson
The foremost social research institute in the United Kingdom has today revealed results of its annual 'Social Attitudes' survey that show an overwhelming majority of people in Britain are ready to accept ID cards, phone tapping, curfews, electronic tagging, the opening of private mail and extensions to detention without charge.
The Guardian reports the findings from the National Centre for Social Research , a not for profit organisation that conducts research for public bodies such as central government, universities and charitable organisations.
In a series of questions that ask whether certain measures are "a price worth paying" in order to to reduce the threat of terrorism, the survey (PDF) found the following:
• 81% think that following people suspected of involvement with terrorism, tapping their phones
and opening their mail is ‘a price worth paying'.
• 80% think that putting people suspected of involvement with terrorism under special rules –
which would mean that they could be electronically tagged, prevented from going to certain
places or prevented from leaving their homes at certain times – is ‘a price worth paying'.
• 79% think that allowing the police to detain people for more than a week or so without charge
if the police suspect them of involvement in terrorism is ‘a price worth paying'.
• 71% think that having compulsory identity cards for all adults is ‘a price worth paying'.
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Conor Gearty, professor of human rights law at the London School of Economics and joint author of the report's civil rights chapter, said: "The very mention of something being a counter-terrorism measure makes people more willing to contemplate the giving up of their freedoms. It is as though society is in the process of forgetting why past generations thought these freedoms to be so very important."
I would suggest, however, that the results here are misleading. These answers only reveal the fact that when the word "terrorism" is used in a question, many more people automatically become less inclined to support civil liberties