#33 Chris, you mention "fair trials". At the height of The Troubles, so-called Diplock courts were used to try terrorist suspects, such courts sat without juries owing to the perceived problem of jury intimidation. Our beloved Labour Government think it's worthwhile investigating whether similar style courts should be used in terrorism cases and they've already been used to convict an Al Qaeda sympathiser in Northern Ireland who was found to have downloaded material on how to blow up a passenger plane.
Civil rights in the UK are at their lowest point since Magna Carta. Fundamental principles of the common law system (e.g. double jeopardy) have been reversed, and if you get arrested for almost any offence then the police can take your DNA and store it in their computer to cross-reference against as they like, even if you haven't been found guilty of a crime.
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