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"Mr President, there is a measure of hypocrisy from everybody on this issue. In the aftermath of some terrorist event the cry goes up from all the newspapers and all the politicians that something must be done: we need to intercept the data and we must not allow these people to get away on account of our namby-pamby concerns over civil liberties. Then, of course, the same newspapers and the same politicians complain furiously a few weeks later about privacy.
Let us try to be consistent. There should only be a proportionate reaction on the basis of an identified threat to security. Much of what has been done in the name of national security, particularly in the 12 years since the 9/11 attacks, would not have had any impact either on that occasion or on subsequent ones. It is legislation passed for the sake of showing that we are doing something; it is legislation passed in proportion to public outrage rather than the need to solve a specific identified threat. We are told it is necessary. Necessity, said Pitt the Younger, ‘is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.’"@en1
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