February 15, 2005

Is liberalism stirring?

There appears to be something stirring about the way that our individual liberties are being trashed recently. Probably to do with the passage of the completely unrequired and probably counter productive and deeply illiberal licence to live scheme through the House of Commons. First an article in the Graudian critising the government explaining:
Something deep in New Labour prevents large parts of the party from grasping and sympathising with the importance that so many British people rightly attach to a belief in their liberties.
Yes we've noticed this already, and so has The Register which has been following the issue for a while. The current excuse, which will have changed by next week, is that they are needed to control immergration, news flash Mr Clarke there are already documents used for controlling immergration. They are called Passports. The oppersition parties have even started doing their jobs and are meeting with Queen Tony to voice their concerns about house arrest without trial and could well get the horrific house arrest powers that the government wants watered down. It should of course have never been dreamt up in the first place. Luckily the House of Lords can stop it, as to use the Parliment Act for this peice of legislation would be against the Bill of Rights which is based on Declaration of Rights from which parliment gains its power to legislate. This is because:
That all Grants and Promises of Fines and Forfeitures of particular persons before Conviction are illegall
and
That the pretended Power of suspending of Lawes or the Execution of Lawes by Regall Authority without Consent of Parliament is illegall That the pretended power of dispensing with Lawes or the Execution of Lawes by Regall Authority as it hath been assumed and exercised of late is illegall
with Parliment earlier being defined as
Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons pursuant to their respective Letters and Elections being now assembled in a full and free Representative of this Nation
So if it is legal at all to mess with the Bill of Rights as the house arrest bill does it must get the approval of the entire parliment as for Queen Tony to do otherwise would surely be exactly the same as "suspending of Lawes or the Execution of Lawes by Regall Authority" which was made explicitly illegal.

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