New Labour - Scrapping due process.

**Now it used to be that we had a system called due process, the police and authorities used to rely on this thing called evidence.

But this of course is not good enough for New Labour who think that the pen pushers they appoint should have the power to decide who can and can not travel freely. No more shall a case have to be made to take away a passport and it should be mentioned that what happens if they try to take away the passport of an innocent person?

The old system worked well enough when dealing with soccer thugs, their passports could be taken off them to stop them fighting abroad.

GORDON BROWN has set himself on a collision course with the legal establishment over plans to give civil servants and government agencies the power to remove people’s passports without going through the courts.

Senior legal figures, including two former attorney-generals and a lord chief justice, have expressed deep concern about preparations to adopt new powers to confiscate passports. They warn the government not to use reform of prerogative powers as an excuse to force through a “serious” curtailment of long-standing freedoms.

They have attacked proposals in the child maintenance bill, now going through Parliament, to allow civil servants to prevent errant fathers who refuse to support their children from travelling abroad.

They warn that it could set a dangerous precedent, and say in a House of Lords report: “The freedom to travel to and from one’s country is a right of great significance and should only be curtailed after a rigorous decision process . . . ”

My and everyone else freedom of movement as citizens should only be stopped by the decision of an independent court, or a jury made up of fellow citizens and not some pen-pusher in the pay of Cyclops Brown.

Tags: New Labour, Cyclops, Cool Britannia, Politics, amoral cunts

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