The party has created a country where half a million people come under some kind of official surveillance every year; where emergency terror laws have become part of the normal policing arsenal; and where jury trial is under attack, total surveillance of communications and movement is proposed and secret courts meet to decide house arrest, without subjects ever being told what the evidence against them is.
All that has happened under Labour in the last 13 years and has been forgotten, we are left with the ID card, 28 days of detention without charge, the database state, gross over-surveilance, petty form filling and all the rest of it...
Even the Liberal Democrats and also the Conservatives are not saying much about liberty in this election. Why not? Isn't this a major concern for everyone?
Do you want?
Ask yourself if you want these things:
To abandon ID cards
To respect the European Court of Human Rights and limit on DNA databases
Regulation of surveillance CCTV
No tracking and storage of communications (emails, texts, calls)
Human Rights legislation as it is now
Stop heavy handed policing against demos and use of terror laws gainst innocents
A full inquiry into alleged torture
Right to hear evidence before control orders are issued
Complete review of legislation, to repeal laws curtailing liberty
...add your own issues.
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