maandag 12 juli 2010

Ways to prevent Terror attacks against human rights?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/10/control-orders-breach-terror-suspects-rights

In a case of three convicted terrorists, judges have ruled for a retrial, saying that use of secret evidence would result in an unfair trial. The three had protested that they did not get a summary of the evidence ruling against them. The judges had also ruled, two years ago that an eighteen hour curfew was against a human rights convention. However these control orders, such as a curfew, phone monitoring and bans on travelling, internet or phone use, are only used to limit the risk formed by suspected terrorists, who could not be properly detained or prosecuted. In using these control orders, the government relies on very sensitive intelligence.

This is a difficult thing to debate about, on the one hand I think that measures such as these are neccesary precautions. However on the other hand, as has been commented by various other people such as politicans, it is cases like these that allow the government to take up the right way, respect human rights and fight terrorism within the law. To my opinion though, that is easier said than done. Terrorists can be ruthless and if there are large numbers of lives at stake, I think that the law can be pushed aside for a moment. People may disagree with me on that, but I stick true to the principle of consequentialism, that the ends justifies the means.

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